Java Software Engineer

Societe Generale Global Solution Centre (SG GSC) acts as a business solutions center for Société Générale, one of the largest European financial groups. We provide high quality professional services in over 35 countries in various business areas - Finance & Accounting, HR, IT and Corporate Operations. Our mission is to be a partner of choice, valued for owning, transforming and innovating with best-in-class talent.

Eliot is the Equity deal processing application at GBIS for all equity trading activities (deal booking, front office position, product definition for Equity Listed & OTC products, regulatory report, etc).

The main component is EDS which data service layer that provides position and product definition to all Equity traders at GBIS. Due to its positioning in the deal processing IS EDS is a key component for all trading activities (deal booking, front office position, product definition for Equity Listed & OTC products, etc). It’s a technical application with key performance targets in mind (~1 Billion calls/day, response time ~ ms, ~100GB data in memory cache).

Will also work on another critical Eliot component: GUS in charge of the booking of all the market executions. GUS is receiving around 1.5million/day executions which aggregates common executions into megadeals before inserting in the Eliot DB.

Your Role in a Nutshell:

·        Assist with the translation of business requirements into technical ones

·        Show technical expertise and handle development/testing tasks

·        Follow up functional testing with end users

·        Collaborate with Infrastructure/middleware teams to ensure proper application configurations and expected hardware performance.

·        Employs industry standard best practices

·        Provides level three support during local business hours

·        Involved with the review and submission of solutions designs globally.

• • A little about You:

    ·        You have good understanding of Java 8, Spring Boot and multithreading principles

    ·        Good knowledge of distributed architecture and caching mechanisms

    ·        Good knowledge of middleware principles, async communication and tooling (Kafka, RabbitMQ, TibcoRV would be nice to have)

    ·        Knowledge of relational database (Sybase) and NoSQL database principles (e.g. Cassandra, Elastic search) would be appreciated;

    ·        Knowledge of some core development tools used within the company (Kibana, Maven, Jenkins, Git, Sonar) and Unix shell would be appreciated

    ·        You have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

    We also value:

    ·        Responsible attitude, strong autonomy, and ambition in achieving your mission

    ·        Excellent analytical skills and self-starter with ability to take ownership of tasks and assignments

    ·        Good command of English, both written and spoken. French would be a good plus.

SG GSC is a Great Place to Work® certified company. Here, you will find a flexible workplace and culture, autonomy, constant learning opportunities, dynamism, and talented people, making this experience a real career accelerator. You will also discover all the diversity of our businesses, in a sector that is constantly evolving and innovating.

Plus, you will enjoy all our benefits:

• competitive compensation & remuneration, including annual performance bonus;

• preventive healthcare plan, and group health & life insurance;

• wide range of flexible benefits within a monthly budget;

• office perks, wellbeing and mental health programs;

• various social benefits and bonuses for personal or family events;

• 9 AM to 5 PM work program and flexible (hybrid) work environment;

• additional paid and unpaid time off, including Sabbatical leave;

• learning and growth opportunities based on individual development and career plans;

• unlimited access to various eLearning resources.

We are convinced that people are drivers of change, and that the world of tomorrow will be shaped by all their initiatives, from the smallest to the most ambitious. Whether you’re joining us for a period of months, years, or your entire career, together we can have a positive impact on the future. Creating, daring, innovating, and taking action are part of our DNA. If you too want to be directly involved, grow in a stimulating and caring environment, feel useful daily and develop or strengthen your expertise, you will feel right at home with us!

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We are committed to support accelerating our Group’s ESG strategy by implementing ESG principles in all our activities and policies. They are translated in our business activity (ESG assessment, reporting, project management or IT activities), our work environment and in our responsible practices for environment protection.

We are an equal opportunities employer, and we are proud to make diversity a strength for our company. Societe Generale is committed to recognizing and promoting all talents, regardless of their beliefs, age, disability, parental status, ethnic origin, nationality, sexual or gender identity, sexual orientation, membership of a political, religious, trade union or minority organisation, or any other characteristic that could be subject to discrimination.