Software Engineer II

What to expect working in CME Post Trade:

• Opportunity to work with Technical Experts in Enterprise processing
• Own significant and challenging development as appropriate to role
• Every user story will have clearly defined testable acceptance criteria
• We provide bespoke training opportunities to develop new skills and expertise
• A team with a focus on innovation and embracing early adoption of practices and technologies.
• Strong identity and accountability for the entire value stream
• Flexible home working policy
• Where differing views and debate are respected and encouraged

Principal Accountabilities

• Contributes to system design collaborating with various teams to build fit for purpose platforms.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software.
• Provide mentoring and technical direction to development, helping to identify technical solutions to realize design.
• Completes research and conducts POCs on new technologies.
• Participates in CICD development pipelines, contributing to modern test and delivery techniques
• Take initiative and be responsible for technical solutions to application and cloud challenges.

Essential Criteria

• Bachelor's degree (with honors) or equivalent/better strongly preferred, but substantial relevant experience could substitute
• Strong knowledge of core Java skills, 3 plus years significant experience
• Experience working with multithreaded applications and core Java libraries
• Ability to write clean, bug-free code that is easy to understand, and easily maintainable

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of financial markets/exchange space and working with financial applications
• Experience CICD and Cloud operations
• Experience using Confluence, JIRA, or other Atlassian tools.

Skills & Software Requirements:

• Java skills: Python, Pandas, Python REST, PySpark
• Code Version Control: Tortoise GIT, GIT/Bitbucket
• DevOps Tools: Maven, Bamboo, Jenkins, Argo
• Optional Core Java is good addon
• Intermediate SQL knowledge. Basic modeling. Elementary tuning
• Exposure to GCP (Google cloud) will be a big advantage
• Experience in Agile Development
• Candidate must have good written and oral communication skills, be a fast learner