Senior Algo Trading Developer

Team

US Fixed Income Technology - Front Office Electronic Trading

Seeking a Senior-Level Technologist specializing in E-Trading technology with at least 10+ years of experience implementing large-scale E-Trading applications across multiple geographical regions.

• Design and develop a proprietary, high-performance Fixed Income E-Trading platform encompassing all fixed-income products.
• Collaborate with traders, sales, and quantitative analysts to specify and build real-time trading applications that electronically execute orders across multiple ECNs.
• Work with business management and desk heads to drive project requirements and prioritization.
• Drive implementation and design with an emphasis on high availability, scalability, and reusability.
• Promote framework reusability across all businesses.
• Balance time-to-market with governance, compliance, and audit mandates.
• Mentor junior developers.

BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.

• 10+ years of experience in front office system development supporting the US Rates E-Trading business.
• In-depth knowledge of US Rates Product Offering (Treasury, Swap, and Agency).
• Strong understanding of Dealer-to-Client market protocol (Trade Web, Bloomberg, Market Axess).
• Understanding of Dealer-to-Dealer market structure.
• Experience building auto-quoter and auto-hedger.
• Ability to learn and adapt quickly.
• Strong collaboration skills with business managers, traders, and developers.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.

• Extensive experience in Java and multithreading programming.
• Knowledge of low latency and event-driven programming.
• Familiarity with Spring and Spring Boot.
• Microservice-based architecture experience.
• Unix shell scripting.
• Databases:
  Oracle, Postgres, MSSQL.
• Tools:
  Atlassian Suite (Jira/Bitbucket/Bamboo/Confluence), Maven, strong Dev Ops skills.

• Broad knowledge of Financial IT environments.
• Previous experience in a similar Front Office role.
• Fixed Income Credit & Rates trading system experience.
• Knowledge of ION Market View API and platform.
• Familiarity with AMPS, KDB, messaging systems (JMS, MQ, Tibco), Ion Trading, FIX, and similar technologies.
• Knowledge of Python, HTML5, React/JavaScript/Openfin.
• Experience with AWS services (S3, Red Shift, Postgres, EC2, Glue).
• Knowledge of Kafka (AWS MSK or Confluent).

Specialist Staffing Group is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

In addition to base pay, direct-hire employees may be eligible for client offered benefits such as medical, dental, and vision coverage, and paid leave where required by applicable law. Eligibility may vary based on factors such as location and hire date and is subject to change.

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