Description
Senior Backend Developer contract with an Investment Bank.
£850pd, 12 months, Remote/London office (2 days on-site a week).
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to the reengineering of the core components
- Develop key business functionalities
- Ensure test coverage
- Develop and deliver (time & quality) stories and epics
- Build knowledge of the application and provide L3 support (on rota)
- Become SME of primary business workflows, requirements and constraints
- Understand roadmap and contribute to its successful delivery
- Review design and implementation of the existing for continuous improvements
- Proactively identify issues and propose solutions
- Keep Jira tasks up to date
- Participate and contribute to requirement and design meetings for new functionality
- Provide technical analysis when needed and formalise/document to help other developers
- Help improve DevOps capabilities to simplify and automate build
- Share knowledge with more junior members of the team
- Contribute to maintain and enrich wiki knowledge base
Skills & Experience
- OO enterprise software development experience (C# or Java)
- Recent .NET (C#) and Oracle SQL development experience
- Core programming skills
- Experience building Real Time web applications
- Experience of in-memory caches (thread-safe and scalable)
- Commercial experience of Rx (Back End) a plus
- Commercial experience of web applications and very good understanding of the threading, context and session models - Experience working on eTrading or Front Office trading application a plus
- Experience handling security flaws of external web applications a plus
- Commercial experience of JavaScript and Typescript, front ends a plus
- Knowledge and ideally commercial experience of one or more ORM frameworks
- Proficient SQL know-how to optimize queries and DB objects
- Excellent knowledge of programming best practices and design patterns particularly handling concurrency
- Experience packaging modern web applications for deployment a plus
- Strong interest in continuous improvement and all aspects of software development and delivery
- Comfortable working in an Agile environment; keeping Jira tasks up to date and planning work to fit weekly sprints