Lead Software Engineer EQ - EDG STR&TRD - XMKTS STRUCTURING UK

Job responsibilities
•    Own the delivery of value-add activities as part of a scrum team and be an active member governing the overall platform.
•    Enhance and develop new features for risk aggregation and hedging, leveraging React and Java
•    Act as a Lead developer who will help set direction and best practice around automated testing, platform framework, SDLC as well as acting a point of contact for more junior developers to give them guidance on best practices.
•    You will also collaborate with other frontend developers to get involved with code reviews and building up our suite of re-suable components to facilitate faster development. 
•    Close collaboration with a number of teams including Trading, Sales and Quantitative Research, UX as well as other technology teams.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
•    Commercial experience working with Java 
•    Experience in designing scalable micro-services using RESTful
•    Knowledge of server side technologies (Spring/Spring boot, messaging frameworks such as ActiveMQ, Kafka, maven/gradle, junit mocking  frameworks) 
•    Experience in developing, debugging and automated testing (e.g. react testing library / cypress) within a commercial setting
•    Expertise in Databases, relational, and No-SQL and JVM performance analysis including profiling, heap dump analysis, thread dump analysis, and GC tuning within a commercial setting
•    Solid understanding of CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins), Application Resiliency, and Security

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
•    Working within Investment Bank / Finance Technology
•    Experience in leading an agile delivery team leveraging scrum, sprint planning, retrospectives and reporting progress to senior stakeholders.