VP, Rates E-Trading Developer

Jefferies Financial Group • New York, NY

71d • $200,000 - $250,000

About The Position

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.

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.

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

• Full Time Salary Range of $200,000 - $250,000.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees