Role: Senior eTrading Developer (FX eRisk, Java)

Location: London (Hybrid – 2/3 days per week)

Type: Contract Inside IR35

Main Duties

• As a senior Java developer, the successful candidate will be expected to perform the following duties with a high level of competence:

• Liaise with nominated business stakeholders when required to ensure that business requirements are fully understood before commencing design and development.

• Draw-up detailed technical designs for components in response to business requirements and high-level technical architecture

• Work effectively with any external consultancies engaged during the project to provide technical and graphical design expertise.

• Implement best-of-breed technical solutions based on agreed technical design, adopting industry standard development patterns and methodologies (including continuous integration and automated unit and integration testing)

• Fully test implemented solutions in advance of User Acceptance Testing

• Assist (when required) with the deployment of components to development and test environments

• Participate in intra-day and overnight Support rotas (when required).

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE

• Solid Java server side development experience is essential. The candidate must be able to demonstrate knowledge of multi-threaded development.

• Demonstrable experience with highly available, multithreaded, distributed systems is essential.

• Demonstrable experience with developing and tuning low latency systems.

• Demonstrable experience of FX spot or Equities algo execution and pricing

BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE

• Operation of trading desks in a large, multi-site Investment Bank with significant eCommerce offering

• Foreign Exchange in a high volume low latency environment.

• Experience working on enterprise systems but also agile delivery of Business requirements.

• Spot FX market conventions

• Forward FX market conventions

IDEAL EXPERIENCE (Please list any experience/skills that would be considered desirable although not essential for this role)

• Front Office development team in Large Investment Bank, supporting global trading desk

• A background of solid architectural work

• Knowledge of Enterprise Integration and messaging technologies (29 West, Multicast)

• Knowledge of the FIX protocol.

• Familiarity with time series databases (KDB)

• Knowledge of lock free algorithms, low latency tuning and threading.

If you are interested in this opportunity, feel free to contact Saugat Singha on +44 (0) 2035 350 198 or alternatively reach by email on [email protected]