Senior Algo Developer - Fixed Income in London

Senior Algo Developer - Fixed Income

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Our technology teams in the UK work closely with HSBC’s global businesses to help design and build digital services that allow our millions of customers around the world, to bank quickly, simply and securely. We also run and manage our IT infrastructure, data centres and core banking systems that power the world’s leading international bank. Our multi-disciplined teams include: DevOps engineers, IT architects, front and back end developers, infrastructure specialists, cyber experts, as well as project and programme managers.

We are currently looking for a Senior Algo Developer in our Fixed Income business.

Role Description

Our Fixed Income business is currently moving away from a vendor platform to a new state of the art in-house built trading system. Responsibilities of the Algo Developer will include requirements gathering, design, development, unit testing, system testing, back-testing, implementation and (2nd line) support systems.  The primary development language is Java/Scala. A track record of agile delivery of Business requirements is a must. Must demonstrate full ownership of mission critical production systems.

Key Tasks

• We are looking for an experienced Senior Java / Scala Developer who will join our Fixed Income Algo team and help deliver new pricing/hedging functionality across multiple regions
• The successful developer will have proven skills developing and deploying production JVM based high performance Algo systems  
• Successful candidates will be participating in a whole range of front to back architecture, design and development activities. It is vital that the candidate is able to challenge the status quo and help explore new avenues of efficiency
• Working together with the business to provide trading automation and improvement of the existing Trading and Market Intelligence strategies for Dealer to dealer and Dealer to Client markets
• Build React HTML5 based automated trading platform
• Expand testing/backtesting capability to ensure lower defect rates and increase new strategy development productivity
• Integration with existing Fixed Income electronic trading platform
• Integrating with Quantitative Analytical tools
• Expansion of trading to additional venues and desks where required
• Conducting research – both in technology but also business process and strategy – to ensure knowledge of best practice needed to support delivery for business stakeholders

Experience

• Front Office development team in large Investment Bank or Hedge Fund, supporting global trading desk
• Alternatively: exceptional candidates from large in-house software or internet/gaming companies
• A background of solid architectural work
• Knowledge of Enterprise Integration and Messaging technologies
• Java / Scala server side development experience is essential. The candidate must be able to demonstrate strong knowledge of multi-threaded development.
• Experience with designing and implementing high performance / low latency systems is essential
• Being able to demonstrate ability to implement reusable and maintainable object oriented and (or alternatively functional programming) designs is essential
• Demonstrable experience implementing global, distributed systems in a mission critical/trading environment is highly desirable
• Experience with web-based (HTML5) front end technologies is desirable
• Experience with BDD/TDD is desirable
• Knowledge of ION/Solace/RMDS middleware and related Java APIs is desirable

If you are a strong Java / Scala developer with deep experience on high performance low latency systems, we would be very keen to hear from you.

The role is based in London, but some travel may be required.

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