Job Role: Java Developer e-Trading Location: London Hybrid Rate: Flexible Start Date: ASAP Your role We are seeking an experienced candidate to join our eFX Quantitative Developer team within Global Markets This is a fast paced and collaborative team that are responsible for the development and enhancement of the best-in-class eFX platform The team sits within the Global Markets Principal Flow Trading stream, and has a business reporting line You will be operating within a high-performing, fast paced quant development team, whose goals are directly aligned to the success of the business You will take ownership of initiatives from initial analysis through to design, implementation and delivery You will proactively suggest and drive through improvements to the platform and our framework You will be involved in every aspect of algorithmic trading: Market connectivity Designing, implementing and back-testing pricing and execution strategiesDesigning and building analytics to assess model and platform performance Latency analysis and optimisation Enhancing the proprietary eTrading framework that is used across the department Your team A highly technical and innovative quant development team leading automated trading in FX Part of the Principal Flow Trading Quant Development department, alongside teams aligned to eRates, eCredit, FX Derivatives, Equity Derivatives, and Cash Equities Focused on maximising automation and performance in order to drive eTrading revenues Operating in a highly agile manner, releasing to production multiple times per day Your expertise Strong business knowledge of electronic trading, ideally eFX Proven experience in designing and implementing low-latency, high-throughput, event-driven algorithmic trading platforms Collaboration with quantitative analysts to design and implement algorithmic trading models and controls Experience of producing model documentation and partnering with governance and second line of defence functions Advanced Java programming skills including approaches to low-latency Java like lock free data structures and low-garbage programming techniques Beneficial to have low level experience with messaging libraries and protocols including Aeron, Kafka, EMS, SBE, FIX, ITCH, OUCH Familiarity with time-series databases (preferably KDB) and Python for building analytics and reports Full stack development experience is an advantage (preferably React) particularly for building monitoring dashboards and trader-facing tools This role is advertised Via Hays