Software Developer (Front End)

FlexTrade Systems is a provider of customized multi-asset execution and order management trading solutions for buy- and sell-side financial institutions. Through deep client partnerships with some of the world's largest, most complex and demanding capital markets firms, we develop the flexible tools, technology and innovation that deliver our clients a competitive edge. Our globally distributed engineering teams focus on adaptable technology and open architecture to develop highly sophisticated trading solutions that can automate and scale with your business strategies.

At FlexTrade, we hold our values close to heart, with pride and gratitude, as they guide us in everything that we do. We are dedicated to giving our clients a competitive edge, taking ownership of our responsibilities, being flexible to adapt to ever changing environment and technology, bringing integrity to ever interaction and we continue to improve, grow together and collaborate as one team. All of these while having Fun truly makes FlexTrade a wonderful place to work.

The Team:

Join a dynamic FlexTCA (FlexTrade Transaction Cost Analysis) development team. FlexTrade is looking for a Front-End Developer to be a part of a rapidly evolving technology group supplying top-quality solutions to our growing top-tier global client base. This role offers the opportunity to work closely with data scientists and data engineers within FlexTrade’s Quantitative Solutions team, as well as exposure to cutting-edge analytics and machine learning technologies.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:

The candidate will be responsible for the integration, deployment, and maintaining, and of the FlexTCA BI tool and embedding it to provide a seamless end-user experience. The product exposure offers the opportunity to the candidate to learn vast depth and breadth of trading and analytics technologies and the associated trade life cycle.  

• Will require strong front-end skills to integrate the TCA module with the native FlexTrader front-end.

• The individual will contribute to the development, automation, and embedding of the TCA visualization platform.

• Serve in a rotation to monitor software and production environments to ensure timely delivery of post-trade reports to FlexTrader clients.

• Help automate Business Intelligence environment maintenance and visualization roll-out using a native Python wrapper (REST API).

• Will assist with Production, QA, Dev, ETL, and data integrity checks on a Linux environment.

Requirements

• Strong experience using Web frameworks and scripting languages like HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript

• Must demonstrate understanding of one Single Sign-On protocol such as SAML 2.0 or OpenID, Keycloak.

• Strong experience with Python

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience. Two years experience required.

• Experience with any business intelligence tool, optimally Sisense (), will be strongly preferred.

• Experience with Node.JS is preferred

• Experience with React or Angular a plus

• UNIX / Shell scripting is a major plus

• Experience with Database programming and solid SQL skills a major plus

• Experience with numpy / pandas, Plotly a plus.

• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

• Knowledge or experience of trading analytics preferred.