Lead Software Engineer, Java, Equities Derivatives Front Office Flow Technology

The Equities Derivatives Front Office Flow Technology Team is developing the best in class pricing quoting and market view application for use by our internal trading and sales enabling them to respond to clients requests for quotes as well as automate their end to end workflow. Were looking for a talented software engineer to join our London team who will help drive the automation agenda onboard new products onto our platform drive integration with new innovative AI/ML led autopricers and extend the connectivity with external vendors to increase flow.

The role offers a range of interesting opportunities

• Close collaboration with a number of teams including Trading Sales Quantitative Research as well as other technology teams for building new capability into the system
• Taking part in a new strategy to automate Front Office processes and functions using technology solutions
• An agile and delivery focused team working with global and local counterparts leveraging best in class technologies to solve business problems
• Opportunity to propose and explore new solutions that can give the firm an edge against competition
• Various business transformation projects across market/trade/client analytics marking/publishing
• Building integration with the next generation AI/ML platform for enhancing and supporting trading decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with subject matter experts to develop solutions that meet business the business requirements.
• Develop java services integrated in the end to end processing of the derivative products
• Build C#/WPF and JavaScript front-end desktop applications to interface with the Java services
• Build a stable efficient scalable cloud based solution which will be deployed globally.
• Design and code a significant amount of a robust secure and efficient API to persist / retrieve data and implement the business logic
• Participation in code reviews and sharing of knowledge with other members of the team.

Essential skills

• Solid experience with JAVA.
• Strong OO design skills with good knowledge of object modelling and design patterns.
• Experience with development deployment and maintenance of commercial service oriented application(s)
• Disciplined approach to code management testing and deployment practices and high quality delivery
• Understanding of how to effectively utilize unit testing
• Great problem solving skills for problems with a mathematical/technological background
• Good communication skills especially when describing problems and explaining solutions
• Ability to work in a fast paced team oriented environment
• Ability to work effectively within a global team (spread across North America EMEA APAC etc.) while influencing and contributing towards the development of the global platform
• Experience of full project lifecycle breaking requirements down into technical deliverables and effort estimation

Desirable (but not essential):

• Knowledge of C# WPF & .NET
• Knowledge of ReactJS and Javascript
• Experience with AWS Kubernetes Docker or other Cloud technologies
• Business knowledge of simple derivative products (vanilla options variance swaps strategies involving vanillas): how these are used how to price them how to evaluate risk exposure using Greeks
• Unix or Linux knowledge
• Working knowledge of continuous integration and deployment processes
• Experience with project management
• Experience with service oriented platforms and a good understanding of current generation open source frameworks
• Exposure to NoSQL systems (Cassandra MongoDB .etc.)