Java Team Lead

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. 

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. The 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% on average and 90% on critical parts.

Teams co-exist in a Scrum/Kanban environment backed by the Atlassian suite, Slack, TeamCity, Sonar, Docker, etc.

Most project teams are multi-cultural and distributed, typically consisting of 3-7 BE engineers balanced by QAs, FEs, and BAs.

What we’re looking for

An opportunity to team up with an experienced Java Team Lead to guide one of our teams of highly experienced engineers (3-8 people) and simultaneously manage daily project operations and communicate with the customer’s team.

You will be responsible for the individual professional growth of your subordinates, managing team members’ tasks daily, supervising and guiding a distributed team of professionals along working through requirements with the customer’s team.

Being a primary technical point of contact for the customer you should have excellent communication skills, a technical mindset with great attention to detail, ability to analyze suggested approaches and come up with better solutions.

This is also an incredible opportunity to work on the high availability and consistency of a distributed system that processes millions of operations on a daily basis. On top of that, you'll be presented with other challenges such as (but not limited to):

• Backend implementation of complex business logic related to options strategies trading, refinement of existing components (core trading system, key modules and services, administrative UI backend).
• Creating an API layer for the trading data in a convenient form for use in the client terminal.
• Teamwork: mandatory code reviews, daily meetings, participation in planning and retrospectives, interaction with QA engineers, analysts, and other teams
• Cover the code with the unit, integration tests, and CI/CD configuration.
• Communicate with the client and participate in requirements elaboration, architecture discussions, and external demos.
• Ensure good monitoring and efficient incident processing
   

Along with that, you’re going to be expected to maintain high test coverage and instill best coding practices in the team. Finally, all the team members are expected to be actively involved with system health monitoring and its support.

We expect the Java Team Lead to: 

• Oversee day-to-day team operation.
• Mentor and share knowledge. 
• Maintain and improve the development process (scrum-like).
• Analyze and work on requirements with the customer’s team (including implementation specifics).
• Estimate requirements efforts.
• Navigate implementation details to ensure consistency with the initial design.
• Participate in code reviews.
• Develop new features.
• Write unit and integration tests.

Must-have skills:

• Experience as a team lead in a group of 4-5 developers.
• Strong knowledge of Java programming language.
• High-quality organizational and leadership skills.
• Understanding of the testing pyramid, particularly unit, integration, and acceptance testing.
• Desire to write, optimize, document, and maintain code and thoroughly cover it with tests.
• Desire to achieve goals as a team, willingness to help colleagues, and ability to give/take criticism.
• Proficient English language (C1 and higher) to be able to communicate with the team and client.

Nice-to-have skills:

• Experience with Spring framework.
• Experience with scaling applications horizontally.
• Hands-on experience writing concurrent Java code.
• Understanding of XP practices and desire to implement them.
• Desire to mentor people and share knowledge.
• Experience in software and application design and architecture.
• Previous experience in Fintech.

Devexperts employees create the art of FinTech in comfortable working spaces located in modern business centers around the world. Join our team in Porto and enjoy:

Work Regime Flexibility benefits: 

• Possibility of hybrid/remote work mode
• Flexible working hours
• Work From Anywhere Program

Health and recreation benefits: 

• Fully paid additional wellness days (3 unwell days per year)
• Medical insurance for the employees and children
• Reimbursement of fitness
• Meal allowance
• Flexpay system

Facility benefits: 

• Modern office with new equipment
• PlayStation, table football, and musical instruments in the office
• Parking spaces
• Free drinks and snacks

Community benefits: 

• Teambuilding activities
• Corporate parties
• Football Club
• Music club
• Speakers' club
• Free admission to corporate external events
• Possibility of joining conferences and professional fairs
• Personal branding development support

Professional training benefits: 

• English language courses
• Local language courses for foreign employees
• Unlimited access to self-learning platforms
• Certification opportunities
• Mentorship Program

Social benefits: 

• Parental bonus
• Pension plan
• Referral bonus
• Blood donation paid leave