Our client, a Boston-based fundamentally driven systematic investment manager with more than 40 billion in managed assets, is seeking a OMS Software Engineer to join the firm. The company takes a bottom-up approach to research and security selection and distils its findings into systematic processes that are applied across regions, styles, and capitalizations. It offers long only and alternative investment strategies that invest in both equity and credit markets.
Purpose of the role:
As an engineer for the OMS team, you'll be building and maintaining the Order Management System underpinning the systematic investment process for the firm. This is an opportunity to work closely with the trading desk, quant strategy teams, and operations to deliver an Order Management System that is flexible, robust, and performant to safely trade millions of orders annually and enable the onboarding of new investment strategies for clients. You'll have direct exposure to cash equities, equity swaps, and futures asset classes covering both listed and OTC markets, while building deep understanding in how they're executed and booked.
Technology:
Their systems run on Linux via containers, with most systems built using Java and a bit of Python. The platform consists of a Tomcat web application along with a suite of microservices running on the Micronaut framework and others on Python. The platform utilizes event sourcing architecture to propagate state events across service domains. We use Git for source control, Jenkins for continuous integration, JetBrains IntelliJ IDE with GitHub Copilot license, Grafana + Prometheus for metrics collection, Docker for containerization, Slack for internal communication, and much of the Confluence stack including Jira to run our Scrum sprints. That said, our technology is never static: we constantly evaluate new tools and libraries.
In order to qualify:
BS or MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent
Software design and coding abilities commensurate with 5+ years of experience post education
Significant experience with one or more modern programming languages (Java, Python, C#, etc.)
Participating in team's agile SDLC including requirements gathering, development, QA and releases
Experience working with Microservice architectures and libraries (Spring Boot, Micronaut, etc.) with or without messaging for intra-service communication.
3+ years of professional Java experience working in an enterprise web application context
Experience with front end technologies such as CSS, JSP, HTML, Ajax, JSON, and some modern JS libraries like React, Angular, and Node.js
Strong experience with middle tier development utilizing MVC frameworks such as Spring MVC or Struts, JPA / Hibernate ORM, and Spring, Spring Boot, or Micronaut for dependency injection
Familiar with event sourcing and use of Messaging servers like Apache Kafka or Rabbit MQ
Strong back-end skills with exposure to writing and tuning SQL queries, ability to read and modify stored procedure and nice to have some experience with No SQL databases
Support activities ranging from end user support, production issues and questions from the business about functionality or data requests
Key Competencies:
Strong SQL and database knowledge (highly valued)
Solid proficiency in Linux shell commands (highly valued)
Source control such as GIT, SVN, etc. (highly valued)
Strong collaborative engineering techniques and methods (highly valued)
Comfortable with agile development processes such as Scrum or Kanban (valued)
Familiarity with Atlassian SDLC tools including Jira, Wiki, BitBucket, and SourceTree (valued)
Understanding of financial markets, instruments, and protocols (FIX) (nice to have)
Experience with front-office software development such as trading systems, equity modelling, analytics, etc. (nice to have)