Java Scala Developer (Remote)

Who we are

Serbia is a growing international IT hub and a new market for Luxoft. Luxofters with profound expertise form the backbone of our team of talented specialists. Over 950 IT professionals work for investment banks, financial services corporations, automotive leaders, and multinational technology and retail companies.

Project description

Our client, a large international commodity trading company, is expanding its internal software development team and is looking for programmers to join the team working on a new generation risk management and position keeping, and trading management systems.

We are looking for mature software engineers with in-depth experience of writing performance orientated and highly reliable software, who love and understand technology and also understand or are willing to understand the trading business. We expect the joiners to work on a fairly wide range of tasks: from purely business functionality to its underlying technological foundations; we also expect them to come up with well thought-out, simple, robust, testable, and elegant solutions.

Responsibilities

• Writing performance orientated and highly reliable software in object – oriented languages for risk & position keeping system
• Delivering within cost, time, and quality constraints of projects
• Needs to work closely with business analysts, testers, and project managers

Skills

Must have

• Ability and willingness to acquire bits of business knowledge and to map software solutions they work on to business problems. Newcomers do not need to be readily proficient in commodity trading but must be willing to learn the relevant business context
• Ability and willingness to actively contribute to system quality: re-think and re-work problematic parts, work on automated tests, observability, development ergonomics, etc.
• Ability to program in real-world general-purpose programming languages (Scala, Kotlin, Java, C#, etc.) as well as in common scripting languages (bash, Python, etc.). We use Scala but it is okay to have little experience with it
• Ability to follow common development practices: version control, code reviews, etc.
• Understanding of basic data structures and algorithms along with their performance characteristics
• Having a working understanding of databases and common network protocols
• Having a sensible idea of how JVM works
• Being able to do common tasks in Linux command line

Nice to have

• We would generally expect the candidate to be educated to at least degree level (or equivalent) in either Computer Science or another hard science or engineering discipline
• Team members should be able to communicate in passable English

What we offer

• Luxoft Training Center (more than 400 professional training programs, the High Performers Club)
• Self-Learning Library
• Internal Mobility (rotation between projects and accounts, new career opportunities)
• Global Relocation
• Mentoring Program (professional career development for leaders)
• Recognition and Evaluation (feedback culture, regular appraisals)
• Professional Communities (join one of our many internal communities: Agile Community, Tech Community, Business Analysis Community, etc.)
• Team Events (take part in the many fun social activities organized by the Luxoft team in Serbia

Luxoft is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.

We show fairness to all throughout our talent acquisition and management process.