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Senior Java Developer
Java
CREDIT SUISSE Poland

Senior Java Developer

CREDIT SUISSE Poland
Wrocław
Type of work
Undetermined
Experience
Senior
Employment Type
Permanent
Operating mode
Office

Tech stack

    Core Java
    master
    Spring
    advanced
    Oracle Coherence
    advanced
    DevOps
    regular

Job description

Credit Suisse is a leading global wealth manager with strong investment banking capabilities. Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, we have a global reach with operations in about 50 countries and employ more than 45,000 people from over 150 different nations. Embodying entrepreneurial spirit, Credit Suisse delivers holistic financial solutions to our clients, including innovative products and specially tailored advice. Striving for quality and excellence in our work, we recognize and reward extraordinary performance among our employees, provide wide-ranging training and development opportunities, and benefit from a diverse range of perspectives to create value for our clients, shareholders and communities. We are Credit Suisse.

We Offer
 
Insight T+0 is the Investment Bank’s global intraday pre-deal credit-checking system, which is on the critical path to booking FX and Derivatives trades. It helps to provide centralised intraday control over credit risk. Front-office trading systems are required to use T+0 to check whether a trade would breach pre-defined credit exposure limits for the trade’s counterparty. T+0 maintains real-time intraday counterparty exposures and recalculates counterparty credit risk after each trade execution, enabling the new intraday exposure numbers to be available immediately.

The role provides the opportunity to participate in the development of T+0 – a mission critical, low latency, pre-trade credit-checking system. It has 24x5.5 uptime requirements and must support low latency responses to electronic trade execution platforms in four global regions within 5ms for spot and forward products. It is a key control system for managing the Investment Bank’s Credit Risk.

The T+0 system is built using Java 8 and Spring and currently uses Oracle Coherence to provide low-latency computation grid. The T+0 development team includes senior developers, SMEs and an Architect.

The T+0 team is looking for a senior developer with strong core Java, Distributed Caching and database skills. Server-side programming with an emphasis on low latency systems is preferable.

The candidate will work within the development team in Wroclaw. This is part of a global team with members in UK, Switzerland, Poland and India. The overall team size is currently 13, including QA, BA and Project Management individuals.

T+0 sits within Risk & Finance IT (RFIT), RFIT an approximately 400-person group supporting the investment banking part of the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) shared service function. RFIT designs, develops and supports the IT systems that measure and manage the market, credit and operational risk of the investment bank. The risks calculated by our systems are used in regulatory reporting, reporting to senior business and risk management and FO business leads.

Key responsibilities
  • Exciting and challenging role as senior Java developer in our Limits and Reporting space of the Investment Banking division of the Credit Risk Organisation
  • Under the mentorship of a Development Manager, work directly with allocated Project Managers, Business Analysts and external IT and business teams to perform technical analysis of the existing system, implement change requests and new features
  • Provide support for the existing system where required
  • Take responsibility for changes that go through multiple tiers from the Java application through to the back-end databases

You Offer Essentials Skills and Qualifications:
  • Strong Core Java developer with an emphasis on distributed, low latency, high availability systems
  • Demonstrable experience with Dependency injection, preferably Spring
  • Sound understanding of multi-threading (Java concurrency library) and Java memory management
  • Good understanding of messaging (JMS)
  • Basic command of SQL (CRUD) and UNIX
  • Knowledge and understanding of current standard methodologies in OO design in Java development
  • Experience with all phases of the systems development lifecycle
  • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills in English, Polish is a plus!

Desired Skills and Qualifications:
  • Experience in Oracle Coherence, Apache Ignite or Sybase are an advantage
  • ORM (preferably Hibernate)
  • Experience in TCP/IP networking and sockets programming
  • Experience with Financial products – specifically FX and OTC derivatives products – would be advantageous
  • Business knowledge of Credit Risk
  • Willingness to provide application support to Front Office and Risk Management business clients including limited out-of-hours work e.g. L3 on-call support or weekend releases
  • Test-driven development and design
  • Agile working practices – Scrum / Kanban
  • Experience of working in a continuous integration environment (TeamCity, Jenkins etc.)
  • Experience with JMS and Enterprise Messaging technologies
  • Experience with Sybase ASE (15/16) including performance improvement and stored procedure work
  • Experience with Oracle Database
  • Experience with JMX
  • Experience with source control (Subversion/Git)
  • Experience with DevOps technologies / methodologies
  • Mentoring and leading experience, especially with developers in different locations

Our benefit
  • Private medical care
  • Life insurance for employees and additional insurance options available for family members
  • Pension plan
  • Charity days
  • Training and development
  • Internal Mobility

Other optional
  • Language training course
  • Mentoring
  • Family – nursery and kindergarten funding, gift vouchers for Christmas
  • Parking allowance
  • Health promotion: Multisport card, sporting events and groups within Credit Suisse (skiing trips, football team, running team, tennis training course etc.)
  • Employee discounts on various products and services (event tickets, consumer products, etc.)
  • Relocation package
  • Employee Referral Program
  • Flexible work schedule and working from home (home office)

Credit Suisse is an equal opportunity employer. Welcoming diversity gives us a competitive advantage in the global marketplace and drives our success. Credit Suisse is committed to providing equal employment opportunities, regardless of ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, civil partnership, marital or family status, pregnancy, disability or any other status that is protected as a matter of local law.