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Electronic Trading Developer

Job Description

A Midtown NYC Investment Bank is looking for a java developer to join their growing electronic trading team.

Department overview:

E-Trading Strategy sits within the bank's Global Markets division. They cover Fixed Income and FX asset classes following a "strats" model rather than being a more traditional IT function. They are a user oriented team with a wide range of developers operating globally. They are responsible for all E-Trading platforms in the dealer-to-client and dealer-to-dealer spaces, providing solutions across Rates and Credit; cash and derivatives. An ongoing effort to consolidate our electronic offering is focused on development of our execution capabilities and platforms.

This is a very exciting opportunity to be a key part of this growing strats team building an electronic offering. You will be developing high performance E-Trading components with trader automation as a core concept, and will be working with a wider development team to ensure their solutions are cross-product and help consolidate existing functionality.

Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required

Essential:

  • Advanced Java (e.g. multi-threading, GC optimisation).
  • Aeron or other high performance messaging protocols.
  • Experience building high performance APIs.
  • Object oriented design and development, design patterns.
  • Auxiliary development process skillset (GIT, Maven etc.).
  • Test automation technologies (e.g. Robot framework).
  • Agile processes & practices e.g. Scrum.