Lead Software Engineer / Trader or ex Trader (must have both development & Trading skills)

Tribus Consulting Ltd ,
London, Greater London
Job Type: Full-time

Overview

Lead Software Engineer / Trader or ex Trader (must have both development & Trading skills) Trading Desk experience . My client is a rapidly expanding Financial Services Technology (FinTech) company. Recently the firm was given an award in recognition for our contribution to trade and investment by the Department for International Trade and the UK Board of Trade. We build cutting edge, AI-assisted, trade analysis software for our clients which consist of banks, hedge funds, asset managers, and other financial services institutions. Our products are used by these organisations to detect financial crime and enhance business performance based on the client’s day to day trading data. These products include: • Best execution analysis • Trader performance profiling and enhancement • Insider trading and market abuse detection • Rogue trader detection Our products are market leading in each category: • Advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms allow us to perform statistically rigorous analysis of all asset classes uniquely • We use in-house programming languages, optimised for fast and complex analysis of large trade volumes • All our tools have an intuitive user interface (built using in-house programming languages) that make it very easy for our clients to access our analysis We view ourselves as a disruptive FinTech company that is nimble enough to move fast, innovate quickly and provide a premium level of client service and support. The key remit of this individual would be working with the CTO and Senior Engineers to help develop their trading system , They require a candidate with both a strong development background with past or current trading experience , you must have an expert understanding of Trading desk experience and a deep interest in the markets Derivatives background you must understand the curves/models etc C++/C# ideally - would consider other languages Trading desk experience and general interest in the markets They will take over a Trading system Product, making improvements, adding new features and charging ahead with the big push of this product. Then there are interesting sideways moves to new products later once this product is settled