Junior Programmer in OnHires

- Our client company is a Foreign Exchange Hedge Fund. - 99% of their trading is done by systems on computers in data centers in New York. - Their founder has adapted a portfolio of trading systems that are highly profitable but have not yet been optimised. - They have a deep connection to Ukraine and are opening an office in Ukraine to further develop their profitable systems and invest in staff to find and build new even more profitable systems. - They are a high-frequency trading firm, which means they hold positions for (generally) very short periods and their systems trade 24 hours 5 days a week. - They trade US$700m - $800m of foreign exchange every month. Responsibilities • Guided by the Senior Foreign Exchange Trader you will build and manage; - Automation tools; -Data analysis tools; -Automated Algorithmic Trading (Expert Advisors) to initiate FX trades; -Performance tracking; -Alerting tools and systems when trades are not monitored by the trader; -Backtesting algorithms with data scientist; • You will extract data from trading systems and trading records for analysis; • Guided by the Data Scientist you will build a warehouse for holding data, searching, and analysing data; • Build interfaces for automated trading to server-side API; • Manage high-frequency trading servers and optimise CPU allocation. Qualifications • Candidate can be a University Graduate,someone with 1-2+ years in a software development role; • Experience in developing end-to-end basic software and data tools; • Less important to have worked in a large development team which is usually based on working only on parts of projects rather than full solutions; • No specific trading or Foreign exchange experience but that would be an advantage. Skills • Excel and data analysis; • General experience building end-to-end useful tools or applications (not task-based); • Some basic networking such as latency and where/how to run our high-frequency trading servers; • SQL; • API; • MQL; • Python and C++ (possibly C#); • Database and data warehouse skills; • HTML and Website for display of data and monitoring.