Software Engineer – Data Platform Position Available In Miami-Dade, Florida
Tallo's Job Summary: The Software Engineer - Data Platform position within the Fixed Income Applications development team involves building and supporting a pricing engine for financial products. Strong Java ecosystem experience and communication skills are required. The role includes interacting with business users and other teams, owning the software lifecycle, and adapting to changing conditions. Preferred skills include event streaming and distributed caching experience.
Job Description
Software Engineer – Data PlatformThe Fixed Income Applications development team is focused on building and supporting a pricing engine used by our 300+ portfolio teams. The team’s responsibilities span providing a pricing for different kinds of financial products (bonds, futures, options, FX spots/forwards, deposits, swaps, commodities, swaptions, cdx, cds, equities, etc), handling both live streaming and ETL data providers, and providing means of dissemination to downstream systems (such as analytics, risk, and trader systems).Team members interact directly with business users and other technology teams, so solid communication skills are essential. The team owns the entire software lifecycle, from requirements and design, through implementation, to production releases and support. Release cycles are tight, so in addition to strong development skills, you must have demonstrated the ability to adapt to changing conditions and learn quickly.
There are no business analysts on the team, so we expect developers to have the ability to learn or have sufficient business and product knowledge to understand the requirements on their own. That being said, this is not a particularly quantitative role â there is a separate analytics team that undertakes valuation and related work. We focus more on building up and supporting the technical infrastructure.
Required skills/experience:3-5 years of professional experience with Java ecosystemExperience with relational database development skillsStrong communication skillsResults-oriented, can deliver quality code with quick turnaroundSelf-starter and critical thinker, takes ownership of own projects and makes improvement suggestions for the entire infrastructureStrongly Preferred Skills (At least one):
Experience with event streaming like Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.
Experience with distributed caching like Hazelcast, REDIS, Memcached, etc.
Experience with Multithreading, algorithms, and data structuresNice to have skills:
Fixed income product knowledgeExperience with Junit TestingExperience with spring and/or spring bootExperience with full stack web developmentExperience with financial vendor feeds (Bloomberg, Refinitiv, etc)The interviews will focus on Java fundamentals/edge cases, computer science algorithms/data structures, systems design, and SQL.
