Java Ion Developer

Notes: Ion experience must be within the last 4-5 years.

Overall experience should be more than 10 years. Need local of Ny/NJ

Your role

• Are you passionate about delivering new and exciting applications to support the Fixed Income Rates and Credit trading desks? Are you motivated to deliver real business value whilst ensuring existing functionality remains intact? We're looking for someone like that to:
• Develop solutions to key business challenges developing Java applications or using the ION toolset
• Refactor and enhance existing components and solutions
• Manage UAT and demonstration sessions with key stakeholders
• Elicit key information from business stakeholders, transforming these into concise IT requirements
• Collaborate with other global IT teams
• Assist production operations team in rollout and production support

Your team

You'll be working in the global Fixed Income Rates and Credit markets technology team. We are a fast paced, highly motivated, delivery focused but friendly team, present in 8 cities in 6 countries covering US, Europe and Asia Pacific. Our job is to create and deliver innovative solutions for business problems whilst maintaining a complex and multifaceted platform.

You have:

• Good java experience (minimum 5 years)
• Good understanding of low-latency, multi-threaded code
• Sound knowledge of object-oriented programming and design patterns. Exposure to functional programming is also highly desirable
• Experience of working in agile teams
• Solid understanding of Rates and Credit bonds and derivatives
• Detailed understanding of the nuances of trading venues such as Bloomberg, TradeWeb
• The following are highly desirable but not a strict prerequisite:
  • Previous ION knowledge, to an expert level
  • Previous experience of bond pricing with PXE
  • Experience in automated testing and continuous integration
  • Experience of Python, Perl and other scripting languages
  • Experience of Kafka

You are:

• Looking for a new and exciting challenge
• Self-starting attitude and the desire to take ownership of requirements front start to finish
• Proactive, comfortable working in dynamic environments with fast-paced deliveries and changing requirements
• An excellent communicator