At Lab49, our philosophy is simple: we give talented developers the tools, support and environment they need to push the envelope on every project. What makes us stand out is even simpler. We don’t settle for average products or ‘just good enough’ solutions. When you work here, you’ll always have what you need to go well beyond what already ambitious clients expect from us. Our work is fast and our work is good. Move from project to project, take on new challenges and develop new skills to meet them and you’ll discover what you can really do, faster than ever before.

You’ll work on some of the most varied and sophisticated technological challenges the industry has to offer. That means embracing difficult problems and being driven to achieve the ambitious. But you will never do it alone. You'll work alongside talented colleagues who relish the thrill of achieving what some see as impossible. It also means joining a community of like-minded people whose passion for technology and its potential goes beyond clocking in and out of a job. If you’re interested, you’ll have the opportunity to bring new technologies into our work, suggest fields we should be moving into or get stuck into research projects that are as much about intellectual curiosity as commercial value.

Responsibilities

• Build distributed systems that deal with actor-based concurrency, reactive programming, distributed in-memory data grids, messaging that goes beyond plain JMS as we fully expect to participate in shaping the future of financial technology stacks
• Work on server side JVM-based projects
• Hit the ground running with the typical Java or Scala JVM ecosystem stack (Spring and its subprojects, Guice, Guava, Maven, Hibernate, Jetty, etc.)
• Retool continuously as the technology landscape changes every few years
• Be able to pick up other technologies along the whole development stack, including front-end and other non-JVM ecosystems
• Work with our clients in iterative, project-based engagements, where self-organizing and focused teams move quickly to build innovative solutions for the client
• Have the desire to collaborate, and like sharing and learning from your colleagues
• Be passionate about delivering quality code
• Demonstrate experience writing commercial-grade software applications
• Have a deep understanding of multithreading and real-time software architectures
• Have an abiding interest in and competence for solving real-world business problems (with technology as an enabler)
• Be determined to succeed despite obstacles and challenges, as well as a positive attitude favoring achievement of goals over open-ended investigation

Required Skills and Experience

• 5+ years of recent hands-on experience in designing and coding complex, enterprise, commercial-grade applications in core, server-side Java, ideally Java 8+
• Experience building RESTful Web Services
• Test-driven development, which includes Unit and End-to-End Testing
• Experience with Agile software development (e.g. SCRUM or KANBAN)
• Experience in a CI/CD environment
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, or related work experience
• Experience with, knowledge of, and strong demonstrated interest in, global financial markets and financial products.

Lab49/ION is committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive environment for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We respect the varied identities, abilities, cultures, and traditions of the individuals who comprise our organization and recognize the value that different backgrounds and points of view bring to our business.

Lab49/ION adheres to an equal employment opportunity policy that prohibits discriminatory practices or harassment against applicants or employees based on any legally impermissible factor.