Scala Developer
- New York, United States
Posted 25 days ago
About the role
Title: Scala Developer
Location: Plano, TX/ New York City, NYC / Jersey City, NJ/Onsite
Duration: Full Time
Client: Banking
Experience required: 10– 15 years of experience
Interview Mode: Video
Job Description
Must Have Technical/Functional Skills
- Strong hands-on experience in Scala development with expertise in building high-performance, scalable, and low-latency trading applications.
- Extensive experience in Capital Markets and Trading Systems, with a strong understanding of Front Office trading workflows.
- Strong proficiency in Scala frameworks and libraries such as Akka, Play Framework, Cats, ZIO, or similar.
- Experience developing and supporting electronic trading platforms, Order Management Systems (OMS), and Execution Management Systems (EMS).
- Strong understanding of functional programming principles, concurrency, and distributed systems architecture.
- Experience working with real-time market data feeds, trade execution systems, and event-driven architectures.
- Hands-on experience with messaging technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, JMS, or equivalent.
- Strong expertise in SQL and working with relational databases such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server.
- Experience in developing and consuming RESTful APIs and microservices-based applications.
- Familiarity with FIX Protocol and electronic trade execution workflows.
- Strong understanding of trade lifecycle processes including order capture, execution, allocation, settlement, and reporting.
- Experience working in Linux/Unix environments and utilizing source control tools such as Git.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, Docker, and containerized deployments.
- Proven experience working in an Agile development environment.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, debugging, and performance tuning skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Roles Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain Scala-based trading applications supporting front-office trading and capital markets operations.
- Build and enhance high-performance, low-latency systems for market data processing, trade capture, and trade execution.
- Develop scalable microservices and distributed applications to support trading and investment banking platforms.
- Collaborate closely with traders, business analysts, quantitative analysts, and operations teams to gather requirements and deliver solutions.
- Integrate trading applications with market data providers, exchanges, broker platforms, and internal systems.
- Develop and maintain real-time data processing solutions leveraging messaging platforms such as Kafka and event-driven architectures.
- Analyze and resolve production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive solutions.
- Optimize application performance, scalability, and reliability to meet demanding trading system requirements.
- Participate in the design and implementation of OMS, EMS, and trade processing enhancements.
- Ensure compliance with development standards, security policies, and regulatory requirements.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, and operational procedures.
- Collaborate with cross-functional technology teams to deliver robust and reliable trading solutions.
- Support application release activities and production deployments while ensuring minimal impact to trading operations.
- Continuously evaluate and implement best practices in Scala development, functional programming, and distributed computing.