Full Stack Software Engineer (Contract)

Are you a technologist who has a hunger to dig deep and get involved in providing first-class solutions to real-world problems?

Full Stack Software Engineer (Contract)

First Derivative is a people-first company. We are powered by our ever-growing teams of specialist problem-solvers and process-evolvers. Our extensive capabilities offer agile solutions and exciting career opportunities – whether you're in the early stages of your career, looking for a new direction, or wanting to continue in a position of leadership.

Joining the world’s largest Capital Markets dedicated consultancy, you will have the opportunity to gain exposure to a range of mission-critical projects, tech stacks, clients and a company that prides itself on career development, variety, and flexibility.

What will you do?

You will be responsible for the ownership of key projects, working across all phases of the SDLC, including analysis, design, development, testing and deployment. As a Senior Developer, you will be accountable for issuing technical guidance to Junior Developers, including overseeing their deliverables and providing architectural guidance.

You will work on cutting-edge technology on a variety of projects across Greenfield, Front Office, Data/ Cloud Migration, Regulatory Reporting, Trade Reconciliation and more!

What experience will you need?

* Full Stack Development with Java (Spring Boot) and TypeScript (React)

* Be well-versed in various web application paradigms, both old and new - including server-side rendered PHP, AJAX with jQuery

* Navigate linked SQL tables and stored procedures to consume and display various financial data

* Work with schedulers and scripts to maintain and modernize batch data loading jobs

What's in it for you?

You will embark upon a career with life-long learning at its core, facilitating rapid professional and personal development and the opportunity to design your own career path. As well as offering a wide variety of projects to gain hands on business exposure, we also provide external training courses and accreditations such as AWS, GCP, Azure, Cloudera etc.

First Derivative encourage diversity within our company. We know that our people are vital to our success, and we are proud of the diverse and vibrant team we have built across the globe. We encourage and lead inclusivity through our Pride, Multicultural, Alumni and Women networks that are run by and for, First Derivative employees.

Benefits:

· Hybrid and Flexible Working

· Extensive Private Healthcare Package

· Private Pension

· Employee Assistance Programme

· Enhanced Maternity/ Paternity policies

· Group Life Protection Benefit

· Employee Referral Bonus Scheme

· Access to a range of skills and certifications such as GCP, AWS, Azure and more!

Additional Perks:

· FD Internal Network and Sports & Social Calendar, who host monthly and quarterly socials at each office.

· Aspiring Leadership Programme – a programme which provides a structured and practical pathway to fast-track talented individuals into leadership roles.

· STEP-up Awards - employee led awards designed to acknowledge excellence in four areas that are quintessential to us.

· TechSmiths Guild – helping employees get to grips with everything cloud computing and data storage (which are integral to the future of business and risk management).

· STRIVE Initiative and IMPACT Programme – development programmes put in place to support women in tech and financial services.

· Investment Club - employees learn the basics of investment and trading via workshops and competitions, mirroring real-life scenarios.

· Sports Club – a bit of healthy competition! Getting involved in 5k fun runs, JPM challenge and SCB challenge.

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