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.

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

We are looking for a Java Team Lead to join the Research&Development Team. This is a fantastic opportunity to collaborate with an experienced Java Team Lead in guiding a team of highly skilled engineers, consisting of 3 to 8 members. The role also involves managing the daily operations of projects and effectively communicating with the customer's project team.

You will be personally responsible for the professional growth of your team members, overseeing daily task management, and supervising and guiding a distributed team of professionals, all while collaborating with the customer’s team on requirements. As the primary technical point of contact for the customer, you should possess excellent communication skills, a technical mindset with keen attention to detail, and the ability to analyze proposed approaches and develop better solutions.

As the primary technical point of contact for the customer, you should possess excellent communication skills, a technical mindset with a strong attention to detail, and the ability to analyze suggested approaches and develop improved solutions.

This is also an incredible opportunity to work on ensuring high availability and consistency within a distributed system that processes millions of operations daily. Additionally, you will encounter various challenges, including (but not limited to):

• Implementing complex backend business logic related to options strategies trading, and refining existing components (core trading system, key modules and services, administrative UI backend),
• Developing an API layer for trading data, making it convenient for use in the client terminal,
• Engaging in teamwork through mandatory code reviews, daily meetings, participation in planning and retrospectives, and collaboration with QA engineers, analysts, and other teams,
• Covering the code with unit and integration tests, and setting up CI/CD configurations,
• Communicating with clients and taking part in requirements elaboration, architecture discussions, and external demonstrations,
• Ensuring effective monitoring and efficient incident processing.

In addition, you will be expected to maintain high test coverage and promote best coding practices within the team. Finally, all team members are expected to actively participate in system health monitoring and 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:

• Demonstarted experience as a team lead managing a team of 4-5 developers,
• Strong proficiency in the Java programming language,
• Excellent organizational and leadership abilities,
• Thorough understanding of the testing pyramid, especially 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.

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 in Georgia, 
• Flexible working hours. 

Health and recreation benefits: 

• 24 working days of paid vacation, 
• Fully paid additional wellness days (3 days per year),
• Medical insurance - VIP package,
• Free MultiSport card. 

Facility benefits: 

• Modern office with new equipment, 
• PlayStation and table football in the office, 
• Meals in the office, 
• Free drinks and snacks. 

Community benefits: 

• Teambuilding activities, 
• Corporate parties, 
• Football club, 
• Billiard club,
• 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, 
• Georgian language courses for foreign employees, 
• Unlimited access to self-learning platforms, 
• Certification opportunities, 
• Mentorship Program. 

Social benefits: 

• Parental bonus, 
• Referral bonus, 
• Blood donation paid leave, 
• Gifts for employees, 
• Gifts for children.