Principal Java Engineer/Architect

Trading System Engineer / Architect – Shape the Future of Trading

Leading European Private Bank

The Front Office development team are responsible for the development of cross-asset automated pricing and risk systems, primarily focused on FICC derivatives. You will work directly with global sales/trading/quant teams on the development of applications incorporating pricing and risk models used for electronic trading.

This role puts you at the heart of a major initiative: the complete overhaul of a significant portion of their trading technology stack. You will be instrumental in designing and implementing new systems.

As a key member of the team, you will need:

8+ years’ experience as a software engineer delivering FO pricing/trading/risk solutions

Ability to work with sales/trading/quant teams on implementing pricing/risk model requirements

Ability to work with eTrading/infrastructure teams on distribution of pricing/risk model outputs

8+ years' of strong Core Java knowledge, JDK 11+

4+ years' of strong Python knowledge and enterprise level development experience

Ability to develop high performance event-driven messaging systems

Experience with implementing automated unit + regression testing into CI/CD development pipelines

Strong understanding and experience with multi-threaded programming

Highly desirable:

Strong knowledge of Interest Rate Swap products (FRA/IRS/XCCY)

Experience working with Bloomberg APIs (i.e. BPIPE, SAPI, DAPI)

Experience with Java performance testing

JavaScript + React experience

Candidate should also be or have:

A strong leader on technical design and solutions and to provides technical expertise with a focus on efficiency, reliability, scalability, and security; includes planning, evaluating, recommending, designing, operationalizing, and supporting solutions in compliance with enterprise and industry standards.

Ability to plan, evaluate, recommend, design, operationalize, and support solutions in compliance with enterprise and industry standards.

Ability to lead and help team members on technical implementations.

Ability to work on multiple initiatives at the same time

Familiar with Agile, and SDLC processes

Contact Ciara Clarke at Harrington Starr for a confidential discussion on this role.

Please do not apply to this role if you have not previously worked in a front office environment and do not have a minimum of 5 years commercial experience in Java.