Senior Engineer - FICC Electronic Trading

Senior Engineer - FICC Electronic Trading

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Job Description : This job is responsible for defining and leading the engineering approach for complex features to deliver significant business outcomes. Key responsibilities of the job include delivering complex features and technology, enabling development efficiencies, providing technical thought leadership based on conducting multiple software implementations, and applying both depth and breadth in a number of technical competencies. Additionally, this job is accountable for end-to-end solution design and delivery.

Job Profile Summary :

This Senior Engineer Lead role sits within the FICC Electronic Trading technology team, focused on Mortgages & Munis eTrading, with horizontal responsibility for Client Connectivity across FICC. This role will report into the Head of FICC Electronic Trading Technology and sit on his management team. Alongside supporting the existing Munis & Mortgages eTrading technology stack, you will lead the buildout of shared client connectivity services & applications for eTrading across FICC. The role is hands on with expectation of spending 50% of your time coding and 50% of your time managing / leading. You will have extensive experience overseeing the build of eTrading solutions – leading design discussions and implementation of eTrading software used in client connectivity, price distribution or RFQ engines, ideally with exposure across all three. You will have a special interest in how banks interact with clients bilaterally.

Responsibilities :

• Ensures that the design and engineering approach for complex features are consistent with the larger portfolio solution
• Define the technology tool stack for the solution and evaluate and adapt new testing tool / framework / practices for team(s)
• Enables team(s) / applications with Continuous Integration / Continuous Development (CI / CD) capabilities and engages with other technical stakeholders pertaining to efficient functioning of CI-CD pipeline
• Guides and influences team(s) on design and best practices for high code performance – e.g. pairing, code reviews
• Provides end-to-end delivery of complex features, including automation, for either a single team or multiple teams, at the program level
• Conducts research, design prototyping and other exploration activities such as evaluating new toolsets and components for release management, CI / CD, and features
• Works with stakeholders to establish high-level solution needs and with architects for technical requirements

Required Qualifications

Experience as a Lead software engineer building eTrading solutions – software used in market connectivity, price distribution or RFQ engines.

Must understand and have experience building out D2D, D2C or bilateral eTrading connectivity.

Highly proficient in Java / Spring with expertise in developing FIX trading solutions.

Experience working with trading desks, strategists & quants for L3 support on production trading systems as well as requirements gathering / solution design for new build.

Experience supervising and growing eTrading engineering talent

In-depth knowledge of Munis or Mortgages eTrading workflows and market structure

Proficiency in debugging / profiling JDK based languages (Java / Scala / Kotlin / Clojure)

Advanced work with JDK CI / CD and build toolchains including Maven, Gradle, SBT, Jenkins

Experience with modern RPC microservices, specifically GraphQL and gRPC

Proficiency in developing for Unix / Linux based environments including shell basics as well as process and network diagnostics.

Exposure to monitoring, metrics and tracing tooling - ELK stack, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Graphite, OpenTSDB, OpenTrace, Jaeger

Exposure to message-oriented architecture - ZeroMQ, JMS, AMPS, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Google pub / sub

Exposure to process / container orchestration technologies - Mesos, Kubernetes, OpenShift, docker

Hi proficiency in data architecture in both SQL and NoSQL data stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchDB, HBase

Experience with reactive streams implementations and observables - ReactiveX (RXJava, RXJS, etc), Akka Streams, Monix, Spring Reactor

Desired Qualifications

Understanding of machine architecture and natively compiled languages such as C++ and Rust

Experience with CQRS architecture.

Experience with Scala functional and / or concurrency libraries such as ZIO, C

Skills :

Automation

Influence

Result Orientation

Stakeholder Management

Technical Strategy Development

Application Development

Business Acumen

Solution Design

Agile Practices

Analytical Thinking

Data Management

Solution Delivery Process

Minimum Education Requirements : Bachelor Degree or Equivalent Professional Experience

Age requirement : Must at least be 18 years of age.

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