PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Building a trading platform for innovative international top-tier hedge fund from the ground up, comprising of front-office system for traders, pre-trade checks and analysis, intra-day positions management, order management and routing, risks and limits management, reports of trading activities, FIX connectivity, market data providers connectivity (e.g. Bloomberg B-pipe).

RESPONSIBILITIES

Partner with the firm's investment and trading teams to translate their requirements into technology solutions - building tools, models, analytical libraries, and processes to facilitate their research, trading and analysis.
Collaborate with the broader technology team to develop a unified, scalable platform for harnessing real-time and historical market data and analytics.
Work as a full-stack technologist, build front-to-back solutions that leverage the firm's data platforms, microservices architecture, UI frameworks, and DevOps toolchain.

MANDATORY SKILLS DESCRIPTIONS

• Bachelors or Masters degree from a well-regarded CS, Math, Physics or Finance program
• Preferable experience in Hedge Fund or Broker companies
• Strong Java skills - Spring Boot, REST, JDBC, Multi-threading, memory management
• Experience working with streaming data using Kafka or other messaging queue platforms.
• Basic database and SQL skills - Ability to understand and write complex SQL, MySQL, MEMSQL / Singlestore database experience is a plus
• Understanding of Data Structures/Algorithms and enthusiasm for programming
• Experience working with large and complex data sets
• Linux/Docker skills

NICE-TO-HAVE SKILLS

• Experience with investment banking, trading, equity trading platforms or any other financial products.
• Experience with FIX protocol and any FIX Engine (Quickfix, Appia etc.) a big plus.
• Experience with AWS a plus
• Experience in Python is a plus
• Can work independently and in a collaborative environment.
• Excellent self-management and problem-solving skills.