Algorithmic Trading Developer

Position summary:

Algorithmic Trading is one of the main driving forces in todays Equity Markets. Providing clients with superior order execution while minimizing their market impact and risk exposure, trading strategies and smart order routing is a rapidly expanding field. These platforms are driven by quantitative analytics, real time market data, historical tick data, market signal events, and statistical analysis. The technology team is responsible for developing, supporting and delivering these state-of-the-art trading solutions to end-users including internal trading desks as well as our external customers. We are looking for an outstanding candidate to be a part of agile, highly professional team delivering client facing, high-availability trading algorithms and related technology.

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• Design, build and maintain a Next Generation Algorithmic Trading platform including highly customizable latency trading strategies as well as key infrastructure components such as order management and order handling, rules engines and other algorithmic trading components.
• Work closely with quantitative analysts, traders and business analysts on implementation of trading algorithms.
• Work with Product and Sales teams on client requests and algo customizations.
  
• Develop innovative solutions in a strategic, pragmatic way.
• Succeed in a collaborative development environment.
• Be curious and inquisitive around industry trends and strive for continuous improvement.
• Provide L3 support for local Trading Desks

Skills & Qualifications

• BE/BTech degree or higher in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related Engineering field from premier IIT institutes
• 7 to 10 years experience developing trading strategies in Equities, Futures or Listed Derivatives (execution algorithms, prop strategies, risk trading, smart routing etc.)
• Expert proficiency with computer technologies including Java, Linux, and OO Design with a focus on performance, re-usability, test automation and flexibility for customizations.
• Demonstrated development skills in a collaborative, team-oriented style.
• Preferred Skills:

-Experience in Agile Methodologies.

-Experience with low latency messaging products/complex event processing.

-Knowledge of event-driven (pub/sub) programming models.

-Knowledge of TIBCO Streaming would be added advantage