Senior Algorithmic Trading Developer

An opportunity has come live to work for one of the World's Leading Hedge Funds an organisation that has experienced continued success and growth even through the tough economic climate. They are now embarking on numerous projects to build industry leading cutting edge systems.

An opening has now arisen for a talented Algorithmic Developer. This is an outstanding opportunity that will offer challenging projects and a chance to really build an outstanding career in one of the city's most highly regarded Algorithmic trading teams.

Technology and Business Skills: Essential

• Exceptional technology skills; recognised by your peers as an expert in your domain
• Extensive Java experience, OO design and patterns
• Extensive experience of relational data modelling, including DML and DDL
• A proponent of agile development methods; continuous integration, unit testing, refactoring and related approaches
• Experience of distributed, concurrent processing server-side development
• Proficient working on all major platforms - Linux, Windows and UNIX; working knowledge of various scripting languages
• Experience of a range of open source frameworks: Spring (or other DI),  Eclipse, Maven
• Experience of event driven, asynchronous architectures and messaging/market data processing

Advantageous

• Knowledge of statistical methods and probability and their application to trading systems
• Oracle and / or OneMarketData OneTick time series database
• Additional programming languages - C++, R and Python
• ZK or Django RIA frameworks
• Experience in the front office technology group of a trading organisation (hedge fund, investment bank)

  Personal Attributes and Management Skills

• Significant post graduate experience in software development, preferably in finance
• Strong academic record and a degree in a subject with good mathematical content and computing exposure or Computer Science, Maths, Engineering or Physics from a leading university
• Intellectually robust with a keenly analytic approach
• Able to establish and maintain a close working relationship with research academics, traders and senior business people alike
• Confident communicator; able to argue a point concisely and deal positively with conflicting views
• Focused on delivering value to the business; relentless efforts to improve how that is done

If this position is of interest and you feel that the skill set and experience is a match then please forward your CV at the earliest opportunity for more details.
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0208 315 9937

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