Senior Trading Java Developer

Join us as a Senior Trading Java Developer at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. In this role, you will be performing activities related to the design, development, unit testing, deployment, support, and maintenance of an exciting transformational enterprise project with high visibility. This ambitious initiative leverages a modern tech stack, offering a unique opportunity to make a significant impact.

To be successful as a Senior Trading Java Developer, you should have:

1. Strong experience in Java low latency programming.
2. Experience building enterprise scale desktop and/or web applications within the investment banking domain.
3. Knowledge and experience of software development and collaboration tooling including Git, BitBucket, Confluence, JIRA, etc.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

1. Ability to comprehend, implement, and influence complex problems and solutions with an analytical approach.
2. Proficiency with Kafka and working knowledge of UNIX platforms.
3. Familiarity with utilizing Agile Development methodologies, Test Driven Development, and Continuous Delivery.

This role will be based in our London office.

Purpose of the role

To design, develop and improve software, utilizing various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

Accountabilities

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization's technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department's future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross-functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship - our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset - to Empower, Challenge and Drive - the operating manual for how we behave.