Software Engineer II
CME is relentlessly focused on developing the world's most advanced electronic trading, post trade processing and risk management systems. We are the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives market place providing risk management solutions that help drive the global economy. Our customers include leading investment and commercial banks, hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, asset managers, corporations, and individual traders.
This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive individual to join the Elysian team, working as a full stack developer on a C#/Typescript based physical commodities based trading platform, running on the Google Cloud Platform using the latest dotnet and related technologies. The successful candidate will be involved in rolling the application out to new customers and new markets, making decisions that shape the future of the software, and will be able to take advantage of multiple GCP training programs and gain valuable cloud qualifications.
Principal Accountabilities
System Design and Development:
Contribute to the design, development, testing, and deployment of robust and scalable applications
Platform Maintenance and Optimization:
Assist with ongoing technical support, troubleshooting, and bug fixes
Contribute to the optimization of system performance, scalability, and reliability.
Automation and Efficiency:
Contribute to automation initiatives across the team, reducing manual effort and improving processing speed.
Develop scripts and utilities for routine tasks, reporting, and analysis.
Documentation and Best Practices:
Adhere to coding standards, version control, and software development best practices.
Participate in code reviews to ensure quality and consistency.
Troubleshooting application production issues in conjunction with other support staff and development teams
Bug management ownership (capturing, assessing and owning the rectification of system issues and bugs reported by clients, developers and release team)
Deployment management and automation (Building releases, documenting release notes and ownership of the quality of each release)
Participates in story review, providing constructive feedback and input on both work effort estimation as well as architecture/design improvements.
Works well in a team, fostering an environment of collaboration and innovation.
Essential Criteria:
Bachelor's degree (with honours) or equivalent, but relevant experience could substitute
Knowledge of C# .NET and Javascript/Typescript/React, with demonstrable experience ( ideally 1-2 years )
Experience coding in a story-driven, agile environment
Experience of SDLC methodologies; agile is a big advantage.
Knowledge of Object Oriented Design and Patterns
Experience with cloud environments and CI/CD and automated testing advantageous
Professional Attributes:
Proactive and resourceful, action orientated and accountable
Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills with keen attention to detail
Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
Ability to work independently and as part of a collaborative team in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
Good organizational and time management skills
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As the world's leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) is where the world comes to manage risk. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate. CME Group brings buyers and sellers together through its CME Globex® electronic trading platform and its trading facilities in New York and Chicago. CME Group also operates CME Clearing, one of the world’s leading central counterparty clearing provider in the world, which offers clearing and settlement services for exchange-traded contracts, as well as for over-the-counter derivatives transactions through CME ClearPort®. These products and services ensure that businesses everywhere can substantially mitigate counterparty credit risk in both listed and over-the-counter derivatives markets.
