Senior Rates eTrading Development Lead

Job Description:

Job Title: Senior Rates eTrading Development Lead

Corporate Title: Up to Director

Location:  Bromley, UK

Company Overview:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Location Overview:

Join our bustling Bromley office, situated in one of London’s greenest boroughs. Here you’ll find plentiful and easy commuting routes, with central London just 15 minutes away by train.

Role Description:

A Senior Rates eTrading Development Lead is required to modernize and expand our front office eTrading platforms that support Rates products across multiple lines of businesses globally. This is a technical senior development and engineering role that will bring expertise in software engineering best practices, architecting and building low-latency D2C and D2D algos, market data connectivity, execution workflows, internalization, and pricing. This role will support the technical architecture and delivery of strategic priorities across business enablement/growth, platform modernization, stability, performance, and innovation. You will have deep experience in front-office eTrading systems and be a key partner to tech management, software engineers, quantitative analysts, and traders.

Responsibilities:

• Build high-performance, low latency components for fixed income eTrading workflows.
• Write high-quality production grade Java across latency sensitive, multi-threaded environment maintaining direct accountability for code quality and performance.
• Integrate tightly with internal algo engines, quant libraries and pricing services through well-defined interfaces, working collaboratively with quant and algo teams.
• Support best development practices, including pairing, code reviews, unit testing and regression testing.
• Profile, benchmark and continuously improve application performance, identifying and eliminating latency bottlenecks in the critical path.
• Work with technology partners and business groups in the region and globally to deliver high-quality products in a fast-paced environment.
• Work with the management and horizontal teams to advance the strategic roadmap.
• Liaise with end-users to understand their requirements.

What we are looking for:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate ideas, design and architecture principles, coordinate different tasks, work with different stakeholder groups, and demonstrate engagement and motivation.
• Java development and technical thought leadership are essential, with demonstrated ability to design and implement architecture, development, and deployment.
• Experience with Multi-threading, low latency, high-performance components & applications (including GC tuning)
• Engineering, Science, Math, or similar degree
• Organized and able to prioritize effectively across workstreams
• Highly experienced in leveraging platforms for development including Linux, Ansible Tower, Jenkins, Maven, Git/Bitbucket, Artifactory, automation scripting
• Good experience in software engineering real-time trading system design principles

             - message-driven, event-based architecture, TCP, UDP, Multicast

             - low latency performance and scaling

             - multithreading

             - service oriented interface driven architecture

             - object oriented design

Skills that will help:

• Experience working in Fixed Income eTrading technology domain specializing in the D2C & D2D electronic execution, algo, pricing systems is a plus
• Experience integrating with APIs and workflows from venues such as CME, Bloomberg, Tradeweb
• Familiarity with MiFID II front office context – understanding trading and algo system design and controls within eTrading domain
• Experience with message-oriented middleware such as Solace/AMPS/RV
• Knowledge of fixed income products such as government bonds, interest rate swaps, futures is a plus
• Experience with real-time pricing systems and analytic library integration used to compute bond or swap prices, yields, dv01, and other market relevant analytics

Benefits of working at Bank of America:

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• At Bank of America, we strive to prioritise employees’ health and wellbeing – it’s what makes us a Great Place to Work.
• Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner
• Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons
• We offer 26-weeks paid maternity leave, 16-weeks paid paternity leave and inclusive family leave arrangements for working parents and carers including 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum
• The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness, cycle to work etc.
• Use of a flex fund to use towards benefits
• Access to an emotional wellbeing helpline, and virtual GP services
• Access to the Peppy App which provides 1:1 support, consultations and resources relating to men’s health, women’s health, fertility, menopause and pregnancy & parenthood
• Access to a range of gyms, exercise classes and wellbeing Apps through Wellhub, including Headspace and Calm
• Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local area

Bank of America:

Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long-term success. It’s important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.

We are an equal opportunities employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, race, religious or similar philosophical belief, political opinion, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, socio-economic background, responsibility for dependants or physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience.

We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.