• Effectively develop and integrate code for APIs and web applications
  
• Work within an agile environment
  
• Thoroughly understand client requirements by collaborating with team lead
  
• Closely collaborate with team members
  
• Execute code reviews
  
• Evaluate business requirements by converting them into technical plans
  
• Participate in meetings to discuss solutions
  

• 6+ years of highly proficient experience with Ruby on Rails
  
• Front-end and back-end software development experience
  
• Practical experience developing applications with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
  
• Strong experience with SQL and ActiveRecord, with practical use-cases for SQL
  
• Extensive experience in developing and implementing complex components in an application
  
• Effective communication skills when working with team members and clients
  
• Ability to work both collaboratively and independently
  

• HTML, CSS, JavaScript
  
• Ruby on Rails
  
• Git
  
• RSpec Testing
  
• Issue Tracking
  

• Experience with front-end JS frameworks like React
  
• Practiced in deploying applications to production
  
• Familiar with Docker
  
• Experience scaling with AWS
  

• 5+ years of iOS software development experience (applications design and development.) using Objective-C and Swift
  
• Experience with Objective-C is a must, Swift, and iOS frameworks.
  
• Strong knowledge of iOS design principles, patterns and best practices, including security.
  
• Knowledge of Memory Management, Concurrency programming in iOS.
  
• Understanding of SOLID, KISS, DRY principles
  
• An understanding of web services and the ability to write code that interacts with them.
  
• Proven track record of high productivity and excellent attention to detail in software design, coding, reviewing, etc.,
  
• Experience with publishing iOS applications and a portfolio of work demonstrating relevant experiences.
  
• Experience building complex user interfaces from the ground up using the latest technologies.
  
• Relevant degree from an accredited school or equivalent career experience.
  
• Must be willing to come into our KW office a minimum of 2 days/week.

• Join a team of exceptional developers and take the excellent opportunity to formulate a 21st-century application.
  
• We promote a culture of fun, trust, inclusiveness, empowerment, collaboration and constructive feedback.
  
• Work with cutting edge technology on a very complex project that promotes meaningful work.
  
• Comprehensive benefits.
  
• Competitive market salary rates.
  
   
  

Our client is a leading player in international capital markets, offering securities trading, global macro research and transition management services to institutional investors. With roots going back more than 50 years, our company has extensive experience in the securities industry. We bring industry-recognized capabilities to the table – including specialized investment research and analysis, a top-ranked global trading desk and state-of-the-art technology – to help our institutional clients excel in worldwide primary and secondary capital markets.

Our client is looking for a dynamic and highly motivated Java Developer to join their IT department to work in a small, highly specialized development team with experienced developers. You will be part of the team responsible for the design, implementation and testing of new features and fixes for our mission-critical software systems; and will work directly with stakeholders to ensure the right solution is being delivered. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Java and OOA/OOD; possess excellent interpersonal skills; and will have the ability to quickly understand and actuate complex system architectures and business practices.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Utilize programming best practices with a technical focus on multi-threading, DI/IoC, and J2EE.
  
• Support and maintain the core trading systems, both client/server and web(core Java / JBoss / Oracle / Linux).
  
• Learn the basics of the Trading business to understand the real system needs and user requirements.
  
• Work with users and stakeholders to understand business and design requirements.
  
• Implement new features and participate in the modernization of the systems.
  
• Evaluate and implement new technologies and frameworks.
  
• Participate in all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle: requirements gathering, OOA/OOD, implementation, testing, code reviews, QA and trouble shooting.
  
• Ensure extensive Unit, Integration, Functional and User Acceptance testing is completed prior to moving code to production environment.
  
• Ensure systems are functioning properly in a 24/5 environment – requires occasional afterhours “on call” support on rotation basis (systems are presently very stable).
  

Required Qualifications / Skills

• University degree in computer science, software engineering, or equivalent.
  
• 5+ years Java programming experience with proven ability to understand complex systems.
  
• Experience with software development tools such as Eclipse, Maven, Git, Jenkins, Crucible, Jira.
  
• Organizational skills and initiative, with the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
  
• Experience with testing tools and frameworks, including: Mockito, PowerMock, Arquillian, SonarCube.
  
• Experience with RDBMS (preferably Oracle) as well as Object-relational mapping (ORM) frameworks like Hibernate and Spring data.
  
• Excellent English communication skills and ability to establish effective interpersonal relationships.
  
• Ability to work under pressure and outside regular hours when required.
  
• Ability and desire to understand and learn new technologies.
  

Assets

• Understanding of Linux based operating system (RedHat / CentOS).
  
• Knowledge of technologies such as JBoss/J2EE, Hibernate, EJB/Spring, JSF, PrimeFaces.
  
• Knowledge of Trading/Investment industry protocols (ie: FIX, Appia, Swift, CTM).
  
• Experience in migrating or modernizing legacy Java applications or technologies.
  

• Establish automated tests for both UI and API
  
• Generate automation test framework and test cases for performance, functional, and regression test execution
  
• Closely collaborate with developer team to define testing and determine effective defect/issue resolution
  
• Ensure automation tests produce accurate pass/fail reports
  
• Regularly research test standards, and enforce best practices when designing and implementing the frameworks that will be deployed and utilized for testing software solutions
  
• Translate functional requirements and design documents to plan, write, develop, and execute application functional and data validation automation test plans and test scripts
  
• Log results of tests for the software development team
  
• Participate in code reviews
  
• Closely work with Product Management to formulate requirements
  
• Strong ability to lead during quality testing, raising issues when needed, and highlighting potential risks
  

• 3+ years of experience testing enterprise applications with an automation testing framework
  
• Experience with web technologies
  
• Extensive experience testing in software development
  
• Experience using API automation testing, such as unit test frameworks
  
• Highly skilled with various web browsers and browser development tools, including Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome, and Firefox
  
• Hands on experience querying databases and monitoring systems, such as SQL
  
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
  

• Cypress
  
• JavaScript
  
• HTML
  
• CSS
  
• SQL
  
• APIs
  

• Casual work environment
  
• Competitive salaries
  
• Health and dental benefits
  
• Ability to work remotely