Rapid Application Developer – IT Quant

Job description

Margo is a Tech Native consultancy covering **high value-added IT expertise for the market finance industry**. We believe that the smart alliance between complex IT topics and the finance area brings the most challenging topics to our consultants: low latency, multithreading, high data volume… Joining Margo as an IT consultant, is the promise to be part of a human-sized company with an internal monitoring and tailor-made training policy that assure you to develop your skills. Its offers are organised around 3 main expertise: IT Support, Rapid Application Development and Software Development. **Margo is seeking a Rapid Application Developer – IT Quant to integrate its teams within a worldwide corporate and investment bank.** ### Key Responsibilities - Use rapid application development techniques for quick turn-around of high-profile projects - Build the trading framework software, through close interaction with traders and quants - Support and enhance various ad-hoc infrastructure applications, processes, databases, production surveillance and control tools - Report and track performance indicators for the front office traders with many aspects of electronic and algorithmic trading, back testing, and data management systems - Contribute to design and implement data store and its API - Monitor fetching processes and data health - Integrate alternative datasets ### Financial products - Forex - Equities and derivatives - Emerging markets - Commodities - Risk and PnL - Credit and rates - Exchange-traded funds - Convertible bonds ### Skills required - Strong skills in C++ or Java or Python development (depending on the team/project) with good understanding of their ecosystem - Good database, SQL, VBA knowledge - Proficient use of common tooling: Git, Unix Shell - Experience in structured, unstructured data management and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP…) - Proactive and flexible approach to deal with challenges, lean complex quantitative concepts and identify emerging and alternative data - Interest to work within front-office environment and interact with traders, researchers and business managers - Ability to work independently within a global team and deliver when under pressure and time constraints