Senior Electronic Developer
HSBC
- New York
- Permanent
- Full-time
We are motivated by challenging each other to push the boundaries of financial and technological innovation, in an open, inclusive, and diverse environment. We are looking for the brightest and best developers to take our capability forward.
The Cash Equities Algorithmic Trading Technology team runs the execution stack from client FIX message in through to order message on the exchange. The team develops and maintains its own Algorithmic Trading Container, View Server and HTML5 based UI and Smart Order Router. It also has a dedicated infrastructure team for managing its off-campus hardware estate.
Working as part of the front office team the candidate should be a Java expert and have a detailed working knowledge of the Java and the JVM (Java Virtual Machine), garbage collection, data structures. The current projects are written in Java or Scala, so the candidates would have to be willing to learn Scala.
It is also expected for the candidate work on production support issues (via a rota) and be involved in improvements on automation and dev ops.Candidates with knowledge of the following is an advantage:
- Zero GC architectures
- Low latency systems
- Cash equities trading
- Algorithmic trading, FIX, etcFor this role, H
- Must be an expert in Java
- Must be willing to learn Scala
- Must have a very good knowledge of collections, their implementation and their optimization
- Ideadly candidates Will have experience with Zero GC architectures and Low latency systems
- Experience with OMS/Electronic Trading Stack
- Communication skills
- You are an excellent communicator, and are comfortable communicating directly with the Trading Desk and internal Technology teams and are able to range up and down the detail depending on your audience
- You will handle all phases of development (requirements gathering/analysis through to implementation), establishing solid relationships and trust built on proven delivery
- If a challenging role paying very competitively, being part of a progressive team is for you then please apply and we look forward to meeting you