Senior
Lab49 is an award-winning specialist consultancy that creates bespoke technology in partnership with the most important companies in finance.
We were founded in 2002 to bring Silicon Valley solutions to Wall Street’s door. Since then, we have worked on successive waves of technological change, including distributed computing, high-speed automation, enterprise UX and digital distribution (for which Lab49 was among the first significant practices established on Wall Street), DevOps, cloud, and data science.
Today, we are an established partner in financial markets, having delivered hundreds of projects for clients including all the world’s tier-one investment banks and many of the largest buy-side firms globally.
Being part of Lab49 means bringing your drive and creativity into an environment where your contributions will make immediate impact. Engineers will work in cross functional teams, consulting directly with our clients, shaping not only technical solutions to business problems but delivering them into production
Build distributed systems that deal with actor-based concurrency, reactive programming, distributed in-memory data grids, messaging that goes beyond plain JMS as we fully expect to participate in shaping the future of financial technology stacks
Work on server side JVM-based projects
Hit the ground running with the typical Java or Scala JVM ecosystem stack (Spring and its subprojects, Guice, Guava, Maven, Hibernate, Jetty, etc.)
Retool continuously as the technology landscape changes every few years
Be able to pick up other technologies along the whole development stack, including front-end and other non-JVM ecosystems
Work with our clients in iterative, project-based engagements, where self-organizing and focused teams move quickly to build innovative solutions for the client
Have the desire to collaborate, and like sharing and learning from your colleagues
Be passionate about delivering quality code
Demonstrate experience writing commercial-grade software applications
Have a deep understanding of multithreading and real-time software architectures
Have an abiding interest in and competence for solving real-world business problems (with technology as an enabler)
Be determined to succeed despite obstacles and challenges, as well as a positive attitude favoring achievement of goals over open-ended investigation
8+ years of recent hands-on experience in designing and coding complex, enterprise, commercial-grade applications in core, server-side Java, ideally Java 8+
Experience building RESTful Web Services
Test-driven development, which includes Unit and End-to-End Testing
Experience with Agile software development (e.g. SCRUM or KANBAN)
Experience in a CI/CD environment
Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, or related work experience
Experience with, knowledge of, and strong demonstrated interest in, global financial markets and financial products.
Why Lab49?
Lab49 is an established partner for most financial institutions on Wall Street. You will gain exposure into a variety of environments, business domains, technologies, and people. Your ability to bring drive and creativity to the role will be the key component to success at Lab49. The broad and intense exposure to a variety of challenges accelerates your career growth, and Lab49’s structure is designed to enable you to learn and grow as an engineer and consultant.
Lab49/ION is committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive environment for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We respect the varied identities, abilities, cultures, and traditions of the individuals who comprise our organization and recognize the value that different backgrounds and points of view bring to our business.
Lab49/ION adheres to an equal employment opportunity policy that prohibits discriminatory practices or harassment against applicants or employees based on any legally impermissible factor.
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