Fundtech: a.k.a Finestra

Fundtech is\was a high tech company that provided banking solutions for processing payments. They were bought several times since than by D+H and Finstra. Company size was ~5000 people while development was based in Israel amounting to ~300 people.

During my employment period I worked as part of Product Backend team (4 people).

Technologies most commonly used were the following:

• Spring framework (heavy use of core modules): Java framework, commonly used today for backend side. Among the modules: MVC, AOP, DATA

• Hibernate (used with spring)

• Oracle DB - definition of triggers, daily use of SQL queries

• Weblogic - application server

• IBM Websphere MQ - Queue messaging system. Processed payments were moved in and out of the queues, which enabled banks to interact with the payments during the processing and perform different actions such as: checking the payment was not money laundering

Professional level of product\manager\methodologies was horrible. I just got out of university and needed good examples for coding. With no future prospects or a way to fix 20 years of mess, a long vacation was planned and I quit. That was my first job. I learned several things:

1. Spring framework - I invested a lot of time here. I was amazed by the concept which I never heard of in the university.

2. Don't take every offer you get and investigate companies good.

3. How to debug code that interacts with many external systems (e.g. queue, DB)