VP, Rates E-Trading Developer

US Fixed Income Technology – Front Office Electronic Trading - Senior Developer

Jefferies US Fixed Income, Electronic Trading Technology Team seeks a Senior - Level Technologist specializing in E-Trading technology. Individuals should have at least 10 years of experience implementing large-scale E-Trading applications across multiple geographical regions.

Responsibilities

• Design & development of the firm’s proprietary, high-performance FI E-Trading platform encompassing all fixed-income products.
• Work alongside traders, sales, and quantitative analysts to specify and build out real-time trading applications that electronically execute orders across multiple ECNs.
• Work with the business management team and desk heads to drive project requirements and prioritization.
• Drive implementation and design with an emphasis on high availability, scalability, and reusability
• Work with other Fixed Income front office team leads to promote framework reusability across all businesses.
• Balance time to market (client delivery) with proper governance, compliance, and audit mandates
Mentor junior developer.

Required Background

• 10 years experience in front office system development supporting the US Rates E-Trading business.
• In-depth knowledge of US Rates Product Offering (Treasury, Swap and Agency)
• In-depth understanding of Dealer-to-Client market protocol (TradeWeb, Bloomberg, and MarketAxess)
• In-depth understanding of Dealer-to-Dealer market structure
• In-depth knowledge of building auto-quoter and auto-hedger
• Ability to learn and adapt quickly.
• Willingness to learn new programming languages and technologies.
• Ability to work well with business managers, traders, and developers.
Excellent problem-solving skills.

Required Technical Skills

• Extensive experience in Java and Multithreading programming
• Knowledge of low latency and event-driven programming.
• Knowledge of Spring and Spring Boot.
• Knowledge of Microservice-based architecture.
• Unix shell scripting.
• Databases: Oracle, Postgres, MSSQL
Tools: Atlassian Suite (Jira/Bitbucket/Bamboo/Confluence), Maven, Strong DevOps skills.

Desired Experience/Skills:

• Broad spectrum knowledge of Financial IT environments
• Experience from a similar position within Front Office
• Fixed Income Credit & Rates trading system experience.
• Knowledge of ION MarketView API and platform.
• Knowledge of AMPS, KDB, Messaging Systems (such as JMS, MQ, Tibco, etc.), Ion Trading, Fix, and/or similar technologies
• Knowledge of Python, HTML5, React/JavaScript/Openfin
• Knowledge of AWS services (S3, RedShift, Postgres, EC2, Glue)
Knowledge of Kafka (AWS MSK or Confluent)

Primary Location Full Time Salary Range of $200,000 - $250,000.

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