Senior Rates Developer

London, (GBR)
Negotiable
12 Months
Start date: ASAP
Ref: tapfin-hsbc-23038

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Required skills

trading desks
java

Other skills

kdb
low latency
pricing
ion marketview
quant
fx
risk management
agile delivery

Job description Posted 25 March 2024

Title: Senior Rates Developer

Location: Hybrid- London

Length: 12 months

Inside ir35

Currently working with HSBC who are looking to bring onboard a Senior Rates Developer

Main Duties:

• Work directly with the eRisk Quant Traders and the Cash FX Forward and NDF traders on requirements.

• Work with the technical lead and other development teams within the GFX programme to enhance the system e.g. to support local onshore market trading requirements, risk management requirement.

• Draw-up detailed technical designs for items worked on.

• Work effectively with any external consultancies engaged during the project to provide technical and graphical design expertise.

• Implement best-of-breed technical solutions based on agreed technical design, adopting industry standard development patterns and methodologies (including continuous integration and automated unit and integration testing)

• Fully test implemented solutions in advance of User Acceptance Testing

• Assist (when required) with the deployment of components to development and test environments

• Participate in intra-day and overnight Support rotas (when required).

Skillset:

• Java server side development

• The candidate must be able to demonstrate knowledge of multi-threaded development.

• Demonstrable experience implementing global, distributed systems in a 24 * 5.5 trading environment

• Experience of building FX or eRates pricing systems for eCommerce

• KDB / Q knowledge advantageous but not essential

• familiarity with rates and bonds RFQ trading via ION MarketView Java API

Business Knowledge:

• Operation of trading desks in a large, multi-site Investment Bank with significant eCommerce offering

• Foreign Exchange in a high volume low latency environment.

• Experience working on enterprise systems but also agile delivery of Quant and Business requirements.

• Spot FX market conventions

• Forward FX market conventions

If you are available and interested in this role please drop me an application over to

matthew.probert@experis.co.uk