Fixed Income Credit Algo Developer
Position Description:
Our company is a market leader in investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. With more than 1,200 offices in 36 countries, the people of our company are dedicated to providing our clients the finest thinking, products and services.
We currently have several openings within the Fixed Income (FID) Electronic Trading and Real-time Systems teams. These teams are responsible for developing state-of-the-art software for Pricing, Order Management, Trade execution, and real-time trade processing within Fixed Income. These products include Government/Corporate/Municipal bonds, Foreign eXchange, Securitized products like Agency Debt, TBAs, Pools, CMOs and more. We are looking for strong technologists of various levels of experience which have Java and other programming skills. The roles will include a combination of long-term strategic development and shorter-term business focused development on the various trading, pricing, and straight through processing platforms we have. The main focus will be to deliver increased automation to the trading desks and expand electronic trading capabilities by creating and expanding use of Algorithmic solutions. The ideal candidate will be expected to gain expertise in several components of this platform and take full ownership of their assignments from requirements gathering to rollout. The nature of the application development tasks could be in support of one or many of adding business logic, new services, maintenance, bug fix, QA automation or framework development subject to qualifications.
Skills Required:
- Junior, Intermediate and/or Senior level developers with relevant Java development experience
- Strong knowledge of core/server-side Java
- Development experience in object-oriented programming and working with mixture of new and legacy systems
- The candidate should be eager to learn the Fixed Income product domain and willing to communicate directly with clients they serve (ex. Traders, Sales representatives, Operations and other technology partners)
- Good problem-solving, result-focused, can-do attitude, and strong focus to keep the business running and competitive,- Ability to work in a team.
Skills Desired:
- Leadership skills an asset
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Basic understanding of Fixed Income products is required and ability to communicate with traders
- Experience in the finance industry (nice to have)
- Open to learn and work with other technologies (Scala) as business objectives require