Associate

Job Description (Posting).

Skills and Experience

• 7+ years of experience in development of equity products in a global financial services company or vendor using the Scala language and/or Java in latency-sensitive environments

• Proven expertise in KDB / Q with at least 7 years of experience

• Experience and knowledge of equity products and instruments including FIX protocol and market data

• Proficiency with computer technologies including Linux, SQL/NoSQL, Messaging & Distributed Systems

• Strong multi-threading and network programming experience

• Knowledge of equity market structure, order handling and electronic trading

• Strategic thinking, analytical, problem-solving and troubleshooting skills

• Ability to work as part of a team or independently, communicate effectively at all organizational levels with written and verbal communication skills

• Experience leading junior developers or participating in code reviews as a senior developer.

Strong understanding of system design principles and ability to contribute to architecture decisions.