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Senior Full Stack Developer (React)
My client, a leader in the Alternative Investment Marketplace, have created a digital platform for private banks to invest in funds they can structure, and are in search for a Principal UI Engineer.
The successful candidate will work on the development and maintenance of our web-based private equity management platform. The role requires working closely with our team of developers, designers, and stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain web-based private equity management platform using React, JavaScript, and other web technologies
- Collaborate with team members to design, develop, and implement new features and functionality
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code
- Troubleshoot and debug application issues
- Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies
Qualifications:
- Strong experience with React, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and web technologies
- Experience with Node.js and Express is a plus
- Familiarity with Git and version control
- Experience with Agile development methodologies
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Strong communication and teamwork skills
Personal Characteristics:
- You’re a self-starter and offer suggestions for activity that improves the product you work on.
- You’ll skillfully manage the demands and expectations of stakeholders and teams across the business, presenting your work and building relationships while representing your team.
- You realize the value of face-to-face time and appreciate the interpersonal opportunities and improvements that can make.
- You’ll work closely with colleagues from Product, Engineering, Data, Research, Legal and QA
- Collaboration is key and you’ll be an active contributor to our team culture. You’ll constantly look to advance your own knowledge and take opportunities to share your learning back with the team.
Working condition:
· Office-based, two times a week in London
Azure DevOps Lead
We are exclusively partnered with a leader in the Alternative Investment Marketplace who are in search for an Azure DevOps Lead.
This is a hands-on opportunity where you will look to build out a whole function as they look to scale rapidly and should have significant experience of delivering on infrastructure for enterprise applications servicing financial institutions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement Azure infrastructure solutions that meet our client’s business needs
- Manage and maintain Azure infrastructure, including virtual machines, storage, and networking
- Troubleshoot and resolve Azure infrastructure issues
- Ensure that Azure infrastructure is highly available and secure
- Work closely with our product team and clients to understand their requirements and provide recommendations for Azure infrastructure solutions
- Stay up-to-date with the latest Azure features and best practices
- Provide training and guidance to other team members on Azure infrastructure
Qualifications:
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in Azure infrastructure and administration
- Preference for Microsoft Azure architect qualifications
- Experience with Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipeline
- Strong knowledge of Azure virtual machines, storage, and networking
- Experience with Azure automation and scripting
- Experience with Azure security and compliance
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
- Strong communication and presentation skills
Personal Characteristics:
- You’re a self-starter and offer suggestions for activity that improves the product you work on
- You’ll skillfully manage the demands and expectations of stakeholders and teams across the business, presenting your work and building relationships while representing your team
- You realize the value of face-to-face time and appreciate the interpersonal opportunities and improvements that can make
- You’ll work closely with colleagues from Product, Engineering, Data, Research, Legal and QA
- Collaboration is key and you’ll be an active contributor to our team culture. You’ll constantly look to advance your own knowledge and take opportunities to share your learning back with the team.
Working condition:
- Office-based, two times a week in London
Cybersecurity Expert
My client, a leader in the Alternative Investment Marketplace, have created a digital platform for private banks to invest in funds they can structure.
We are seeking a highly skilled Cybersecurity Expert specializing in securing software applications to join our team at a Private Equity Technology Firm in London. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the security of our web-based private equity management platform and ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations. This role requires a combination of technical expertise and strong understanding of cybersecurity best practices.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and maintain security measures for our web-based private equity management platform
- Conduct regular security assessments and penetration testing to identify vulnerabilities
- Manage vendors who
- Contribute to SOC2 and ISO standard certifications
- Develop and implement security policies, procedures, and standards
- Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and regulations in cybersecurity
- Collaborate with the development team to ensure the implementation of security measures throughout the software development life cycle
- Respond to security incidents and conduct investigations as necessary
Qualifications:
- Strong experience in software development and cybersecurity
- Experience with web application security, network security, and cloud security
- This includes specific technologies to implement into our development and deployment pipelines such as static code analysis
- Strong understanding of security protocols and standards such as OWASP, PCI DSS, and ISO 27001
- Familiarity with security tools such as WAF, IDS/IPS, and SIEM
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Strong communication and teamwork skills
Personal Characteristics
- You’re a self-starter and offer suggestions for activity that improves the product you work on
- You’ll skillfully manage the demands and expectations of stakeholders and teams across the business, presenting your work and building relationships while representing your team
- You realize the value of face-to-face time and appreciate the interpersonal opportunities and improvements that can make
- You’ll work closely with colleagues from Product, Engineering, Data, Research, Legal and QA
- Collaboration is key and you’ll be an active contributor to our team culture. You’ll constantly look to advance your own knowledge and take opportunities to share your learning back with the team.
Working condition:
- Office-based, two times a week in London
Pre-Sales Engineer
/ Low Latency / Electronic Trading (Mandarin speaking- to service Taiwanese clients)
Are you looking to work in a high performing global team that is entrepreneurial in nature?
EC1 has won an exclusive role with a global technology services provider that delivers innovative low-latency solutions for financial markets. My client has the best-in-class portfolio to support clients through the full trading cycle efficiently with exceptional market data services and customized infrastructure solutions.
What you will be doing
Design network solutions aligned with low latency, high availability, and scalability
Collaborate with sales, account management teams, and C-suite as a technical expert for building, winning, and maintaining relationships
Provide feedback to Product Management team to influence roadmaps for solutions and future design considerations along the requirements
Technical support for overall proof-of-concepts and implementations, identifying, resolving, and escalating challenges
Solution sell to bigger picture understanding the required components and security standards
What you bring
Strong understanding of datacentre colocation environment, networking concepts and protocols
Deep knowledge of the financial technology landscape,
In depth knowledge of Financial Extranets, low-latency trading infrastructure, market data Server software and hardware
Strong experience in switching concepts and unicast/multicast routing
Proven experience in pre-sales or sales engineering with a financial technology solution around electronic or low latency trading solutions
Excellent Visio – Microsoft Office suite
Fluency in Mandarin is a must to service Taiwan based clients
Minimum 5 years’ experience in financial technology sales engineering with bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering
Open on location or remote work in Asia
If this sounds like you, please send your updated cv to me at [email protected]
Linux Systems Admin
EC1 Partners are working exclusively with a prop-trading firm who have a vision which combines strategy, technology and innovation that seek out new opportunities, analysing both risks and rewards to create tools for success in today’s global markets.
They are in search for a Linux Systems Administrator to work closely with developers and traders.
Their environment is purely Linux on both server side and trader desktops.. Windows servers very rarely used and Windows desktops as needed.
Skills & Attributes:
Fluency in Linux administration is a must
Experience in Debian/Ubuntu preferred
Strong communication skills
A demonstrated ability to work tasks to completion and tolerate frequent context switches
Experience with:
– BIND
– Ansible
– Linux KVM
– Zabbix
– Google workplace collaboration and productivity tools
– Some Windows administration skills are a plus, but not required
Experience scripting in bash and python is preferred, SQL and Perl a plus
Knowledge of cybersecurity tools including 2FA, iptable rulesets, Malwarebytes, fail2ban, etc.
Ability to move and install equipment weighing up to 50lbs
Preference to apply a breadth of experience towards varied responsibilities in a small-shop environment
Comfortable with hands-on work, racking and stacking in datacenters is commonplace
Responsibilities include:
Installations of workstations on our trading floors and in offices
Installations of servers and networking appliances in data centers, sometimes requiring travel
Additional tasks include:
Hardware maintenance
Large-scale build-outs, sometimes requiring travel, both domestic and international
Installations of office appliances such as printers, phones, televisions, etc.
Senior Algo Automation QA test Engineer
EC1 Partners are working closely with an E-Trading SAAS firm who are in search for a Senior Algorithmic QA Automation Test Engineer to be part of their dynamic, lean and agile Algo team.
You will focus on managing and executing automated test suites for their low-latency algo trading platform covering trading algorithms, quantitative analytics, reference data, and other electronic trading services globally.
Responsibilities:
Design, write, execute and maintain automated test cases for algorithmic trading platform and other trading-related applications and services.
Provide adequate test coverage based on specifications including trading algorithms, key risk controls, models and various features used by the trading platform.
Manage the testing cycle for regional algorithmic trading platform releases, identify and manage risks associated with changes, contribute to the design and improvement of the automation testing framework and offer insights and recommendations to improve the automation toolset.
Collaborate with stakeholders (business analysts, developers, product owners, quants, end-users, and others) to understand and define business requirements and acceptance criteria; cultivate a deep knowledge of the algorithmic trading products.
Contribute to 3rd line development support as part of a support rota.
Skills and Experience
Knowledge of darkpool & working in an Algo trading environment
Deep knowledge of equities markets and trading, particularly in UK/EMEA markets, ideally in the context of algorithmic trading.
Strong understanding of the agency brokerage business model and electronic trading, ideally in the context of algorithmic trading.
Deep knowledge of regulatory considerations for algorithmic trading in UK/EMEA including MiFIDII.
Solid experience of Dark Aggregation, Execution Algorithms, Smart Order Routing and market data.
Strong understanding of order management and use of OMS/EMS platforms such as InfoReach, Fidessa.
Strong experience of algo testing requirements under MiFIDII including key risk controls, disorderly market conditions, kill switch and stress tests.
Understanding of product development lifecycles and iterative development methods with a commitment to quality and excellence.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to communicate and document testing plans and results.
Experience with CI/CD and automated testing frameworks like JBehave/Cucumber/JUnit, ideally in the context of algorithmic trading.
Experience with programming languages such as Java is a plus.
Experience with source control systems such as Git/Perforce and DevOps tooling such as Bamboo/GitLab.
C# Lead
EC1 Partners are exclusively partnered with a global fintech leader who are in search for an Lead C# Developer to sit within their Data & Analytics division.
You will be required to provide technical expertise, ownership, and responsibilities in end-to-end IT project delivery. You will be leading a small lean agile team of developers and should have a solid understanding on multi-threading, microservices, and application architecture. You should also have an understanding on authentication, containerization and basic cloud principles.
Job duties:
Analyse, design, develop, test and maintain software at a level which sets standards for others to follow
Provide support to end users
Assist other team members with planning and estimation
Effective communication with Global Analytics management, and Analytics teams in other regions
Effective communication with users, brokers, and stakeholders globally
Manage a small team of skilled software developers
Risk Responsibilities
Ensure that you understand the risks and controls on your department; what could go wrong, what controls you have to prevent/detect or contain these.
Ensure that you are fully aware of and adhere to internal policies that relate to you, your role or any other activities for which you have any level of responsibility;
Report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/ or your supervisor as described in the policy;
Escalate risk events immediately and log them within 24 hours using the risk event capture form on the intranet;
Provide input if requested to the Risk and Control Self-Assessment process, scenario analysis, ‘Deep Dive’ reviews and any other risk management processes, as required.
Experience
Essential: Experienced in C# software development, and related technologies, including .Net Core
Essential: Experienced in the Software Development Life Cycle
Essential: Experienced in writing testable software
Essential: Some experience of AWS Cloud technologies (S3, EKS, MSK, SQS, etc.)
Essential: Experienced in working with containers (Docker)
Desirable: Experience of managing software complexity
Skills
Proficient in using .NET Framework and .NET core
Solid knowledge of concurrency patterns
Ability to write clean, readable code
Strong in Object Orientated Programming, Design Patterns and SOLID principles
Proficient with Test Driven Development including Unit and Integration testing
Proficient with code versioning in Git
Familiarity with Continuous Integration ideally with TFS/GitLab
Familiarity with databases such as MS SQL Server and or Oracle (or AWS managed DBs, e.g. DynamoDB, etc.)
Innovative
Open to innovative ideas/ experiences and ability to create new ideas, approaches or insights
Seeks opportunities for improvements
Handles situations and problems with innovation and creativity
Senior Software Developer
Founded by a group of computer scientists and financial market veterans, our client is a well-funded newly formed quants trading house with a focus area in the sassy world of digital assets. Combining high-performance, distributed systems, advanced algorithms and huge data sets, they are set to revolutionise the world of crypto trading.
As an integral part of the global software engineering team, you will be responsible for partnering the various stakeholders in delivering high-performance trading technology platforms to your team. As this is a newly-formed team, you will have the opportunity to work on really exciting projects and building systems from scratch! Core responsibilities would include the following:
Be an active contributor of the core designing team where you will participate in the full software development lifecycle, from conceptualisation to release and support
Write high-quality code, according to agreed standards, with the relevant stakeholders, integration and automation test coverage to build new trading systems across exchanges and liquidity venues
Contribute to the overall architecture of the system by applying relevant frameworks and software development designs as needed by working with other team members
Codes, tests, debugs and documents software applications
You will ideally come with the following qualifications:
With a minimum of 5 years’ experience in software development, you will have strong hands-on in full SDLC
You will have got strong hands-on in C++, Python or Rust in a Linux environment; you will also have got good exposure to multithreaded and distributed system design and implementation
Coupled with your technical knowledge, you will have demonstrated independence and able to work collaboratively in a diverse and agile environment where multi-discipline team members work closely to ensure requirements are met
With a strong passion for anything financial or data-related, you will also be a true-blue techie
If you are looking for an entrepreneurial and creative environment, loves working on challenging, complicated problems, ping us with your CV today at [email protected] for a confidential chat!
Senior Software Test Analyst
Do you like being part of team that is open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, passionate and fun?
My client is from the financial services and technology, and they create and maintain the processes of the division’s quality program. They provide consulting for software development or operations processes, quality practices, quality audits and software measurements to product development within the division.
The team that you will be working with comprises of members across Architecture, Quality Assurance, Development, Business Analysis, and Project Management on Java based solution for large financial institutions supporting complex payment products.
What you will be doing
Develops, maintains and upgrades Manual or Automated test scripts, utilities, simulators, data sets and other programmatic test tools required to execute test plans
Effectively communicates testing activities and findings in oral and written forms
Controls and manages own daily test activities
Supports Delivery Management team to identify risks and develops mitigation strategies
Performs other related duties as assigned
What you bring
Hands on experience in testing Payment messages including Payment Initiation, Clearing & Settlement.
Good understanding of IS0 20022 payment messages or equivalent
Knowledge of primary database engines with a demonstrated ability to write complex queries to be used for data validation and troubleshooting
Ability to conceptualize & implement automation for E2E Regression
Hands-on experience in Test Data Design Techniques
Working experience of Webservices (REST/SOAP) and Putty
Good understanding of Continuous Integrations (CI) / Continuous Deployment (CD)
Checking system logs for error detection and trouble shooting
Good understanding of testing artefacts both internal to teams and client delivered
Hands-on experience on Cucumber/Selenium based test framework would be an added advantage
Ability to work in an agile development environment where multi-discipline team members work closely together(co-located) to ensure quality and timely delivery
Able to understand and focus on a Client’s needs and to work closely with Clients, onsite at their premises when required
Ability to demonstrate interpersonal and teambuilding skills, working with technical and non-technical individuals
Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing
What we offer you
Competitive salary and benefits
A multifaceted job with a high degree of responsibility and a broad spectrum of opportunities
An international work environment and a dedicated and motivated team
If this sounds like you, please send your updated cv to me at [email protected] (:
QA & Release Manager
EC1 Partners are working closely with a VC-backed Crypto Custodian who are looking for a Quality Assurance & Release Manager. You will work with a small, but growing team who provide secure custody of crypto assets for institutional investors. Time-to-market and the safe-keeping of client’s digital assets require this important role to have strong co-ordination skills and focus on automation.
Duties & Responsibilities:
Develop and implement a Quality Assurance strategy for the firm, including the adoption of principles and practice
Own the release management lifecycle for the platform, including scheduling and coordinating releases across in-house and vendor applications and service providers
Work with internal teams (Commercial, Legal, Operations, Product and Engineering), partners and client to align, plan and roll-out change smoothly and efficiently into production
Ensure all projects incorporate a suitable level of quality assurance
Manage risks and resolve challenges that impact release scope, quality, and schedules – proactively engage stakeholders in release-readiness reviews
Mitigate operational risk by planning, preparing, and rehearsing the rollout of application releases, while managing the readiness of partners and clients
Continuously improve the QA & release management process
Coach, teach, mentor, support and inspire the team in all things Quality
Qualifications, Skills & Experience:
University degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent
You will have considerable experience working in technology management roles, including:
Hands-on experience in Quality Assurance / Release Management roles within an agile product development environment
Excellent understanding of project management practices and software development lifecycle
Effective leadership, communication, stakeholder and change management skills, able to articulate trade-offs to all stakeholders
Modern software delivery techniques to ensure quality (Agile delivery, DevOps practices, automation, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery).
Experience of working within a regulated, financial services domain is desirable
Strong functional understanding of the Digital Asset / Crypto custody space will be an advantage
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