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Equities Technology solve some of the most interesting and complex challenges in the financial industry to help our global business and its customers succeed. Shipping code early and often using Agile and DevOps principles is critical for us to deliver business value, with continuous improvement and learning at the centre of everything we do.

We are motivated by challenging each other to push the boundaries of financial and technological innovation, in an open, inclusive, and diverse environment. We are looking for the brightest and best developers to take our capability forward.

About the team

You will join our Americas Structured Products Technology POD in Equities Derivatives Technology. We are a software engineering team utilizing best in class technologies (Java/C#).
As part of the firm’s ambition to accelerate the growth in the Equities Wealth space, the team is on a multi-year journey to build the next state of the art Structured Products OMS platform. The new OMS comprises of a React/JavaScript front end with a host of microservices written in C# and Java. The main aims are to increase connectivities with clients as well as optimize the front to back flow.
Pricing, processing and distributing data across multiple systems with varied requirements creates many interesting challenges and gives plenty opportunities for improvements and innovation – including usage of Cloud storage and compute engines. We work very closely with our business colleagues so you will have the opportunity to work directly with our business traders and structurers to solve complicated and interesting problems.
We are a global team with staff in London, Pairs, Hong Kong, New York, Toronto, Poland, Guangzhou.

Purpose of the job

This is a technical development lead role for the Americas Structured Products team. The successful candidate will be responsible for partnering with the business/global technology teams to ensure we are designing fit for purpose solutions that meet both the business need and help drive our strategic architecture.
The successful candidate will be responsible for driving the development of upcoming new Structured Products projects as well as maintaining/supporting the production environment.
The successful candidate will be responsible for guiding system architecture design while having a strong passion for operating in an agile/dev ops environment. The candidate will help us continue on our agile journey and help ensure the team adopts a continuous learning mind set while ensuring the highest levels of stability and control of our production platforms.
The successful candidate will be responsible for guiding the team to think through the team’s system architecture design and assist with refactoring of legacy code. The successful candidate should be passionate about SDLC and have growth mind set about continual and gradual evolution.
Responsible for: You will handle all phases of development (requirements gathering/analysis through to implementation), establishing solid relationships and trust built on proven delivery.