Job Title: Software Developer – Fixed Income Trading
Location: Toronto, ON [100% remote currently but candidates will need to be able to go in for occasional events and meetings]
Duration: 6 months
Contract Type: T4 only
Pay Rate: CA$86.20/Hour
Role Mandate:
Client aspires to build best-in-class platform for our Fixed Income trading desk covering a wide spectrum of Investment Grade and High Yield bonds to serve the growing needs of our clients globally. Our vision is to build industry-leading fixed income trading platform using modern software development principles to allow for adaptability, future growth, and integration with both external systems and client’s proprietary pricing/risk tools.
We are searching for a senior developer with extensive experience building complex software solutions to join our team and help us on our current initiatives.
This role will work closely with the team of developers, business analysts, product managers, production support teams to execute both short-term tactical and long term goals.
Role Responsibilities Include (but are not limited to):
Provide leadership and innovative ideas with respect to development design and integration with other components
Quickly adjust, redesign and adapt design and functionality based on the frequent feedback from traders and other stakeholders
Build effective partnership with other team members and key stakeholders to establish productive, mutually respective work environment
Build high-quality documentation artifacts (solution diagram, trade flow, current vs target state, etc.) as required by Client’s standards
Maintain current trading systems, provide system enhancement and production support
Effectively unit-test own software deliverables, participate in planning and execution of test suites
Partner with others in the organization to advance client’s overall IT capabilities in the areas of real-time messaging, application integration.
Must-Have Skills:
7+ years of demonstrated experience developing complex software solutions serving the needs of large geographically dispersed organizations
True Agile practitioner, can start with a concept and rapidly change to arrive at the end result
Experienced in system development with high performance, real time streaming, data update, highly integrated with backend internal & external services (TCP, HTTP, MQ, FIX)
FIX experience a must
Experienced in software languages: Java, Python, C++, and Oracle database,
DevOps, CI/CD Git, Linux server, Shell scripting, Windows server
Work experience in Capital Markets – FI Income, Credit trading, rates is an asset
Work experience in large Capital Markets trading platforms (Bloomberg TOMS, FIS BondOne, Calypso, WSS…) is an asset
Equally effective partnering with all levels including senior technology and business stakeholders, and other members of the team
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Nice to Have Skills:
AWS software development an asset