Senior Developer - FX Trading

Apex Systems is a large staffing and consulting firm and we are looking for Senior Developer with FX Trading application exposure, strong experience with Java and experience with Junit Testing to place at our client, a top 5 Financial Institution.

Client: Canadian Bank

Contract: 6-months contract (potential for extension)

Location: Toronto, however work is remote outside events/monthly activities

Application Prcess: Please apply via the medium on which you are seeing this posting. Please reference Job Title Senior Developer - FX Trading

Project Scope:

Our client in Capital Markets aspires to build best-in-class platform for our Fixed Income trading desk covering a wide spectrum of Investment Grade and High Yield bonds to serve the growing needs of our clients globally. Their vision is to build industry-leading fixed income trading platform using modern software development principles to allow for adaptability, future growth, and integration with both external systems and internal proprietary pricing/risk tools.

This client is searching for a senior developer with extensive experience building complex software solutions to join our team and help them on their current initiatives. This role will work closely with the team of developers, business analysts, product managers, production support teams to execute both short-term tactical and long term goals.

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and innovative ideas with respect to development design and integration with other components
• Quickly adjust, redesign and adapt design and functionality based on the frequent feedback from traders and other stakeholders
• Build effective partnership with other team members and key stakeholders to establish productive, mutually respective work environment
• Build high-quality documentation artifacts (solution diagram, trade flow, current vs target state, etc.) as required by client standards
• Maintain current trading systems, provide system enhancement and production support
• Effectively unit-test own software deliverables, participate in planning and execution of test suites
• Partner with others in the organization to advance client's overall IT capabilities in the areas of real-time messaging, application integration, application high-availability, other

Key Qualifications:

• 7+ years of demonstrated experience developing complex software solutions serving the needs of large geographically dispersed organizations
• True Agile practitioner, can start with a concept and rapidly change to arrive at the end result
• Experienced in system development with high performance, real time streaming, data update, highly integrated with backend internal & external services (TCP, HTTP, MQ, FIX)
• FIX experience a must
• Experienced in software languages: Java, Python, C++, and Oracle database,
• DevOps, CI/CD Git, Linux server, Shell scripting, Windows server
• Work experience in Capital Markets - FI Income, Credit trading, rates is an asset
• Work experience in large Capital Markets trading platforms (Bloomberg TOMS, FIS BondOne, Calypso, WSS ) is an asset
• Equally effective partnering with all levels including senior technology and business stakeholders, and other members of the team
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills