Quant Trading Developer - Java Job in City of London, London

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Quant Trading Developer – Java Job in City of London, London

Job Description
Quant Trading Developer – Java is a quantitative/dev role to work on the development of the libraries for the rates products electronic trading platform, as part of a "joint-venture" team across IT and Research. This platform underpins the electronic rates activity including pricing, hedging and execution.

Client Details

Our client's Fixed Income business offers a broad range of products and services in the global interest rate, credit and currency markets. Fixed Income help their global franchise of clients find effective ways to raise and invest capital as well as manage their exposure to risk. Their client base comprises of hundreds of corporations, institutional investors, banks, governments and supranational organizations.

Description

The successful Quant Trading Developer – Java will have;

Close interaction with business and other quantitative research and IT teams in developing new features in the electronic trading platform and also in assisting them in the investigation of issues.
Work with management to draw up specifications for new projects and estimate the costs involved in their implementation.
Design and implement agreed electronic trading platform components.
Develop robust and reliable testing strategies.
Interaction with IT teams upstream/downstream in the chain.
Release management aspects.Profile

The successful Quant Trading Developer – Java will have;

Outstanding implementation skills in an object orientated programming language (backed up by significant programming experience in an industrial context working on large projects)
Significant prior professional experience in Core Multithread Java. Python a plus.
Substantial professional experience of quantitative development in a trading environment, ideally fixed income.
Acute understanding of classic quantitative market-making and trading strategies, and how to automate them with software.
Active interest in design of system architecture
Good understanding of concurrent application design
Previous automatic trading experience is not required, but a solid plusJob Offer

Our client is offering an attractive day rate for a 6 month contract within a financial services global banking environment working in the City of London

Job Type: Temporary, Full Time
Location: City of London, London
Category: Accounting/Financial/Insurance
City: City of London
County: City and County of the City of London
Country: United Kingdom
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