Droit Financial Technologies

Clojure Developer

London, United Kingdom

27 November, 2019

Salary

£60K - 120K + Equity

Contract type

Full time

Technologies & frameworks

Clojure
ClojureScript
React
Postgres
Lisp

Benefits & perks

Pension
Casual dress
Training
Profit share scheme
Up to 20% bonus
Private healthcare
Work-life balance
Generous profit share scheme
20% yearly bonus
Full-stack clojure development
Full benefit coverage

To sum it up...

Transforming Trading with Clojure & Clojurescript

Role overview

Fintech company based out of London, using Clojure and Clojurescript to automate complex legal and real-time decision systems.

They are fundamentally changing the market and driving innovation around automating complex global legal frameworks and real-time decision systems.

Developers at Droit have the opportunity to be part of making an important, lasting impact.

With plans to grow the number of developers in London, they are open to a range of experience levels and functional programming skills, especially Clojure.

So, if you have been using Clojure commercially, great! If you are a budding Clojurian, and you're looking to get your hands on some production code, this could be the opportunity for you!

Things we currently work with in-house include:

Clojure
ClojureScript
Haskell
Coq
Lisp
React via Reagent
Postgres database
RESTful APIs

General Requirements

High degree of curiosity with the ability to ask thoughtful questions and solve challenging problems.
Able to use functional programming to design simple and elegant solutions
Able to envision a variety of solutions and to clearly articulate them and explain the trade-offs.
Enjoys working with others and sharing knowledge to get the best results
Possesses excellent interpersonal skills.
Willing to work hard and leave ego at the door.

Technical Requirements

Solid experience with a programming language e.g. Java, Python, Clojure
Enthusiastic about functional programming

Highly Desirable

Experience programming Clojure or ClojureScript or another Lisp
Experience using a RDBMS such as Postgres
Experience building React applications and RESTful APIs
Experience in formal verification – for example Coq

Location

London is the capital of the United Kingdom, situated in the South East of the island. The world's largest financial centre, London is also often referred to the culture capital of the world. The city is well-known for its heritage, including Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London, Kew Gardens, Westminster Abbey, and the historic settlement of Greenwich. London Underground is the oldest urban railway network in the world.

Technology workers in London earn 60pc more than the city average, with the figure even higher for foreign born workers, who earned 28pc more than their British counterparts in tech jobs. London can be considered as a center for professional relocation. Furthermore, there are over 100 of Europe's 500 largest companies' headquarters in London.

The city is famous for unpredictable weather. For instance, it could be cold, warm and rainy in one day and it’s often the topic of conversation across the city.

Did you know...

2.5M people, one third of Londoners, are foreign born
40% of Greater London is green space

Droit Financial Technologies

50-249

Droit was founded in 2012 by a team of veteran derivative traders, quants, e-commerce specialists and technologists with front-line experience and expertise with products, markets, regulations and systems. Our mission is to provide our clients with robust, enterprise infrastructure facilitating compliant and optimal trading of derivatives and other financial instruments across asset classes, global regulatory regimes, CCP’s and execution platforms Our systems help our clients focus on key aspects of their daily business without distraction while ensuring that they “Trade Right”.