Java Developer, Capital Markets

Company Overview:

Business Integration Partners (BIP) is Europe’s fastest growing digital consulting company and are on track to reach the Top 20 by 2025, with an expanding global footprint in the US (New York, Chicago and Houston). Operating at the intersection of business and technology we design, develop, and deliver sustainable solutions at pace and scale creating greater value for our customers, employees, shareholders, and society.

Background

Successful candidates will work within a consulting practice or a financial institution providing challenging project-based services within Financial Services, covering areas such as electronic markets, trading, and risk management. Projects can be performed either on the client site on a Hybrid work basis. This role requires a proactive, team-oriented, and ambitious individual focused on delivering results, while always remaining diligent and professional.

Job Description

This role involves hands-on development of high-performance, real-time trading platforms. The candidate will be involved in designing, developing, and deploying software, working closely with technology-focused engineers, quantitative analysts, and traders. The role requires developing common frameworks and core services to facilitate real-time pricing/risk model development, and to promote standardization and re-use of analytical calculation modules. The candidate will work on both new and existing systems and be involved in refactoring code. The role will also include supporting and maintaining front-office pricing and trading applications and assisting in investigating production and performance issues.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance real-time analytical calculation engines and global rates electronic trading frameworks.
• Develop pricing engines, trading strategies and execution algorithms.
• Maintain a common analytical library and develop analytic calculation modules and services.
• Ensure code is cleanly written, testable, and maintainable.
• Participate in rotational production support activities.
• Communicate with traders and quantitative analysts to clarify requirements.
• Identify, analyze, and resolve application, infrastructure, and environmental issues.

Must Have Skills and Experience

• Minimum 5-7 years of hands-on core Java development experience, with a significant portion in the financial sector.
• Strong experience in designing, developing and deploying software.
• Solid analytical skills and strong financial model background.
• Experience with electronic trading systems design and markets, preferably in Fixed Income (Treasuries, Government bonds, Swaps, Futures).
• Strong knowledge of real-time trading system design principles, including message-driven architecture, low latency performance, scaling, multithreaded models, and service-oriented architecture.
• Experience with agile and modern software development/DevOps practices including iterative development, continuous deployment, CI/CD, and automated testing.
• Proficiency in Core Java, Spring Framework, and SQL.
• Experience with multi-threading programming and messaging middleware (such as publish/subscribe, JMS, and Tibco RV or similar technologies).
• Competent knowledge of a variety of messaging systems and enterprise integration patterns.
• Experience with refactoring existing code and addressing performance or design issues.
• Experience migrating projects to a CI/CD automated build and testing approach.
• Hands-on experience with Linux/Unix and scripting.
• Experience with industry standard protocols like FIX, FpML.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate ideas and designs and break down problems analytically.
• Ability to work in a team-oriented setting.
• Ability to work in a rapid front-office development environment and respond to production situations.
• Experience with relational database modelling and querying.
• Experience in architecting/designing large-scale business critical systems.
• Object oriented design and usage of commonly used design patterns.
• Comfortable with 3rd line support to assist in investigating production issues, detects, and performance issues.

Nice to Have Skills and Experience

• Advanced degree in financial engineering, math, physical sciences, or engineering.
• Knowledge of fixed income products such as government bonds, interest rate swaps, and futures.
• Experience with the Request For Quote (RFQ) negotiation workflow.
• Experience integrating with APIs from market venues such as Bloomberg, Tradeweb, MarketAxess, Brokertec, CME, Nasdaq, Dealerweb, BGC, Valantic, and Fluent.
• Experience with UI development, including Java Swing UI, and modern OpenFin based platforms, HTML5, and ReactJS.
• Experience in trading system re-design migration projects, e.g., migrating capabilities from old to new trading systems.

**The base salary range for this role is $110,000 - $150,000**

Benefits:

• Choice of medical, dental, vision insurance.
• Voluntary benefits.
• Short- and long-term disability.
• HSA and FSAs.
• Matching 401k.
• Discretionary performance bonus.
• Employee referral bonus.
• Employee assistance program.
• 9 public holidays.
• 22 days PTO.
• 7 Sick Days.
• PTO buy and sell program.
• Volunteer days.
• Paid parental leave.
• Remote/hybrid work environment support.

For more information about BIP US, visit https://www.bip-group.com/en-us/.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

It is BIP US Consulting policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all individuals based on job-related qualifications and ability to perform a job, without regard to age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, disability, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or marital status, and to maintain a non-discriminatory environment free from intimidation, harassment or bias based upon these grounds.