Job Description

Montash have been engaged by a Leading Investment Bank to source a Javascript Developer for a 6 month contract based in London.

You will be a HTML5/Java Script developer with proven experience in software engineering experience and ideally a good knowledge of financial markets to work on the transformation projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in an agile based software development life-cycle including technical analysis, documentation, development, testing and code reviews.
• Collaborate with the production support team for release and maintenance of the components.
• Work closely with the other developers in determining and following best development and architecture practice.
• Propose and provide feedback from experience/knowledge on architecture, design, technology choices and technology direction of the platform.
• Mentor less experienced developers both in London and India through pair programming and code review.
• Fully participate in requirement and design meetings for new functionality.
• Provide 3rd line application support on a rotation basis within the team.

Skills and Experience

• At least 5 years software development experience in an investment banking environment, or equivalent.
• Strong development skills and experience with Javascript
• Strong development skills and experience with Typescipt , CSS.
• Strong development skills and experience with the Angular js libraries and other web technologies
• Excellent knowledge of programming best practices, design patterns etc.
• Strong interest in continuous improvement and all aspects of software development and delivery
• Agile practitioner using Scrum.
• Strong understanding of test driven development and continuous integration practices
• Strong communication skills, both orally and in writing, inside and outside the team.
• Desire to learn quickly and ability to adapt to a fast changing environment.
• Strong problem solving skills.
• Comfortable dealing with numbers.
• Solid academic background in engineering, sciences or economics.

Desirable Requirements

• Front office development experience in any of : Equity derivatives, Credit or Rates products
• Experience developing large real-time financial trading applications.
• Experience with real time messaging protocols.
• Experience with event driven architectures
• An ability to design performant software and an understanding of application performance profiling.