Java Team Lead

Company Description

What we are:

A global technological leader in capital markets and trading industry.

Over the years our products have been awarded by: Wall Street Letter Awards, US Technology Awards, Barrons, Global Forex Awards, Benzinga, CODiE, and others.

We know how to create robust, reliable, powerful, and user-oriented products for options, stocks, forex, crypto, wealth management, and exchanges around the globe.

Who we are:

More than 700 engineers in several RnD offices all over the world: Bulgaria, Georgia, Germany, Portugal, Turkey, and others.

Our engineers are coding contest winners, podcast makers, public speakers, and real craftsmen of software development.

What we have:

Our client is an intermediary in FX options trading between prominent institutional players.

New and ongoing projects based on our dxTrade platform - an order management system. Java backend is responsible for all business processes related to trading. Order issuing, validation, routing, execution, option price calculations, reconciliation, etc. High performance, low-latency, and fault tolerance are our daily job.

We strive for code quality via careful code reviews and various types of testing. Fear of change is eliminated by a high test coverage. More than 70% on average and 90% on critical parts.

Teams co-exist in a Scrum/Kanban environment backed by the Atlassian suite, Slack, TeamCity, Sonar, Docker, etc.

Most project teams are multi-cultural and distributed, typically consisting of 3-7 BE engineers balanced by QAs, FEs, BAs…

Job Description

What we’re looking for:

An opportunity to team up with an experienced Java Team Lead to guide one of our teams of highly experienced engineers (3-8 people) and simultaneously manage daily project operations and communicate with the project’s customer team.

You personally will be responsible for the individual professional growth of your subordinates, managing team members’ tasks on a daily basis, supervising and guiding a distributed team of professionals along working through requirements with the customer’s team.

Being a primary technical point of contact for the customer you should have excellent communication skills, a technical mindset with great attention to detail, ability to analyze suggested approaches and come up with better solutions.

This is also an incredible opportunity to work on high availability and consistency of a distributed system that processes millions of operations on a daily basis. On top of that, you'll be presented with other challenges such as (but not limited to):

Backend implementation of complex business logic related to options strategies trading, refinement of existing components (core trading system, key modules and services, administrative UI backend).

Creating an API layer for the trading data in a convenient form for use in the client terminal.

Teamwork: mandatory code reviews, daily meetings, participation in planning and retrospectives, interaction with QA engineers, analysts, and other teams

Cover the code with the unit, integration tests, and CI/CD configuration.

Communicate with the client and participate in requirements elaboration, architecture discussions, and external demos.

Ensure good monitoring and efficient incident processing

Along with that, you’re going to be expected to maintain high test coverage and instill best coding practices in the team. Finally, all the team members are expected to be actively involved with system health monitoring and its support.

We expect the Java Team Lead to:

• oversee day-to-day team operation
• mentor and share knowledge
• maintain and improve the development process (scrum-like)
• analyze and work on requirements with the customer’s team (including implementation specifics)
• estimate requirements efforts
• navigate implementation details to ensure consistency with the initial design
• participate in code reviews
• develop new features
• write unit and integration tests

Qualifications

Must-have skills:

• experience as a team lead in a group of 4-5 developers
• strong knowledge of Java programming language
• high quality organizational and leadership skills
• understanding of testing pyramid, particularly unit, integration and acceptance testing
• desire to write, optimize, document and maintain code and thoroughly cover it with tests
• desire to achieve goals as a team, willingness to help colleagues and ability to give/take criticism
• proficient English language (C1 and higher) to be able to communicate with the team and client

Nice-to-have skills:

• experience with Spring framework
• experience with scaling applications horizontally
• hands-on experience writing concurrent Java code
• understanding of XP practices and desire to implement them
• desire to mentor people and share knowledge
• experience in software and application design and architecture
• previous experience in Fintech