Backend Developer

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

Our current project involves developing one of the leading trading platforms in the USA, serving a user base of over 200,000 online users daily across desktops, mobile devices, and the web.

The responsibilities of the platform's backend services include handling all business processes related to trading, such as order issuance, validation, routing, execution, option price calculation, and reconciliation. We prioritize high performance, low latency, and fault tolerance in our day-to-day tasks. We ensure code quality by performing careful code reviews and various types of testing.

Qualifications

What we expect from candidates:

• Passion for coding
• Foundation in computer science data structures, algorithms and their complexities
• Desire to optimise, document and maintain code and also carefully cover it with tests
• Willingness and energy to take your ideas all the way from proof of concept to production-proof code
• General responsibility and result-oriented mindset
• Desire to achieve goals as a team, willingness to help colleagues and ability to provide/accept constructive feedback
• B2+ English to be able to communicate with multicultural teams and a US customer

Considered a plus:

• Trading and capital markets background
• Hands-on experience in concurrent programming and understanding of thread synchronization approaches
• Exposure to distributed systems, following strong performance and reliability requirements
• Foundation in asynchronous communications
• Solid Unix/Linux knowledge

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),
• Medical insurance,
• Sport compensation.

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:

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

Social benefits:

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