Jefferies Financial Group

Senior Java Developer - Fixed Income ETrading

Jefferies Financial Group • $175K — $225K *
New York, NY 10025In-Person
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
  • 5+ years of experience in financial services
  • Strong design, coding, testing, and debugging skills
  • Proficient in Java (10+ years), with Python as a plus
  • General knowledge of Fixed Income Pricing and Analytics
  • Experience with multithreaded programming
  • Familiarity with Credit Buy-Side/Sell-Side market structure

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop a high-performance FI E-Trading platform for fixed income products
  • Understand and implement workflows for Dealer to Client markets like MarketAxess and TradeWeb
  • Collaborate with traders and quantitative analysts to build real-time trading applications
  • Support and enhance existing infrastructure across various technologies
  • Drive implementation with a focus on high availability and scalability
  • Promote framework reusability across Fixed Income front office teams
  • Champion best practices in software development with a focus on test-driven coding
  • Mentor junior developers

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge trading technology
  • Collaborative environment with traders and analysts
  • Focus on high availability and scalability in projects
  • Mentorship opportunities for career growth
  • Emphasis on best practices in software development
Full Job Description
Job Description

Primary Responsibilities:
  • Design & development of firm's proprietary, high performance FI E-Trading platform encompassing fixed income all products (Credits/Rates)
  • Understand RUN, Axes, RFQs workflow for Dealer to Client markets such as MarketAxess, TradeWeb, Bloomberg.
  • Work alongside traders and quantitative analysts to specify and build out real-time trading applications that electronically execute orders across multiple ECNs.
  • Supporting and enhancing existing infrastructure and application across a variety of technologies (ION, Java, KDB/Q)
  • Drive implementation and design with emphasis on high availability, scalability and reusability
  • Working with other Fixed Income front office teams lead to promote framework reusability across all business
  • Champion best practice software development life cycle with emphasis in test driven coding methodology
  • Balance time to market (client delivery) with proper governance, compliance and audit mandates
  • Mentor junior developer


Education
  • BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering or related


Required Background:
  • 5+ years of financial service experience
  • Able to communicate effectively with the desk.
  • Strong design, coding, testing and debugging skills
  • Strong experience in front office trading system with emphasis on E-Trading
  • Programming Languages - Java (10+ years), Python a plus.
  • Must have general Fixed Income Pricing and Analytic knowledge
  • Must have strong multithreaded programming experience
  • Must have knowledge of Credit Buy-Side/Sell-Side market structure
  • Knowledge of FIX protocol a plus
  • Knowledge of ION or Broadway API a plus
  • Knowledge of KDB/Q a Strong plus

Primary Location Full Time Salary Range of $175,000 - $225,000.

About Jefferies Financial Group

Jefferies Financial Group Inc. is a diversified financial services company that operates in investment banking, capital markets, asset management, and direct investing. The company was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in New York City. Jefferies Financial Group has operations in over 30 countries and employs over 4,000 people. The company's businesses include Jefferies, a global investment bank; Leucadia Asset Management, an asset management firm; and Berkadia, a commercial real estate company. Jefferies Financial Group is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol JEF.
Learn more about Jefferies Financial Group
Size
4,400 employees
Market Cap
$8 billion
Industry
Finance & Insurance
Net Income
$775.2 million
5 Year Trend
-9.8%
Revenue
$6.7 billion
* Ladders Estimates

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