Analyst Programmer – Real Time FX Trading – Investment Bank – Hong Kong recruitment

Analyst Programmer – Real Time FX Trading – Investment Bank – Hong Kong

Analyst Programmer, JAVA, Threading, Generics, Garbage collection, performance tuning, memory management, TCP/IP, data structures, algorithms, FX eCommerce

Tier 1 Investment Bank based in Hong Kong requires a strong Analyst Programmer to join their expanding FX eCommerce business. The Analyst Programmer will be working in a globally distributed team responsible for the development of real time JAVA based FX trading systems.

Essential Skills: Excellent core JAVA (NOT J2EE), multi-threading, i/o, generics, garbage collection; experience of developing highly transactional distributed low latency applications; performance tuning; memory management; understanding of how the JVM works; TCP/IP; understanding of data structures and algorithms. The candidate will be expected to be comfortable with low level computing and networking concepts as the use of 3rd party libraries or applications is severely limited. Any experience with C# UI development will be helpful to your application.

The successful candidate will act as a senior analyst programmer in the extension and support of the global FX eCommerce trading system. The organisation are market leaders in real time FX trading globally and are now focusing on the development of the trade execution engines having spent the last 2 years developing the real time risk and position keeping components of the system. The development team work closely with the traders, who have all come from technical backgrounds. Although development is the key aspect of this position, this is a true front office analyst programmer position and the developers are responsible for gathering and understanding the trader’s requirements as well as supporting any JAVA code that they cut.

Prior Investment Banking experience is not a pre-requisite but excellent experience developing core JAVA based high performance systems is, my client are looking for the best JAVA technologists available and will not

For more information, please send your CV to yves.amar@hays.com.hk or call in to 25259551