Job Title Senior Java Engineer – FX Technology

Location London

Corporate Title Vice President

Our Foreign Exchange (FX) Technology team are working with cutting-edge technology to support a top 3 leadership position of Deutsche Bank in the Foreign Exchange space. You’ll be working with the technology supporting ultra-low latency (ULL) Foreign Exchange trading that involve very large amounts of data, strong performance requirements and globally distributed infrastructure. ULL FX trading is an area of growth with a fully packed product development roadmap and non-functional efficiency challenges abound.

While most of the ultra-low latency pricing and trading is implemented in C++, key technologies enabling the platform’s scale are written in Java. You will be working at the heart of the platform with technologies ranging from transaction sequencing enabling tens of thousands of transactions a day, global in-memory key-value configuration management infrastructure supporting hundred thousands of configuration parameters with real-time update capability on a global scale, to technologies directly exposed to members of FX electronic trading team supporting both ongoing research and operational management of a global trading platform

What we’ll offer you

Hybrid Working

We understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a Hybrid Working Model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them.

You can expect:

• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days
• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family
• A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits
• The opportunity to support a wide-ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year

Your key responsibilities

• Undertaking development across functional and non-functional project goals
• Investing in automated testing coverage and test-driven development
• Performance research and ability to apply out of the box thinking to solve performance or bandwidth bottlenecks
• Close collaboration with eFX quantitative research and trading teams on a wide range of topics including platform goals, design, feedback on enhancements and usability
• Clear and concise documentation covering the solution design, architecture choices and any complicated code points

Your skills and experience

• Excellent knowledge of core Java platform
• Experience in performance optimization of multi-threaded Java applications or a familiarity with no-gc Java coding is a plus
• Experience implementing fault-tolerant / load-balancing solutions
• Experience with test-driven development and ability to formulate precise testing scenarios including performance testing

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Flexible working to assist you balance your personal priorities
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs
• We value diversity and as an equal opportunity’s employer, we make reasonable adjustments for those with a disability such as the provision of assistive equipment if required (e.g., screen readers, assistive hearing devices, adapted keyboards.

About us and our teams

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Our values define the working environment we strive to create – diverse, supportive and welcoming of different views. We embrace a culture reflecting a variety of perspectives, insights and backgrounds to drive innovation. We build talented and diverse teams to drive business results and encourage our people to develop to their full potential. Talk to us about flexible work arrangements and other initiatives we offer.

We promote good working relationships and encourage high standards of conduct and work performance. We welcome applications from talented people from all cultures, countries, races, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, beliefs and generations and are committed to providing a working environment free from harassment, discrimination and retaliation.

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