Realtime Analytics and Controls Developer

The role

You will build and maintain the mission control panel for a large trading system, giving users clear views of what the system is doing and how it performs. You will also build the controls that let users change limits, start or stop strategies, and emergency stop.

What you will do

• 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.
• Build internal frameworks for data processing and presentation.
• Build in-memory query engines.
• Present data clearly, usefully and accurately, in collaboration with frontend developers.
• Maintain calculation of trading metrics.
• Build software that can reliably run 24/7.
• Participate in the on-call rota.

Required qualifications

• Pragmatic, with strong ability to communicate with technical stakeholders.
• Algorithmically literate and able to write efficient code.
• Familiar with distributed systems, able to reason about consistency and delays.
• 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.

Nice to have

• Familiar with high throughput JVM techniques.
• Experience with binary protocols.
• Proficient in working with databases.
• Experienced in working with high stakes systems.

Benefits

• 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.
• 25 days paid holiday per year, plus statutory holiday and paid sick days.
• Generous pension contributions.

Before you apply

• Hiring for this role is done through the employer's own process; no other conditions on eligibility are stated.

About the company

XTX Markets is an algorithmic trading firm that uses machine learning to forecast prices across many financial instruments and trade on exchanges. It has over 300 employees across several cities and describes its culture as non-hierarchical and collaborative.