Junior Java Developer

Venture Up; Greater London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Venture Up in London is seeking a Graduate/Junior Java Developer to join a tight-knit team building and supporting systematic trading models for a sports betting hedge fund. You will work closely with researchers and traders to deliver robust Java services across distributed systems.

The role targets fresh graduates or developers with 1+ years of Java experience, using Java, Kafka, AMQ, Kubernetes, AWS, and MongoDB in a microservices, event-driven environment.

Qualifications

• 1st class degree from from a top university or a 2:1 from Oxbridge degree in any subject.
• Fresh Grads or 1+ years in Java development in a professional capacity
• Some of the technologies you can expect to be working with are: Java, Kafka, AMQ, Kubernetes, AWS, MongoDB.
• Exposure to Kafka, AMQ or a similar messaging/streams based technology
• Familiar with event driven design patterns and micro service architecture
• You've worked on large scale, distributed systems that operate with large volumes of data.
• You are a natural problem solver and enjoy challenging yourself, bringing your own ideas
• Working alongside other extremely talented and driven engineers
• Extremely lucrative salary, bonus and benefits
• Greenfield Java projects, both challenging and rewarding

Responsibilities

• Develop Java services for production trading systems.
• Collaborate with researchers and traders to implement models.
• Contribute to greenfield Java projects with scalable architectures.

Skills

Java

Kafka

AMQ

Kubernetes

AWS

MongoDB

Education

First-class degree

2:1 Oxbridge or top university

Tools

Java

Kafka

AMQ

Kubernetes

AWS

MongoDB

Job description

Graduate/Junior Java Developer – Sports betting Hedge fund – London

Job Summary

A number of Java Developers are required for an exciting and progressive Sports betting Hedge fund Company with office in London and Leeds. You will be joining a tight-knit team of research mathematicians, computer scientists and trading analysts at the top of their chosen fields.

The role would suit candidates who have just graduated and with 1+ years experience and significant part of childhood spent hacking away in 8-bit assembly language. The successful candidates will be working closely with the quantitative researchers and alongside other extremely talented and driven engineers to build and support systematic trading models.

As Java Developer you will need:

• 1st class degree from from a top university or a 2:1 from Oxbridge degree in any subject.
• Fresh Grads or 1+ years in Java development in a professional capacity
• Some of the technologies you can expect to be working with are: Java, Kafka, AMQ, Kubernetes, AWS, MongoDB.
• Exposure to Kafka, AMQ or a similar messaging/streams based technology
• Familiar with event driven design patterns and micro service architecture
• You've worked on large scale, distributed systems that operate with large volumes of data.
• You are a natural problem solver and enjoy challenging yourself, bringing your own ideas
• Working alongside other extremely talented and driven engineers
• Extremely lucrative salary, bonus and benefits
• Greenfield Java projects, both challenging and rewarding