Our client is a leading tier one investment bank. The FX eProp business sits alongside the FX Spot market making team with the aim of generating revenue through a number of high frequency proprietary FX strategies leveraging both internal and external liquidity.

The current models have been implemented directly by the trading desk and they are looking to hire a strong quant developer to sit alongside the eProp traders and build out a more strategic and scalable platform.

The ideal candidate will come from a high frequency hedge fund or specialist team within an investment bank, have exceptional technical skills whilst having enough business knowledge to be able to effectively work with a HFQ trader on a daily basis.

Key responsibilities will include:
• Requirements analysis with the FX eProp Trading desk, understanding of existing KDB based models
• Development of new eProp trading platform in Java
• Design, Development, Testing of new features in the Electronic Trading applications.
• Continual improvement of the software development lifecycle and quality of the product

This is a great role for someone who has a strong foundation in electronic trading technology, understands teh complexities of high frequency trading systems development and can work independently in a fast moving environement.

With your work having direct impact on P&L rewards will be directly aligned to your performance.