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Java Software Engineer (Strategy)

A software engineer building tools for trading strategy teams, including algorithm implementations, option pricing, simulation and risk applications. It sits in the Mumbai strategy development group working with traders and quants.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Build option pricing and volatility calculation components
Develop simulation and trade analysis tools for traders
Implement trading algorithms with quant researchers
Deploy, monitor and support production services
Balance latency against maintainability in design choices

What they ask for

Required

3 to 6 years as a software engineer
Computer science background
Java, C++, Python or Kotlin
Algorithms and concurrency
Ownership of delivery
Interest in markets

Preferred

Prior trading experience
Java experience

Education: Strong academic background in computer science or a related field.
Experience: 3 to 6 years as a software engineer
Languages and tools: Java
Python
C++
Kotlin
Kafka
Docker
Kubernetes
Markets: options

How to prepare

Build a small option pricing library in Java or similar with tests
Study concurrency and garbage collection behaviour on the JVM
Learn how a trading algorithm consumes market data and sends orders
Practise building services with Kafka and containers

What to study

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