Associate, Erisk Quantitative Developer

Description:

The role holder will also ensure the HSBC values are present in everything they do, both individually and as an organisation. This will be achieved by consistently displaying the behaviours of: Dependable and do the right thing, Open to different ideas and cultures, Connected to customers, communities, regulators and each other. Within FX eRisk, there are a number of applications which are responsible for managing liquidity, generating client prices and handling and executing orders, both internally and externally, using algorithmic execution where applicable. eRisk Quantitative Developers work with other team-members to design, develop, test and release spot and NDF pricing algorithms. The candidate will also have the opportunity to work across the pricing, risk management and algorithmic execution stack, for FX, Forwards, Interest Rate Curves and Fixed Income products.

As a Quantitative Developer, the successful candidate will be expected to perform the following duties with a high level of competence:

• Develop algorithmic pricing strategies in Java.
• Work in close collaboration with the eRisk Quantitative Analysts on algo specifications and development.
• Extend and maintain the algorithmic code base, adhering to and promoting development best practice.
• Participate in peer reviews of code.
• Work with business and control functions to ensure the safe and correct functioning of algos.
• Assist (when required) with the deployment of components to development and test environments.

To be successful in this role you should meet the following:

• Experience in a Front Office development team within a Large Investment Bank, supporting a global trading desk.
• Demonstrable Java server side development experience, in a multithreaded environment.
• Experience with developing and tuning low latency systems.
• Education in mathematical, scientific or engineering discipline.
• Experience of FX spot or Equities Algo execution and pricing highly desirable.
• Foreign Exchange in a high volume low latency environment.
• Experience working on enterprise systems but also agile delivery of Business requirements.
• Forward and Spot FX market conventions market experience.
• Familiarity with time series databases (KDB).
• Knowledge of Enterprise Integration and messaging technologies (29 West, Multicast).
• Knowledge of lock free algorithms, low latency tuning and threading.