Salary: HKD $120,000 month (depending on experience)
Duration: 12 Months
Overview:
The Global Foreign Exchange (GFX) organisation is a key component within our Corporate and Institutional Banking business. Our IT teams design and develop modern systems that enable acts of commerce; from sales and customer tools, through systems that enable low latency automated trading in the markets all the way to financial and regulatory reporting.
The FX Options primary trading system (PTS) team is responsible for the platform used to capture and enable the risk management of FX and precious metals derivatives. The PTS IT team is part of the wider FX Options IT organization, a team of 70 technologists working in Asia, Europe and North Ameria to support a global business. The team leverage a broad range of technologies and is empowered to own their architecture and innovate.
Role Description:
The FXO PTS team is focussed on delivering an in house system for FX Options risk and life cycle management. This is a hands on engineering role, reporting into the project lead. The role requires working closely with the broader delivery team, product owner and other front office stakeholders to design and deliver a best in class solutions. This is a multi-year investment project that will involve collaboration with trading, quants, operations as well as life-cycle and risk technology peers within the broader organisation.
The team operates a DevSecOps model with all members of the team expected to contribute across development, security and operations.
Requirements:
- Experience of working on front office applications supporting a trading business.
- Experienced Java developer, with familiarity with Spring and Spring Boot.
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
- Experience in DevOps/Agile ways of working, and continuous integration and delivery.
- Strong problem-solving, interpersonal and communication skills.
- Able to work independently and effectively under pressure against multiple requests.
- Enthusiasm about working in a global team with different cultures.
- Some experience of working with vendor risk management systems, especially Murex
- Full stack engineering experience.
- Use of observability stacks for metrics and tracing.
- Programming in a range of languages (JS, C++, Scala, Scripting etc).
- Knowledge of the FX options market and operations
- Understanding of risk management measures, risk matrices, topographies, etc
