Java Associate Engineer - Execution

Job description

Tasks

• Building tools, platforms, and algorithms that enable investment managers to execute their investment strategies
• Building new execution algorithms, platforms, simulation environments, intelligent order routing, connectivity to execution venues and brokers
• Developing tools for high-touch and quantitative trading, market data and trade performance analytics, and software to optimize all aspects of the trading lifecycle

Requirements

Required skills

• Strong knowledge of Java
• Knowledge of Agile/DevOps tools
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Passion for robust software engineering techniques and agile methodologies; continuous integration, code review, unit testing, refactoring, and related approaches
• Productive working on both Unix and Windows platforms

Advantageous skills

• Understanding of financial markets and instruments
• Experience with FIX is a significant advantage
• Experience with high-frequency/low-latency trading systems
• Python knowledge
• Experience with front-office software and/or trading systems development (e.g., in a hedge fund or investment bank)
• Expertise in the development of distributed systems with service-based or event-driven architectures and concurrent systems
• Experience with web-based development (Typical/C++)
• Knowledge of mathematics (e.g., statistics, asset pricing, time series analysis, optimization algorithms)

Personal characteristics

• Strong academic background and a degree with a high mathematical and computer-based content (e.g., computer science, mathematics, engineering, or physics from a leading university)
• A software-like approach to technology; both hands-on source design and personal responsibility
• Comfortable with technology; personal responsibility for technical excellence and communicating these values to others
• Intellectually robust with an analytical approach to problem solving
• Self-organized with the ability to manage time effectively across multiple projects and competing priorities
• Strong conceptual and problem-solving skills
• Focused on delivering value to the company with relentless efforts to improve processes
• Strong interpersonal and senior business skills; able to maintain a close working relationship with quantitative researchers, traders, and senior business personnel and agree on objectives
• Confident communication; able to express a point precisely and deal positively with conflicting views

We offer

• A role that is ideally positioned to benefit from the migration to agile software and tools
• Working closely with traders and implementation teams to design, build, and operate scalable, reliable, and high-performance trading systems.
• A technology-oriented team that enjoys innovating
• A wide range of technologies and tools, including Kafka, Java, ZeroMQ, Grafana & Prometheus, Docker, Ansible, and Avro