Front Office Software Engineer – Equity Automated Trading

Job description

Main Responsibilities

Development Gather user requirements, and design software solutions which will match business needs from the front office, taking into account cost and delays constraints, agreed with both IT management and head of desk.

Be proactive by proposing enhancements from which the business/IT can benefit

• Ensure the performance and resiliency of the trading platform Be risk aware on both trading and IT perspective
• Implement, test and deploy the software solution within agreed constraints and existing code
• Handle level 1&2 support on implemented solutions
• Provide a good reactivity in case of incidents
• Perform necessary follow up for production incidents, in order to anticipate and detect potential technical issues The candidate will need to work very closely with various teams: Sitting close to front office users in Hong Kong to provide support of the trading platform Liaise & interact with worldwide team members and users In house IT teams (dev and support) in charge of other technical components of the platform