Senior Software Developer

Job Description

Description CME Group is the worlds leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace. But who we are goes deeper than that. Here, you can impact markets worldwide. Transform industries. And build a career shaping tomorrow. We invest in your success and you own it, all while working alongside a team of leading experts who inspire you in ways big and small. Joining our company gives you the opportunity to make a difference in global financial markets every day, whether you work on our industry-leading technology and risk management services, our benchmark products or in a corporate services area that helps us serve our customers better. Were small enough for you and your contributions to be known. But big enough for your ideas to make an impact. The pace is dynamic, the work is unlike any other firm in the business, and the possibilities are endless. Problem solvers, difference makers, trailblazers. Those are our people. And were looking for more. To learn more about what a career at CME Group can offer you, visit us at www.wherefuturesaremade.com . The selected candidate will join the CME Engineering and Execution team in Belfast as a Senior Software Engineer within the Risk Systems team. The Belfast team is responsible for the delivery of innovative, customer-facing risk management software solutions to support CME customers. A Senior Software Engineer within the team will contribute to all facets of the development cycle including the application architecture, feature development and refinement of CI/CD processes. Internal mobility and flexibility are a key part to our agile approach to technology delivery. The successful candidate, throughout their career, will form a key part in driving our success across technology, and will find opportunities to work in a variety of projects and technologies, beyond their initial team and specialism. Principal Accountabilities Participate in technical discussions, building consensus on detailed design and architecture plans for complex, large scale efforts. Applies expert knowledge of java language, DBMS and middle-ware technologies in independently designing and developing key services. Authoritative contributions to code reviews via PR process, ensuring good practices adhered to as well as identifying potential issues Plays a lead role in preliminary story review, providing constructive feedback and input on both work effort estimation as well as architecture/design improvements. Plays a key role in working with analysts to interpret high level requirements for complex, large scale initiatives and decomposing them into independent testable stories and sub-tasks for the team. Expected to develop network of relationships within the organization to achieve results and to effectively communicate vision and status both within/across teams as well as to management Drives continuous improvement efforts by identifying and championing practical means of reducing time to market while maintaining high quality products (i.e. - process improvements/automation opportunities). Embraces and enforces CME Group SDLC and information security standards. Provide mentorship and guidance to junior team members. Essential Criteria Bachelors degree (with honours) or equivalent/better strongly preferred, but substantial relevant experience could substitute Strong knowledge and experience of Agile SDLC methodologies including BDD/TDD practices Strong Java development skills Expertise in Object Oriented Design and Patterns Expertise in Spring Frameworks - Spring Boot. Desirable Criteria Strong DBMS skills - Oracle Previous development experience in high volume, low latency applications Experience in REST APIs CI/CD processes using Bamboo/Jenkins Prior experience working in financial services/exchange space. Prior experience using Confluence, JIRA, or other Atlassian tools. For EU Residents, the Candidate Privacy Policy can be found here.