Team Lead, Architect, Java, High Frequency, Low Latency, Algorithmic Trading, FX/Cross Asset recruitment

Join an award winning global top-five bank. Lead an extremely highly skilled high frequency algorithmic trading Java team as they expand from FX into Credit, Fixed Income and Commodities.

Team:

• The team is entirely focused on high frequency, low latency, algorithmic trading

• They provide ALL hedging and pricing for the top five global investment bank’s flagship FX platform

• They have expanded into other areas (Credit, Fixed Income, Commodities), and this hire will be driving the cross-asset roadmap and development

• The bank has won numerous awards in Foreign Exchange, ranging from ecommerce to complex derivatives and particularly for its market-leading trading platform. The business has embarked on a multi-year programme to establish their FX business as the number one FX bank – and is investing huge amounts of money

Role:

• Based on the trade floor

• This hire will be responsible for driving the architecture and roadmap, running the development lifecycle, and mentoring / training the team beneath them

• They will still be hands-on coding alongside this – the precise amount will depend on the candidate, and how they manage the above

• This is essentially a replacement for the current incumbent as he steps up and spreads out – and will see the hire heading up all Java developers in the team (c.5 to begin with)

• Constant interaction with traders and quants ( the whole team, traders quants developers, go out socially at least once a week)

Technical Requirements:

• Very strong Java, very strong multithreading – they will need to pass the same interviews as the developers in the team (they have a very high bar)

• Need to understand the performance aspect of threading for high throughput systems

• Very beneficial will be relevant etrading / algo skills and technologies – low latency, high frequency, exchange connectivity

• Knowledge of tick databases, ideally KDB and q, would be a nice to have

Other Requirements:

• Management / leadership – experience of leading a small team of highly motivated developers (e.g. 1-5)

• Genuinely excellent communication skills – will work very closely with traders and quants (and the head of the desk sometimes comes up with his own design ideas so you will need to be able to push back on this in the right way if necessary!)

• Ability to translate business requirements into design specifications

• Relevant etrading / algo trading experience would give a big edge

• FX experience would be ideal

• Knowledge of exchange connectivity (ideally within the FX markets e.g. EBS, Currenex, etc.) would be fantastic

The ideal candidate for this role will be someone leading a small team in FX, or someone leading another small etrading / algo team – but they are open to excellent candidates from virtually any walk of life. All strong Java leaders are encouraged to apply.

Team Lead, Tech Lead, Architect, Development Manager, Developer/Programmer/Software Engineer, High Frequency, HFT, Low Latency, Algorithmic Trading, Algo Trading, Auto Trading, Automated Trading, Etrading, Electronic Trading, FX, Forex, Foreign Exchange, Currencies, Fixed Income, Credit, Commodities, EBS, Currenex

Java, SE, J2SE, KDB+, Q, Low latency and high throughput server environments, multithreaded Java socket-based applications, Application profiling, direct exchange connectivity

Please apply to lparsons@astoncarter.co.uk / 02079971056.