Job description
CAPCO POLAND
*We are looking for the candidates based in Poland. The job is remote, but may require occasional visits at the office in Warsaw.
Capco Poland is a leading global technology and management consultancy, dedicated to driving digital transformation across the financial services industry. Our passion lies in helping our clients navigate the complexities of the financial world, and our expertise spans banking and payments, capital markets, wealth, and asset management. We pride ourselves on maintaining a nimble, agile, and entrepreneurial culture, and we are committed to growing our business by hiring top talent.
We also are:
- Experts in banking and payments, capital markets, wealth and asset management
- Focused on maintaining our nimble, agile, and entrepreneurial culture
- Committed to growing our business and hiring the best talent to help us get there
TEAM OVERVIEW:
Our Prime Services desk provides a suite of solutions to sophisticated institutional clients like hedge funds, asset managers, and family offices. Think of us as their central access point to a wide range of execution, clearing, financing, and reporting services across various asset classes. Specifically, we facilitate their trading and post-trade activities in:
- Cleared Listed Derivatives: Exchange-traded futures and options across equities, fixed income, commodities, and FX. This involves understanding exchange rules, margining methodologies, and the lifecycle of these instruments.
- Cleared OTC Derivatives: Over-the-counter derivative contracts (like swaps) that are cleared through central counterparties (CCPs). This requires knowledge of clearing workflows, regulatory reporting obligations (e.g., EMIR, Dodd-Frank), and the nuances of different OTC product types.
- FX Prime Broking: Providing clients with access to multiple FX execution venues through a single prime broker relationship. This demands familiarity with FX market structure, liquidity providers, settlement processes, and prime brokerage specific functionalities like credit management and aggregation.
- LME Metals: Facilitating trading and clearing of base and precious metals traded on the London Metal Exchange. This includes understanding LME market conventions, warehousing, warranting, and the unique aspects of physical commodity trading.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
As the Senior Java Engineer you will join an international team working for one of the biggest global banks. This is a complex, long-term project with high visibility, demanding time-lines and high delivery expectations. For our technology team, we’re seeking individuals who not only possess strong technical skills but also bring a solid understanding of these business domains. Ideally, candidates will have hands-on experience with systems and workflows related to at least one, if not more, of these areas. This could include:
- Experience working with trading platforms, order management systems (OMS), execution management systems (EMS), and post-trade processing systems relevant to these asset classes.
- Familiarity with clearing house interfaces, margin calculations, and settlement processes.
- Knowledge of regulatory reporting requirements and data models associated with derivatives and securities trading.
- Exposure to FIX protocol and other relevant market data and connectivity standards.
While deep technical expertise is crucial, the ability to understand the business logic, data flows, and regulatory drivers within these Prime Services areas is what truly sets candidates apart. It allows our technologists to contribute meaningfully to system design, problem-solving, and the delivery of innovative solutions that directly address the needs of our clients and the business.
This is a rare opportunity for a self-driven, strong and passionate developer to participate and contribute to a paradigm shift. You’ll get an opportunity to work cross-teams and explore new technologies such as gen AI and clouds.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Be a proactive, self-starting developer who can quickly understand the requirements, technology platform and external integrations and start designing and contributing to the delivery.
- Face-off and partner with stakeholders to capture requirements and deliver solutions – deep understanding of the problem and context along with ownership are key to be successful in this role.
- Liaise with DevOps and wider team to effectively manage resource usage.
- Apply your experience of financial markets electronic trade capture, booking and full lifecycle to build these features into our platform.
- Work within the ever-evolving framework of Financial Markets specifications and regulations to ensure CAT is using best-in-class technology within the boundaries of approved technologies.
- Build services with an API-first approach and generic pattern mindset for scale across multiple dimensions – optimized compute/performance, functional, visualization, quality control.
- Implement and enforce safe defensive coding, intelligent design, access control, in low-maintenance supportable applications.
- Support database integration/migration (postgres/mongo) caching (hazelcast), communication (solace), security (hashicorp, SSO tokens, Kong integration).
- Do whatever it takes to maintain stability, availability and performance.
- Provide Production L3 support as required, to this delivery and the wider platform.
- Question / Challenge anything you see from your peers or the wider squad that isn’t up to standard.
KEY SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS:
Tech stack: Java, Spring, REST API, microservices
Required skills:
- 6+ years of experience in back-end software engineering with Java.
- Solution design and development expertise with Spring, REST API, microservices.
- Exposure to DevOps tool sets and techniques (e.g. Atlassian Bamboo).
- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process.
Additionally:
- Exposure to Prime Services, Exchange Traded Derivatives Clearing applications eg. Clearvision, UBIX, ION XTP, GMI, Ransys, and/or FM Post Trade Systems.
- Demonstrated ability to take ownership of problems, design effective solutions, and deliver them independently or within a team.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- An innovative mindset with the ability to challenge the status quo and deliver exceptional results.
WHY WORTH JOINING US:
- Employment contract and/or Business to Business as you prefer
- Speaking English on a daily basis, mainly in contact with foreign stakeholders and peers
- Multiple employee benefits packages (MyBenefit Cafeteria, private medical care, insurance)
- Access to 3,000+ Business Courses Platform (Udemy)
- Access to required IT equipment
- Ongoing learning opportunities to help you acquire new skills or deepen existing expertise
- Being part of the core squad focused on the growth of the Polish business unit
- A flat, non-hierarchical structure that will enable you to work with senior partners and directly with clients
- A work culture focused on innovation and creating lasting value for our clients and employees
ONLINE RECRUITMENT PROCESS STEPS:
- Screening call with Recruiter
- Technical interview
- Client’s interview
- Feedback/Offer
Joining Capco means joining an organisation that is committed to an inclusive working environment where you’re encouraged to #BeYourselfAtWork. We celebrate individuality and recognize that diversity and inclusion, in all forms, is critical to success. It’s important to us that we recruit and develop as diverse a range of talent as we can and we believe that everyone brings something different to the table – so we’d love to know what makes you different. Such differences may mean we need to make changes to our process to allow you the best possible platform to succeed, and we are happy to cater to any reasonable adjustments you may require. You will find the section to let us know of these at the bottom of your application form or you can mention it directly to your recruiter at any stage and they will be happy to help.
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