Octus

Octus is a leading global provider of credit intelligence, data, and analytics. Since 2013, tens of thousands of professionals across hedge fund, investment banking, management consulting, and law firm verticals have come to rely on Octus to make better, faster, and more confident decisions in pace with the fast-moving credit markets.
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Working at Octus

Octus hires growth-minded innovators and trailblazers across the globe to drive our business and culture. Our core values – Action Oriented, Customer First Mindset, Effective Team Players, and Driven to Excel – define an organizational ethos that’s as high-performing as it is human. Among other perks, Octus employees enjoy competitive health benefits, matched 401k and pension plans, PTO, generous parental leave, gym subsidies, educational reimbursements for career development, recognition programs, pet-friendly offices (US only), and much more.

Role

The Application PlatformJava Developer reports to Richard Christy and will part of the team to architect, design, and develop the next generation architecture for the Sky Road platform. The Sky Road platform provides trade processing, portfolio management, portfolio optimization, compliance, and credit management functions for alternative asset managers. Working under Rich’s guidance along with the other members of the Application Platform team, this role will be focused on improving the scalability, performance, and functionality to build the next generation Sky Road architecture. Java/Spring and database skills, good communication and teamwork skills, and motivation to learn new skills are key to this role.

Key Responsibilities

Improve scalability, reliability and performance of the Sky Road platform architecture to allow the application to scale to accommodate additional clients, features, and data volumes
Improve the architecture to provide additional infrastructure to support features such as real-time event processing, integrating real-time external interfaces and data warehousing.
Assist in timely resolution of incidents and support day-to-day operations when issues occur in production.
Write automated JUnit and regression tests.
Help to improve and maintain documentation for internal team members.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science
Java experience, at least 5 years
Experience with Spring Boot framework, Spring Security framework, JPA at least 5 years
Experience with Relational/NoSQL Databases, at least 5 years
Experience with Java Messaging Service (SQS, Kafka or similar)
Experience with Hazlecast, Google Guave, or equivalent Java Cache technologies
Experience with using AWS services to build application frameworks (i.e. AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, AWS Load Balancers, AWS database technologies).
Experience with CI/CD technologies such as Git, Jenkins, Java IDEs

Desired Qualifications

Experience with any of the following technologies: Hibernate, Snowflake, GraphQL, Python, JSON, HTML
Experience with server-side API frameworks such as REST and/or WebSockets being called by a client-side contemporary web framework (i.e. Angular or React)
Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD) and test framework such as Junit/Mockito
Committed to maintaining a clean, readable, and consistent codebase by making thoughtful and well-integrated contributions and participating in GIT pull-requests/code reviews
Familiarity building Financial Software Applications, specifically trade/position keeping systems

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Code Feedback is genuinely taken into consideration and can similarly be given via discussion and code reviews
Feature/Bug Fix Delivery without frequent occurrence of significant rollbacks or issues
Time Management of simultaneous short/long term projects including estimation, planning, development, and delivery
Production support of the Sky Road platform including diagnosis, data correction, and solution suggestion

At Octus, we consider a range of factors in connection with compensation decisions, including experience, skills, location, and our business needs and limitations. As a result, compensation may vary within and across similar roles and positions. Please note that the salary range information below is a good faith estimate for this position and actual compensation for any individual may fall outside this range if warranted by the circumstances applicable to that individual. If we identify a role that would be suitable for a broader range of skills and experience such that we would consider hiring at multiple levels then the range listed below may reflect that breadth.

The salary range estimate for this position is $110,000 - $150,000.

The actual compensation will be at Octus' sole discretion and will be determined by the aforementioned and other relevant factors.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Octus is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse work environment where all individuals are valued, respected, and treated fairly. We believe that diversity enriches our workplace and enhances our ability to innovate and succeed.