Realtime Analytics and Controls Developer
XTX MarketsAbout the Role
As a Realtime Analytics and Controls Developer, you will be responsible for the mission control panel for one of the largest trading systems in the world ($250bn-300bn/day). Your work will have a company-wide impact, with users including Trading Desk, Trading Developers, Quants, CEO, Distribution and Risk.
The goal is to provide clarity about what our trading system (hundreds of thousands of strategies) is doing at any given moment and how it is performing. We supply both high-level and incredibly detailed views, as both are crucial for efficient decision making and spotting issues.
In addition to visibility, we are also responsible for trading control mechanisms - e.g., tweaking limits, starting trading strategies or emergency stopping. These actions are necessary for continued trading, and sometimes need to be taken within minutes, with millions of pounds at stake.
Realtime Analytics and Controls is a small specialist team which works directly with multiple front office groups. You will be expected to also contribute to the shared software platform that supports this group.
This is one of our most people-oriented engineering roles. You should expect to collaborate regularly with your colleagues who are the primary customers of your software, to understand how your design decisions affect their day-to-day work.
Responsibilities
- Communicate regularly with internal users about their needs and ideas
- Understand workflows of all teams involved in trading
- Design, implement and maintain software, including an ingestion mechanism for large volumes of data from trading systems
- Design, implement and maintain internal frameworks for data processing and presentation
- Design, implement and maintain in-memory query engines
- Present the data in a clear, useful, and accurate way, in collaboration with frontend developers
- Maintain calculation of trading metrics
- Build software that can reliably run 24/7
- Participate in the on-call rota
Requirements
- Pragmatic with strong ability to communicate with technical stakeholders: understanding users' needs, soliciting features / requirements from them and prioritising effectively according to business needs
- Algorithmically literate and able to write efficient code
- Familiar with distributed systems – able to reason about consistency, delays etc.
- Minimum of 5 years' experience coding in a professional environment with Java or C++
- Willing to learn Kotlin
- Skilled in writing automated tests
- Passionate about reducing complexity
- Deeply caring about correctness and reliability
- Proactive about taking responsibility
What You'll Get
- Onsite gym, sauna, and fitness classes at no charge
- Extensive medical benefits including an on-site doctor and therapist at no charge
- Breakfast and lunch provided daily
- Various supports for caregivers, including emergency dependent care
- Beautiful Kings Cross office
- 25 days paid holiday per year + statutory holiday and paid sick days
- Generous Pension contributions