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NatWest Group · 2 weeks ago

Electronic Trading Java Developer

Stamford, CT

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$192K/yr - $192K/yr

5+ years exp

NatWest Group is a leading financial services company, and they are seeking an Electronic Trading Java Developer for their Stamford, CT location. The role involves designing, implementing, and providing second-level support for large-scale electronic trading systems, primarily focusing on Java development and collaboration with the Fixed Income Trading IT team.

BankingFinanceFinancial ServicesWealth Management

Work & Life Balance

Responsibilities

Responsible for the design, implementation and second level support of large-scale, multi-tiered electronic trading systems

Support the Fixed Income Trading IT team, working primarily with an in-house electronic trading application stack

Responsible for applications/functions that range from responding to electronic customer request-for-quote (RFQ) via Tradeweb and Bloomberg, real-time price contribution, and the automated hedging of customer trades, related execution algorithms and order management system

Support the U.S. Rates business as part of a worldwide IT team, and work with business managers, traders and global Dev/Support teams

Responsible for Java coding, debugging, testing and releasing the code in a production environment

Regular meetings with business stakeholders to understand the requirements and to conduct feasibility analyses for the relevant software applications

Specialized Java Development duties focusing on numerous components of the electronic trading application environment, which is primarily written in Java and built in-house

Responsible for adapting and improving the software stack to meet the needs of the U.S. Rates and Credit business’s move towards lower latency electronic execution

Use knowledge of vanilla Java programming, multithreading, object-oriented programming, distributed computing and message-based architectures to maintain a wide range of computer applications and functions that themselves run automated processes, such as: responding to electronic customer request-for-quote via Tradeweb and Bloomberg, real-time price contribution, automatic hedging of customer trades, related execution algorithms and the order management system

Facilitate NatWest’s move toward lower latency and automating existing manual processes within the highly liquid US Treasury Bond and USD Interest Rate Swaps markets

Perform software release and change management, and implement post-review changes

Execute complete project lifecycles using Agile methodologies (Scrum)

Provide second level support to the trading desk when issues or questions arise

Qualification

Java programmingAgile methodologiesMultithreadingLow latency systemsSpring BootMicroservicesRPA with UiPathAeron messaging platformDBMSDistributed ComputingJUnitMavenCucumberSoftware development lifecycleDebuggingTestingVersion control (SVN/Git)

Required

Must have at least a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Applications, Applied Computer Science, Computer Information Systems or a related field followed by 5 years of progressive experience in the position offered, or as a Software Engineer, Tech Lead or a related role

Full term of required experience must include: Utilizing Java programming language to build software solutions

Using Agile methodologies and the software development process

Driving software development lifecycles

Utilizing Java 8 features including Lambda Expression, Functional Interface and Streams

Performing Java coding, debugging, testing and releasing code in a production environment

Developing Java multithreading, Spring Boot and Microservice architectures

Using SVN or Git version control tools

Designing and developing real time, high throughput and low latency distributed systems

Utilizing DBMS, Distributed Computing, Junit, Maven and Cucumber for application development and testing application functionality

Three (3) years of required experience must include: Developing and implementing RPA bots using UiPath for automating manual tasks and conducting automated monitoring and alerting of software processes

Building high-performance, low-latency applications utilizing the Aeron messaging platform