Job Description
Project description
The project goal is developing and continually evolving the firm's core infrastructure platform.
The team works jointly with Portfolio Managers, Trading, and Operations on a strategic rebuild of the trading platform moving to low latency, microservices-based, highly scalable, distributed architecture empowered with top in class open source and commercial solutions and technologies.
You will:
• Build the next generation of trading applications and tools (including systematic and quantitative trading)
• Be a key contributor in the design and implementation of the portfolio management infrastructure
• Engage with various technology and data teams within the firm in enabling the above
• Manage technical risks and build prototypes or POCs where needed to validate technical approach
Become a part of:
• Mature team with an entrepreneurial culture, where professionalism, ownership, and excellence are highly valued, whilst wholesome work/life balance is maintained.
• Positive, friendly and very supportive environment with open communication and constructive feedback practices.
Take advantage of:
• Business trips to US/NYC (depending on project needs) for on-site work, on-the-job trainings, conferences and technical events
• Trainings and educational programs on technical and soft skills, business-domain specific courses (Investment Management, Trading, Financial and Capital Markets)
Must have skills:
- 5+ years of Angular experience
- Strong programming skills in JavaScript
- Recent working experience with TypeScript, React
- Ability to communicate ideas in English
- Team player
- ability to get along with existing team members and learn from them (this is absolutely essential for success)
- Ability to work with minimal direction in a self-sufficient manner, often adapting to ever-changing priorities
- Focus on accuracy and attention to detail
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experiences
Nice to have skills:
- Experience of server side development, building high availability, low latency, scalable frameworks, preferably with Open Source
- Deep OOP expertise
- Experience developing large-scale enterprise software
- Experience with JUnit
- Experience with TDD
- Experience with Ant, Maven, Gradle
- Experience with Git
- Experience with Linux
- Experience with Jira
- Experience with Jenkins is a plus
- Understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability
- Solid knowledge of software development methodologies and best practices
- Understanding of Clean code principles
Benefits and perks:
• Competitive compensation package and benefits
• Opportunities for career and professional growth
• Global company
• Business-domain specific courses
• Training programs for technical & functional skills
• Onboarding relocation package
• Sports and leisure activities
• Informal team events
Luxoft is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.
We show fairness to all throughout our talent acquisition and management process.