C++ Developer – Structured Rates

Phi is supporting one of the largest North American Tier 1 investment banks with offices spanning across all continents, a robust workforce of over 88,000 employees and an astounding $930 billion in global assets under management. The client provides a variety of investor services and capital-raising solutions to corporations, financial institutions, private equity, and public-sector organizations. Recently, the bank has invested significantly across its capital markets business and technology groups to ensure compliance with modern technological standards and sustain its position as market-leader within the industry.

About the Programme 

Our client’s Structured Rates and Analytics group oversees the risk calculation, analytics, modelling and pricing across the bank’s Risk and Capital platforms. The client is now investing in a major transformation of their booking and analytics platforms in their Structured Rates space. This is a very exciting program for the bank which has a significant amount of business buy-in to improve the tooling they use today.

As part of this program they are building out non-Excel based tools for the Structured and Flow rates trading desks.  These tools require fundamental changes in their analytics library. The client will be looking to modernise the existing APIs  in their analytics library so that flow and rates products can be easily constructed and displayed.   They will then integrate the library with a modern HTML5-based frontend that traders and sales will use to price and book these products.

About the Role

We are currently looking for a senior C++ developer to support our client in this initiative. As part of a dynamic, innovative team working on refactoring outdated systems, the developer will gain responsibility for overall design, development and team coordination within a project revolving around fundamentally changing the client’s current analytics library. Main responsibilities will include modernization of existing APIs within the library to facilitate the construction, display and editing of flow rates and products.

Required Skills

• Aptitude to take on responsibility and liaise with stakeholders to understand business req
• Expertise in development of enterprise level software, using C++
• Strong experience in working with large analytics libraries
• Extensive experience in API design and buildout
• Experience in Linux will be beneficial
• Experience with financial markets, preferably with exposure to rates products or similar
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

This role is a great opportunity to establish yourself as an essential and energetic member of this fast paced and prominent organization within a very dynamic environment.