Business Overview: The New York Fixed Income, Pricing and Electronic Markets Technology Development team operates as part of a Global team, developing systems used by the Global Credit & Rates Trading businesses. The Global team is headquartered in London, with a significant presence in; New York, Lisbon, Porto, Paris, Singapore and Mumbai.
The team are Front Office facing and work directly with Trading, Sales, Quant Research and Business Management to provide high-quality solutions both locally and as part of the global platform.
The team's scope includes tools and applications used for; Pricing, analytics, venue connectivity, execution framework (systematic and manual workflows, for both dealer to client and dealer to dealer trading), trading interfaces, historic and real-time trade analysis, market data, STP and regulatory reporting.
The Credit & Rates businesses have identified eTrading as a key area in which they would like to develop in terms of reliability and functionality, hence success in this area is regarded as essential to help the business succeed.
Candidate Success Factors: Candidates are measured on the following four performance drivers, which will dictate how individual impact is considered on the Americas platform:
- Results and Impact
- Able to influence peers and team.
- Demonstrates good judgement when making decisions of high complexity and impact.
- Exercise appropriate autonomy in the execution and delivery of work.
- Responsible for driving outcomes, which have meaningful effect on team or department.
- Leadership and Collaboration:
- Creates trust with colleagues.
- Acts in leadership capacity for projects, processes, or programs.
- Client, Customer and Stakeholder Focus:
- Able to build relationships with a mix of colleagues and clients.
- Interacts regularly with management and department leaders.
- Demonstrates the ability to influence stakeholders at the team level.
- Compliance Culture and Conduct:
- Takes full responsibility for personal actions and demonstrates courage in facing problems and conflicts.
- Perceived as a person of high moral character; upholds corporate values and displays high ethical standards.
Responsibilities: - Lead the strategic development of cross-asset; pricing tools, trading workflow optimization and tactical tooling development.
- Work with Front Office (Trading, Sales and Quant Research) and other IT stakeholders, to understand project requirements and translate these into technical specifications, that can be applied globally.
- Work directly with vendors; market data providers, Exchanges, ECNs etc. to establish connectivity or enhance existing connectivity architecture.
- Design, develop and implement functional or technical features or enhancements, that are performant, robust, resilient, supportable and consistent with IT and business strategy
- Design and develop big data pipelines, that are robust, performant with high availability and recovery
- Build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code, deploy CI/CD pipelines
- When developing, team members are required to adhere to development best practices and in line with security and regulatory requirements.
- Developers are expected to always keep performance, scalability, resiliency and testability in the forefront of their work.
- Develop a robust set of unit and functional test scenarios when working on each project or feature.
- Preform user acceptance and integration testing, in coordination with Business Analysts and other technical teams before deploying new features or fixes
- Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
- Provide status updates, proper escalations & reporting to management & business
- Work closely with local and global IT teams to ensure that our global platforms are consistent and in line with other projects and developments.
- Participate in peer code review sessions and provide adequate feedback where applicable.
- Conduct knowledge sharing sessions for other peers, on areas in the platform that have evolved or that you are a subject matter expert in.
- Keep functional and technical documentation up to date and relevant to; Users, support staff and other developers.
- Train other members of the team in areas in which you are a domain expert or have a familiarity with.
- Participate in and adhere best practices in all parts of the SDLC lifecycle.
- Provide 3rd line support for the platform.
Minimum Required Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree or foreign education equivalent in Computer Science or Engineering with more than 15 years of experience performing low latency software engineering within a financial services environment.
- Must-have: Significant (15 year+) and recent SDLC experience on mature, multi-threaded enterprise development projects, applied to high frequency, low latency programming environments in the financial industry.
- Extensive experience with big data and industry best practices in collecting, enriching and maintaining data quality and recoverability.
- Extensive experience in dealing with external vendors (market data providers, exchanges and ECNs), in establishing connectivity, optimizing existing connectivity and industry and regulatory standards with regards to Market Acess.
- Recent experience developing projects in a core Java environment
- Recent experience with developing and optimizing high performance, low latency tools, using live and timeseries data points.
- Experience in a front office trading environment
- Experience with asynchronous and event driven programming
- Experience developing real-time applications
- Experience developing Rest Data Services
- Knowledge of networks and topologies
- Firm grounding of common algorithms
- Familiar working with LINUX environments
- Experience with Jenkins build pipelines
- Experience in large-scale system design and implementation
- Ability to design and implement unit tests (with JUnit) and integrate into automated build process
- End-to-end ownership ensure the code that you write is carried through to production
- Self-starter, able to understand complex code split across several systems
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Proactive team player with a "can-do" attitude
- Excellent analytical problem solver
- Attention to detail and thoroughness is a must
- Java Core & Frameworks Java17+, JEE, SpringFramework, SpringBoot, Microservices, Hibernate/JPA
- API Design & Integration REST, OpenAPI/Swagger, SOAP, APIGEE
- Database & Data Engineering ClickHouse, SQL Server / Sybase, PostgreSQL or Oracle, NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis), Apache Spark (Java/Scala API)
- Messaging & Event Streaming Kafka, MQ, Tibco, Solace, event-driven architecture
- Containerization & Orchestration Docker, Kubernetes (Helm, Operators)
- CI/CD & DevOps Maven/Gradle, Git (GitHub/GitLab), Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Ansible, Terraform
- AI/ML Integration LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google), prompt engineering, agentic AI, vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus), Java ML libraries
- Scripting & Automation Python or Perl, Unix/Linux shell scripting
- Observability Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, centralized logging (ELK/EFK)
Preferred Qualifications: - Master's degree in Computer Science or any quantitative discipline, with 10 years of hands-on design & development experience
- Deep knowledge of Fixed Income Products: Bonds, Swaps, Futures and Repos etc.
- Deep knowledge of Fixed Income Trading Workflows.
FINRA Registrations Required: CFTC Swap Dealer Associated Person (if yes, NFA Swaps Proficiency Program is required): SEC Security-Based Swap Dealer Associated Person: The expected starting salary range for this position is between
$140,000 to
$210,000 annually. The actual salary may vary based upon several factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills/experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business line, and geographic/office location.
In addition, our comprehensive benefits package aims to support our employees in various aspects of their lives. From healthcare and wellness programs to retirement plans and childcare services, we prioritize the well-being and growth of our employees. Our benefits include medical, dental and vision coverage, a 401(k) Savings Plan, backup childcare, life, accident and disability insurance, mental health support and paid time off. Additional details about our benefits offerings, inclusive of eligibility for a discretionary bonus, will be provided during the hiring process.
This application will remain open until a candidate has been selected for the role. There is no specific application timeline.
