Trainee Fx Front Office Far Developer - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

eFinancialCareers

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Description of the Business Line or Department

FX FAR developers support the electronic activities of the MARK/FIC/TRD desks, with a strong emphasis on emerging spot FX and NDF in London.

Summary of the key purposes of the role

Summary of responsibilities

Responsibilities include:

Design of software solutions to fulfill the business needs, balancing between rapid development and code quality, in agreement with both IT management and the head of desk
Be proactive in regard of platform enhancements from which the business and/or the IT can benefit
Implement, test, and deploy the software solution within agreed constraints and existing code
Maintain and enhance the existing systems and various tools used for daily tasks
Improve the backtest framework, especially make sure that it always reflect production behavior
Level 1 & 2 support, good reactivity in case of incidents
Implement the necessary tools for proper production followup, in order to anticipate and detect potential technical or functional issues

Initiatives are highly welcome.

Competencies

Technical Skills

Familiar with object-oriented designs

Knowledge in C#/.Net, Java, and/or C++; We are open regarding the technical background but take heed that the current platform is C#/Windows

R knowledge is a plus

Knowledge of Windows environment as a production platform, Linux is a plus

Knowledge of TCP/IP networking and electronic exchange APIs / specificities is a plus

Knowledge in memory / CPU profiling / optimization and multithreaded debugging is a plus

Functional Knowledge