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We have partnered with a worldwide global quantitative asset management firm with over $7 billion in assets under management looking to expand their Data team in their new office in Uruguay.
The role
We are seeking a Middle Office Engineer to join a dynamic team collaborating on the development of the next generation distributed post-trade processing system at our partner's organization.
This system is designed to offer a real-time perspective into the company's trades, positions, PNL (Profit and Loss), and risk.
The role involves handling substantial volumes of trade and market data with an emphasis on low-latency processing, ensuring correctness, consistency, and reliability.
Operating in an agile environment, the team actively contributes to every stage of the Software Development Engineer (SDE) life cycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, and support.
As an engineer, you have a chance to work on various parts of this system and get a first-hand working knowledge of how a trade moves from execution to settlement.
The system is continually evolving in terms of both scale as well as new business features.
Mandatory Skills Description
- Strong Java developer
- Possess working knowledge and experience with streaming applications development
- Experience with Testing Frameworks
- Strong database experience - particularly MySQL and PostgreSQL
- Ability to gather and understand requirements by working through and understanding how legacy code base (Perl / python) works in order to assess its limitations and build improved solutions
- Ability to triage complex operational issues during on-call support rotation
- Strong communication to work with development and the business teams
Nice-to-Have Skills
Experience in Perl would be helpful, at the minimum being able to read / debug Perl code and basic familiarity is fine if they can understand the processes.
Not expected to write any new perl code.
- Python (basic support scripts for Java processes : light scripting, server startup / process automation)
- Finance / Operations / SecMaster experience is a plus but not required
Benefits :
- Competitive salary
- Attractive compensation package with a clear career roadmap.
- All of Uruguay s law benefits
- Much more - let s talk about them in the first interview!
