Front Office Developer

Job Title: Front Office Developer
Location: London
Department: Front Office - RAD Technology
Permanent 

Department overview:

The front office RAD technology team are responsible maintaining and building trading desk tools, both bespoke to pods and general to a desk. The team sits within the Front office technology group which also contains Quant Research and the Risk and Data Technology teams.

Role Overview:

The primary focus of this role is to face off to the traders and to meet any of their RAD tool requirements. These requirements vary from the small e.g. risk reports using data outputted from core systems, to the large e.g. trading workflow and risk systems, scenario tools etc. Any technology can be used to fulfil these requirements and a pragmatic approach has to be taken at all times, key factors are; time to market, is it fit for purpose, code reusability.

Historically, the team has delivered functionality using Excel front ends underpinned by C# library functions, Mongo and SQL Server databases..   

Tools are now being made available as internally hosted web applications as well, facilitated by AI, which leads into... there is a real push to lean heavily into AI to generate the trader tools, so experience in