Software Engineer III (UI)

Job Specification – Software Engineer III (UI)

Overview

CME Technology and Support Services is relentlessly focused on developing the world’s most advanced electronic trading, post trade processing and risk management systems. We are the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, providing risk management solutions that help drive the global economy. Our customers include leading investment and commercial banks, hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, asset managers, corporations, and individual traders.

The selected candidate will join the Markets Division within Technology in Belfast as a Software Engineer III, initially supporting EBS Workstation. The team is a high performing group of individuals that deliver on a broad range of functions including systems/business analysis, software development and quality assurance services. The team is responsible from initial request review, impact assessment, and prioritization through to solution implementation.

EBS Workstation is a next generation trading platform that enables professional traders to deal in foreign exchange markets in one of the largest and most liquid FX OTC markets in the world, so this is an exciting opportunity to lead the technical direction of a benchmark trading platform.

Although initially working on the EBS Workstation product, the Markets Technology division also develop a variety of trading and post-trade solutions, supporting our exchange and clearing business. Internal mobility and flexibility are a key part to our agile approach to technology delivery. The successful candidate, throughout their career, will form a key part in driving our success across technology, and will find opportunities to work in a variety of projects and technologies, beyond their initial team and specialism.

What do expect working in the EBS Workstation Team

• Opportunity to work with technical experts in enterprise software delivery
• Opportunity to work on significant and challenging engineering problems as appropriate to the role
• Bespoke training and mentoring opportunities to develop new skills and expertise
• Work with a wide range of tools and technologies to support production systems
• A team with a focus on innovation and embracing early adoption of practices and technologies
• Strong identity and accountability for the entire value stream
• A culture of humility, respect and trust where teams are empowered to take risks to innovate, fail fast and learn iteratively
• Flexible home working policy

Principal Accountabilities

• Write application modules and unit tests with guidance
• Design with guidance and code independently
• Assist with code optimization
• Participate in code reviews whilst reviewing code to proactively identify and mitigate potential issues and defects
• Help to identify sources of defects as well as troubleshoots various forms of code
• Support continuous improvement, contributing to adoption of best practice and process improvements

Essential Criteria

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or other related discipline is required. Please note equivalent combination of education and relevant proven work experience will be considered.

• Excellent front-end web development skills:

• Strong ES6 JavaScript skills with knowledge of developing large modular applications

• HTML5 using semantic mark-up and patterns for code reuse

• CSS with a solid understanding of modern techniques such as Responsive Web Design, Graceful Degradation and Object-Oriented Development

• Experience in application architecture, W3C standards, accessibility and usability

• Experience of working with Web Components

• Experience of working with Web Sockets

• Experience of Node.js

• Experience of building high performance websites and applications

• Understanding of the consumption of RESTful web services via HTTP

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of coding in a story-driven Agile environment
• Prior experience working in financial services/exchange space
• Prior experience working with BDD methodologies and automated acceptance criteria
• Prior experience using Confluence, JIRA, or other Atlassian tools
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, for example Jenkins, XL Release
• Experience with static analysis and security scanning tools such as Checkmarx

CME Group: Where Futures are Made

CME Group is the world’s leading derivatives marketplace. But who we are goes deeper than that. Here, you can impact markets worldwide. Transform industries. And build a career by shaping tomorrow. We invest in your success and you own it – all while working alongside a team of leading experts who inspire you in ways big and small. Problem solvers, difference makers, trailblazers. Those are our people. And we’re looking for more.

At CME Group, we embrace our employees' unique experiences and skills to ensure that everyone’s perspectives are acknowledged and valued. As an equal-opportunity employer, we consider all potential employees without regard to any protected characteristic.

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