We are now looking for a Front Office IT Strategist / Python Developer to join our team.
As part of its ambition to become a Top 3 contributor in the European ETF market, our client is continuously improving its ETF Market Making platform to better serve its clients.
In a team of seven IT strategists, dedicated to the ETFs market making desk. The role consists of supporting, maintaining and developing the trading environment used by the desk. In close relationship with traders, the IT strategist will have to use a broad range of technical skills to support day to day production, maintain and enhance the current python core architecture (in house libraries, scheduler and caching system) but also to develop and implement efficient monitoring and analysis tools.
Development (~70%)
- Maintain and enhance existing support, monitoring and analysis tools
- Work with traders/research on the requirements of new features/applications
- Work on new projects to enhance the business (cover algo, ETF pricer setup)
Support (~30%)
- Assist traders with L1/L2 support
- Ensure trading systems are up and running at all times
- Develop tools that help ensure systems are reliable and efficient
- Rationalize and enhance the platform reliability
- Support the new pricing setup + the low latency platform
- Strong knowledge of Linux (including development/debugging, scripting, and networking)
- Strong knowledge and experience of core Python development
- Knowledge of C++ code (at least as a reader)
- Knowledge of SQL (Oracle)
Desired Skills
- Experience in working under pressure of a production environment
- Troubleshooting / Analytical skills
- Problem solving skills
