Job Description
Join Barclays as a Synthetics Lead Developer, where you will be responsible for supporting a global Synthetic & Financing platform that manages equity swaps and related derivative products. The platform is mission-critical, used globally across trading desks, and plays a central role in pre-trade processing, risk capture, pricing, and lifecycle management of equity swap transactions.
To be successful, you should have:
- Mastery of microservices-based (Java stack), event-driven architectures, with the ability to design autonomous orchestration where services react to business events.
- Expertise in low‑latency engineering and protocol selection, with the ability to choose and implement the right solution for the right job (e.g., REST for user operations, Kafka or Solace for workflows, RPC for internal data fetching).
- Experience with distributed systems, including the ability to design and implement solutions where multiple service instances co...