Junior Programmer
- Our client company is a Foreign Exchange Hedge Fund.
- 99% of their trading is done by systems on computers in data centers in New York.
- Their founder has adapted a portfolio of trading systems that are highly profitable but have not yet been optimised.
- They have a deep connection to Ukraine and are opening an office in Ukraine to further develop their profitable systems and invest in staff to find and build new even more profitable systems.
- They are a high-frequency trading firm, which means they hold positions for (generally) very short periods and their systems trade 24 hours 5 days a week.
- They trade US$700m - $800m of foreign exchange every month.
Responsibilities
• Guided by the Senior Foreign Exchange Trader you will build and manage;
- Automation tools;
- Data analysis tools;
- Automated Algorithmic Trading (Expert Advisors) to initiate FX trades;
- Performance tracking;
- Alerting tools and systems when trades are not monitored by the trader;
- Backtesting algorithms with data scientist;
• You will extract data from trading systems and trading records for analysis;
• Guided by the Data Scientist you will build a warehouse for holding data, searching, and analysing data;
• Build interfaces for automated trading to server-side API;
• Manage high-frequency trading servers and optimise CPU allocation.
Qualifications
• Candidate can be a University Graduate, someone with 1-2+ years in a software development role;
• Experience in developing end-to-end basic software and data tools;
• Less important to have worked in a large development team which is usually based on working only on parts of projects rather than full solutions;
• No specific trading or Foreign exchange experience but that would be an advantage.
Skills
• Excel and data analysis;
• General experience building end-to-end useful tools or applications (not task-based);
• Some basic networking such as latency and where/how to run our high-frequency trading servers;
• SQL;
• API;
• MQL;
• Python and C++ (possibly C#);
• Database and data warehouse skills;
• HTML and Website for display of data and monitoring.
- Department
- Other
- Locations
- Kyiv, Lviv
- Remote status
- Hybrid
Junior Programmer
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