19 hours ago
Base Salary
$175k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and develop the proprietary high-performance fixed-income electronic trading platform across credit and rates products.
- Build real-time trading applications that electronically execute orders across multiple electronic communication networks.
- Support and enhance existing infrastructure and applications using technologies including ION, Java, and KDB/Q.
- Design for high availability, scalability, and framework reusability across fixed-income front-office teams.
- Collaborate with traders and quantitative analysts to specify trading applications and communicate effectively with the trading desk.
- Apply strong software development lifecycle practices, including test-driven coding, testing, and debugging.
- Balance client delivery timelines with governance, compliance, and audit requirements.
- Mentor junior developers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- At least 5 years of financial services experience.
- At least 10 years of Java programming experience.
- Strong experience with front-office electronic trading systems.
- Strong design, coding, testing, debugging, and multithreaded programming skills.
- General knowledge of fixed-income pricing and analytics.
- Knowledge of credit buy-side and sell-side market structure.
- Python experience is a plus.
- Knowledge of the FIX protocol is a plus.
- Knowledge of ION or Broadway API is a plus.
- Strong knowledge of KDB/Q is a plus.
About Jefferies
Jefferies is a global investment banking and capital markets firm serving corporations, financial institutions, governments, and individuals with M&A advisory, underwriting, sales and trading, research, and wealth management. Founded in 1962 and headquartered in New York, it operates from 40+ offices worldwide. The firm earns fees and trading revenues and is owned by publicly traded Jefferies Financial Group (NYSE: JEF).