Job Specifications
Java developer
London – hybrid
12 month contract
Inside ir35
In order to support significant and sustainable growth in the Structured Notes (SN) and Structured Products (SP) businesses, Equity Linked Technology is building a highly automated, fully STP system solving front-to-back business needs. The system will help automate pre-trade and post-trade activities including pricing, quoting, booking, client connectivity, workflow, sales/trader blotters, lifecycle management, documentation/confirms generation, and Treasury.
This is a unique and exciting opportunity for a dynamic, enterprising mid-level developer to join the fastest growing area in Equities Derivatives Technology and contribute to the continuing buildout of technology and process automation solutions to enable significant SN and SP business growth.
The successful candidate will
Collaborate with other team members, platform teams, sales, trading, structuring, operations to achieve a collective result.
Help build applications, services and tools that drive end to end automation, continuous monitoring, exception alerting, and metrics gathering to aid SN/SP decision-making.
Optimize Treasury workstream, with a view to increasing STP Rates into Treasury and supporting additional attributes requested by different Treasury Teams.
The ideal candidate will possess
technology development experience and specifically experience in development of front-office equities derivatives systems.
Ability to define relevant areas of the roadmap and articulate the vision to senior stakeholders, product owners and teams.
Excellent communication, collaboration, interpersonal skills and demonstrate the capability for juggling multiple competing priorities.
Candidates will be proficient in software design focused on a cross-language REST based n-tier architecture and executed using agile methodologies (Scrum, Test Driven Development, unit/integration testing, pair programming, etc.). The successful candidate will be comfortable driving design and architecture, rationalizing business requirements and mentoring less experienced developers. There will be significant interaction with senior developers across other work streams as we integrate an increasingly complex product set. Responsibilities will include but not be limited to the following:
Required skills:
technology development experience and specifically experience in development of front-office equities derivatives systems. (Previous experience of working with SN and SP is a plus.)
Computer science or equivalent degree
Demonstrable experience of having designed and developed complex server-side functionality in Python
SQL - preferably Oracle
Shell scripting and basic Unix knowledge desirable
Proficient in writing unit, integration, and acceptance tests
Comfortable in an agile working environment
Self-starter and proactive
Role/responsibilites
Develop a thorough understanding of our entire technology stack
Design and develop new features within existing Python services; create new services to expand the overall framework
Contribute to future design and architecture
Plan work in an agile manner with other team members
Write acceptance tests in coordination with QA
Provide L3 user support
Communicate with our business and platform partners
Improve and develop our CI pipeline and deployment strategies
Desired skills:
Experience with modern web UI technologies; HTML5, React, RESTful services, Websockets
Knowledge of Structured Products (Notes, Warrants, Certificates)
Business knowledge
Equity Derivatives
Regional variations of Products and Trading
SP and SN is a plus
If you believe you have the experience required, please apply with your CV now for instant consideration!
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Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.
Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.
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