Java Software Engineer

This role is based in Belfast

About Us

Lucera® is a New York based firm wholly owned by BGC Partners Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP), a leading global financial services firm.

We provide best in-class on-demand co-located infrastructure and connectivity, priced on a month-to-month basis, offering a compelling solution to businesses looking to lower expenses and reduce operational overhead.

Lucera also offers a high-performance FX matching and aggregation platform as a service, with co-location available in NY4, CH2, LD4 FR2, SG1 and TY3. The system provides smart order routing, price aggregation, and highly configurable price distribution in one unified solution available via a Web based UI. Coupled with advanced liquidity management, real-time TCA and our low latency pre-trade credit component we deliver a performant, cost effective solution to your eFX needs.

Role

Lucera Financial Infrastructures is hiring a Java Software Engineer for our Belfast office to work on our core infrastructure as a service platform, used by some of the top names in financial services.

We are looking for someone who has 3+ years’ experience working designing, implementing and supporting resilient, performant micro-services platforms. This role is for individuals who can work effectively as part of our global development team, along with the ability to work independently with a strong sense of ownership. We are looking to talk to people with:

A passion for technology, with an ability and desire to pick up new technologies

Background in taking products from design right through to delivery

Strong sense of writing quality maintainable code

Commercial experience in Java (8+)

Use of Micronaut / Spring (or equivalent) Frameworks

Developing against Relational and NoSQL Database (MongoDB, Postgres etc)

Experience with unit testing methodologies and frameworks – e.g Spock, Junit

Build systems – Gradle / Maven

Use of Docker

Other desirables are:

Developing using reactive / functional patterns, (RXJava, Project Reactor etc)

Experience designing and developing micro-services platforms

Use of messaging systems such as RabbitMQ, Kafka

Scripting languages - Groovy / Ruby / Python

CI/CD Tools, automated testing, delivery (Teamcity, Jenkins etc)

Knowledge of networking protocols UDP, TCP,

Experience with REST, WebSockets

Version Control – preferably Git

Grails Framework

JavaScript – Bootstrap / JQuery