Overview
A global investment manager with a diverse portfolio is seeking to appoint a Software Developer to join its Risk Technology team in London.
Risk Technology is a global team that designs, builds and maintains the firm’s trading risk platform, which is responsible for trade capture, position management, profit/loss computation, inventory/locate management and internal order routing.
These critical systems need to be performant, resilient, and capable of timely processing of high volumes of trading data in both live and historical scenarios, requiring solutions to process, propagate and store rapidly changing datasets efficiently.The Risk platform is undergoing significant investment to build a new service orientated architecture.
The firm is looking for talented engineers with a passion for software development who enjoy working in a dynamic, global and collaborative environment, with a strong focus on engineering excellence.
Skills, knowledge & Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related subject.
- 4+ years’ C++ Linux based development experience.
- Knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
- Team player with excellent communication skills.
Desirable
- Experience with scalable large-scale / distributed systems / service-oriented architecture
- Experience optimizing code for high performance applications
- Experience with messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, AMPS, QPID)
- Experience with Python, bash and/or Q/KDB
