Junior Software Developer

Overview

As a software engineer with SIG you will be involved in the design and development of custom applications in the front office trading environment. Principally you will bring strong software engineering skills to the role, along with an interest in developing real-time trading systems. You will work closely with traders and quants to code, backtest and deploy complex trading strategies. The role will involve systems with low latency requirements and the ability to deal with large quantities of data and as such involves a focus on extreme systems efficiency.

• Analysis, design and development of applications, taking projects through the entire software development cycle from requirements gathering to product release
• Maintaining and tuning existing applications to meet performance criteria as business expands
• Analysing large complex data sets and reporting key findings
• Working with traders and quants to research new trading opportunities
• Statistical and graphical analysis of trading information
• Backtesting trading strategies using large volumes of data and interpreting the results
  
  

With both our European trading floor and technology teams based together, there is a fast-paced environment designed to facilitate rapid application development and deployment.

What We're Looking For

• Degree in a technical discipline or equivalent experience
• Ability to absorb mathematical algorithms and develop high-performance implementations
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills for interacting with traders, quantitative analysts, and other software developers
• Experience or interest in areas such as capital markets, probability, game theory and gambling is a plus
• Experience or interest in statistics is a plus