• Lead Java Developer | Fixed Income Technology

    Raymond James Financial, Inc. (Jersey City, NJ)


    As part of our Fixed Income development team at SumRidge Partners (a company of Raymond James), this Lead Developer will analyze business requirements and drive research to design technical solutions that support our SumRidge Trading System. In this role, you will be responsible for performing activities associated with all stages of SDLC and collaborate with team members and various stakeholders.

    Department Overview:

    SumRidge Partners LLC is a top ranked fixed income electronic market maker, specializing in high yield and investment grade corporate bonds, municipal bonds, institutional preferred securities, and emerging market bonds. SumRidge currently ranks among the top liquidity providers on most major electronic bond exchanges, leveraging the firm's technological strengths and an experienced sales and trading team.

    Responsibilities:

    + Enhance existing applications and contribute to development of new applications by analyzing and identifying areas for modification and improvement. Develop new routine applications to meet business requirements.

    + Monitor, identify, and correct more complex software defects to maintain fully functioning applications software.

    + Partner with a cross-functional team to imagine, design, develop, and test.

    + Participate in the development, code reviews, testing, deployment, and delivery of large-scale software applications, systems, and services.

    + Build relationships with Development Managers, Engineers, Business Analysts, and Project Managers across various teams.

    + Stay up to date with tools, trends, technologies and frameworks and develop proof of concepts.

    + Makes recommendations towards the development of new code or to reuse of existing code.

    + Participates in software system testing and validation procedures, programming and documentation.

    + Reviews test results; documents test activities, and records remedial actions.

    + Ensures proper analysis of problems and programming approaches to prevent rework and schedule slippage.

    + May occasionally work a non-standard shift including nights and/or weekends and/or have on-call responsibilities.

    + Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

    Skills/Previous Experience:

    + Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience).

    + More than five (5) years of experience in Design, Development and Support of Data-Driven, all aspects of SDLC in a highly scalable multi-tier applications in distributed environments.

    + Proven experience working as a Senior Java/J2EE Developer in Financial Services is required.

    + Fixed Income Trading or Electronic Trading knowledge is strongly preferred.

    + Solid experience in working with all stages of SDLC.

    + Solid background in Java/J2EE programming.

    + Strong background in Oracle PL/SQL.

    + Familiar with Spring Framework and ORM framework.

    + Experience in Java application containers, such as Apache Tomcat.

    + Experience with Kafka is preferred.

    + Understanding of Tick Database and Solace is plus.

    + Excellent communication skills with ability to coordinate with all stake holders of the application (Peers, IT Partners, Business Operations and Vendors).

    Licenses/Certifications:

    + None required.