Job Description

•    Hands-on development role in the ECN/Exchange connectivity team.

•    Architect, design, and develop, unit and stress test high performing ECN/Exchange gateways that are integrated tightly to the entire electronic trading stack.

•    Involves handling high speed market data, order routing, RFQ, RFS, Quotations, and Trades from multiple trading venues and broker-dealers.

•    Will be a key participant in a small, focused and highly talented delivery team for front office trading development.

•    Great opportunities exist across multiple asset-classes, including Fixed Income, FX and Equities.

•    Design and develop extreme automated stress testing harnesses.

•    Delve into infrastructure tuning for high end electronic trading application platform.

•    Participate in and conduct code review sessions, and provide process improvements.

•    Domain expertise in Fixed Income, FX and/or Equities, coupled with hands-on experience in building electronic trading platforms and/or components is a huge plus. 

Talent – Must have Qualities

•    Experienced in building high speed ECN/Exchange connectivity in one or more areas of high performing market data, client connectivity, order routing, RFQ, RFS, Quotation and trades.

•    High performance programming techniques in Java.

•    Ability to evaluate new technologies; ability to conduct enterprise wide research.

•    Experienced in FIX Protocol.

•    Good understanding and working knowledge of core technology concepts in like networking, multi-threading, synchronization, data structures, algorithms, memory management, etc.

•    Experienced in diagnosing performance bottlenecks and performance tuning.

•    Linux programming environment familiarity. 

Talent – Good to Have

•    Domain expertise in Fixed Income, FX and/or Equities, coupled with hands-on experience in building electronic trading platforms and components is a huge plus.

•    Prior experience in building high throughput, low latency electronic trading and client connectivity systems.

•    Data modeling experience.

•    Extensive experience in the capital markets business and processes, e.g. trade lifecycle, electronic trading/algorithmic trading.

•    Strong verbal and written communication skills.

•    Good understanding and/or working knowledge of Compliance and Regulatory needs in building capital markets electronic trading applications.

•    Educational Requirements – Bachelor/Master degree in Computer Science/Engineering.