Canaccord Hedge Fund Talent Search
Cannacord was looking for 2 developers (Junior) to support their team.
- It was difficult for them to find good talent and wanted to increase their flexibility due to COVID.
- The team was to join their automated market making platform.
Project scope
Migrating communication between applicationfrom KryoNet (EsotericSoftware) to Java sockets with usage of concurrency
Code refactoringto a cleaner and more understandable version
Delivering other requested features
Xfaang Outcomes
& Solutions
- The existing team was constantly working on fire fighting and fixing ongoing issues and didn't have the available bandwidth to work on new features or support other departments with their vast databases.
- At the start of the project, we were provided with the desired developers requirements
- Cannacord successfully hired two developers
Timeline
Fluid
- Candidates were sent on the ongoing basis with the first being accepted after one month.
- Tech stack:
- Java
- Messaging queue - Rabbit / Kafka
- Algorithms and data structures
- Experience with some messaging systems like Rabbit or Kafka
Tools
Recruitment tools:
- Hacker Rank
- Just Join IT