Description

NO CONSULTANTS OR CONTRACTORS NEED TO APPLY (Only FTE Employees)

This is a hybrid role (3 days in the office/2 days remote).

About your team: 

Our Client is seeking an experienced Full Stack Java Developer to join a small, high-impact team responsible for the development and maintenance of CoChMA (Client-risk Operations and Control Hub for Monitoring Applications), our integrated client services risk management platform, along with various other internal risk and margin systems. These tools are mission-critical, actively utilized by the Client Risk Management (CR) team to monitor and mitigate client-facing risk exposure across our global operations.

The ideal candidate is a technically strong, self-motivated developer who thrives in a fast-paced financial environment and takes ownership of the systems they build — consistent with our culture of curiosity, innovation, collaboration, and personal accountability.

What will be your responsibilities: 

• Design, develop, and maintain server-side application components using Java and the Vert.x framework
• Build and enhance front-end interfaces using Vue.js, HTML, and CSS
• Write and optimize complex Oracle SQL queries, stored procedures, and data models to support margin rate governance system, risk and margin reporting
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance
• Monitor system health and performance, proactively identifying and resolving issues in production environments
• Contribute to code reviews, technical documentation, and team knowledge sharing
• Work independently and take full ownership of assigned modules and features, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery
• Continuously improve existing systems through refactoring, performance tuning, and adoption of best practices
• Have a desire to learn about and understand financial instruments and concepts.

Requirements

Skills Required:

• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer with a strong emphasis on Java back-end development
• Hands-on experience with Vert.x or similar reactive/event-driven Java frameworks
• Proficiency in front-end technologies: Vue.js, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Strong working knowledge of Oracle SQL, including query optimization and schema design
• Solid understanding of RESTful API design and integration
• Experience developing and maintaining applications in a financial services or similarly high-stakes environment
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven mindset
• Ability to work effectively within a small, collaborative team while managing individual responsibilities with a high degree of autonomy

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Perl and/or Python for scripting, automation, or data processing tasks
• Familiarity with risk management concepts, margin systems, or financial regulatory frameworks
• Exposure to low-latency or high-availability system design
• Experience working in an Agile or iterative development environment

To be successful in this position, you should be:

• Detail-oriented self-starter who is comfortable working both independently and collaborating with your team.
• Passionate about writing clean, well-tested, and maintainable code.
• You should have a high level of comfort in an environment of continuous integration and deployment.
• Optimizing, improving, and supporting existing algorithms and systems to reach the goal of highly automated robust systems with full test coverage requiring minimal operational oversight.
• Creating independent automated risk controls and checks to ensure that systems are performing as expected and catching potential errors as soon as possible.
• Developing message-oriented systems, batch processing applications, and web application-based management consoles.
• Continuous learner and will use and/or learn the right language and technology to solve a problem.