Job Description
**Job Description**
You
* Are excited to be part of a vibrant engineering community that values diversity, hard work, and continuous learning.
* Love solving complex real-world business problems.
* Recognize that cross-functional collaboration is a core component of success for the team.
* Believe there are multiple ways to solve most technical problems and are willing to debate the trade-offs.
* Have become a stronger engineer by making mistakes and learning from them.
* Are a doer, someone who wants to grow their career and gain experience across technologies and business functions.
We
* Continuously invest in a high-performance and inclusive culture, in which a diversity of backgrounds, experiences and viewpoints are celebrated and valued.
* Encourage career mobility, so you can benefit from learning different functions and technologies, and we gain the benefits of your experience across teams.
* Run technology pro bono programs that help the non-profit community and give our engineering community opportunities to volunteer and participate.
* Offer education reimbursements and ongoing training in technology, communication, and diversity & inclusion.
* Embrace knowledge sharing through lunch-and-learns, demos, and technical forums.
* Consider our people to be our greatest asset—we will help you learn what the company has to offer so you can participate in activities that benefit your career while delivering impactful technology solutions.
**Position Description**
This is an exciting Front Office facing role. You will be a key player on a
trade floor RAD (Rapid Application Development) team aligned to the Equities
business, building critically important software systems for the financial
markets to deliver solutions for urgent and high priority business challenges.
This role covers both pre & post trade workflows, giving you great exposure to
the full trade lifecycle.
You will be part of an exceptional company renowned for their innovation and
success while emphasizing a balanced work and life focus, diversification and
individual enrichment. The team you will be joining has built many successful
products dealing with large-scale transaction processing and thus you will
have ample opportunity to learn, grow and contribute.
**Responsibilities**
Your role will cover the full SDLC, where you will be responsible for
capturing requirements from the Equities trade floor, designing & ultimately
building and testing solutions to achieve them. You will also be encouraged to
put together proposals for new solutions to improve existing processes, to
align with projects being built by the wider technology teams. You will be
part of a team providing real-time production support to our trading floor and
users across the organization.
**Position Requirements**
* 5+ years professional financial services software development experience
* Solid development experience in Java, Python & SQL strongly preferred
* Solid Professional Object-Oriented programming experience a must
* Strong Equities product knowledge & experience
* Good understanding of software development process
* Superb communication skills
* Excellent problem solving skills
**Solid understanding and experience in the following areas:**
* Ability to understand and rapidly implement efficient algorithms
* Design patterns: when they are applicable, and their boundaries
* Monitoring tools & techniques
**Preferred, but not required experience in some of the following areas:**
* C#/VBA development
* AWS Cloud development and tools
* Linux scripting
* Writing restful services
* messaging services (AMPS, Kafka, MQ)
