Rapid Application Developer – IT Quant

Key Responsibilities

• Use rapid application development techniques for quick turn-around of high-profile projects
• Build the trading framework software, through close interaction with traders and quants
• Support and enhance various ad-hoc infrastructure applications, processes, databases, production surveillance and control tools
• Report and track performance indicators for the front office traders with many aspects of electronic and algorithmic trading, back testing, and data management systems
• Contribute to design and implement data store and its API
• Monitor fetching processes and data health
• Integrate alternative datasets

Financial products

• Forex
• Equities and derivatives
• Emerging markets
• Commodities
• Risk and PnL
• Credit and rates
• Exchange-traded funds
• Convertible bonds

Skills required

• Strong skills in C++ or Java or Python development (depending on the team/project) with good understanding of their ecosystem
• Good database, SQL, VBA knowledge
• Proficient use of common tooling: Git, Unix Shell
• Experience in structured, unstructured data management and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP…)
• Proactive and flexible approach to deal with challenges, lean complex quantitative concepts and identify emerging and alternative data…