Senior Engineer Global Rates eTrading Tech
Jersey, NJ - USA
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Job Description:
This job is responsible for defining and leading the engineering approach for complex features to deliver significant business outcomes. Key responsibilities of the job include delivering complex features and technology enabling development efficiencies providing technical thought leadership based on conducting multiple software implementations and applying both depth and breadth in a number of technical competencies. Additionally this job is accountable for end-to-end solution design and delivery.
Job Profile Summary:
A Senior Rates eTrading Development Lead is required to modernize and expand our front office eTrading platforms that support Rates products across multiple lines of businesses globally. This is a hands-on technical leadership role that will bring expertise in software engineering best practices architecting and building low latency D2C and D2D algos market data connectivity execution workflows internalization and pricing. This role will help lead the technical architecture and delivery of strategic initiatives that span across business enablement/growth platform modernization stability performance and innovation. The candidate will have deep experience in front-office eTrading systems and be a key partner to tech management software engineers quantitative analysts and traders.
Responsibilities:
- Ensures that the design and engineering approach for complex features are consistent with the larger portfolio solution
- Define the technology tool stack for the solution and evaluate and adapt new testing tool/framework/practices for team(s)
- Enables team(s)/applications with Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) capabilities and engages with other technical stakeholders pertaining to efficient functioning of CI-CD pipeline
- Guides and influences team(s) on design and best practices for high code performance e.g. pairing code reviews
- Provides end-to-end delivery of complex features including automation for either a single team or multiple teams at the program level
- Conducts research design prototyping and other exploration activities such as evaluating new toolsets and components for release management CI/CD and features
- Works with stakeholders to establish high-level solution needs and with architects for technical requirements
- Build high-performance low latency components for fixed income eTrading and pricing workflows.
- Developing frameworks and core services to enable real-time order execution auto-quoting algo engines pricing services collaborating with quant and algo teams.
- Champion best development practices including agile iterative development pairing code reviews CI/CD automated testing loosely coupled interface design disciplines and principles for scalability and re-use.
- Refactor and modernize existing code and improving performance design and observability metrics of existing and new components
- Working with technology partners and business groups in the region and globally
- Work with the management horizontal teams and stakeholders to help define and deliver the strategic roadmap.
- Work with engineers production support staff and traders
Required Qualifications
Clear articulate communication skills - Ability to communicate ideas design and architecture principles. Thrives in a collaborative environment and is able to break problems down analytically to work through solutions.
Hands on Java development and technical leadership experience is a must-have with demonstrated ability to design and implement the architecture development and deployment.
Engineering Science Math or similar degree
Experience as a lead software engineer building electronic trading solutions
Ability to work in a team-oriented setting
Organized and able to prioritize effectively across workstreams
Highly experienced in leveraging platforms for development including Linux Ansible Tower Jenkins Maven Git/Bitbucket Artifactory automation scripting
High proficiency in data architecture schemas and data workflows
Strong experience in software engineering real-time trading system design principles
- message-driven event based architecture TCP UDP Multicast
- low latency performance and scaling
- multithreading
- service oriented interface driven architecture
- object oriented design
Desired Qualifications
Experience working in Fixed Income eTrading technology domain specializing in the D2C & D2D electronic execution algo pricing systems is a strong plus
Experience integrating with APIs and workflows from venues such as CME Bloomberg Tradeweb
Experience with FIX FpML protocols
Working knowledge of leveraging AI assisted software development tools (e.g. Claude GPT Co-Pilot) and able to incorporate context skills and structured prompting to help debug and enhance code
Experience in algo system design and controls including kill switches limits simulating scenarios and metrics reporting
Knowledge of fixed income products such as government bonds interest rate swaps futures is a strong plus but not required if youve worked on other traded products/systems like Equities or FX
Experience with real-time pricing systems and analytic library integration used to compute bond or swap prices yields dv01 and other market relevant analytics
Experience in trading system re-design migration projects is a big plus
Skills:
- Automation
- Influence
- Result Orientation
- Stakeholder Management
- Technical Strategy Development
- Application Development
- Architecture
- Business Acumen
- Risk Management
- Solution Design
- Agile Practices
- Analytical Thinking
- Collaboration
- Data Management
Minimum Education Requirements - Bachelor Degree or Equivalent Professional Experience
Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)Hours Per Week:
40Pay Transparency details
US - NJ - Jersey City - 525 Washington Blvd (NJ2525)Pay and benefits informationPay range$122000.00 - $200000.00 annualized salary offers to be determined based on experience education and skill set.Discretionary incentive eligibleThis role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.BenefitsThis role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits access to paid time off resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.Required Experience:
Senior IC
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