Software Engineer - Core Java

OptionsCity provides a fully configurable trading software platform to professional options traders who trade on the world's leading derivative markets.

• Work on the business-level services provided by our platform, from market making, opportunity identification, pricing, risk management, order and trade management, to exchange connectivity
• Work on the core services exposed by our platform, like threading, persistence, messaging
• Contribute to the entire ecosystem: Metro, Freeway, API’s
• Push the platform forward from a quality and performance point of view through systematic refactoring
• Actively participate in discussions around design, architecture, and problem solving
• Work closely with Dev-Ops for configuration, automation and deployment
• Participate in application testing to ensure high quality software
• Provide development support to second level support team
• Participate in agile related meetings to plan, assess and improve the development process

• BS in Computer Science preferred, other engineering/technical degree acceptable
• Excellent Java programming skills (4+ years)
• Development experience in a Linux/UNIX environment
• Extensive experience in OOP/OOD
• TCP/IP, Multicast, multi-threaded, socket level programming
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Excellent communication skills, able thrive in a team oriented environment
• Track record of constantly learning or building new things No sponsorship available at this time (US citizens or permanent residents only).