Java/Scala Developer

Ability and willingness to acquire bits of business knowledge and to map software solutions they work on to business problems. Newcomers do not need to be readily proficient in commodity trading but must be willing to learn the relevant business context

Ability and willingness to actively contribute to system quality: re-think and re-work problematic parts, work on automated tests, observability, development ergonomics, etc.

Ability to program in real-world general-purpose programming languages (Scala, Kotlin, Java, C#, etc.) as well as in common scripting languages (bash, Python, etc.). We use Scala but it is okay to have little experience with it

Ability to follow common development practices: version control, code reviews, etc.

Understanding of basic data structures and algorithms along with their performance characteristics

Having a working understanding of databases and common network protocols

Having a sensible idea of how JVM works

Being able to do common tasks in Linux command line

We would generally expect the candidate to be educated to at least degree level (or equivalent) in either Computer Science or another hard science or engineering discipline

Team members should be able to communicate in passable English