Front Office Developer

FDM Group

$90K — $120K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in software development, preferably in finance-related projects.
  • Strong proficiency in Python programming language.
  • Familiarity with Quartz or equivalent financial platforms like Athena.
  • Experience directly communicating with front office traders without intermediary business analysts.
  • Solid understanding of risk, finance, and quantitative concepts related to trading.
  • Background in Financial Engineering or related fields.
  • Ability to write clean code while meeting project deadlines.

Responsibilities

  • Implement pricing and trading systems solutions for the Trading Desk.
  • Develop strategic technologies for next-generation risk management systems.
  • Collaborate closely with Trading, Quants, and Technology teams to analyze and document business requirements.
  • Enhance existing analytics to align with business needs and trader requests.
  • Work on downstream systems integrations and product pricing for complex IR products.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model requiring 3 days in the office per week.
  • Initial 24-month contract with potential for extension.
  • Direct involvement with front office traders without reliance on business analysts.
  • Exposure to working with cutting-edge quantitative analytics libraries.
  • Opportunity to contribute to the development of critical trading tools in the financial sector.
Full Job Description
Über die Rolle

This position requires the successful candidate to work on a W2 directly with FDM. We cannot accept C2C, 1099 or employment sponsorship (e.g. H1-B) for this position.

FDM is seeking a Front office developer located in Jersey Cityto support a project in the financial sector. Involvement in this project is anticipated to last initially 24 monthsbut may be extended.

This role will be hybrid with requirements to be in office 3 days per week.

Das bringst du mit
• Quartz Background (or equivalent, like Athena)
• Direct communication with front office traders, no BA go-between
• Developers should be able to work directly with traders and their requests
• Business is with Risk, Finance, Quants, etc
• Will enhance trade products and develop new products at trader requests. All products based in showing traders potential risk.
• Quants will be considered, but have been historically hard to keep. This team does not develop new models.
• Financial Engineering backgrounds are a good fit.
• There is a balance between clean code and deliverable deadlines.
• Open to minimum of 3-5 years experience for the right candidate
• Open to other language, as long as other skills are present and they can learn Python

Job Description:
We are looking for a front-office developer to join the Global Non-Linear (GnL) front office development team. Role will include development for the global risk platform, product pricing, feeds to downstream systems, and implementing new strategic solutions. The role will provide exposure to complex IR products through use of quantitative analytics libraries and interactions with quant/strat group. The work will involve development in Python. Platform is Quartz: A strategic, cross-asset, front-to-back position management, pricing, and risk management platform. The role involves interaction with users globally across Trading, Middle Office, Finance and Risk Management.

Summary of Business Area:
The Technology group provides solutions to clients in the Trading, Sales, Finance, and Regulatory areas of Exotics Interest-Rate Options and Inflation businesses. Asset classes comprise exotic interest-rate derivatives, and exchange-traded instruments.

Role Responsibilities:

  • Implementation of pricing, risk and trading system solutions for Trading Desk (primary focus).
  • Leverage strategic technologies for next generation pricing and risk management system based solutions.
  • Capture, analyse document business requirements from our business partners
  • Work very closely with the Trading Desk, Quants, and Technology groups to extend the analytics to meet ongoing business needs

Essential Skill Requirements:
  • Strong Python skills
  • Rates business knowledge (risk, pricing, yield curve and inflation curve construction etc...)
  • Experience of Interest Rate Derivatives and bond trading systems
  • Excellent communication skills, and good attention to details
  • Ability to work on large scale IT projects with interaction with numerous teams and clients.
  • Experience with Front Office

Desired Skills
  • Ability to manage a project end to end
  • FICC and Derivative Operations


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