Job DescriptionRole Description Jefferies US Fixed Income, Electronic Trading Technology Team seeks a Senior-Level Technologist specializing in E-Trading technology. Individuals should have at least 10+ years of experience implementing large-scale E-Trading applications across multiple geographical regions. Responsibilities
- Design & development of the firm's proprietary, high-performance FI E-Trading platform encompassing all fixed-income products.
- Work alongside traders, sales, and quantitative analysts to specify and build out real-time trading applications that electronically execute orders across multiple ECNs.
- Work with the business management team and desk heads to drive project requirements and prioritization.
- Drive implementation and design with an emphasis on high availability, scalability, and reusability
- Work with other Fixed Income front office team leads to promote framework reusability across all businesses.
- Balance time to market (client delivery) with proper governance, compliance, and audit mandates
- Mentor junior developer
Education
- BS/MS Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related
Required Background
- 10+ years' experience in front office system development supporting the US Rates E-Trading business.
- In-depth knowledge of US Rates Product Offering (Treasury, Swap and Agency)
- In-depth understanding of Dealer-to-Client market protocol (TradeWeb, Bloomberg, and MarketAxess)
- In-depth understanding of Dealer-to-Dealer market structure
- In-depth knowledge of building auto-quoter and auto-hedger
- Ability to learn and adapt quickly.
- Willingness to learn new programming languages and technologies.
- Ability to work well with business managers, traders, and developers.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
Required Technical Skills
- Extensive experience in Java and Multithreading programming
- Knowledge of low latency and event-driven programming.
- Knowledge of Spring and Spring Boot.
- Knowledge of Microservice-based architecture.
- Unix shell scripting.
- Databases: Oracle, Postgres, MSSQL
- Tools: Atlassian Suite (Jira/Bitbucket/Bamboo/Confluence), Maven, Strong DevOps skills.
Desired Experience/Skills:
- Broad spectrum knowledge of Financial IT environments
- Experience from a similar position within Front Office
- Fixed Income Credit & Rates trading system experience.
- Knowledge of ION MarketView API and platform.
- Knowledge of AMPS, KDB, Messaging Systems (such as JMS, MQ, Tibco, etc.), Ion Trading, Fix, and/or similar technologies
- Knowledge of Python, HTML5, React/JavaScript/Openfin
- Knowledge of AWS services (S3, RedShift, Postgres, EC2, Glue)
- Knowledge of Kafka (AWS MSK or Confluent)
Primary Location Full Time Salary Range of $220,000-250,000. The salary offered will take into consideration an individual's experience level and qualifications. In addition to salary, Jefferies offers, for eligible employees, an annual discretionary incentive and retention bonus, competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Jefferies also offers paid time off packages that include planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays and paid parental leave. About Us Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (''Jefferies,'' ''we,'' ''us'' or ''our'') is a U.S.-headquartered global full service, integrated investment banking and securities firm. Our largest subsidiary, Jefferies LLC, a U.S. broker-dealer, was founded in the U.S. in 1962 and our first international operating subsidiary, Jefferies International Limited, a U.K. broker-dealer, was established in the U.K. in 1986. Our strategy focuses on continuing to build out our investment banking effort, enhancing our capital markets businesses and further developing our Leucadia Asset Management alternative asset management platform. We offer deep sector expertise across a full range of products and services in investment banking, equities, fixed income, asset and wealth management in the Americas, Europe and the Middle East and Asia. At Jefferies, we believe that diversity fosters creativity, innovation and thought leadership through the infusion of new ideas and perspectives. We have made a commitment to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live. As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients. Jefferies is committed to creating and sustaining a diverse workforce and encourages applicants from all backgrounds to apply. This includes applicants from historically underrepresented groups, including women, racial and ethnic minorities, members of the LGBTQ+ community, military veterans, and individuals with disabilities or who are neurodiverse. Jefferies is an equal employment opportunity employer, and takes affirmative action to ensure that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by applicable law. We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities, as required by applicable law.