Software Engineering

Job Description

As a member of our Software Engineering Group, we look first and foremost for people who are passionate around solving business problems through innovation and engineering practices. You’ll be required to apply your depth of knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, as well as partner continuously with your many stakeholders on a daily basis to stay focused on common goals. We embrace a culture of experimentation and constantly strive for improvement and learning. You’ll work in a collaborative, trusting, thought-provoking environment—one that encourages diversity of thought and creative solutions that are in the best interests of our customers globally.

The FXO technology team are looking to hire a developer into their tightly knit team of technology/domain experts.

Broadly FXO technology covers:

• Analysis, development and support of application and reports used by the FXO Trading desk.
• Analysis, development and support of FX Option e-trading applications.

Typical responsibilities across the FXO team are:

• Deal management, life cycle and P&L processes,
• UI tools for front office and middle office,
• Market data management,
• E-trading activities – connectivity, pricing, trading, (auto-)hedging, booking, tooling.
• Business controls and regulatory reporting.

The developer would be hired into the wider team and would have

responsibilities across areas above, however with a strong emphasis on the e-trading side. The e-trading technology team are responsible for development of pricing, trading and hedging systems and growing the banks e-Trading revenue.

The eFX Options team are a leading team in their field and responsible for development and maintenance eFX Option trading platform supporting one of the highest volumes of trades/flow in the industry.

As part of your day to day role, you would:

• Liaise with traders/product management/sales/quantitate research to gather requirements and elucidate feedback.
• Analyze requirements, develop and test new applications and features – end to end ownership.
• Monitor/Maintain/Support existing applications

Key skills:

• Server-side programming (Unix/Linux)
• Concurrent/Parallel programming
• Messaging/Connectivity
• Algorithms/Complexity
• Object oriented programming
• Comfortable with quantitative development  

Advantageous but not essential:

• Python
• Athena/Sec DB/Quartz experience
• E-Trading experience
• Financial derivatives product knowledge
• Front office experience
• Reactive programming
• Java
• Typescript/JavaScript

The hiring manager for this job opening would welcome a conversation about flexible working.  This could range from ad hoc flexibility in a full time position, to a more formal Flexible Work Arrangement.