- Location: London
- Job Category:
- Salary: £61k - £70k
- Keywords:
My client a leading financial services company is hiring within their Visual C++ development team. The Trading System team is responsible for the development for new enhancements to existing products and provision of 3rd line support to the dealers and customers who use my clients trading product.
- An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Trading System team for an experienced C++ Developer to assist in the development of the many new projects planned for the coming year.
Main Responsibilities include:
- Development of new products, and enhancement of existing products for Europe and Asia.
- Ensuring the code is tested thoroughly. Reliability of code is paramount as developers have their code rolled into production regularly throughout the year
- In addition to the dedicated support team, third-line support of production systems will be occasionally required, typically on installation of new products and releases. Support of new products will be required from start of trading (7am) on initial installation into production
- Work with internal stakeholders, including product managers to clarify project requirements and specifications during development, testing and post-production
- Close liaison with the US office will be required
Essential Skills / Experience:
- Proven C++ experience is essential (ideally Microsoft Visual C++)
- Numerate University degree
- Working experience developing enterprise multi-user, real time systems
- A quick learner: able to understand and debug existing enterprise systems
- Clear, concise, and effective oral and written communicator who engages in active dialog
- Pragmatic approach to problem solving
- Proven team player, with the ability to work within a distributed team environment.
Strongly preferred:
- Experience with SQL, Windows operating system and scripting such as perl & shell.
- Experience working in the financial industry.
- Understanding of financial assets, especially fixed income products.
Core working hours are 8am-5.30pm, however you will be required to provide support outside of these hours to cover trading as required.
£60-70k