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SalarySenior Algo Developer
London
As a Barclays Senior Algo Developer, you will be a key member within Rates Algorithmic Trading Technology located in London to support applications for RatesOne businesses. The Algorithmic Trading applications are built on a Java platform designed and developed to provide infrastructure services such as market data, analytics, order management, resiliency for the trading algorithms.
Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.
At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.
- Developing both tactical and strategic solutions to meet business requirements
- Developing automated testing tools to exercise functionality, performance, and capacity of code
- Providing estimates for tasks, including design, development, technical debt, and testing
- Supporting analysis, testing, and operations teams
- Producing codes that is appropriate for a low-latency java platform
- Designing and building new features for the algo trading infrastructure, bullet time back testing algo trading infrastructure
- Investigating and resolving production issues
- Working with the Quants team and product team to understand the requirements
What we’re looking for:
- Expert with Core Java, proficient with linux
- Experience with building Algo/Sor/Market Making infrastructure and/or strategies
- Able to work in a fast paced and challenging environment with aggressive deadlines
- University degree in computer science, physics, engineering, or equivalent programming experience
Skills that will help you in the role:
- Experience with development and build tools, ideally: Maven, Gradle, Git, IntelliJ, Eclipse
- Full lifecycle development of a commercial system, including: requirements definition, agile planning, releasing, and production support
- Critical thinking and problem solving skills
- Collaborative mindset and excellent communication skills
Where will you be working?
In the heart of Canary Wharf, our headquarters at Churchill Place boasts onsite amenities such as: a gym, staff restaurant and deli bar, and is easily accessible by tube and bus links. With a population of around 5000 staff the atmosphere is second to none with a real buzz being created around the offices within.
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