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Morgan Stanley Java / Scala Dev (Application Development) in New York, New York
Team Profile: Morgan Stanley is seeking an experienced electronic trading Java senior developer to help advance its market-leading options, futures & structured market making and algorithmic trading engines. The role involves building, deploying & supporting trading strategies, analytical tools, scalable trading engine infrastructure, working as part of a fast-moving IT / quant / trading team.
This is an agile, front-office role facing off with the business and as such strong communication skills and ability to work in a team is essential.
Role Profile:
You will be using core Java development to build and enhance trading strategies and engines. The role involves working directly with the global trading, quant and IT teams to advance the platform and the businesses it serves. The project portfolio is typically varied, spanning new and existing algorithm development, improving the technical and execution performance of trading systems, the generation and analysis of trading signals & data You will be involved in the full software development lifecycle from discussing and agreeing requirements, formulating designs developing and deploying the changes. The systems you will work on are high volume, low latency, resilient, scalable and message-driven based on cutting edge Java and utilising the latest hardware.
Skills Required:
Expert-level core Java knowledge in a UNIX/Linux environment. Track record working in front-office environment with trading and quantitative strategists. Experience working on systems for automated market making, algo trading in liquid markets (equities, FX, liquid rates, etc.) Experience with low-latency messaging middleware pub/sub technologies. Candidate must have electronic trading knowledge: options / cash / ETF / futures preferred; liquid rates / FX acceptable. Strong problem solving skills Ability to analyse business & technical requirements and translate them into a well designed & coded solution Strong communication skills and ability to work in a team is essential.
Skills Desirable:
Experience interacting with and writing KDB/Q queries. Experience with Java/GC/Linux HTML5/Angular development Derivatives product and market knowledge. Option pricing and trading would be an advantage.
Job: *Development
Title: Java / Scala Dev (Application Development)
Location: New York-New York
Requisition ID: 3257120
