Principal Java Engineer/Architect (London Area)

Trading System Engineer / Architect – Shape the Future of Trading

Leading European Private Bank

The Front Office development team are responsible for the development of cross-asset automated pricing and risk systems, primarily focused on FICC derivatives. You will work directly with global sales/trading/quant teams on the development of applications incorporating pricing and risk models used for electronic trading.

This role puts you at the heart of a major initiative: the complete overhaul of a significant portion of their trading technology stack. You will be instrumental in designing and implementing new systems.

As a key member of the team, you will need:

• 8+ years’ experience as a software engineer delivering FO pricing/trading/risk solutions
• Ability to work with sales/trading/quant teams on implementing pricing/risk model requirements
• Ability to work with eTrading/infrastructure teams on distribution of pricing/risk model outputs
• 8+ years' of strong Core Java knowledge, JDK 11+
• 4+ years' of strong Python knowledge and enterprise level development experience
• Ability to develop high performance event-driven messaging systems
• Experience with implementing automated unit + regression testing into CI/CD development pipelines
• Strong understanding and experience with multi-threaded programming

Highly desirable:

• Strong knowledge of Interest Rate Swap products (FRA/IRS/XCCY)
• Experience working with Bloomberg APIs (i.e. BPIPE, SAPI, DAPI)
• Experience with Java performance testing
• JavaScript + React experience

Candidate should also be or have:

• A strong leader on technical design and solutions and to provides technical expertise with a focus on efficiency, reliability, scalability, and security; includes planning, evaluating, recommending, designing, operationalizing, and supporting solutions in compliance with enterprise and industry standards.
• Ability to plan, evaluate, recommend, design, operationalize, and support solutions in compliance with enterprise and industry standards.
• Ability to lead and help team members on technical implementations.
• Ability to work on multiple initiatives at the same time
• Familiar with Agile, and SDLC processes

Contact Ciara Clarke at Harrington Starr for a confidential discussion on this role.

Please do not apply to this role if you have not previously worked in a front office environment and do not have a minimum of 5 years commercial experience in Java.