Fixed Income E-Trading Senior Java Developer - Vice President

Description

The company runs a global electronic trading and distribution platform for its Rates and Spread Product businesses, which must deliver a dependable trading experience.

Electronic trading has shifted rates products toward real-time, low-latency pricing, market making and risk technology, and the company is a major player in that market.

The Fixed Income eTrading team builds and evolves next-generation front office trading applications, working closely with end users and gaining direct exposure to front office trading and finance.

The company processes $5 trillion daily and operates in 180+ countries.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop front office eTrading applications for the trading business.
• Work directly with Traders, Sales and Quants to shape the platform's direction.
• Improve the platform's technical capabilities with creativity and new ideas, keeping it stable, flexible and maintainable.
• Drive engineering standards and keep raising the bar.
• Improve automated testing and optimise the UAT process.
• Mentor the team in the EMEA region.
• Advise and coach newer or junior analysts.
• Diagnose and resolve difficult performance and scalability issues.
• Engage with business users in London and across Europe, including Paris and Milan.
• Provide third line support during core trading hours.
• Act as subject matter expert for senior stakeholders and other team members.
• Liaise with the global business, product, support and development teams on projects.

Requirements

• Extensive programming experience in an object-oriented language, preferably Java, plus multi-threading and any relational database.
• Solid understanding of enterprise application architecture.
• Understanding of computer science fundamentals: concurrency, algorithms, data structures and design patterns.
• Preferred: experience with Java Core, the Spring framework and Linux.
• Preferred: experience building large financial trading systems, tuning performance and applying critical thinking to reuse, scalability and troubleshooting.
• Preferred: experience delivering solutions with ION Trading, Transficc or other recognised connectivity vendors.
• Preferred: knowledge of major Fixed Income products (such as corporate bonds, ETFs and interest rate swaps) and customer market electronic trading flows.
• Preferred: experience with KDB.
• Preferred: experience with Agile, test-driven development and continuous integration and delivery.
• Preferred: experience working in an Agile, globally distributed team using Jira, Bitbucket, Sonar and TeamCity.
• Preferred: experience with tools such as IntelliJ and Gradle.
• Preferred: experience with JSON, XML and REST services.
• Bachelor's degree or university degree, or equivalent experience.
• Excellent oral and written communication, including facing business users.
• Good teamwork and the ability to work in a distributed global team.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Self-motivated, with a drive to learn and reach your goals.
• Experience across the full development lifecycle.

Conditions

Full-time role.

Business casual workplace with a hybrid model, up to 2 days working from home per week.

Base salary reviewed annually.

Equal opportunity employer; see the company's EEO policy statement and Know Your Rights poster.

Benefits

• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Discretionary annual performance-related bonus.
• Private medical care and life insurance.
• Employee assistance program.
• Pension plan.
• Paid parental leave.
• Special discounts for employees, family and friends.
• Access to a range of learning and development resources.