Securities Lending Front Office Developer

Polar IT Services•New York City, NY

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

This contract position has an initial duration of six months and is expected to convert to full-time employment after the initial contract period. The role requires a front-office oriented individual who can work directly with traders. The work location is New York City, with a hybrid schedule of 2-3 days per week in the office. The company is a foreign bank.

Requirements

Java development experience in Securities Lending.
Securities Lending platforms experience (like FIS (Loanet/Loanex) or Global One).
Mission-critical trading platforms experience (Order/Stock Loan/Market Data Systems).
BTCC experience.
Direct collaboration with trading desks, quants, and risk teams.
DevSecOps methodologies and tools such as Jenkins, Ansible, PuppetLabs, SonaType, SonarQube, Tenable, Invicti and Zero Networks.
Development and maintenance of automated testing frameworks.
Back-end and front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript).
Bachelor’s/master’s degree in computer science or related field.
5+ years of Java development experience, ideally in capital markets/financial services.
Experience with frameworks (Spring, Hibernate), messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ), and databases (Oracle, SQL Server, Snowflake).
Proficiency with Git and Agile development.
Strong multitasking, organizational, and communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Some sort of AI platform like DL4J is a plus.
Murex is also a plus.
Experience with AI/ML.
Experience and familiarity with Log observability tools such as Elastic Search/Kibana/Splunk stack.
Familiarity with pricing models, quantitative analysis, and P&L calculations.
Experience with leading industry platforms, including Quod, FlexTrade, Charles River Trader, Nuvoprime, and Murex.
Experience with cloud (Azure, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes).
Knowledge of regulatory/risk/compliance and audit controls in Securities Lending space is a plus.

Responsibilities

Hands-on experience in Java in Securities Lending development space.
In-depth knowledge of Securities Lending platforms experience (like FIS (Loanet/Loanex) or Global One).
Experience with mission-critical trading platforms (Order/Stock Loan/Market Data Systems).
BTCC experience.
Direct collaboration with trading desks, quants, and risk teams.
Expertise in DevSecOps methodologies and tools such as Jenkins, Ansible, PuppetLabs, SonaType, SonarQube, Tenable, Invicti and Zero Networks.
Experience in development and maintenance of automated testing frameworks.
Solid understanding of back-end and front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript).
Experience with frameworks (Spring, Hibernate), messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ), and databases (Oracle, SQL Server, Snowflake).
Proficiency with Git and Agile development.
Strong multitasking, organizational, and communication skills.