Fixed Income eTrading Java Developer

Description

The evolution of electronic trading and automation has changed the way that rates products trade forever, driving a need for real-time, low latency pricing, market making and risk technology. In this increasingly electronic and competitive landscape, the company is a major key player.

The Fixed Income eTrading team is responsible for the company’s electronic connectivity and distribution platform, enabling our Rates & Spread Product businesses to keep its market-leading position. Having a platform that provides exceptional and dependable trading experience is crucial for the bank.

We are looking for a talented and passionate developer to continue to evolve our next-generation trading applications. The role requires a detailed understanding of software design/best practices along with a strong technical ability. This is a challenging and exciting opportunity to work on high profile trading applications. The team works closely with end users gaining direct exposure to the fast-paced world of front office trading and finance.

Responsibilities

• Designing and developing Front Office eTrading applications for the Rates & Spread Product Trading business
• Working directly with Traders, Sales, and Quants to shape the future direction of the platform.
• Utilizing creativity and innovation to improve the technical capabilities of the platform and ensuring it remains stable, flexible, and maintainable.
• Driving engineering standards and continuing to strive for best
• Enhancing our automated testing efforts and optimizing our UAT process
• Troubleshooting challenging performance and scalability issues
• Providing onsite support to Rates & Spread product traders in London
• Assisting in third line support during core trading hours
• Liaising with the global business, support, and development teams on various exciting projects
• Job Opportunities:
• Build a strong profile in a high-performance global team (London, Paris, NY, Mississauga, Shanghai, Sydney, and Tokyo)
• Develop efficient and robust solutions to challenging business problems.
• Work on a globally distributed team to deliver the next generation eTrading experience for traders at the company.
• Gain knowledge and exposure to Front Office Trading Systems, Fixed Income, and Derivatives flows.

Requirements

• Required
• 3+ years of programming experience with an object-oriented language (Java or C), multi-threading and any relational database
• Solid architectural understanding of enterprise applications
• Understanding of computing science fundamentals – concurrency, algorithms, data structures, design patterns, etc.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements
• Preferred
• Experience with Java Core, Spring framework and Linux
• Experience with ION Multi-Market Interface (MMI) and/or SystemAdministrator
• Knowledge of major Fixed Income Financial Products (e.g. corporate bonds, ETFs, Interest Rate Swaps etc) and Customer Markets electronic trading flows.
• Experience with modern software development practices such as Agile development, test-driven development, and continuous integration and continuous delivery.
• Worked in an Agile globally distributed team using tools such as Jira, Bitbucket, Sonar & Team City
• Worked with tools such as IntelliJ, Gradle, etc.,
• Experience with KDB+ and Q programming language
• Experience on JSON/XML & REST service
• Education:
• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
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• Job Family Group:
• Technology
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• Job Family:
• Applications Development
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• Time Type:
• Full time
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• Most Relevant Skills
• Please see the requirements listed above.
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• Other Relevant Skills
• For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.
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