Who We Are Looking For
State Street Global Markets FX Sales and Trading business is currently ongoing a multiyear strategic growth initiative which will focus in maximizing market share growth rate while expanding into new and emerging foreign exchange markets and products/services. As part of this growth strategy State Street Global Markets Technology is seeking talented Foreign Exchange (FX) IT professionals to join an already established team who will engineer and integrate with the next generation of FX applications. We primarily look for:
- Creative thinkers who are motivated by challenging problems
- Desire to work within a collaborative, team-driven environment
- Proven success working with large scaling software or financial system
Due to the role requirements this job needs to be performed primarily in the office with some flex work opportunities available.
What You Will Be Responsible For
- Work closely with other senior developers, architect, product owner, business users, traders, sales and engaging into technical improvement projects.
- Work on the business delivery projects
- Learn and understand technologies used/required for projects.
- Developing, building, deploying and maintaining applications.
- Be proactively support the production environment, detect live issue, and resolve them in a certain short window.
- Operate in a self-sufficient manner, but also identify the right time to raise queries or concerns.
What We Value
- These skills will help you succeed in this role:
- Creative thinker who are motivated by challenging problems
- A history of delivering successfully within an Agile environment, and the flexibility and adaptability to operate successfully in such an environment
- Experience coordinating the work of a small team of developers, potentially in different locations and time zones, taking ownership of a small to medium projects and running them from its inception to completion
- Experience working within a financial institution is a plus.
- Experience using and contributing to Open Source software is strongly preferred
- Strong analytical skills. The ability to receive and analyze requirements, and propose a suitable solution that adheres to the team’s methodology
- The ability to communicate at the right level with all parties involved, including senior management, developers, architects, and end users, who may be based in different locations and time-zones.
Education & Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree
- 3+ years of Java programming experience, preferably working on low latency, high throughput, highly available distributed systems
- Strong Java 1.8 core features such as functional programming and Lambda
- Strong knowledge of Spring framework and Spring Boot.
- Development and build tools (GIT / Subversion / Clearcase / TeamCity / Nexus / Maven etc)
Additional Requirements
- Experience in any of the following is highly desirable:
- Extensively worked on performance-critical, multithreaded systems developed using Core Java technologies
- Experience with Caching technologies Messaging frameworks and technologies (Kafka, MQ, Active MQ) Linux / Bash scripting knowledge
- Relational databases (Oracle, Sybase) knowledge
About State Street
What we do. State Street is one of the largest custodian banks, asset managers and asset intelligence companies in the world. From technology to product innovation, we’re making our mark on the financial services industry. For more than two centuries, we’ve been helping our clients safeguard and steward the investments of millions of people. We provide investment servicing, data & analytics, investment research & trading and investment management to institutional clients.
Work, Live and Grow. We make all efforts to create a great work environment. Our benefits packages are competitive and comprehensive. Details vary by location, but you may expect generous medical care, insurance and savings plans, among other perks. You’ll have access to flexible Work Programs to help you match your needs. And our wealth of development programs and educational support will help you reach your full potential.
Inclusion, Diversity and Social Responsibility. We truly believe our employees’ diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives are a powerful contributor to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive and reach their maximum potential while adding value to both our organization and our clients. We warmly welcome candidates of diverse origin, background, ability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and personality. Another fundamental value at State Street is active engagement with our communities around the world, both as a partner and a leader. You will have tools to help balance your professional and personal life, paid volunteer days, matching gift programs and access to employee networks that help you stay connected to what matters to you.
State Street is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
Salary Range
$70,000 - $115,000 Annual
The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.
Job ID: R-748375
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