What are the responsibilities and job description for the VP, Rates E-Trading Developer position at Jefferies?
Job Description
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
About Us
Jefferies is a leading global, full-service investment banking and capital markets firm that provides advisory, sales and trading, research, and wealth and asset management services. With more than 40 offices around the world, we offer insights and expertise to investors, companies, and governments.
At Jefferies, we are committed to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live. As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients.
Jefferies is committed to creating and sustaining a workforce that welcomes individuals from all backgrounds to apply. Our employment decisions are made without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, pregnancy, age, medical condition, physical or mental disability, marital status, domestic partner status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by applicable law. We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities, as required by applicable law.
The salary offered will take into consideration an individual’s experience level and qualifications. In addition to salary, Jefferies Financial Group is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package to eligible, full-time employees or part-time employees, who are scheduled to work at least 30 hours or more per week, including an annual discretionary incentive and retention bonus, competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Jefferies also offers paid time off packages that include planned time off (e.g., vacation), unplanned time off (e.g., sick leave), and paid holidays, and for full-time employees, paid parental leave.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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)
About Us
Jefferies is a leading global, full-service investment banking and capital markets firm that provides advisory, sales and trading, research, and wealth and asset management services. With more than 40 offices around the world, we offer insights and expertise to investors, companies, and governments.
At Jefferies, we are committed to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live. As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients.
Jefferies is committed to creating and sustaining a workforce that welcomes individuals from all backgrounds to apply. Our employment decisions are made without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, pregnancy, age, medical condition, physical or mental disability, marital status, domestic partner status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by applicable law. We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities, as required by applicable law.
The salary offered will take into consideration an individual’s experience level and qualifications. In addition to salary, Jefferies Financial Group is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package to eligible, full-time employees or part-time employees, who are scheduled to work at least 30 hours or more per week, including an annual discretionary incentive and retention bonus, competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Jefferies also offers paid time off packages that include planned time off (e.g., vacation), unplanned time off (e.g., sick leave), and paid holidays, and for full-time employees, paid parental leave.
Salary : $200,000 - $250,000