Octus

Backend Engineer

• Report to Richard Christy as part of the Application Platform team to architect, design, and develop the next-generation Sky Road platform architecture
• Improve scalability, reliability and performance of the Sky Road platform to support more clients, features, and data volumes
• Enhance architecture to provide infrastructure for real-time event processing, integrating real-time external interfaces, and data warehousing
• Assist in timely resolution of incidents and support day-to-day production operations
• Write automated JUnit and regression tests
• Help improve and maintain internal documentation
• Work on trade processing, portfolio management, portfolio optimization, compliance, and credit management functions for alternative asset managers

Java Developer, Application Platform

Software Engineer

• Report to Richard Christy to build out Snowflake offering and onboard client data to Sky Road platform
• Focus on onboarding new client data into MySQL application database and designing/building/supporting Snowflake offering
• Assist with ETL Framework in Python to decrease turnaround time for onboarding
• Assist in timely resolution of incidents and supporting day-to-day operations when issues occur in production
• Improve and maintain documentation for internal team members

Data Developer

• The Application Java Server Developer reports to Keenan Clifford and will develop and support code pertaining to Sky Road’s Order Management System (OMS).
• This system provides configurable trade processing including trade allocation algorithms, compliance testing, trade executions (manual and electronic) and integrations to third party systems with respect to incoming and outgoing trading information.
• Working under Keenan’s guidance, this role will be focused on Sky Road’s OMS specifically to support, develop, test, and maintain new functionality in Sky Road’s OMS including the Allocation and Workflow Engines.
• Strong Java and Relational Database skills, good communication and teamwork skills, and motivation to learn new skills are key to this role.
• Key Responsibilities
• Improve functionality, performance, quality, configuration, and support of Sky Road’s OMS.
• Support/develop expertise in Sky Road’s Allocation Engine and the algorithms used for trade allocation supported by this engine.
• Support/develop expertise in Sky Road’s Workflow Engine used to instruct the OMS through client specific compliance/trade booking processes.
• 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 Databases, at least 5 years
• Experience building/maintaining REST APIs for applications, at least 5 years
• Experience with CI/CD technologies such as Git, Jenkins, JUnit
• Desired Qualifications
• Experience with any of the following technologies: Docker, Hibernate, Snowflake, GraphQL, NoSQL databases, Python, Bash scripts, JSON, HTML, AWS
• Committed to maintaining a clean, readable, and consistent codebase by making thoughtful and well-integrated contributions
• Familiarity building Financial Software Applications, specifically trade/position keeping systems
• 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 Sky Road’s OMS including diagnosis, data correction, and solution suggestion

Java Developer, Application Platform

Data Developer

Senior Java Developer