Job Details
- Location: Trivandrum
- Experience: 7 - 9 Years
- Job Type: Full Time
- Openings: 1
Role Description
UST is a global digital transformation solutions company. This role is with UST, working on a client project for one of the largest financial institutions in Canada. Business Context The Transparency team is a Front Office development team responsible for the development of cross-asset automated pricing and risk systems, primarily focused on FICC derivatives. The Transparency team works directly with global sales/trading/quant teams on the development of applications incorporating pricing and risk models used for electronic trading. • Java 17+/Python 3+ • JavaScript/TypeScript/React • Solace/Kafka messaging • Hazelcast for caching and distributed computing • ZeroMQ/WebSocket for remote socket communication • Google Protocol Buffers/JSON/SBE for serialization • Graphite/Grafana/Dynatrace for observability • RHEL Linux 8+ Position Overview The Transparency Team is looking for a senior-level software engineer in Trivandrum, India to join our core pricing/risk services development team. The ideal candidate has the following skills: Essentials: • 7+ years Java development experience building enterprise software for data-intensive applications • Strong Core Java knowledge, JDK 17+ • Strong understanding and experience with multi-threaded programming • Experience with implementing automated unit, integration, regression testing into CI/CD pipelines • Ability to work with sales/trading/quant teams on implementing pricing/risk models into high throughput streaming data pipelines • Ability to work with eTrading/infrastructure teams on efficient distribution of pricing/risk model outputs to facilitate low-latency trading Highly desirable: • Experience developing high-performance real-time streaming systems over a variety of protocols • Strong knowledge of pricing/risk of FICC derivatives products (Swaps/Forwards/Options) • Experience optimizing tradeoffs between throughput and latency in system design Candidate should also be or have: • Ability to plan, evaluate, recommend, design, operationalize, and support solutions in compliance with enterprise and industry regulatory requirements for G-SIB (Global Systemically Important Bank) • Ability to work on multiple initiatives at the same time • Familiar with Agile, and SDLC processes Team Emphasis Core Java is the primary focus. Practical working knowledge of JavaScript, Web UI development, and real-time Web APIs (WebSocket and/or SSE) is expected to contribute productively in a full-stack capacity. This is a data-intensive team building solutions with high throughput (10–100Ks of messages per second per thread) and low-latency (sub-millisecond) performance requirements. UI performance is part of the end-to-end solution’s overall performance, so candidates should approach both Core Java and JavaScript with the same emphasis on performance and systems-level engineering. Other Education and Accreditation College/University degree with emphasis on numerical subjects (Computer Science, Engineering, Maths, Sciences etc.)
Skills
Multithreading, Solace, JavaScript, Apache Kafka
