Java Software Engineer - eFX Technology (Melbourne or Sydney) - 12 month fixed-term

First a bit about ANZ

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Role Overview

The Institutional domain will deliver full end-to-end world class products and services to our global Institutional, Corporate & Commercial and Retail customers across Asia. It will incorporate capabilities across areas of Investment Banking, Trading and Sales, Cash Management, Wholesale Lending and Trade Finance and with a single view of a customer to better integrate business and technology in creating a seamless customer experience. The domain will lead digital transformation in areas such as trade and supply chain management to create a seamless customer experience.

Foreign Exchange Services

To provide Best-in-Class Foreign Exchange Services to ANZ customers by empowering staff to build World-class products. eFX Technology Team is responsible for FX electronic market making, aggregation and algorithmic trading.

• eFX Risk Management – electronic pricing in FX markets
• eFX Liquidity and Execution – market data aggregation and SOR build out
• eFX Pricing and Distribution – distribution of FX prices to internal/external client

What does a 'day in the life' look like

• works with traders, quantitative analysts, java engineers, analysts and testers to deliver low latency FX trading systems
• enables continuous delivery practices to increase delivery speed
• works in collaborative teams to build innovative solutions
• utilises tools and practices to build, verify and deploy solutions in the most efficient ways, enhancing tech division capabilities
• implements a culture within the Tribe and the Chapter, encouraging best practices around reviews, quality and documentation
• contributes to Engineering communities, meetups and conferences to promote technology development culture and practices
• provide ongoing support for platforms as required e.g. problem and incident management
• creates estimates and continuously reviews demand within the individual Squads/teams

Role Skills and Responsibilities

To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following:

• have a thirst and willingness to expand knowledge with new technologies bringing benefits into the Tribe
• ability to triage and diagnose defects or issues
• experience working with operations and architecture groups developing scalable and supportable solutions would be valuable
• understanding of current state landscape and relevant technologies

Specialised Skills

We are looking for passionate software engineers with strong core java. The Java developer(s) would be responsible for developing low-latency Java FX trading systems.

The following skills are necessary for the role:

• core Java 8
• multi-threaded programming and OO design
• Shell/Bash scripting
• building high throughput low latency java software including performance tuning and optimisation to achieve microsecond latencies
• strong communication skills
• excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• ability to collaborate within eFX Technology team, wider FX technology, support and trading stakeholders

The following skills are highly regarded:

• Quantitative development experience in high frequency electronic market making/algorithmic trading
• Low latency messaging
• Event sourcing
• Experience in FX trading systems, Market Marking, SOR or FIX
• Hardware for low latency, Linux kernel/OS internals
• KDB/Q
• Python/R

We’ve also got some great information about what it’s like to work in ‘Engineering@ANZ’ on our LinkedIn Life page

We work flexibly at ANZ. Talk to us and let us know how this role can be flexible for you.