Jefferies · 2 months ago
VP, Rates E-Trading Developer
520 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, 10022, US
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$200K/yr - $250K/yr
10+ years expJefferies is a leading financial services company, and they are seeking a Senior-Level Technologist specializing in E-Trading technology. The role involves designing and developing a high-performance fixed-income E-Trading platform and collaborating with various teams to build real-time trading applications.
BankingFinancial ServicesWealth Management
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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
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)
Company
Jefferies
Jefferies provides research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets.
5001-10000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2012-11-12Acquired
Leadership Team
Shekhar Asnani
Vice President Investment Banking
Cameron Lester
Managing Director, Global Co-head of Tech Investment Banking
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