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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:
FICC Electronic Trading supports eTrading businesses across Fixed Income, Currencies & Commodities. Credit eTrading sits within FICC eTrading and is focused on the electronic trading of corporate bonds and credit derivatives.
The team is global, across Bromley, London, New York, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Chennai & Mumbai.
This Lead Software Engineer role sits within the FICC Electronic Trading technology team, focused on Systematic Credit eTrading. Alongside supporting the continued existing Credit eTrading technology stack, you will lead the buildout of shared services for eTrading across FICC. You will have extensive experience overseeing the build of eTrading solutions – leading design discussions and build of eTrading software used in market connectivity, price distribution or RFQ engines, ideally with exposure across all three. You will have special interest in, or experience of, low latency systematic trading in Rates or Credit.
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 and 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 Credit or Rates 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
High 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
Architecture
Business Acumen
Risk Management
Solution Design
Agile Practices
Analytical Thinking
Collaboration
Data Management
Solution Delivery Process
Minimum Education Requirements: Bachelor Degree or Equivalent Professional Experience
Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)Hours Per Week:
40Pay Transparency details
US - NJ - Jersey City - 101 Hudson St - 101 Hudson (NJ2101), US - NY - New York - 1100 Ave Of The Americas - Two Bryant Park (NY1540)Pay and benefits informationPay range$122,000.00 - $200,000.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.Discretionary incentive eligibleThis role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.BenefitsThis role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.Skills Required
- Experience as a Lead software engineer building eTrading solutions (market connectivity, price distribution, RFQ engines).
- Experience building D2D, D2C and bilateral eTrading connectivity.
- High proficiency in Java and Spring and expertise developing FIX trading solutions.
- Experience working with trading desks, strategists and quants for L3 production support and requirements/solution design.
- Experience supervising and growing eTrading engineering talent.
- In-depth knowledge of Credit or Rates eTrading workflows and market structure.
- Proficiency in debugging/profiling JDK-based languages (Java/Scala/Kotlin/Clojure).
- Advanced experience with JDK CI/CD and build toolchains (Maven, Gradle, SBT, Jenkins).
- Experience with modern RPC microservices (GraphQL and gRPC).
- Proficiency developing for Unix/Linux environments including shell, process and network diagnostics.
- Exposure to monitoring, metrics and tracing tooling (ELK stack, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Graphite, OpenTSDB, OpenTrace, Jaeger).
- Exposure to message-oriented architectures (ZeroMQ, JMS, AMPS, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Google Pub/Sub).
- Exposure to process/container orchestration technologies (Mesos, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker).
- High proficiency in data architecture for SQL and NoSQL stores (MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchDB, HBase).
- Experience with reactive streams and observables (ReactiveX, RxJava, RxJS, Akka Streams, Monix, Spring Reactor).
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
- Understanding of machine architecture and natively compiled languages such as C++ and Rust.
- Experience with CQRS architecture.
- Experience with Scala functional/concurrency libraries (e.g., ZIO).
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What We Do
We make financial lives better for our clients and our communities through the power of every connection. Our employees are at the heart of this purpose, and are key to driving responsible growth. Every day, across the globe, our employees bring a commitment to our purpose and to driving responsible growth by living our values: deliver together, act responsibly, realize the power of our people and trust the team. A key aspect of driving responsible growth is doing so in a sustainable manner, a critical pillar of which is being a great place to work for our teammates.
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