Job Description

Responsibilities

Provide the best possible production-capable environment for the application support trading system team, including all Data Center operation, business continuity set-up, application development, deployment and support.

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Design & Development:
  • Interaction with traders and quantitative researchers: Analyze new ideas and requirements for development
  • Maintenance, improvement of trading application: New features, algorithms, enhancement of existing applications, optimization for speed, bug corrections.
  • Implement algorithms in line with Compliance and Regulations (e.g. RegNMS, RegSHO, etc.)
• Support:
  • Monitoring: ensure that the trading platform is stable and works properly (scripts, batches, applications and infrastructure).
  • Maintenance: adapt, improve, stabilize and automate the platform; help reduce the human factor and the number of manual interventions.
  • Assistance to the users (traders and researchers).
• Interaction with Market Access teams to ensure proper quote reception and order sending capabilities.
• Interaction with IT Infra teams to ensure proper functioning of all devices: servers, firewalls, switches, database, filer, market- and inter-colo connectivity)
• Interaction with Operations to ensure proper accounting of the desk's positions: feed booking and other Back-Office systems.
• Interaction with compliance teams to understand the impact of regulations on trading platform.

Qualifications

Required qualifications:

• Experience: 0 - 5 years relevant industry experience.
• Bachelors in Computer Science or related discipline required.
• Ability to quickly resolve issues under pressure.
• Strong technical & problem solving (troubleshooting) skills.
  • C/C++
  • Object-oriented programming.
  • Real-time and multi-threaded programming.
  • Low-level understanding of Linux.
  • Network programming: socket, TCP/IP.
  • SQL, Oracle PL/SQL.
  • Scripting (Python, csh, bash).
• Excellent oral communication skills.

Preferred qualifications:

• Knowledge in Finance a plus but not a requirement.
• Knowledge of multi-core architectures.
• Libraries: ACE, BOOST, Qt
• Masters preferred.
• DevOps and Continuous Delivery, JUnit, Gradle, Git, quality and profiling tools
• Linux, Bash scripts
• SQL (Oracle 12g, PL/SQL)
• Financial maths, quantitative models
• Java Swing4

At Talan, we invest in our employees' well-being and empower them with benefits, including:

• Competitive salary
• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching
• 15 days of paid vacation per year at hire and up to 27 according to seniority (annual untaken vacation days are cashed out)
• 8 paid holidays + 5 sick days + 2 personal days per year
• ❤️‍Company health, dental, and vision insurance plans + FSA
• Voluntary STD and LTD
• Commuter/transit benefits

The salary range for this role is US$85,000 - US$120,000

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Additional Information

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