Closing Date: 8 th March 2010
Job Description
We have a number of roles for Developers working on real-time Pricing of government and supranational bonds and swaps to support a number of key 2010 initiatives- Initial deliveries include development of new pricing methods, rollout of new products, improvement to trading experience, refactoring of existing codebase, automation of testing-
Requirements
Previous pricing and/or Fixed income experience products with proven ability to become a domain expert in this space Application development involving an understanding of the user domain, rather than just implementing technical solutions Development experience on a large complex codebase Solid understanding of the fundamentals of vanilla Java programming - Multithreading, OO, distributed computing etc- - Not EJB or Web Real-time experience 2:1 from major university in numerate subject or economics Additional Useful Skills: Improving development practices for team as a whole JUnit
Responsibilities
Centralised Pricing is a global, high performance, real-time, pricing and electronic trading system for Interest Rate Swaps, Government and Corporate bonds, Money Markets, FX, Credit Derivatives, Commercial Paper, Loans and Emerging markets- Centralised Pricing has enabled RBS to become a market leader within this Electronic Trading space- A global but London centred team of 80 develops and supports Centralised Pricing- Centralised Pricing is Java server side, C# GUI and Sybase database-
The Individual
Keen interest in financial products and eager to develop a career in technology in front office investment banking Takes ownership of issues and manages them appropriately Genuine interest in teamwork - assisting and working with others, and aligning development work with team goals Ability to talk with traders to work through requirements Understanding that application development is more than purely coding Enthusiastic
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