Job Description
Within the banking sector, Digital Business Services plays a key role in delivering the operational and technological capabilities that support global financial activities. This function combines international expertise with advanced technologies to enhance operational efficiency, improve market responsiveness, and ensure the robustness of critical systems in a highly regulated environment.
An opportunity is available for a Senior Synthetic Trading Engineer to join a global technology team focused on Equities and Cross-Asset Financing.
This team designs and develops innovative trading and financing platforms for Prime Brokerage and securities financing activities. It works closely with business stakeholders to build systems based on modern architectural principles, emphasizing simplicity, efficiency, low latency, and transparency.
The successful candidate will contribute to a strategic initiative aimed at building the next-generation synthetic trading platform.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain a global, low-latency, highly available, and scalable synthetic trading platform.
- Participate in strategic decisions regarding system architecture and technical design.
- Collaborate closely with front-office trading and product teams to deliver new features and enhancements quickly.
- Work with risk, compliance, and control functions to ensure adherence to regulatory requirements and internal policies.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of system performance, resilience, and scalability.
- Engage in technical reviews, production support, and resolution of complex issues.
- Maintain close communication with global teams to ensure alignment on architecture and delivery.
- Contribute to the evolution of future platform architecture and technology strategy.
Requirements and SkillsExperience
- Experience in the investment banking environment.
- Strong understanding of electronic trading platforms and financial markets.
- Proven experience with mission-critical, distributed, and high-performance systems.
Technical Skills
- Advanced expertise in Java, including:
- JVM internals and performance tuning
- Garbage Collection and memory management
- Data structures and algorithm optimization
- Non-blocking I/O (NIO)
- Nice to have:
- Low-latency / high-performance system design
- Cloud technologies (e.g., Google Cloud Platform)
- Front-end / UI development experience
Domain Knowledge
- Strong knowledge of Delta One products and synthetic trading, including:
- Order lifecycle management
- Locate and securities borrowing processes
- Inventory and position management
- FIX messaging protocol
- Solid understanding of trading system architecture, including:
- Distributed systems design
- High availability (HA)
- Scalability and fault tolerance
- Robust and resilient architecture principles
Rémunération : 90 594,26$ à 141 803,37$ par an
Lieu du poste : Télétravail hybride à Toronto, ON (M5J, Toronto District)
