New build front office Java development job * New Commodities Market Making business * Architecture, design and build + TL responsibility * Core Java * Salary: £175-300,000 recruitment
Exceptional Java Development role ** New build environment ** plenty of autonomy ** reporting directly into the head of the trading desk ** front office compensation structure with ability to impact PnL** Award Winning FICC Market Making team ** £175,000 - 300,000 Comp. ( guaranteed comp.) ** London
VP-Dir level (+/-), Java development job within an award winning fully systematic high frequency FICC Trading unit. This is a small self-contained Market Making team consisting of exceptionally smart Trading, Quant Research and development staff (The culture is that of a small buy side trading firm with complete autonomy over the software and hardware decisions). The team already have an award winning FX/IR e-trading platform that has produced spectacular returns for the bank last yr. They are now in the enviable position of investing in building out their (high frequency) algo trading capability within the Commodities Markets. You will have the chance to work on everything from building out the core Commodities trading infrastructure to implement trading pricing and hedging strategies. This is a rare opportunity for a smart developer to move into a business unit and work on solving some challenging problems with some of the brightest minds in the systematic trading arena.
• Exceptional undergraduate degree from top university in computer Science/Engineering (ideally). Strong A level results (or equivalent) is also important.
• C.4-7yrs Java (with strong OOA/OOD skills).
• You will also be expected to have demonstrable experience of multithreading, socket level programming, core algorithms and data structures and be familiar with issue of latency and systems optimisation.
• There developers sit directly in a business unit (with access to the models and trading strategies for those that are interested.
• Any experience of building large scale systematic market making, e-trading or proprietary trading systems would be an advantage too. This is not a prerequisite though…
If you would like to hear more about the details of this mandate then please contact Mike Sherwin (DL. +44 (0)203 145 3272 Mob. +44 7795 394 276) or just email your CV to mike@joveinternational.com