VP, Rates E-Trading Developer

Jefferies•New York, NY

110d•$200,000 - $250,000

About The Position

US Fixed Income Technology – Front Office Electronic Trading - Senior Developer Jefferies US Fixed Income, Electronic Trading Technology Team seeks a Senior-Level Technologist specializing in E-Trading technology. Individuals should have at least 10+ years of experience implementing large-scale E-Trading applications across multiple geographical regions. Responsibilities Design & development of the firm’s proprietary, high-performance FI E-Trading platform encompassing all fixed-income products. Work alongside traders, sales, and quantitative analysts to specify and build out real-time trading applications that electronically execute orders across multiple ECNs. Work with the business management team and desk heads to drive project requirements and prioritization. Drive implementation and design with an emphasis on high availability, scalability, and reusability Work with other Fixed Income front office team leads to promote framework reusability across all businesses. Balance time to market (client delivery) with proper governance, compliance, and audit mandates Mentor junior developer. Required Background 10+ years experience in front office system development supporting the US Rates E-Trading business. In-depth knowledge of US Rates Product Offering (Treasury, Swap and Agency) In-depth understanding of Dealer-to-Client market protocol (TradeWeb, Bloomberg, and MarketAxess) In-depth understanding of Dealer-to-Dealer market structure In-depth knowledge of building auto-quoter and auto-hedger Ability to learn and adapt quickly. Willingness to learn new programming languages and technologies. Ability to work well with business managers, traders, and developers. Excellent problem-solving skills. Required Technical Skills Extensive experience in Java and Multithreading programming Knowledge of low latency and event-driven programming. Knowledge of Spring and Spring Boot. Knowledge of Microservice-based architecture. Unix shell scripting. Databases: Oracle, Postgres, MSSQL Tools: Atlassian Suite (Jira/Bitbucket/Bamboo/Confluence), Maven, Strong DevOps skills. Desired Experience/Skills: Broad spectrum knowledge of Financial IT environments Experience from a similar position within Front Office Fixed Income Credit & Rates trading system experience. Knowledge of ION MarketView API and platform. Knowledge of AMPS, KDB, Messaging Systems (such as JMS, MQ, Tibco, etc.), Ion Trading, Fix, and/or similar technologies Knowledge of Python, HTML5, React/JavaScript/Openfin Knowledge of AWS services (S3, RedShift, Postgres, EC2, Glue)

Requirements

10+ years experience in front office system development supporting the US Rates E-Trading business.
In-depth knowledge of US Rates Product Offering (Treasury, Swap and Agency)
In-depth understanding of Dealer-to-Client market protocol (TradeWeb, Bloomberg, and MarketAxess)
In-depth understanding of Dealer-to-Dealer market structure
In-depth knowledge of building auto-quoter and auto-hedger
Ability to learn and adapt quickly.
Willingness to learn new programming languages and technologies.
Ability to work well with business managers, traders, and developers.
Excellent problem-solving skills.
Extensive experience in Java and Multithreading programming
Knowledge of low latency and event-driven programming.
Knowledge of Spring and Spring Boot.
Knowledge of Microservice-based architecture.
Unix shell scripting.
Databases: Oracle, Postgres, MSSQL
Tools: Atlassian Suite (Jira/Bitbucket/Bamboo/Confluence), Maven, Strong DevOps skills.

Nice To Haves

Broad spectrum knowledge of Financial IT environments
Experience from a similar position within Front Office
Fixed Income Credit & Rates trading system experience.
Knowledge of ION MarketView API and platform.
Knowledge of AMPS, KDB, Messaging Systems (such as JMS, MQ, Tibco, etc.), Ion Trading, Fix, and/or similar technologies
Knowledge of Python, HTML5, React/JavaScript/Openfin
Knowledge of AWS services (S3, RedShift, Postgres, EC2, Glue)
Knowledge of Kafka (AWS MSK or Confluent)

Responsibilities

Design & development of the firm’s proprietary, high-performance FI E-Trading platform encompassing all fixed-income products.
Work alongside traders, sales, and quantitative analysts to specify and build out real-time trading applications that electronically execute orders across multiple ECNs.
Work with the business management team and desk heads to drive project requirements and prioritization.
Drive implementation and design with an emphasis on high availability, scalability, and reusability
Work with other Fixed Income front office team leads to promote framework reusability across all businesses.
Balance time to market (client delivery) with proper governance, compliance, and audit mandates
Mentor junior developer.

Benefits

Jefferies Financial Group is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package to eligible, full-time employees or part-time employees, who are scheduled to work at least 30 hours or more per week, including an annual discretionary incentive and retention bonus, competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs.
Jefferies also offers paid time off packages that include planned time off (e.g., vacation), unplanned time off (e.g., sick leave), and paid holidays, and for full-time employees, paid parental leave.

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