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Senior Java Developer – Investment Banking
Location: London
Contract: 6 months initially
IR35: Inside IR35
Working Pattern: Hybrid
Sector: Investment Banking
We are currently recruiting for a Senior Java Developer to join a global investment banking technology team within Derivatives Clearing / Listed Derivatives Technology.
The team develops and supports critical statements and risk management applications that protect the firm from counterparty risk. This is a key role supporting a mandatory initiative focused on Repo Clearing and cross-margining Treasury Repos with CME Futures, helping deliver a broader clearing offering and lower client margin requirements.
The initial engagement is for 6 months, with the primary focus on scripting and testing the front-to-back infrastructure supporting cross-margining. This includes ensuring client statements, segregated margin balances, margin calculations, risk reporting, and regulatory requirements are processed correctly across the end-to-end solution.
The Role
You will join a global engineering team working across London, Mumbai, Hong Kong, and New York. You will be involved throughout the software development lifecycle, working closely with business and technology stakeholders to deliver robust, scalable solutions in a fast-paced investment banking environment.
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Key responsibilities will include:
- Developing, enhancing, and maintaining Java-based applications and services.
- Supporting end-to-end testing and scripting across front-to-back infrastructure.
- Working with business and technology stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver technical solutions.
- Contributing to the design, implementation, testing, and deployment of new functionality.
- Ensuring client statements, margin calculations, risk information, and regulatory data are processed accurately.
- Participating in code reviews and promoting clean, maintainable, and resilient software.
- Supporting applications through production and working with operational teams on handover and support.
- Working within an Agile environment and contributing to TDD/BDD and automated testing practices.
- Helping improve application scalability, performance, resilience, and operability.
- Working collaboratively with a globally distributed engineering team.
Technical Environment
The core technology stack includes:
- Java / Spring
- DB2 / Sybase
- Hazelcast / Redis
- Unix
- Gradle
- CI/CD and DevOps
- TDD / BDD / Agile
There is also exposure to technologies including Angular, distributed caching, stream processing, event-driven architecture, and service-oriented architecture.
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About You
The successful candidate will be a strong software engineer with a background in investment banking, ideally within derivatives, clearing, risk, trading, or capital markets technology.
You should have:
- Strong commercial experience developing software using Java and Spring.
- Previous investment banking experience – this is essential.
- Strong understanding of object-oriented software engineering principles.
- Experience working with relational databases and writing queries.
- Experience with Unix/Linux environments.
- Experience with Gradle and CI/CD or DevOps practices.
- Strong understanding of software testing, ideally including TDD and/or BDD.
- Experience working in Agile development environments.
- Good problem-solving and communication skills.
- A willingness to work across different technologies and areas of the platform.
- A focus on producing clean, high-quality, maintainable, and resilient code.
Exposure to derivatives clearing, client statements, margin, collateral, risk management, or regulatory reporting would be particularly valuable.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a high-profile global investment banking technology team and work on a critical initiative at the intersection of clearing, risk management, and financial markets technology.
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