Full Stack Developer

Who are we?

The Itarle Group is an industry-leading supplier of best execution algorithmic trading, smart order routing and transaction cost analysis services to clients ranging from global investment banks to specialist brokers. To support its Hong Kong operations across both Equities and Listed Derivatives, and to facilitate the increasing demand for its services, Itarle (HK) Ltd is seeking talents to monitor, support and grow the Itarle services in Hong Kong and contribute to the expansion of the Itarle brand around the globe.

About the role

• Implementing the technology strategy for Itarle, developing new products and services and maintaining the existing codebase.
• Actively developing high-quality production code for front ends and real-time analytics feeds
• Delivering well-thought-out, clean code, helping Itarle scale to support business growth.
• Involve infrastructure (Database, message broker, application) design and maintenance (releases, patching)

What we are looking for

• 3+ years experience in writing high-performance Java 1.8+, including concurrency and distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge and experience in unit and integration testing, working in a CI/CD environment and using distributed version control systems.
• Object-oriented design and reactive programming.
• Good working knowledge of Linux and Docker.
• Experience in Maven, Spring, and JMS. Gradle, Kafka, is highly desirable.
• Relational databases (MySql, hive).
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work on your own initiative.
• Talkative and good at communications;
• Self-motivated and take responsibility seriously;
• Fluent in both written and spoken English. Proficiency in Mandarin is a big plus!

Desirable technical skills

ELK stack, Prometheus / Grafana / Opentracing, C++ / Python / Groovy / Kotlin, Javascript/HTML5, Atlassian workflow & productivity tools, Ansible

What We Offer

• Financial backing for postgraduate education and professional qualifications such as CIPD.
• Opportunity to travel and work abroad at global Itarle offices.
• Team nights out.