Title: Senior Rates Developer
Location: Hybrid- London
Length: 12 months
Inside ir35
Currently working with a Tier 1 bank who are looking to bring on board a Senior Developer
Main Duties:
- Work directly with the eRisk Quant Traders and the Cash FX Forward and NDF traders on requirements.
- Work with the technical lead and other development teams within the GFX programme to enhance the system e.g. to support local onshore market trading requirements, risk management requirement.
- Draw-up detailed technical designs for items worked on.
- Work effectively with any external consultancies engaged during the project to provide technical and graphical design expertise.
- Implement best-of-breed technical solutions based on agreed technical design, adopting industry standard development patterns and methodologies (including continuous integration and automated unit and integration testing)
- Fully test implemented solutions in advance of User Acceptance Testing
- Assist (when required) with the deployment of components to development and test environments
- Participate in intra-day and overnight Support rotas (when required).
Skillset:
- Java server side development
- The candidate must be able to demonstrate knowledge of multi-threaded development.
- Demonstrable experience implementing global, distributed systems in a 24 * 5.5 trading environment
- Experience of building FX or eRates pricing systems for eCommerce
- KDB / Q knowledge advantageous but not essential
- familiarity with rates and bonds RFQ trading via ION MarketView Java API
Business Knowledge:
- Operation of trading desks in a large, multi-site Investment Bank with significant eCommerce offering
- Foreign Exchange in a high volume low latency environment.
- Experience working on enterprise systems but also agile delivery of Quant and Business requirements.
- Spot FX market conventions
- Forward FX market conventions
If you are available and interested in this role please drop me an application over to
