Transparency Pricing & Risk Developer

Location

London, UK

Business Unit: Transparency Pricing, Global Market IT

 

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 team works directly with

global sales/trading/quant teams on the development of applications incorporating pricing and risk models

used for electronic trading. These applications are used globally by Front Office sales and traders and are

critical to trading activities. This is a global team with engineers in Toronto, London, New York and

Singapore.

 

Technology Stack:

• Java 17+/Python 3+

• Solace messaging

• Hazelcast distributed computing

• ZeroMQ for remote socket communication

• Google Protocol Buffers/JSON/SBE for serialization

• Graphite and Grafana for metrics

• RHEL Linux 8+

 

Position Overview

Looking for a senior-level software engineer in London, UK to join the core pricing/risk services

development team.

 

Essentials:

• 8+ years’ experience as a software engineer delivering FO pricing/trading/risk solutions

• Experience working with sales/trading/quant teams on pricing/risk model implementations

• Experience working with eTrading/infrastructure teams on model output distribution

• 8+ years’ strong Core Java (JDK 11+)

• 4+ years’ strong Python with enterprise development experience

• Experience developing high-performance event-driven messaging systems

• Experience implementing automated unit + regression tests in CI/CD

• Strong multi-threaded programming knowledge

 

Highly Desirable:

• Strong knowledge of Interest Rate Swap products (FRA/IRS/XCCY)

• Experience with Bloomberg APIs (e.g., BPIPE, SAPI, DAPI)

• Experience with Java performance testing

• JavaScript + React experience

The Ideal Candidate Will Also:

• Lead technical design with focus on efficiency, scalability, security

• Provide technical expertise aligned with enterprise standards

• Support and guide teammates on technical implementations

• Manage multiple projects concurrently

• Be familiar with Agile and SDLC processes

 

Education & Accreditation

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related numerical field