Company
Jefferies, the global investment banking firm, has served companies and investors for almost 60 years. Headquartered in New York with its European head office in London, the firm provides clients with capital markets and financial advisory services, institutional brokerage and securities research, and asset management. Jefferies provides research and execution services in equity, fixed income, foreign exchange, and a full range of investment banking services including underwriting, merger & acquisition, restructuring and recapitalisation and other advisory services, with businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia.
Role Overview
The Equity Trading Front Office Development role requires an experienced senior engineer/architecture, with a proven track record of delivering scalable, high-performance systems. The successful candidate will be part of a global team working on our platform for the growing equity business. The ideal candidate would demonstrate a passion for software development and be familiar with the recent trends in technology. We're looking for a person who will be responsible for designing and implementing robust, scalable, and efficient trading applications and work closely with global team. Excellent analytical skills, and the ability to work quickly and effectively under time pressure are expected.
Equity Trading Front Office Senior Engineer responsible for
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Front office trading technology development for Equity Trading
Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with ability to solve complex issues
Designing and implementing scalable, robust on-prem and cloud-based applications
Engage with trading teams and developers gather requirements and assist with development and support of equity business related solutions
Ability to work and communicate well with the regional/global team including business users on daily basis
Skills and experience
10+ years’ Front-office development experience along with at least 3 years of experience in software architecture, design and development of global trading applications
Java - expert level with at least previous hands-on experience
Domain experience of front-office equity trading
Experienced in design stability & resiliency applications
Strong experience in designing and implementing/migrating existing application to microservices based solution and strategy
Strong networking fundamentals and experience building low latency messaging based applications
Looking for someone who has worked in a capacity with high intensity and attentiveness to trading environment
Strong experience with on-prem/cloud-based datastores, having experience with in-memory cache/computation is preferred
Expert in Cloud platforms and containerization tools like dockers and Kubernetes
Strong messaging experience for reliable and scalable data streaming; preferably AMPS
Experience with setup and configuring DeepHaven
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