Electronic Trading Java Developer recruitment

The candidate will be part of the interest rates cash trading systems team. It is responsible for pricing, e-trading and intra-day risk management of cash products (primarily bonds and futures) and interest-rate swaps, and feeds to downstream systems. There is a considerable amount of interaction with trading desk and quants as well as financial controllers, market risk and derivative operations departments.

The interest rate cash systems are in the early phase of considerable multi-year renovation that is required to meet the demands coming from regulatory change, expansion of electronic and algorithmic trading and a firm-wide strategic goal to increase market share in this area, set against a backdrop of rapidly evolving global economic conditions. Key elements of the renovation are in the areas of e-trading including automated quoting and risk management; pricing; and developing an integrated trader desktop application suite.

Skills Required
- Strong technical background including a high level of proficiency in OO design and in-depth knowledge of core, server-side java
- Experience developing low-latency, multi-threaded systems and with performance analysis and optimisation
- Experience in a Linux development environment
- Development experience with distributed middleware such as MQ or TIBCO Rendezvous

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