Join Tower Research Capital post-trade team to develop and innovate middle and back-office functions. Responsibilities include creating software tools for reference data, trade capture, P&L, surveillance, compliance, and regulatory functions. Ideal candidate has 0-3 years experience, strong problem-solving skills, Python and Java knowledge, SQL and NoSQL familiarity, and understanding of financial instruments.
Tower Research Capital, a high-frequency proprietary trading firm founded in 1998, seeks a Software Developer to join our Post-Trade team.
Post-Trade division is responsible to manage the firm's new generation of middle and back-office functions including books and records, P&L, reconciliation systems, fees, regulatory reporting and surveillance - and further to achieve efficiency in treasury and finance accounting functions through technological innovation.
Responsibilities
- Developing the firm’s Post Trade Platform tools - including reference data management, trade capture, reconciliation, P&L, trade cost management, surveillance, compliance and regulatory functions.
- Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.
- Works in collaboration with teams across the organization to develop reliable, scalable, and high-performance, software designs.
- Responsible for technological innovation in build-out of the new generation of middle office and back-office applications and processes.
Qualifications
- A bachelor’s degree or equivalent in computer science from a top college or university
- 0-3 years of relevant experience
- Good problem solving skills.
- Knowledge of Python and Java, shell scripts and linux system
- Knowledge of SQL (i.e. MySQL, PostGres) and NoSQL (i.e. MongoDB, ElasticSearch) databases are highly desirable.
- Past role(s) within electronic trading and a thorough understanding of financial instruments including equities, commodities, credit, interest rates, foreign exchange, cryptocurrencies, futures, forwards, and options will be a plus
- Strong communication skills and fluent in English