Company
Jefferies, the global investment banking firm, has served companies and investors for almost 60 years. Headquartered in New York with its European head office in London, the firm provides clients with capital markets and financial advisory services, institutional brokerage and securities research, and asset management. Jefferies provides research and execution services in equity, fixed income, foreign exchange, and a full range of investment banking services including underwriting, merger & acquisition, restructuring and recapitalisation and other advisory services, with businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia.
Role Overview
The Equity Trading Front Office Development role requires an experienced senior engineer/architecture, with a proven track record of delivering scalable, high-performance systems. The successful candidate will be part of a global team working on our platform for the growing equity business. The ideal candidate would demonstrate a passion for software development and be familiar with the recent trends in technology. We're looking for a person who will be responsible for designing and implementing robust, scalable, and efficient trading applications and work closely with global team. Excellent analytical skills, and the ability to work quickly and effectively under time pressure are expected.
Equity Trading Front Office Senior Engineer responsible for:
- Front office trading technology development for Equity Trading
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with ability to solve complex issues
- Designing and implementing scalable, robust on-prem and cloud-based applications
- Engage with trading teams and developers gather requirements and assist with development and support of equity business related solutions
- Ability to work and communicate well with the regional/global team including business users on daily basis
Skills and experience
- 10+ years’ Front-office development experience along with at least 3 years of experience in software architecture, design and development of global trading applications
- Java - expert level with at least previous hands-on experience
- Domain experience of front-office equity trading
- Experienced in design stability & resiliency applications
- Strong experience in designing and implementing/migrating existing application to microservices based solution and strategy
- Strong networking fundamentals and experience building low latency messaging based applications
- Looking for someone who has worked in a capacity with high intensity and attentiveness to trading environment
- Strong experience with on-prem/cloud-based datastores, having experience with in-memory cache/computation is preferred
- Expert in Cloud platforms and containerization tools like dockers and Kubernetes
- Strong messaging experience for reliable and scalable data streaming; preferably AMPS
- Experience with setup and configuring DeepHaven
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About UsJefferies is a leading global, full-service investment banking and capital markets firm that provides advisory, sales and trading, research, and wealth and asset management services. With more than 40 offices around the world, we offer insights and expertise to investors, companies, and governments.
At Jefferies, we believe that diversity fosters creativity, innovation and thought leadership through the infusion of new ideas and perspectives. We have made a commitment to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live. As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients.
Jefferies is an equal employment opportunity employer, and takes affirmative action to ensure that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by applicable law. We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities, as required by applicable law.
Skills Required
- 10+ years of front-office development experience
- At least 3 years of software architecture, design, and development experience for global trading applications
- Front-office equity trading domain experience
- Expert-level Java experience with prior hands-on experience
- Experience with on-premises and cloud-based datastores
- Expertise with cloud platforms and containerization tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Strong messaging experience for reliable and scalable data streaming, preferably AMPS
- Experience designing and implementing or migrating applications to microservices-based solutions
- Strong networking fundamentals and experience building low-latency messaging applications
- Experience designing stable and resilient applications
- Experience working in a high-intensity trading environment
- Experience with in-memory caching or computation
Jefferies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Jefferies and has not been reviewed or approved by Jefferies.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Compensation is positioned as competitive with meaningful upside, with potential for significant earnings depending on group performance and strong years. A formulaic, performance-linked bonus model ties payouts to individual fees or P&L, reinforcing a pay-for-results dynamic.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-building support is broad, including primary and non-primary caregiver leave, adoption assistance, subsidized emergency child and eldercare, and a $25,000 stipend for qualified surrogacy, adoption, or fertility support. Added resources like family support programs and parental-leave coaching further strengthen caregiver benefits.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Lifestyle perks extend beyond standard coverage, including discount programs, commuter benefits, legal plans, charitable matching, and education assistance such as tuition support and scholarships for employees’ family members. Location-specific perks like gym stipends and free cafeteria lunch are also described as available in some offices.
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What We Do
Jefferies, the global investment banking firm, has served companies and investors for 60 years. Headquartered in New York, with offices in over 30 cities around the world, the firm provides clients with capital markets and financial advisory services, institutional brokerage and securities research, as well as asset and wealth management. The firm provides research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, as well as a full range of investment banking services including underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services, with all businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Jefferies Group LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jefferies Financial Group (NYSE: JEF), a diversified financial services company. More about our company can be found at www.jefferies.com.
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