Your Opportunity
We are looking for an experienced and talented Java Developer to join the Alerting team on the industry-leading active trading platform thinkorswim. In this position, you will work closely with other development teams to deliver real-time market alerts via SMS, email, and Push Notifications to millions of mobile devices, browsers, tablets, and PCs.

This position requires a self-motivated individual with strong problem-solving skills who can contribute in a highly distributed, collaborative team environment.

What you are good at

• High-complexity product design exercises which require extensive research and analysis.
• System design and specification development, program logic and flow-charting, testing, debugging, and documentation.
• Making design choices to be used by the development teams.
• Complex programming tasks and review of development tasks and documentation.
• Technical problem analysis and solutioning.
• Working with Enterprise Architecture & Infrastructure teams on strategic designs and initiatives.
• Leading the troubleshooting of complex problems in development and production environments.
• Acting as a mentor to junior developers on your team.

What you have

• 5+ years of Java, J2EE, or similar Object-Oriented programming language
• 5+ years with OOA/OOD, distributed systems/software, real time processing, relational database systems & messaging systems preferred
• Experience with concurrency & multi-threading preferred
• Experience with scaling, Java Garbage Collection, and performance tuning preferred
• Understanding of data structures, algorithms and design patterns (GoF)
• Experience with agile, test-driven development
• Experience with application development frameworks like Spring, Hibernate, JSF or similar frameworks
• Experience with Unix/Linux, Windows
• Experience with build, deploy and test automation tools like Ant, Gradle, Maven, Jenkins, TeamCity, Junit, TestNG, JaCoCo or similar tools
• Demonstrated experience working with core business logic within applications
• Experience in developing APIs and Frameworks
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent discipline

Personal Characteristics

• Excellent written communication, presentation and facilitation skills
• Self-starter: takes initiative and can work independently
• Well-organized and disciplined with high attention to detail
• Flexible and adaptable working with various business domains