Domain Experience
- Candidates must have handson experience working in or alongside a capital markets trading or posttrade environment Crucially we seek engineers who are proactive in developing deep domain knowledge themselves rather than solely relying on Business Analysts for this expertise The following are indicators of the required depth not an exhaustive list
- Indepth understanding of the trade lifecycle including Trade Booking and Position Management principles
- Practical experience with posttrade operations such as Cashflow Calculation Settlement Wires Client Reporting and Accounting principles
- Familiarity with corporate actions regulatory reporting and integrating with riskvaluation systems in an equities context
- Understanding of Prime Brokerage Synthetic Swap or Cash Equity operational flows is a significant advantage
- Exposure to regulatory reporting obligations in a financial context eg 871m EMIR MiFID is advantageous
- Candidates should be able to demonstrate this experience at interview with concrete examples not highlevel familiarity
Technical Experience
- Experience in any of the following strengthens a candidates profile None are individually mandatory beyond Java and TDD
Backend
- JVM Kotlin
- Messaging Kafka Solace TIBCO EMS
- Data SQL Server MongoDB S3 object store
- Cloud Infrastructure Kubernetes OpenShift
- Observability OpenTelemetry ELK stack Grafana
- Secrets Management HashiCorp Vault CyberArk
- AIassisted development GitHub Copilot Devin
Skills
Mandatory Skills : AWS S3, Java, Kafka, Kubernetes, Kotlin
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