Our client is searching for an experienced Technical Manager to join their team in New York.

Responsibilities:  

• You will dig deeply into the Algo team’s user experience and workflows, using that knowledge to determine which new tools or improvements to existing tools will be the most impactful to HRT.
• You will gather requirements of the Algo team through surveys, conversations, feedback sessions, and automated reporting. You will become adept at anticipating the needs of HRT’s Algo Developers. 
• You will work closely with Core and Algo Software Engineering developers to set technical strategy and prioritize development work.
• You will take the lead on the 2-year strategic plans for critical tooling and Algo-facing resources.

Requirements:

• Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Python programming experience.
• You know your way around a Linux command line.
• Strong verbal and communication skills.
• Strong technical design and documentation skills.
• Fantastic time management and task prioritization skills.
• Critical thinking skills; able to take feedback and transform it into strategic action.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or other technical field

If you would like to be considered for the position of Technical Product Manager or wish to discuss the role further then please leave your details below. Your resume will be held in confidence until you connect with a member of our team

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Our client is searching for an experienced ETF Pricing Developer to join their London team. As an ETF Pricing Developer, you will cover global trading groups and have a unique opportunity to be exposed to the inner workings of automated trading across multiple asset classes and geographies. The right candidate will be an enthusiastic learner with a keen interest in trading, coding, and automation. In addition to spending most of your time coding (primarily Python) and working on technical projects (e.g., automating manual processes to make the team more efficient), you will be exposed to the firm's trading strategies and business operations.

Responsibilities:  

• Maintenance of global ETF pricing models. Porting of existing pricing models to new trading strategies.
• Produce concise statistical analytics. Automate reporting when required.
• Ensure accuracy of external data. Communicate with external data providers when discrepancies are found, and work toward resolution.
• Monitor post-trade performance and trade bookings throughout the entire trade lifecycle.
• Diverse coding projects in a small team environment, that directly lead to production trading. Identifying and implementing improvements to software architecture.

Requirements:

• Experience: 3+ years
• Knowledge of ETFs
• Experience with fixed-income ETFs a requirement
• Experience ingesting and/or producing ETF portfolio composition files required.
• Strong Python skills are required. C++ skills are a plus (interest in learning required).
• Strong Linux command line skills.
• Statistical Analysis in Python, pandas, numpy, scipy.
• Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills.
• A strong work ethic and desire to see complex projects from concept to completion.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to work across disciplines, and quickly transition from one project to another.

Education:

• Candidates with STEM degrees for this role. Candidates must have a minimum of a 2:1 degree

If you would like to be considered for the position of ETF Pricing Developer or wish to discuss the role further then please leave your details below. Your resume will be held in confidence until you connect with a member of our team

Email:  info@njf.com or call London (0207 604 4444,) New York (212 400 4845) or Chicago (312 204 7216) to speak to a member of our team. Thank you

Our client is searching for an experienced Full Stack Developer to join their team in New York. The successful candidate will work closely with a cross-functional team that is responsible for several full software development life cycle projects, from conception to deployment. You will  be comfortable working with both front-end and back-end coding languages, development frameworks, and third-party libraries. You are passionate about building software for people and love to see non-coder colleagues experience the magic of automation.

Responsibilities:  

• Gather requirements from a variety of senior technical and non-technical users
• Implement user-side and server-side code for the People Platform and data visualization tools
• Collaborate with the People Ops team to create simple, easy-to-use front end solutions
• Help develop and manage the people database
• Write custom integrations for the third-party people tools
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
• Create security, permissioning, and data protection settings.
• Write technical documentation

Requirements:

• 3+ years of full stack software development experience
• Strong technical skills in front-end frameworks (React preferred) and corresponding back-end technologies (Python preferred)
• Database experience is a must (they use Postgres)
• Highly ethical and accustomed to managing highly confidential information
• Excellent communication, both verbal and written, is a must
• You enjoy independent work, but value collaboration with team members
• You can analyze and fix problems quickly
• Can look at code, figure out how it works, and how to make it better
• Effectively describe software designs at a high level (the abstract interface), low level (step-by-step algorithm), or anywhere in between
• You really like to work with people who challenge you and make you better at what you do
• Fluency in a *nix environment.

Education:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

If you would like to be considered for the position of Full Stack Developer or wish to discuss the role further then please leave your details below. Your resume will be held in confidence until you connect with a member of our team

Email:  info@njf.com or call London (0207 604 4444,) New York (212 400 4845) or Chicago (312 204 7216) to speak to a member of our team. Thank you

Our client is searching for an experienced UI/JavaScript Software Engineer to join their team in Chicago. The successful candidate will build the UIs that traders and analysts use every day to make critical trading decisions. The team is seeking a self-starter who prefers to work on a variety of tasks with fast feedback / iteration cycles. This position, while initially will be focused on getting tools and data to the analysts, will, over time, have a variety of opportunities for growth and learning, including more exposure to full stack and/or back-end engineering.

Responsibilities:  

• Development of frontend and backend for analytics and research tools.
• Work on a small team as a self-starter
• Work with other developers and end-users to consolidate data and present it in an attractive, intuitive interface.
• Work on legacy code as well as green field development.
• Writing extensible, scalable code.
• Test at the unit, functional, and integration level

Requirements:

• Professional experience developing front-end frameworks using Vue, Lit-Element/Polymer (or other web component frameworks) and CSS.
• Practiced in functional programming and building asynchronous and event-based applications.
• Proficient in distributed version control systems
• Experience writing backend code in Java, querying with PostgreSQL
• Strong initiative and a proven track record of independently driving projects to completion
• Interested in software craftsmanship with a desire to learn new programming languages
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
• Strong attention to detail

If you would like to be considered for the position of UI/JavaScript Engineer or wish to discuss the role further then please leave your details below. Your resume will be held in confidence until you connect with a member of our team

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Our client is searching for an experienced Front-End Developer to join their team in New York. The successful candidate will join the Credit Technology team. The ideal candidate has a passion for solving business problems with technology, is obsessed with developing software that provides incredible user experiences and is eager to learn about the intersection of finance and technology

Responsibilities:  

• Work closely with portfolio management, trading, compliance and technology teams to deliver cutting-edge innovative software solutions to businesses
• Collaborate in a fast-paced team to understand, engineer, and deliver on business requirements
• Strike a balance along the dimensions of feasibility, stability, scalability, and time-to-market when delivering solutions

Requirements:

• 4+ years of professional software development experience. Financial industry exposure a plus but not at all required
• Deep expertise with React or other major JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks, experience with D3, Highcharts, DevExtreme, AG Grid or Electron a plus
• Proficiency in HTML5/CSS3 and CSS postprocessing libraries such as SASS
• Strong UI design skills with a focus on UX best practices, Wireframing and UI prototyping, experience with Figma or Adobe XD a plus
• Experience developing mobile app using frameworks such as React Native, a plus
• Experience working in Agile Development / SCRUM Methodologies, a plus
• Experience with basic DevOps techniques, including CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code
• Humble, team-player who wants to win

Education:

• Degree in Computer Science or closely related field

If you would like to be considered for the position of Front-End Developer or wish to discuss the role further then please leave your details below. Your resume will be held in confidence until you connect with a member of our team

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Our client is searching for an experienced Commodities Quantitative Developer to join their team in London. The successful candidate will help support commodity trading by building as supporting custom models, tools and analytics for Portfolio Managers and traders. You will need to be a very strong communicator, able to multi-task and have the ability to excel in a fast paced trading environment.

Responsibilities:  

• Build and maintain custom tools and analytics to support commodity trading
• Perform day to day operation and monitoring of proprietary commodity trading systems
• Collaborate with technology teams at BAM to build interfaces with other systems
• Provide support for the platforms and escalate issues appropriately to other teams
• Develop written documentation of infrastructure including processes and procedures
• Perform with minimum supervision, exercising sound judgment
• Help identify and automate manual processes

Requirements:

• 3+ years hands on development experience working directly with PM’s and traders preferred
• Strong knowledge of Python including scientific libraries (pandas, numpy, scipy, etc)
• Experience with a least two languages other than Python
• Experience with modern software development practice
• Familiarity with commodities and trading
• Analytical skills – Ability to troubleshoot and logically assess problems and determine solutions
• Documentation skills – ability to represent ideas, requirements, and problems in clear and concise documents
• Basic knowledge of statistics
• Experience with financial modeling and pricing
• Experience acquiring, analyzing, and organizing time-series, financial data, and fundamental data

Education:

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or other related fields

If you would like to be considered for the position of Commodities Quantitative Developer or wish to discuss the role further then please leave your details below. Your resume will be held in confidence until you connect with a member of our team

Email:  info@njf.com or call London (0207 604 4444,) New York (212 400 4845) or Chicago (312 204 7216) to speak to a member of our team. Thank you

Our client is searching for an experienced Operations Associate to join their team in New York.

Responsibilities:  

• Gain mastery of the firm’s proprietary trade capture, trade management processes, and available reporting tools to continually improve the ability analyze and support internal customers
• Gain strong understanding of operational front-to-back processes, working to improve overall effectiveness of support throughout the firm
• Middle Office interacts with Executing Brokers, Prime Brokers, Fund Admins, and other counterparties on a daily basis. It is important to build and maintain relationships with these parties
• Adopt, integrate, and promote new technology as it becomes available

Requirements:

• Knowledge of and Experience with Commodities products a must,. 3+ years of experience in commodity markets as a trade assistant and or operations support.  Preferred product knowledge Global Crude/Products/Gas/Power/Grains/Livestock/Metals/Softs.
• Candidate should demonstrate strong analytical and organizational skills; include proficiency with relevant energy commodity trading software and data systems (TT / Trayport / WebICE /CME Direct & Clearport / ICE E-Confirm / Beacon / Bloomberg).
• Trade, position and valuation reconciliation with the firm’s clearing houses and brokers.
• The ideal candidate will have experience with futures clearers (FCMs).
• Microsoft Excel proficiency required.
• Detail and results oriented, Team player, Able to make quick and independent decisions, a strong communicator with excellent interpersonal skills, and  ability to thrive in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment, and work well in a tight-knit team environment.

If you would like to be considered for the position of Operations Associate or wish to discuss the role further then please leave your details below. Your resume will be held in confidence until you connect with a member of our team

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Our client is searching for an experienced Data Software Engineer to join their team in New York.

Responsibilities:  

• Lead the design and implementation of Venn’s data management and transformation solution in AWS.
• Develop and execute processes that validate the integrity of data.
• Be responsible for the smooth day-to-day implementation of Venn’s research infrastructure.
• Translate product requirements into data engineering specifications.
• Collaborate with researchers, data scientists, product managers to build and maintain solutions that simplify and automate the difficult and time consuming data discovery, conversion, mapping, and job scheduling tasks in AWS.
• Strong interest to learn and stay up to date on relevant technologies, trends, industry standards and identify the ones Venn should implement.
• Facilitate discussions with partner teams regarding technical / architectural trade-offs, best practices, and risk mitigation.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience building data solutions on AWS.
• Strong experience in developing data ingestion, data processing, and analytical pipelines, data warehouses, relational, and NoSQL data solutions.
• Background in building data models from various data sources.
• Demonstrated ability in identifying data validation rules and alerts based on data publishing specifications for data integrity and anomaly detection.
• Experience with Serverless and ML pipelines in a production environment is a big plus.
• Experience with user behavior data, alternative datasets, unstructured datasets is a big plus.
• Experience with AWS Glue is a big plus.

If you would like to be considered for the position of Data Software Engineer or wish to discuss the role further then please leave your details below. Your resume will be held in confidence until you connect with a member of our team

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Our client is searching for an experienced FPGA Engineering Manager to join their team in New York.

Responsibilities:  

• Lead an engineering team to design, build, and deliver the next generation of low latency hardware accelerated trading systems at the company
• Mentor, develop and grow the engineers on the team as a people manager.
• Get in the weeds - solve problems, optimize hardware performance, and drive excellence in build, testing and documentation for the team.
• Represent the hardware team to the TSS business; provide transparency, be accountable for progress, and help establish priorities.
• Manage relationships with peer teams in the organization, including trading engineering, infrastructure engineering and other platform teams, to deliver on both TSS projects as well as cross-company initiatives.
• Work with vendors and the community at large to maintain tooling, identify new opportunities, and keep TSS at the forefront of new and emerging technologies in the hardware space.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of professional experience analyzing performance requirements and designing systems handling very large volumes of real-time data at extremely low latencies
• 4+ years of professional experience managing a team of engineers
• Development experience with FPGAs (Verilog/VHDL, functional verification and static timing closure) and coding software in a low level language such as C/C++
• No finance experience necessary
• Should be willing to work in NYC or Chicago

Education:

• BS/BA degree in computer engineering, computer science or electrical engineering

If you would like to be considered for the position of FPGA Engineering Manager or wish to discuss the role further then please leave your details below. Your resume will be held in confidence until you connect with a member of our team

Email:  info@njf.com or call London (0207 604 4444,) New York (212 400 4845) or Chicago (312 204 7216) to speak to a member of our team. Thank you

Our client is searching for an experienced FPGA Engineer to join their team in New York.

Responsibilities:  

• Build next generation algorithmic trading systems, including tools to monitor and analyze system performance
• Solving low-latency trading problems and optimize performance-critical code
• Assess different technologies and their applications
• Develop new hardware platforms
• Find opportunities for improvement, as well as prototyping and experimenting with performance optimizations
• Develop, optimize, and strengthen the performance-critical components of the system

Requirements:

• 4+ years of professional experience analyzing performance requirements and designing systems handling very large volumes of real-time data at extremely low latencies
• Development experience with FPGAs (Verilog/VHDL, functional verification and static timing closure) and coding software in a low level language such as C/C++
• No finance experience necessary
• Willing to work in NYC or Chicago

Education:

• BS/BA degree in computer engineering, computer science or electrical engineering

If you would like to be considered for the position of FPGA Engineer or wish to discuss the role further then please leave your details below. Your resume will be held in confidence until you connect with a member of our team

Email:  info@njf.com or call London (0207 604 4444,) New York (212 400 4845) or Chicago (312 204 7216) to speak to a member of our team. Thank you