Luxoft, the global IT outsourcing company providing software development services, opens the position in St.Petersburg

Project Description:

• One of the Top Investment Banks has a need to develop Web UI interface for innovating margin risk platform which supports all major known and house margin calculation methodologies (VaR, SPAN, TIMS, FINRA, etc).

Examples of Web applications: 

• Web application for margin terms management (MTM Tool). RIA which gives a user an ability to create margin terms for various types of clients (usually hedge funds). Technologies: resteasy, spring, jsp, javascript, dojo, ajax. Margin terms - an agreement between a client and a bank, which includes some parameters for margin calculation (e.g. calculation methodology, calculators parameters, portfolio grouping). All the business logic should be on the server side so it would be simple (if needed) to change the client type (e.g. desktop instead of web)
• Web interface for risk management platform. UI technologies: html5, gwt, supposedly a lot of canvas, The application should run on mobile devices as well as on desktop computers

Responsibilities:

•  Participate in requirements gathering by working closely with onshore technology team, business users, and quants
•  Design and develop service components, with responsibilities for the full development life cycle
•  Deploy highly efficient caching techniques to solve problems related to passing high volumes of data between different platform components
•  Actively participate in the global development process, contribute to knowledge base, suggest process improvements
•  Stay abreast of the new developments in technology - tools/frameworks/approaches/etc.

Skills Required:

•  Strong Java experience
•  Good understanding of data structures and algorithms
•  Good understanding of general (GoF) and GUI related design patterns
•  Strong working experience with JavaScript and related frameworks (JQuery, Prototype).
•  Strong knowledge of web technologies (JSP, Servlets. Spring-MVC, HTML, CSS, AJAX)
•  Strong working experience with RIA development
•  Design and development of web services utilizing REST/SOAP protocols
•  Software design with UML
•  Soft skills include good written and verbal skills and leadership skills in driving technical excellence