Job Title: Software Developer – Fixed Income Trading

Location: Toronto, ON [100% remote currently but candidates will need to be able to go in for occasional events and meetings]

Duration: 6 months

Contract Type: T4 only

Pay Rate: CA$86.20/Hour

Role Mandate:

• Client aspires to build best-in-class platform for our Fixed Income trading desk covering a wide spectrum of Investment Grade and High Yield bonds to serve the growing needs of our clients globally. Our vision is to build industry-leading fixed income trading platform using modern software development principles to allow for adaptability, future growth, and integration with both external systems and client’s proprietary pricing/risk tools.
• We are searching for a senior developer with extensive experience building complex software solutions to join our team and help us on our current initiatives.
• This role will work closely with the team of developers, business analysts, product managers, production support teams to execute both short-term tactical and long term goals.

Role Responsibilities Include (but are not limited to):

• Provide leadership and innovative ideas with respect to development design and integration with other components
• Quickly adjust, redesign and adapt design and functionality based on the frequent feedback from traders and other stakeholders
• Build effective partnership with other team members and key stakeholders to establish productive, mutually respective work environment
• Build high-quality documentation artifacts (solution diagram, trade flow, current vs target state, etc.) as required by Client’s standards
• Maintain current trading systems, provide system enhancement and production support
• Effectively unit-test own software deliverables, participate in planning and execution of test suites
• Partner with others in the organization to advance client’s overall IT capabilities in the areas of real-time messaging, application integration.

Must-Have Skills:

• 7+ years of demonstrated experience developing complex software solutions serving the needs of large geographically dispersed organizations
• True Agile practitioner, can start with a concept and rapidly change to arrive at the end result
• Experienced in system development with high performance, real time streaming, data update, highly integrated with backend internal & external services (TCP, HTTP, MQ, FIX)
• FIX experience a must
• Experienced in software languages: Java, Python, C++, and Oracle database,
• DevOps, CI/CD Git, Linux server, Shell scripting, Windows server
• Work experience in Capital Markets – FI Income, Credit trading, rates is an asset
• Work experience in large Capital Markets trading platforms (Bloomberg TOMS, FIS BondOne, Calypso, WSS…) is an asset
• Equally effective partnering with all levels including senior technology and business stakeholders, and other members of the team
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Nice to Have Skills:

• AWS software development an asset