Java Team Lead

Company Description

Devexperts works with respected financial institutions, delivering products and tailor-made solutions for retail and brokerage houses, exchanges, and buy-side firms. The company focuses on trading platforms and brokerage automation, complex software development projects, market data products, and IT consulting services.

What we are

A global technological leader of capital markets and trading industry.

Over the years our products are awarded by: Wall Street Letter Awards, US Technology Awards, Barrons, Global Forex Awards, Benzinga, CODiE and others.

We know how to create robust, reliable, powerful and user-oriented products for options, stocks, forex, crypto, wealth management and exchanges around the globe.

Who we are

More than 700 engineers in several RnD offices all over the world: Bulgaria, Georgia, Germany, Portugal, Turkey and others.

Our engineers are coding contest winners, podcast makers, public speakers and real craftsmen of software development.

What we have

Our client is an intermediary in FX options trading between prominent institutional players.

New and ongoing projects based on our dxTrade platform — an order management system. Java backend is responsible for all business processes related to trading. Order issuing, validation, routing, execution, option price calculations, reconciliation, etc. High performance, low-latency and fault tolerance is our daily job.

We strive for code quality via careful code reviews and various types of testing. Fear of change is eliminated by a high test coverage. More than 70% in average and 90% on critical parts.

Teams co-exist in a Scrum/Kanban environment backed by Atlassian suite, Slack, TeamCity, Sonar, Docker, etc.

Most project teams are multi-cultural and distributed, typically consist of 3-7 BE engineers balanced by QAs, FEs, BAs.

Job Description

Being primary technical point of contact for the customer you should have excellent communication skills, a technical mindset with great attention to details, ability to analyze suggested approaches and come up with better solutions.

This is also an incredible opportunity to work on high availability and consistency of a distributed system that processes millions of operations on daily basis. On top of that you'll be presented other challenges such as (but not limited to):

• Backend implementation of complex business logic related to options strategies trading, refinement of existing components (core trading system, key modules and services, administrative UI backend),
• Creating an API layer for the trading data in a convenient form for use in the client terminal,
• Teamwork: mandatory code reviews, daily meetings, participation in planning and retrospectives, interaction with QA engineers, analysts, and other teams,
• Cover the code with the unit, integration tests, and CI/CD configuration,
• Communicate with the client and participate in requirements elaboration, architecture discussions, and external demos,
• Ensure good monitoring and efficient incident processing.

Along with that you’re going to be expected to maintain high test coverage and instil best coding practices in the team. Finally, all the team members are expected to be actively involved with system health monitoring and its support.

We expect the Java Team Lead to:

• Oversee daily team operations,
• Provide mentorship and share knowledge,
• Maintain and enhance the development process (similar to Scrum),
• Collaborate with the customer’s team to analyze and work on requirements, including implementation specifics,
• Estimate effort required for requirements,
• Manage implementation details to ensure consistency with the initial design,
• Participate in code reviews,
• Develop new features,
• Write unit and integration tests.

Qualifications

Must-have skills:

• Proven experience as a team lead managing a team of 4-5 developers,
• Strong proficiency in the Java programming language,
• Excellent organizational and leadership abilities,
• Comprehensive understanding of the testing pyramid, particularly unit, integration, and acceptance testing,
• A keen interest in writing, optimizing, documenting, and maintaining code that is thoroughly covered by tests,
• A strong commitment to achieving team goals, a willingness to assist colleagues, and the ability to give and receive constructive criticism,
• Proficiency in English language (C1 level or higher) to effectively communicate with the team and client.

Nice-to-have skills: 

• Experience with the Spring framework,
• Experience in scaling applications horizontally,
• Hands-on experience in writing concurrent Java code,
• Knowledge of XP practices with the willingness to implement them,
• A desire to mentor and share knowledge with others,
• Experience in software and application design and architecture,
• Previous experience in the Fintech industry.

Salary: from 5000 EUR gross / month. 
Please keep in mind that we are flexible and open to discussing a different salary based on your skills and experience. 

Additional Information

Care for the employees is one of Devexperts' core values. For the suggested position, we offer a benefits package that will guarantee the comfort of our new teammate.

Flexibility benefits: 

• Possibility of hybrid/remote work mode, 
• Flexible working hours.

Health and recreation benefits: 

• 20 days of paid vacation, 
• Fully paid additional wellness days (3 days per working year).

Facility benefits: 

• Modern office with new equipment, 
• Parking spaces, 
• Free drinks and snacks. 

Community benefits: 

• Teambuilding activities, 
• Corporate parties,
• Speakers' club, 
• Free admission to corporate external events, 
• Possibility of joining conferences and professional fairs, 
• Personal branding development support.

Professional training benefits: 

• English language courses,
• Unlimited access to self-learning platforms, 
• Certification opportunities, 
• Mentorship Program. 

Social benefits: 

• Parental bonus, 
• Referral bonus, 
• Gifts for employees, 
• Gifts for children.