Sr. Software Developer - API team/Jersey City, NJ/Hedge Fund

Our client, a large trading firm, is seeking an experienced developement professional for their Jersey City office location. They offer excellent benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401K, and more) and very competitive salaries.


Job Description:

We are seeking a highly motivated, self-starting Senior Software Developer to join a team responsible for design, development and support of Fixed Income Trading Systems. The successful candidate must be able to work independently while actively participating in a dynamic, global team.

The API Development Team designs and develops applications used to support trading of various financial instruments in a high performance real-time environment. (US Government, Corporate and Foreign Sovereignty Bonds, Agency Issued and Mortgage Backed Securities and more.)

The API Development Team is also responsible for supporting, maintaining, and enhancing clients trading APIs as well as assisting our customers with development of interfaces into clients trading systems.

The Senior Developer is expected to follow standard development processes and best practices including formal design, peer code reviews, extensive design and code documentation, static code analyses etc.

The ideal candidate will have an outgoing personality, impeccable communications skills, and will feel comfortable speaking with and educating our customer’s developers on the use of our APIs and trading systems. Occasional visits to customer locations may be necessary.


Responsibilities:

• Designs and develops high performance software interfacing with multiple trading systems in multiple locations
• Responsible for full life cycle of applications – from inception to production support
• Maintains, enhances, and supports existing trading APIs
• Provides assessments and estimates to business partners and technology management
• Assists in collecting business requirements and writing functional specifications
• Understands Fixed Income Trading and business motivation for various application features
• Supports customers with development of applications interfacing with the clients trading systems

Skills/Experience:

• 7-10 years of C++ experience
• Very strong knowledge of UNIX/Linux programming with C++
• Very strong knowledge of Windows programming with VC++/MFC/C#
• Strong knowledge of Java
• Strong knowledge of the FIX and/or FAST protocols
• Exceptional communication skills, both verbal and written
• Experience designing and implementing multi-threaded, real-time, applications
• Network programming experience
• Experience with Databases such as SQL Server and Oracle a plus
• Experience programming with Excel or VB a plus
• Experience with UNIX shell/Perl/Awk/Make a plus
• Bachelor degree in computer science or similar
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Ability to work independently and be a team player in a dynamic environment
• Ability to handle stress


Please submit all resumes to Stephen Hagans
[email protected]