Realtime Analytics and Controls Developer

About 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. You will provide clarity on trading system performance and manage critical control mechanisms for trading strategies. This role involves close collaboration with front office groups to design and maintain software that ensures efficient decision-making and system reliability.

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 ingestion mechanisms, data processing frameworks, and in-memory query engines.
• Present 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.

Required skills

• Java
• C++
• Distributed systems
• Automated testing
• Algorithmic design

Nice to have

• Kotlin
• High throughput JVM
• Binary protocols
• Database management

Benefits

• Onsite gym
• Sauna
• Fitness classes
• Medical benefits
• On-site doctor
• On-site therapist
• Daily breakfast and lunch
• Caregiver support
• 25 days paid holiday
• Pension contributions

About the Company

XTX Markets is a leading algorithmic trading firm that uses machine learning technology to produce price forecasts for over 50,000 financial instruments. The firm trades over $250bn a day across 35 countries and maintains an unrivalled level of computational resources, including a large-scale research cluster.