Software Engineer Specialist

Are you curious, motivated, and forward-thinking? At FIS you will have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and relevant issues in financial services and technology. Our talented people empower us, and we believe in being part of a team that is open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, passionate and above all fun.

About the team

SFTC – Security Finance Trading & Collateral team helps our clients to comply with regulations, achieve collateral optimization and handle the volume and complexity of collateral management activities. Our solution offers a single platform for trading directly from a real-time and consolidated global inventory as well as supporting operational requirements for underlying securities lending, repo and

derivative transactions. It uses numerical algorithms to automatically allocate collateral in the optimal way, helping firms minimize costs and maximize return on assets.

What you will be doing

You will be a part of agile driven multicultural team working on a leading financial platform together with other software developers, business analysts and product owners. As Software Engineer Specialist, you will be working with the development team and will be involved in all the aspects of software engineering life cycle:  coding, reviewing code, building tests, architecting, deploying software as well as mentoring.

More specifically, on your job you will:

• Collaborate with team members on daily tasks, including mentoring, knowledge sharing, and offering technical guidance.

• Participate in software development, code reviews and technical architecture definition.

• Write, modify, integrate, test, and maintain software codes according to the best practices of the industry making sure to be in line with platform and company standards.

• Analyze requirements and design solution to ensure that product meets business needs.

• Identify and communicate technical problems, processes, and solutions.

• Provide development activities estimates as input to the project's plans.

• Research and evaluate a wide range of software development best practices, such as code style, code quality and performance requirements.

• Participate in our agile, test-driven development process, planning sessions, and work closely with other team members to analyze requirements and provide design recommendations.

• Engage in constant stack and software modernizations of the product by sharing your ideas and vision.

• Grow your skillset in close association with your teammates and other industry specialists from our wider organization.

We offer stable and well-organized working conditions, dynamic environment for personal and professional development and opportunities for additional professional training.

What you bring:

• A Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, computer science or other related discipline or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience

• At least 7+ years hands-on professional experience as a developer in the Java enterprise environment

• Experience with modern development environments, in software patterns and architectural enterprise concepts

• Very good expertise in the Java SE/JEE language

• Hands on experience with Spring Framework and Middleware, JMS and JPA/Hibernate

• Competence in the usage of REST-APIs

• Hands-on experience with Concurrent Programming, Testing/Mocking Frameworks and working with Caching technologies

• Good understanding of SQL (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL)

• Adapting and integrating open-source frameworks and technologies

• Experience with DevOps concepts (Continuous Integration and Delivery)

• Experience working in a team across the whole development lifecycle

• Experience in working in a distributed and fast-paced environment

• Eager to dive into and learn more about the business domain

• Very strong communication skills and fluent in English

Added bonus if you have:

• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes/OpenShift/CI

• Experience with Apache Camel

What we offer you:

• A work environment built on collaboration, flexibility and respect 

• Competitive salary and attractive range of benefits designed to help support your lifestyle and wellbeing (including private healthcare, 27 days of vacation, work from home – 2 days per week, etc.)

• Varied and challenging work to help you grow your technical skillset

Your Perspectives

FIS provides mission-critical software and IT services to institutions in virtually every segment of the financial services industry. We are a group of financial experts and skilled software engineers that work closely together to produce high quality software. We enjoy our work and the occasional get-together after work.

We offer the advantages of a strong, stable and global organization together with the agility of small, young and interdisciplinary teams working under flat hierarchy.

What we do is think big and act boldly to reinvent the financial world of tomorrow, seeing what’s ahead so our clients can focus on what’s at hand. In turn, we create inspiring career opportunities for our employees by empowering employees to grow every day.

Privacy Statement

FIS is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all personal information that we process in order to provide services to our clients. For specific information on how FIS protects personal information online, please see the Online Privacy Notice.

Sourcing Model

Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.

#pridepass