Front Office Senior Software Engineer (Fixed Income Risk System)
Marks & Spencer Group plc1 hour ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Partner with traders, desk strategists, quantitative strategists, and technology teams to design and deliver Structured Rates technology solutions.
- Design and build software across the full development lifecycle for pricing, risk, PnL, market-data, workflow, and trade-lifecycle platforms.
- Develop solutions for vanilla and exotic interest-rate derivatives, cash securities, and hybrid products.
- Implement valuation models, risk methodologies, scenario analysis, and business workflows with quantitative strategists.
- Develop large-scale distributed systems and solve scaling and performance challenges for real-time risk and PnL calculations.
- Deliver initiatives involving product onboarding, market-data capabilities, predictive analytics, pricing applications, and risk-calculation scalability.
- Balance strategic platform development with business-critical enhancements and production support.
- Contribute to macro-business platforms supporting Rates, FX, and Emerging Markets.
- Collaborate with colleagues across North America, Europe, and Asia and provide technical leadership within a global organization.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of relevant experience.
- Strong software engineering experience designing and delivering complex, business-critical systems.
- Strong proficiency in Scala, Java, or similar enterprise development languages, with knowledge of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and distributed-system design.
- Experience with scalable distributed systems, distributed caches, grid computing, messaging frameworks, and high-performance data platforms.
- Strong understanding of derivatives products, trading workflows, risk methodologies, and PnL concepts.
- Experience with pricing, risk calculations, PnL, scenario analytics, market-data processing, or quantitative business logic is highly desirable.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to investigate issues involving business logic, market data, distributed systems, and application performance.
- Experience with automated testing, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and AI-assisted software development techniques.
- Experience with Python, C++, or C# is welcomed.
- Ability to own business and technical domains and become a subject-matter expert and technology lead.
- The role may require mandatory regulatory qualifications or minimum internal qualifications if designated as a Certified role.
Benefits
- Flexible working arrangements are available; employees may speak with the recruitment team about options.
- Morgan Stanley offers employee and family benefits and other workplace perks.
- The employer supports diversity, inclusion, employee development, and opportunities to move across the business.