Senior Java / Grid Computing Developer

  • Full-time

Company Description

Teklysium offers more than just technical and strategic expertise. We are also focused on creating the technology experiences of tomorrow through cutting-edge innovations and delivering unprecedented service experiences that are faster, smarter and more personalized.


Job Description

Responsibilities:

Implement software used by risk managers to analyze and mitigate risk.
This job provides the unique opportunity to write applications that are used by both the firm's internal risk managers to set margin policy, as well as by external hedge fund clients to help manage their portfolios.
Constantly evolving hedge fund strategies will provide a stream of new challenges to the candidate who must augment the software in order to satisfy changing client requirements.
The applicant should be a superior Java programmer, with strong design and implementation fundamentals.
Prior experience in finance will be useful, however, the ability and willingness to master new technical and business concepts will be considered.

Required Skills:

Bachelor's Degree.
Strong experience in developing enterprise level systems using Java and database technologies.
Work with Quants to integrate new models into the Risk Analytics product offering.
Primary technology is Java on Linux.
Strong exposure to Java development, object oriented design paradigms, concurrent and distributed programming concepts are critical to be successful in this role.
Risk tools use databases ranging from RDMS (Sybase, DB2) to NoSQL databases (Mongo DB).

Preferred Skills:

Exposure to developing software in the financial and specifically risk domain is desirable.
Java 8 is a plus.
Exposure to grid computing , distributed caching and in-memory databases is a huge plus
DB2 Blu or Hazelcast is a plus
Understanding of Risk Analytics (VAR, Greeks ) is desirable but not required.
Exposure to distributed caching frameworks like MemcacheD etc. is a plus.
Exposure to grid computing platforms (Data Synapse, Symphony, Hadoop etc.) is a huge plus.


Additional Information

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