Senior PostgreSQL and Java Developer

Our client: Montrose Software has an ongoing relationship with one of the largest North American banks to enhance and maintain its production libraries and applications. The bank serves 17 million clients worldwide and provides personal and commercial banking, wealth management, insurance, investor services, and capital markets products and services globally. We work mainly with their capital markets teams, focusing on derivatives and fixed income systems.

Project description: The bank made a strategic decision to migrate the rates trading platform from a legacy system to Murex. As the new system passes data in a new format, our team is to implement and enhance the system capabilities to transform between Murex format and FpML, as well as create a new bridge that will allow booking of trades in FpML form into Murex. The system supports a wide variety of financial products, starting from simple FRAs and Swaptions to complex products. As part of this project will be to move services from Windows/.NET/MsSQL to Linux/Java/PostgreSQL platform.

Team & Collaboration

• 3 developers and 2 managers
• Regular meetings:
  • Daily Stand-Up in afternoon hours.
• Communication via email and Webex chat
• Working hours: usually 9:00–17:00 CET

• PostgreSQL database configuration, optimization and schema designing
• Writing well tested java code
• Configuring and working with database cluster and others like docker, kubernetes.

• Strong technical developer with 7+ years hands on experience
• 5+ years of experience in Database technologies, including 2+ years with PostgreSQL
• 3+ years of experience in Java 17+ with Spring, Spring-Boot, unit-tests.
• 5+ years of experience with version control systems like GitHub
• 3+ years of experience with CD/CI pipeline tools like Jenkins, Maven, Ansible, GitHub Actions, etc

• Experience with .NET / C#
• Experience with Open Telemetry
• Experience with XML and XSLT transformations
• Experience with Java reactive programming
• Experience in the Capital Markets domain

• Technical phone screening (~30 minutes)
• Technical interview(~2 hours)
• Non-technical call with hiring manager or one of the Recruitment Team(~45 min)
• Call with client for which you will be working (30 minutes-1,5 hour)