Overview:
Equities Technology solves some of the most interesting and complex challenges in the financial industry to help our global business and its customers succeed. Shipping code early and often using Agile and DevOps principles is critical for us to deliver business value, with continuous improvement and learning at the centre of everything we do.
We are motivated by challenging each other to push the boundaries of financial and technological innovation, in an open, inclusive, and diverse environment. We are looking for the brightest and best developers to take our capability forward.
About the Team:
The Cash Equities Algorithmic Trading Technology team runs the execution stack from client FIX message in through to order message on the exchange.
The team develops and maintains its own Algorithmic Trading Container, View Server and HTML5 based UI and Smart Order Router. It also has a dedicated infrastructure team for managing its off-campus hardware estate.
Purpose of the Job:
Working as part of the front office team the candidate should be a Java expert and have a detailed working knowledge of Java and the JVM (Java Virtual Machine), garbage collection, data structures. The current projects are written in Java or Scala, so the candidates would have to be willing to learn Scala.
It is also expected for the candidate to work on production support issues (via a rota) and be involved in improvements on automation and dev ops.
Candidates with knowledge of the following is an advantage:
- Zero GC architectures
- Low latency systems
- Cash equities trading.
- Algorithmic trading, FIX, etc
Responsible For:
Building low latency processes, algorithms. Dev ops and production support
Major Challenges:
Helping to build out the ‘next generation’ of Equities execution platform
ESSENTIAL CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS
- Must be an expert in Java
- Must be willing to learn Scala
- Must have a very good knowledge of collections, their implementation and their
optimization.
IDEAL CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS
- Zero GC architectures
- Low latency systems
- OMS Experience
- Experience with OMS/Electronic Trading Stack