Backend Developer (Java/Scala) - Budapest, Hungary

FID Federal Risk Applications Backend Developer (Java/Scala)

Team Profile:

The Fixed Income Federal Risk Applications department has a strong presence in Budapest. Our focus is developing systems serving as a data integration and feeding platform, ensuring that calculation results and other data initiated in our Division reaches our downstream clients and meeting all their requirements. The main challenges in this area are the volume of the data (feeding hundreds of gigabytes daily), interfacing with multiple other systems, being exposed to different financial products to a certain extent and being resilient to errors while keeping our SLA-s. The data we feed is critical in fulfilling the regulatory requirements set by the FED, PRA or BAFIN. Our team is also involved in developing calculations of regulatory scenarios requested by our Market Risk Department. The main technical challenge for this team is computational complexity.

WE OFFER: 

- Work for the firm that attracts some of the brightest talents like Bjarne Stroustrup, the inventor of the C++ language

- A supportive and vibrant multinational environment, which is leveraging technology to its highest potential. We accept individual differences and believe in teamwork

- An open door to have continuous dialogue with our senior leaders – an environment where you are truly listened to

- Professional development opportunities

YOU WILL: 

- Develop IT systems covering various aspects of the business run by our Fixed Income division

- Have the opportunity to work in close collaboration with our business user and to learn business concepts like how certain financial products and financial markets work

- Participate in every stage of the lifecycle of an IT system ranging from gathering the requirement and refining user stories, designing solutions, and writing code to help our support organization to answer the most interesting user questions

- Work on a diverse technology landscape involving various programming languages (Java, Scala, Python), data management systems, CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins)

- Our team has a wide coverage on technical and business problems to solve ranging from developing data integration and feeding solutions having extreme throughput and resiliency requirements to calculating regulatory scenarios requested by our Market Risk Department. The choice will primarily depend on skillset, personal interest and team fit

YOU HAVE:

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

- 3-7 years of commercial experience with java 

- A good command of English and in general good communication skills

- Prior experience in developing data or computation intensive (e.g. grid based) backend applications is an advantage

- OOP design skills with an understanding or at least personal interest towards the concepts of Functional Programming

- Willingness to understand and enhance other people’s code, being able to work in an environment where developers will oversee and work on wider components also dealing with older “legacy” code

- Strong Java or Scala skills with the willingness to pick up the other language if not already mastered at a sufficient level is important

- Spring knowledge is an advantage, but in general willingness to learn, work with and even enhance in-house developed frameworks is a must

- Prior experience in working with Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, working with PR-s, using JIRA, following the Scrum Agile methodology is an advantage

- Prior knowledge of financial products is an advantage

- BSc or MSc in any relevant field of IT/Engineering area is an advantage

- You have permanent Right to Work in Hungary

WHAT YOU'LL GET:

• 24-month full-time contract
• Experience in a Global environment
• Additional training from our Academy (if required) 
• Flexible benefits package
• Ongoing training and support

**This is a hybrid position, working 3 days per week from our Client's office in Budapest

Important information on Diversity

We take great pride in celebrating the diversity of each and every individual who contributes to making mthree the company it is today and will be in the future. We value diversity both within mthree and with our partner companies, and we're proud to provide an environment where all our colleagues can flourish. That means promoting a strong culture of equality but, most importantly, inclusion. We never want people to change - only add to the amazing mix of people that work for mthree.