Junior Software Engineer in Belfast - Cantor Fitzgerald

Job Description [Please Do Not Apply If You Reside Out of Northern Ireland And Not Willing to Relocate]

About Cantor Fitzgerald:

Cantor Fitzgerald has offices and trading desks in all major financial centers throughout the world. We specialize in Equities, Fixed Income & Currencies, Investment Banking, Prime Services and Real Estate.

Cantor Fitzgerald's affiliate businesses include: BGC Group, Inc. (BGC), Newmark Group, Inc. (Newmark), and GFI Group (GFI).

Cantor Prime Services (CPS is designed to meet the needs of investment managers across the spectrum, CPS offers clients a global, multi-asset prime brokerage platform. The business leverages the clearing, financing and execution capabilities of Cantor Fitzgerald.

Our platform accommodates a broad array of trading instruments and strategies:

Domestic and international equities, options, futures, ETFs and ETNs
US and non-US sovereigns, agencies, residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities, investment and non-investment grade corporates, convertible bonds and emerging market debt
Financial, energy and commodity futures

CPS is a market leader in SPAC clearing, financing, and custody management, leveraging Cantor’s Top league-table position in SPAC banking.

Job Description:

We are looking for a detail-oriented software engineer to join our global and dynamic software engineering team. The ideal candidate will play a crucial role in delivering solutions as per the roadmap of the products. This involves close collaboration with cross-functional teams to work towards achieving a common goal. As a software engineer you will be part of a globally distributed development team and strive towards continuous improvement of the software development process(es) in place.

Education Level:

Bachelor’s or master’s Degree or Higher in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field (or relevant work experience).

Key responsibilities:
· Work on strategic green field and brown field projects in Prime Brokerage and Business as Usual requests.
· Propose improvements related to the development and support activity.
· Troubleshoot production system support issues.
· Software maintenance and upgrade.
· Should be able to liaise with different teams to re-solve/get dependencies on time.

Experience required:
· 3+ years of experience working in software development.
· Knowledge and experience of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) activities.
· Java, SQL Server, Postgres, Angular, Spring, Docker.
· Unix shell scripting.
· Messaging (Kafka, JMS, Solace).
· Gitlab source control, CI/CD. DevOps.
· Experience of digital assets and technologies is desirable but not necessary.
· Any experience of Test-Driven Development or Behavior Driven Development is an advantage.
· Cloud technologies, deployment, design and any PostgreSQL/Sybase experience is a plus.
· Financial Services background and knowledge of trade lifecycle is a plus.

Skills:
· Agile and self-starter.
· Ability to troubleshoot and determine various outcomes from different scenarios.
· Attention to detail.
· Contribute ideas in a team structure.
· Strong aptitude for learning new technologies.