**Contract Securities Lending Front Office Developer** **MUST be local to New York City, Hybrid Schedule, at least 3 days onsite** **Required Skills** - Hands-on experience in Java in Securities Lending development space. - In-depth knowledge of Securities Lending platforms experience (like FIS (Loanet/Loanex) or Global One) - Experience with mission-critical trading platforms (Order/Stock Loan/Market Data Systems) - Might be best to have a new job since these are different skills - Direct collaboration with trading desks, quants, and risk teams - Expertise in DevSecOps methodologies and tools such as Jenkins, Ansible, PuppetLabs, SonaType, SonarQube, Tenable, Invicti and Zero Networks - Experience in development and maintenance of automated testing frameworks - Solid understanding of back-end and front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) - Bachelor s/master s degree in computer science or related field - 5+ years of Java development experience, ideally in capital markets/financial services - Experience with frameworks (Spring, Hibernate), messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ), and databases (Oracle, SQL Server, Snowflake) - Proficiency with Git and Agile development - Strong multitasking, organizational, and communication skills **Good to Have** - Experience with AI/ML - Experience and familiarity with Log observability tools such as Elastic Search/Kibana/Splunk stack. - Familiarity with pricing models, quantitative analysis, and P&L calculations. - Experience with leading industry platforms, including Quod, FlexTrade, Charles River Trader, Nuvoprime, and Murex. - Experience with cloud (Azure, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes) - Knowledge of regulatory/risk/compliance and audit controls in Securities Lending space is plus.