Global Banking & Markets - Software Engineer, FICC Systematic Market Making - Vice President - London

What We Do
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Fixed Income, Currency, and Commodities (FICC) Engineering plays a key role in the firm’s
ability to provide liquidity and execution services for institutional clients around the world, two important revenue drivers for the firm. In FICC Engineering we use both open-source industry standard and internal proprietary technologies to build cutting edge platforms for pricing, execution, and control over each of these millions of transactions.
Who We Look For
The FICC Systematic Market Making (SMM) business consolidates and expands the firm’s electronic market making and algorithmic trade execution. As part of the SMM Engineering team, SMM Production Engineering partners with SMM Trading to develop and support the pricing and execution services for the firm and its clients. The team is primarily focused on site reliability engineering, including driving automation, improving real-time monitoring, developing metrics to track performance, and managing the release and deployment lifecycle. Team members help support the day-to-day operations of the Trading desk and the electronic trading systems; the team is expected to interact closely with Trading & Sales business users.
Candidates must have the technical and analytical skills required to triage and resolve complex production issues and operate well in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment. A propensity to automate manual tasks, appreciation for large-scale, distributed computing systems, and a willingness to develop using a wide range of languages and frameworks will be necessary to succeed in the role. As part of a global Production Engineering team, you will provide operational and technical assistance for SMM applications and infrastructure, both for external clients and internal business users. You will oversee every component of the production system to identify and resolve production problems as well as assess the risk of system changes. In addition, you’ll assist with strategic projects to satisfy business, regulatory, and technological requirements, including developing software solutions, decommissioning legacy software/hardware, and migrating business critical components. An eagerness to not only maintain, but improve, both the support and development workflows is essential to succeeding in this role.
Job Summary
Technical and operational risk management of a fast-paced, multi-asset electronic trading business
Understand the end-to-end flow across applications at a business level
Own the production environment, driving performance, reliability, and operability through continuous improvement
Software development focused on creating sustainable systems and services that meet uptime and performance requirements through automation
Own the automation of repetitive tasks and resolution of systematic issues
Investigate new ways to improve operations and define new solutions to solve technically complex system issues
Finding opportunities for efficiency and cost savings in support process and physical environment
Troubleshooting live production critical and time sensitive business impacting issues and liaising with various teams not limited to software and infrastructure engineering to mitigate and resolve issues in a timely manner
Own incident management and drive tactical and strategic solutions
Proactive interaction directly with traders to communicate and drive technology changes, manage incidents, and troubleshoot problems
Other duties as assigned or needed
Participation in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
Basic Qualifications
Minimum 5 year of progressive technical work experience
Proficient in at least one modern structured programming language such as Python, Java, C++
Aptitude for algorithms, data structures, and software design
Experience with Linux operating system internals and/or networking concepts
Strong analytical skills, with an ability to quickly identify scope and impact of issues during high-pressure situations
Demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills as well as strong customer service skills
Process oriented individual
Strong entrepreneurial spirit and the ability to adapt to changing requirements and technologies
Ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks effectively
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with distributed systems design, maintenance, and troubleshooting
Hands-on experience with debugging and optimizing code, as well as automation
Knowledge of financial markets
FIX protocol knowledge
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