A world leading financial services organisation is hiring a Java Engineer for their Credit Default Swaps division. This team works closely with quants working on risk pricing calculations and they are about to build a brand new intraday risk calculation system. Furthermore, they will be undergoing a proof of concept for the migration to cloud.
The key responsibilities for this hire will be hands on engineering using Java (and some C++ for the quant analytics library).
Required Experience
- Strong software design and development skills to be primarily applied in server side Java stacks but work in other languages such as Kotlin or C++ may be required.
- Strong awareness of the design and development considerations involved in derivative pricing and risk systems. Understands the desired separation of concerns between a Quantitative library and an IT risk stack.
- Strong awareness of web, distributed and multi-threaded application design.
- Positive drive for following DevOps and Continuous Integration processes in order to deliver high quality and well tested software using frameworks such as Junit, Cucumber etc.
- Strong familiarity with Java development toolset including Maven and IntelliJ.
This is an excellent opportunity to build a new set of risk calculation systems for front office risk pricing division, working closely with Quants and the business.
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