VP, Fixed Income E-Trading Developer (Core Java)

Jefferies US Fixed Income, Electronic Trading Technology Team seeks a Senior-Level Technologist specializing in E-Trading technology. Individuals should have at least 10+ years of experience implementing large-scale E-Trading applications across multiple geographical regions. 

 

Responsibilities

• Design & development of the firm’s proprietary, high-performance FI E-Trading platform encompassing all fixed-income products.
• Work alongside traders, sales, and quantitative analysts to specify and build out real-time trading applications that electronically execute orders across multiple ECNs.  
• Work with the business management team and desk heads to drive project requirements and prioritization.
• Drive implementation and design with an emphasis on high availability, scalability, and reusability
• Work with other Fixed Income front office team leads to promote framework reusability across all businesses.
• Balance time to market (client delivery) with proper governance, compliance, and audit mandates
• Mentor junior developer

 

Required Background

• 10+ years experience in front office system development supporting the US Rates E-Trading business.
• In-depth knowledge of US Rates Product Offering (Treasury, Swap and Agency)
• In-depth understanding of Dealer-to-Client market protocol (TradeWeb, Bloomberg, and MarketAxess)
• In-depth understanding of Dealer-to-Dealer market structure
• In-depth knowledge of building auto-quoter and auto-hedger 
• Ability to learn and adapt quickly.
• Willingness to learn new programming languages and technologies.
• Ability to work well with business managers, traders, and developers.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.

 

Required Technical Skills

• Extensive experience in Java and Multithreading programming
• Knowledge of low latency and event-driven programming.
• Knowledge of Spring and Spring Boot.
• Knowledge of Microservice-based architecture.
• Unix shell scripting.
• Databases: Oracle, Postgres, MSSQL
• Tools: Atlassian Suite (Jira/Bitbucket/Bamboo/Confluence), Maven, Strong DevOps skills.

 

Primary Location Full Time Salary Range of $200,000 - $250,000. 

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Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (‘‘Jefferies,’’ ‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us’’ or ‘‘our’’) is a U.S.-headquartered global full service, integrated investment banking and securities firm. Our largest subsidiary, Jefferies LLC, a U.S. broker-dealer, was founded in the U.S. in 1962 and our first international operating subsidiary, Jefferies International Limited, a U.K. broker-dealer, was established in the U.K. in 1986. Our strategy focuses on continuing to build out our investment banking effort, enhancing our capital markets businesses and further developing our Leucadia Asset Management alternative asset management platform. We offer deep sector expertise across a full range of products and services in investment banking, equities, fixed income, asset and wealth management in the Americas, Europe and the Middle East and Asia. 

 

The salary offered will take into consideration an individual’s experience level and qualifications. In addition to salary, Jefferies Financial Group is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package to eligible, full-time employees or part- time employees, who are scheduled to work at least 30 hours or more per week, including an annual discretionary incentive and retention bonus, competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Jefferies also offers paid time off packages that include planned time off (e.g., vacation), unplanned time off (e.g., sick leave), and paid holidays, and for full time employees, paid parental leave.