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*****This role is based in Belfast****About UsLucera® is a New York based firm wholly owned by BGC Partners Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP), a leading global financial services firm.We provide best in-class on-demand co-located infrastructure and connectivity, priced on a month-to-month basis, offering a compelling solution to businesses looking to lower expenses and reduce operational overhead.Lucera also offers a high-performance FX matching and aggregation platform as a service, with co-location available in NY4, CH2, LD4 FR2, SG1 and TY3. The system provides smart order routing, price aggregation, and highly configurable price distribution in one unified solution available via a Web based UI. Coupled with advanced liquidity management, real-time TCA and our low latency pre-trade credit component we deliver a performant, cost effective solution to your eFX needs.RoleLucera Financial Infrastructures is hiring a Java Software Engineer for our Belfast office to work on our core infrastructure as a service platform, used by some of the top names in financial services.We are looking for someone who has 3+ years’ experience working designing, implementing and supporting resilient, performant micro-services platforms. This role is for individuals who can work effectively as part of our global development team, along with the ability to work independently with a strong sense of ownership. We are looking to talk to people with:A passion for technology, with an ability and desire to pick up new technologiesBackground in taking products from design right through to deliveryStrong sense of writing quality maintainable codeCommercial experience in Java (8+)Use of Micronaut / Spring (or equivalent) FrameworksDeveloping against Relational and NoSQL Database (MongoDB, Postgres etc)Experience with unit testing methodologies and frameworks – e.g Spock, JunitBuild systems – Gradle / MavenUse of DockerOther desirables are:Developing using reactive / functional patterns, (RXJava, Project Reactor etc)Experience designing and developing micro-services platformsUse of messaging systems such as RabbitMQ, KafkaScripting languages - Groovy / Ruby / PythonCI/CD Tools, automated testing, delivery (Teamcity, Jenkins etc)Knowledge of networking protocols UDP, TCP, HTTPExperience with REST, WebSocketsVersion Control – preferably GitGrails FrameworkJavaScript – Bootstrap / JQuery