5 months ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable, high-performance, low-latency components for the ETF electronic trading platform.
- Build and deploy trading features across European, US, and global or Emerging Markets.
- Enhance automated market making and client RFQ pricing workflows.
- Design and develop the new ETF Blotter within the Edge Board platform.
- Create maintainable data flows between the ETF Portal, pricing engines, booking systems, and other trading systems.
- Analyse ETF trading workflows including blotter, booking, and validation processes and translate them into improved system designs.
- Develop reusable frameworks, libraries, and tools for the ETF trading ecosystem.
- Contribute to distributed-system architecture, platform scalability, automation, testing, deployment, monitoring, observability, and performance tooling.
- Work with traders and quants to capture requirements and deliver solutions through short development cycles.
Requirements
- Strong experience developing Front Office trading systems, ideally in electronic trading or market-making environments.
- Advanced Python skills and strong SQL or data-handling capabilities.
- Strong software engineering background with experience designing and building production-grade systems.
- Understanding of client-server and distributed architectures.
- Experience working in Linux and Windows environments.
- Degree from a top university in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work in complex, fast-paced trading environments.
- Exposure to C++ is desirable, particularly for performance-critical components.
- Knowledge of ETF products, RFQ workflows, or pricing systems is desirable.
- Self-starter with a strong engineering mindset and ownership culture.
About Talan
Talan is a Paris‑headquartered, privately held consulting and technology group that delivers data, AI, and IT services to large enterprises. It combines management consulting with systems integration, software engineering, and production support across sectors such as banking and financial services, energy, transport, retail, and healthcare. The firm operates internationally and supports clients’ end‑to‑end change programs, from CRM and agile transformations to architecture, application development, and run.