Senior Java Developer - Fixed Income Algo Technology, VP

Job Responsibilities / Role

• Design and develop reusable algo trading platform components, with a strong focus on high performance and low latency.
• Collaborate directly with Traders, Quants, and Product Managers to understand business requirements and implement functional enhancements to the algo trading platform.
• Ensure the strong reliability, scalability, and performance of core algorithmic components.
• Work seamlessly with wider eTrading Teams and Production Support to maintain and enhance live trading systems.
• Adhere to stringent engineering standards, continuously striving for best-in-class solutions and practices.

Qualifications

• Significant extensive hands-on coding experience in core Java, specializing in low-latency, high-throughput distributed applications.
• Profound understanding of software development fundamentals, data structures, design patterns, object-oriented programming, and algorithms complexity analysis.
• Demonstrated experience with messaging technologies such as Solace, Kafka, etc.
• Practical experience with Chronicle and/or Aeron.
• Experience with distributed caching techniques.
• Proven track record in implementing and supporting market data processing applications and trading applications.
• Experience building robust back-testing frameworks and managing historical data.
• Basic proficiency in Linux system performance tuning and monitoring, with the ability to troubleshoot performance issues within the Java/Linux stack.
• Familiarity with build tools, including Gradle, Git, TeamCity, Jenkins, and Artifactory.
• Strong academic record, ideally with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Engineering, or a related technical or quantitative discipline.

Competencies