COMPANY OVERVIEW
Seeing the challenges of FX today with high latency and rejection rates, fragmented marketplace and outdated technology, Spark Systems sets out to build a robust trading platform designed for low-latency access to worldwide FX liquidity with smart algorithmic execution, reducing trading costs for our clients. We are also delivering our next-generation automated data-driven decision tools to help our clients discover market opportunities with the deep tech and data analytics we have on our platform.
JUNIOR WEB DEVELOPER
We are seeking a Junior Web Developer contribute to the design and development of the Web UI architecture for our low latency, high performance electronic trading system.
Responsibilities
- Successful candidates will be able to independently contribute high quality web application code for UI as well as non-UI parts
- To communicate and collaborate effectively with other Developers, QA engineers, as well as Product Owners to ensure successful client rollouts
Who we are seeking:
- Degree educated in an Engineering or Computer Science related subject.
- 0-2 years of experience working across frontend technology stack, ideally in a financial trading environment.
- Solid grasp of web development technologies, practices, and protocols, such as HTTP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, JWT, REST APIs, WebSocket
- Good understanding of modern browsers, including Web APIs and DevTools
- Keen interest in high performance architectures and associated concepts, e.g., low latency, performance and scalability design
- Knowledge on Java would be advantageous.
- Knowledge in development lifecycle and build tools such as Git, Maven, Jira, Jenkins
- Independent, good work ethics, resourceful and problem solver, being able to gain initiative, work independently and produce high quality solution
