Java/Scala Developer - Bond Risk Calculation System

Job Title: Java/Scala Developer Bond Risk Calculation System

Location: New York, NY (HYBRID 3 days on site)

Duration: 12 Months Contract (with possible extension)

Interview: 2-3 rounds Final round will be ONISTE/IN-PERSON interview

Work Authorization: TN

Hybrid 3 days a week onsite MUST be local candidate

Potential to Convert

Education Level: Bachelor's Degree - Required

Job Level: Consultant (5+ Years of Experience)

Team Profile: The Corporate Trading and Risk Department develops software that enables our client to sustain and grow its highly successful fixed income cash & derivative trading businesses - a key growth area for the Firm. Traders, strats and risk managers use our systems to monitor their daily risk and profit & loss, and to run scenario calculations to assess the potential effect of changes in market conditions. We are looking for a strong developer to join our global team, where we work on projects from risk models and market intelligence tools to distributed calculation infrastructure, in our advanced Scala-based system as well as a Java-based one, co-operating with many other teams across various areas such as Fixed Income, Equities and Corporate Finance.

Role Profile:

• You will be a hands-on Scala/Java developer involved in the full development lifecycle, focusing on bond position management & risk models and their integration with other systems to support the firm s new initiatives, as well as abundant opportunities to work on a) other functionalities such as calculation infrastructure (e.g. distribution, caching) and workflow automation. b) GUI that empowers users to view/manage relevant data c) other financial products
• The job will require an inquisitive mind. You need to have a strong interest and capability to gain proficiency in Scala in a short period of time, if that s not your primary programming language already,
• learn about the relevant financial products if you don t already understand them,
• apply such knowledge to the work on real-time systems based on both Open Source (e.g. Kafka, Zookeeper) and proprietary technologies.
• take on production issue troubleshooting, as well as performance profiling/tuning
• In addition, you will also have exposure to many other exciting technology solutions on the same Scala platform created by hundreds of people.
• You will work in a dynamic and multi-cultural environment, collaborate with several global teams within, and sometimes outside, Fixed Income, and interact directly with the trading desk to support their function.
  

Qualifications & Skills Required:

• Strong Scala or exceptional Java
• Strong analytical skills
• Experience in performance tuning
• Ability to navigate a large and complex code base
• Data structures, design patterns, multi-threaded programming and distributed computing
• Continuous integration

Qualifications & Skills Desired:

• Financial knowledge, especially in bond