Our Trading client is seeking a Senior Quant Analyst to join their team in a full-time permanent position.
Senior Quantitative Analyst:
Responsabilities:
Liaise with Trading, Risk and IT to ensure correct implementation and monitoring of the full deal life cycle from pricing to nominations
Applying risk-based pricing and hedging strategies to structured deals
Develop quantitative infrastructure and expertise, wherever necessary, to extend the desk’s capability of ad-hoc pricing and trading non-standard complex products
Work with other departments (Trading, Market Risk, IT, Analysis), providing them with appropriate quantitative support and know-how
Apply quantitative skills to build sustainable models for the organization
Close collaboration and know-how exchange with Market Risk to achieve a high standard of quantitative modelling
What you bring & who you are:
Proven experience in a similar position as a quantitative analyst
Strong / Expert in programming languages and quantitative applications such as C#/F#/.net (C++)
Experience in commodity markets and European energy is highly appreciated
Ability to translate complex mathematical problems into practical business executables
Fantastic opportunity to work for an established financial client in Zurich, Switzerland who are looking to add a C# Developer to the team, working closely with Front Office systems.
YOUR TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES:
Deliver high quality solutions in tight timeframes to meet demanding customer requirements
Work closely with business and other IT units to gather and understand requirements
Contribute to software and architectural design decisions
Contribute to a robust automated test suite in order to maintain a high test coverage
Become involved in the process of a constant quality improvement and best practices implementation
Maintain close interaction with various business units (Trading, Middle office, Backoffice, Treasury, Risk Control, …)
OUR REQUIREMENTS:
Fluency in English is essential
Experience building scalable, distributed applications in .NET / C#
Strong understanding of algorithms and data structures
Experience in implementation of APIs for integration with internal and external systems
Experience in developing software in an agile environment
Knowledge of relational and non-relational database systems
Strong problem solving skills & ability to learn in a fast paced environment
NICE-TO-HAVE:
Experience in C++ implementation
Experience of working with design thinking techniques in iterative sprints is an advantage to this role
Experience in Jenkins configuration
Experience in a messaging system integration (RMQ, Kafka)
Our growing financial technology client is looking for a talented Senior Front-End Engineer to join their small New York based team in a permanent role.
Their focus is towards UI / UX based on an Angular framework. Someone who has built customer facing Front-Ends before, or that they know how to go about it from start to finish and help lead the development. An interest in finance or an understanding of this area will be needed.
What You’ll Do
You’ll join our clients small Product Team as a Senior Front-End Engineer (HTML/JavaScript). This role will expose you to our rapidly evolving product suite, with consistent opportunity to make a direct impact on the business.
Our client is a small firm, so they need their engineers to take ownership of their projects. You’ll do more than merely “code to a wireframe.” From the start, you’ll be helping bring products from concept to production while solving distinct design, UI and UX challenges.
Some responsibilities will include:
Become an expert in our front-end stack (JavaScript, Angular, HTML5…)
Learn about our backend stack, coded in Scala, MySQL and AWS technologies.
Collaborate across the entire organization, including backend engineers, data operations team, client services and product managers.
Develop expertise in a broad array of financial topics.
Critical Skills / Abilities
Our ideal candidate has at least 5 years professional experience building applications in HTML5 and JavaScript and experience with:
Web frameworks such as Angular or React
Web application layout and design using a CSS preprocessor (Sass, Stylus), and a templating language (Pug, Mustache)
Continuous Delivery, including integration testing with tools such as Cypress or Selenium
Additional skills that we would love to see but are not required:
Familiarity Node.js and/or Puppeteer
Personal interest in capital markets, finance and investing (even if you’ve never traded stock).