Front Office Developer

Title: Front Office Developer (Desktop Visualization Tools)

Location: Onsite Chicago 60661

Full-time

Our client is a leading Proprietary Trading Company and the role will work on one of the commodity trading desks. You will be responsible for developing visualization tools to enhance the desks trading, risk management, and analytics.

Primary Responsibilities:

Collaborating with traders to develop early-stage prototypes and iterative feature deployments

Partnering with traders to understand trading workflows and patterns to design and implement tools that facilitate efficiency and automation

Developing unique and intuitive tools to visualize and present option analytics such as Vol and Risk

Developing tools that provide insight into trading positions and trends

Designing and implementing intuitive and advanced user interfaces and applications for trading, execution, and risk management

Developing and owning key feature sets of the trading front-end using industry proven design patterns and methods

Facilitating testing and deployment of new features, workflows, and data analytics

Focusing on developing responsive and low latency components

Requirements:

3 -5+ years of front-end application development experience

3 -5+ years of experience building .NET (C#) Windows Forms, multi-threaded applications

Experience building highly responsive, real-time UIs

Strong understanding of object-oriented programming and design patterns

Trading industry experience strongly preferred

Exposure to options trading and analytics strongly preferred