Start date: ASAP
Duration: 11-month contract
Location: 1 week in Galway office, 3 weeks working from home
Rate: €400 - €490 per day
Summary
In this role, you will be responsible for the development of quality software components that are used by Portfolio Managers, and Analysts in managing of over $100 Billion in High Yield, Credit Alternatives, and Systematic Investment Research Funds.
You will have chance to engage, shape and contribute to Alphabet, our flagship portfolio construction platform. In addition to building software, you will have an opportunity to help define and implement development practices, standards, and strategies across multiple teams.
Responsibilities
- Deliver high quality, timely, cost effective and maintainable software solutions in an agile environment to meet functional and non-functional business requirements.
- Actively contribute to test automation code and practices.
- Actively contribute to engineering practices such as code and design reviews and the definition of source control strategy, environment strategy, and build and deployment pipeline.
- Work with product owner, technical lead and architect as required to influence technical improvements to the platform.
- Develop a keen understanding of the business domain you are working on and actively participate in technology discussions with business partners and other external parties.
- Investigate creative practices and share them with your team-mates.
- Minimum 10 years of design & development experience
- You are proficient in Java 17 and RESTful services.
- Expertise with Test Automation Tools and Frameworks e.g. Cypress, Playwright, Mockito
- Exposure to messaging technology such as Kafka would be nice.
- Kubernetes/EKS/AWS deployment and operations management exposure a plus
- Financial domain knowledge an advantage with exposure to Equities, Fixed Income or Alternative Asset classes
- Experience in Angular 12 and above is a plus.
