Description
As a Lead Engineer in our Quantitative Fixed Income Engineering team, you will partner with the Quant Trading team to deliver quantitatively led pricing and trading solutions for the Rates and Credit Businesses.
You will need a passion for delivering high-quality software using modern development practices. You will be an integral part of Bank’s Quantitative Trading infrastructure working closely with the wider Starts group and the underlying Technology teams. Success will be achieved by delivering robust, performant, and successful trading solutions.
What We Offer You
- A diverse and inclusive environment that embraces change, innovation, and collaboration
- A hybrid working model, allowing for in-office / work from home flexibility, generous vacation, personal and volunteer days
- Employee Resource Groups support an inclusive workplace for everyone and promote community engagement
- Competitive compensation packages including health and wellbeing benefits, retirement savings plans, parental leave, and family building benefits
- Educational resources, matching gift and volunteer programs
What You’ll Do
- Lead development of new features in both trading strategies and the overall trading stack
- Identify, and resolve, stability issues and performance bottlenecks
- Participate fully in code reviews as both author and reviewer
- Work closely with engineering peers both locally and in other regions to deliver successful solutions
How You’ll Lead
- Form a successful partnership with desk quants/traders on a day-to-day basis to deliver valuable changes to your trading strategies
- Work closely with the core platform engineering team to leverage, and improve upon, common solutions
Skills You’ll Need
- Strong skills with Java
- Consistent experience in developing high-performance and/or low-latency applications
- Proficiency in developing e-trading systems
- Familiarity with Python3 and KDB is beneficial
Skills That Will Help You Excel
- Experience of modern patterns for continuous delivery of software
- A proven track record of delivering excellent technical solutions into production
- Able to deliver complex features independently and collaboratively as necessary
- A solid grounding in the principles of computer engineering, preferably backed by a technical degree