Financial Trading firm – front office software developer / analyst – £50,000 – £70,000 recruitment
The organisation is global in nature and has offices in Europe, North America and South East Asia. The company has been created due to a spin-out from a US investment bank. The organisations main trading activities are proprietary trading in FX, Fixed Income and Commodities Markets wordlwide - employing a number of different approaches to trading to produce returns for both investors and employees of the company alike.
The nature of the spin-out means that a large number of applications need to be developed, and the growth in numbers of Portfolio Managers, Traders, Analysts, Trading Strategies and Markets means that the work-load for this (growing) team, will also grow.
Key projects in 2012 are the development of a pricing service for the Fixed Income business and the complete redevelopment of the risk analytics for delivery in 2013. The strategic work will be balanced with regular tactical requirements from front office users to facilitate trading and manage the pre-trade / analysis process.
Applicants are exepcted to have a deep knowledge of C++ (working in either Unix or Windows environment), multi-threading, OO design. You should also have some knowledge of (and willingness to embrace) development using C# and .NET and Excel VBA. Clearly, much of the development work with involve design and development in C++, but the nature of the environment will require tactical development in C# and, occassionally, Excel VBA.
You will also have some prior financial markets experience - working in a Bank, financial software company or Hedge Fund.
Please apply online, call or mail apaterson@westbourne-partners.com for more information