Jefferies Financial Group Inc.

Sr Java Developer

Posted on: 9 Nov 2021

New York, New York

Job Description

As part of the Global Equities Front Office technology team, an opportunity exists for a senior level JAVA/SQL developer to work on the firm’s global equities trading systems. The system aims to develop Buy Side the Jefferies Outsourced Trading Desk platform and implement trade processing and clearing models in a highly moving infrastructure to trade and manage all aspect of trade processing globally across all product lines.

The candidate will require significant experience with build buy side trade processing and clearing, have a strong understanding of US equity market structures and a proven track record of delivering high quality software. Experience with Outsourced Trading concepts, Trade Settlement, Omgeo CTM and Order Management Systems are a big plus.

The candidate should be able to demonstrate good analytical skills, strong software engineering skills and a logical approach to problem solving.

The ideal candidate should have experience with Agile Development Techniques, Unit/System Testing and Performance Tuning

Qualifications

Key Responsibilities & Tasks:

Developing the global Back office system for the firm Buy side Outsourced Trading Desk (OTD)
Efficiently building out the various regions, product types and asset classes for the OTD platform
Day to day support of applications and the trading desks
Will have direct communication with OTD, Operations, middle office, connectivity as well as various internal technology teams

Qualifications/ Experience:

Well-rounded individual capable of contributing to all aspects of the life cycle of a development project from analysis and design through daily production support
Solid experience with Java, JDBC, JBoss, J2EE, WebSphere.
Solid experience with FIX, FIX message types, Linux, Shell Scripting
Solid experience with SQL, Proficient in coding business logic in SQL stored procedures, functions and triggers
Minimum 10 years programming experience required.
Minimum 5 years of experience in financial industry required.
Solid experience with Message Queues
Candidates should also have excellent verbal and written communications skills and good attention to detail.

Additional Skills / Good to Have:

Experience working with Market Data, Order Management Systems
Experience with Buy Side Outsourced Trading concepts, Trade Settlement
Experience with Omgeo CTM
Bachelor’s degree required preferably in Computer Science. Advanced degree is a plus but not required.

Jefferies Financial Group Inc.

New York, New York

Jefferies Financial Group Inc., a financial services company, engages in investment banking and capital markets, asset management, and direct investing businesses in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. the company also offers equities research, sales, and trading services; equity finance services comprising financing, securities lending, and other prime brokerage services; and wealth management services to high net worth individuals, their families and businesses, private equity and venture funds, and small institutions.

In addition, it provides fixed income sales and trading services for investment grade corporate bonds, U.S. and European government and agency securities, municipal bonds, mortgage- and asset-backed securities, leveraged loans, consumer loans, securities, markets debt, interest rate, and credit derivative products, as well as foreign exchange trade execution and securitization capabilities, as well as manages, invests in, and provides services to a group of alternative asset management platforms in investment strategies and asset classes.

The company was formerly known as Leucadia National Corporation and changed its name to Jefferies Financial Group Inc. in May 2018. Jefferies Financial Group Inc. was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

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