Team Profile:
Morgan Stanley is seeking an experienced electronic trading Java senior developer to help advance its market-leading options, futures & structured market making and algorithmic trading engines. The role involves building, deploying & supporting trading strategies, analytical tools, scalable trading engine infrastructure, working as part of a fast-moving IT / quant / trading team.
This is an agile, front-office role facing off with the business and as such strong communication skills and ability to work in a team is essential.
Role Profile:
> You will be using core Java development to build and enhance trading strategies and engines.
> The role involves working directly with the global trading, quant and IT teams to advance the platform and the businesses it serves.
> The project portfolio is typically varied, spanning new and existing algorithm development, improving the technical and execution performance of trading systems, the generation and analysis of trading signals & data
> You will be involved in the full software development lifecycle from discussing and agreeing requirements, formulating designs developing and deploying the changes.
> The systems you will work on are high volume, low latency, resilient, scalable and message-driven based on cutting edge Java and utilising the latest hardware.
Skills Required:
> Expert-level core Java knowledge in a UNIX/Linux environment.
> Track record working in front-office environment with trading and quantitative strategists.
> Experience working on systems for automated market making, algo trading in liquid markets (equities, FX, liquid rates, etc.)
> Experience with low-latency messaging middleware pub/sub technologies.
> Candidate must have electronic trading knowledge\: options / cash / ETF / futures preferred; liquid rates / FX acceptable.
> Strong problem solving skills
> Ability to analyse business & technical requirements and translate them into a well designed & coded solution
> Strong communication skills and ability to work in a team is essential.
Skills Desirable\:
> Experience interacting with and writing KDB/Q queries.
> Experience with Java/GC/Linux
> HTML5/Angular development
> Derivatives product and market knowledge. Option pricing and trading would be an advantage.
Location: United States
Posted: Aug. 18, 2024, 5:38 a.m.
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