Java/ Scala Developer - Fixed Income, Equities, Risk & Bond

Contractual | - | JAVA
New York, NY, New York, USA
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Currently, we are looking for talented resources for one of our listed clients. If interested please reply to me with your updated resume or feel free to reach out to me for more details at (949) 333-0860

Hybrid role - 3 days Onsite and 2 days Remote

Job Description:

  • Potential to Convert
  • Education Level: Bachelor's Degree - Required
  • Job Level: Consultant (5+ Years of Experience)

Team Profile:

  • The Corporate Trading and Risk Department develops software that enables Client to sustain and grow its highly successful fixed income cash & derivative trading businesses - a key growth area for the Firm.
  • Traders, strats and risk managers use our systems to monitor their daily risk and profit & loss, and to run ‘scenario’ calculations to assess the potential effect of changes in market conditions.
  • We are looking for a strong developer to join our global team, where we work on projects from risk models and market intelligence tools to distributed calculation infrastructure, in our advanced Scala-based system as well as a Java-based one, co-operating with many other teams across various areas such as Fixed Income, Equities and Corporate Finance.

Role Profile:

  • You will be a hands-on Scala/Java developer involved in the full development lifecycle, focusing on bond position management & risk models and their integration with other systems to support the firm’s new initiatives, as well as abundant opportunities to work on
  • other functionalities such as calculation infrastructure (e.g. distribution, caching) and workflow automation.
  • GUI that empowers users to view/manage relevant data
  • other financial products
  • The job will require an inquisitive mind. 
  • You need to have a strong interest and capability to
  • gain proficiency in Scala in a short period of time, if that’s not your primary programming language already,
  • learn about the relevant financial products if you don’t already understand them,
  • apply such knowledge to the work on realtime systems based on both OpenSoure (e.g. Kafka, Zookeeper) and proprietary technologies.
  • take on production issue troubleshooting, as well as performance profiling/tuning
  • In addition, you will also have exposure to many other exciting technology solutions on the same Scala platform created by hundreds of people.
  • You will work in a dynamic and multi-cultural environment, collaborate with several global teams within, and sometimes outside, Fixed Income, and interact directly with the trading desk to support their function.

Qualifications & Skills Required:

  • Strong Scala or exceptional Java
  • Strong analytical skills
  • Experience in performance tuning
  • Ability to navigate a large and complex code base
  • Data structures, design patterns, multi-threaded programming and distributed computing
  • Continuous integration

Qualifications & Skills Desired:

  • Financial knowledge, especially in bond

About us:
At our organization, we take our mission and values to heart! We are on a mission to offer more and better jobs all over the world! Our goal is to care for you while you care for our clients and get you paid the highest pay possible. All our associates working with us are expected to embrace our RACE values: R - Results Matter, A- Approachable, C - Care, and E - Emergency i.e. work with a sense of urgency.

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