Charles River Developer (CRD)

Charles River Developer (CRD)

Developer

Alexandria, VA

Asset Management

JO-1912-1272

Job Description

The Global Trading Technology team is looking for a hands-on Senior Developer to be a part of our Charles River Order Management team. This team supports our four global trading desks and builds applications and integrations to enable our Traders to achieve Best Execution for our clients effectively and efficiently. You will be part of a high-performing group of engineers setting, mentoring and evolving the technology direction of our next-generation n-tier, native cloud enabled products, as well as integrating with off-the-shelf vendor products like Charles River. You need to be passionate about all aspects of software engineering – performance, security, usability, reusability and maintainability. You also need to be equally passionate about teaching and inspiring members of your team.

Core Capabilities & Attributes

• High achiever who combines ambition with humility and is happy to let their performance do the talking.
• Demonstrable passion for technology (e.g. personal projects, open-source involvement) while using their problem solving capabilities to deliver solutions utilizing a top end engineering approach
• Focused on delivering value to the business with relentless efforts to improve
• Exceptional technology skills; recognized by your peers as an expert in your domain
• A proponent of strong collaborative software engineering techniques and methods: agile development, continuous integration, code review or pairing, unit testing, refactoring and related approaches
• Strong interpersonal skills; able to establish and maintain a close working relationship with Portfolio Managers, Research Analysts, Traders, Support Personnel, other engineers, and senior business people alike

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Order Management and Charles River products
• Experience in front office software development with an Asset Manager, Hedge Fund or Investment Bank
• Advanced Computer Science, Math or Financial Engineering degree
• A solid understanding of tradable financial instruments (securities, derivatives) and capital markets
• Experience building containerized applications and deploying to public or private clouds, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or similar providers.
• Experience using AWS services like lambdas, EC2 instances, ECS clusters, and step functions
• Strong knowledge of one or more relevant database technologies e.g. SQL Server, Sybase, DyanomoDb, Postgres
• Open source involvement such as a well-curated blog, accepted contribution, or community presence

Minimum Qualifications

• Strong academic record and a degree with high mathematical and computing content e.g. Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or Physics from a leading university.
• 8+ years of progressive software engineering experience
• Expert knowledge in one or more programming language(s) – C#/Python/Java
• Proficient on Linux platforms with knowledge of various scripting languages
• Familiarity with a variety of programming styles (e.g. OO, functional) and in-depth knowledge of design patterns
• Strong Test-Driven Development and desire to write simple, adaptive and iterative code
• Enthusiastic embrace of DevOps culture and collaborative software engineering
• Experience working in a dynamic, fast-paced, Agile team environment
• Strong interpersonal skills; able to establish and maintain a close working relationship with Portfolio Managers, Traders, Support Personnel, other engineers, and senior business people alike.

General Comments: Must be able to work out of the Baltimore office (4 days in office, 1 day work from home for out of town consultants).