About TSR:

TSR is a relationship-based, customer-focused IT and technical services staffing company.

For over 40 years TSR, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, TSR Consulting Services, have prospered in the Information Technology staffing business, earning the respect of companies both large and small with well refined candidate screening, timely placement, and a real understanding of the right skill sets required by our clients.

Mission & Vision

We do not believe in building a vision around the company but building a company around our vision, which is simply;

Every employee's voice matters, their effort is appreciated, and their talent is rewarded.

We challenge each employee daily, to raise the bar on how we treat our consultants and candidates. For far too long in this industry, candidates have been ghosted, lied to, or placed at a client and then forgotten about. Each day our staff works tirelessly at qualifying and placing, top talent with our clients, in a compassionate and caring manner.

Not every candidate is a match for the job, but every candidate and consultant will be treated with respect and professionalism.

Senior Rates Real Time Pricing and Risk Developer

Job Description

• Location: New York, New York
• Type: Contract
• Job #79632

Our client, a leading financial services company is hiring a Senior Rates Real Time Pricing and Risk Developer on a long-term contract basis.
Job ID 79632

Work Location:
New York, NY - Hybrid
Summary:
This senior developer role is within a global application development team responsible for Real Time Pricing and Risk applications for Rates trading business. The role will focus on design and implementation of critical new features as well as architectural and performance improvements. This role requires strong design and programming skills in Java, experience with KDB, knowledge of various streaming frameworks as well as familiarity with challenges that arise when implementing real time performant systems. The role also requires strong familiarity with Rates trading business as well as quantitative foundation of pricing and risk calculations.
Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the team to understand functional and operational requirements.
• Lead designs and implementation of robust and testable code in support of the requirements.
• Develop certain non-functional features in the system to improve reliability, scalability and performance.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of automated test suites.
• Participate in code reviews helping other team members improve their code.

Required Skills:

• 7+ years of relevant experience in Application Development - Core Java.
• 2+ years of KDB experience are highly preferred.
• Experience with system analysis and in programming of software applications, especially as it pertains to performance and testability of components.
• Familiarity with interest rates products and associated pricing and risk calculations.
• Ability to be proactive, adjust priorities quickly.
• Experience working on a mature development in a large collaborative environment as well as coming up with ideas that challenge current practices.
• Demonstrated leadership skills.
• Experience with Java ecosystem.
• Expert in Java development.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and best DevOps practices.
• Exposure to profiling, debugging and monitoring tools.
• Familiarity with Apache Flink, KDB and Kafka a plus.
• Ambition to learn aspects of systems supporting real time interest rate risk calculations.

Pay: $73-$96 per hour.