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About the job
The Wissen team continues to expand its footprint in the USA, Canada, UK, Australia, and India. More openings to come as we continue to grow the team!
Please read below for a brilliant career opportunity.
Role: Software Engineer
Title: AVP/VP
Location: Montreal, QC(Day 1 Onsite/Hybrid) - Fulltime
Mode of Work: 3 days/week onsite required
Required Experience: 7+ years
Required Skills:
As a developer in the Linear Rates Technology team, they will be required to work with the trading desk, quantitative strategists, QA teams, and their IT colleagues to understand and document requirements, design systems architecture, as well as code implementation, guide QA teams to develop integration tests, conduct post-rollout follow-ups, and contribute with production support. Moreover, the team has a culture of collaboration; therefore, contributions/participation in knowledge transfer sessions are strongly encouraged.
Projects cover all aspects of pre-trading, front-office risk and market data such as capture, storage, workflow management, manipulation and calibration of yield curves and other market data objects. Various risk systems are used for calculation and generation of reports for estimation of PnL (Profit and Loss) and risk profile of a diverse collection of simulation scenarios relevant to the desk for both intraday and EOD usages. Pre-trading systems are used to price quote requests to clients and book them into our trade capture systems when filled.
This is an exciting opportunity to work on the Firm's next generation, cross-asset Risk Calculation Environment (RICE). RICE is a strategic project, consolidating Firm's valuation, risk, market data and Profit&Loss (PnL) for all OTC cash and derivative positions. This is a great chance to work on a technically challenging, multi-year project to renovate Firm's risk and market data systems and to learn about the Firm's Fixed Income Derivatives business by working closely with the trading desk and strategists.
RICE is a graph-based calculation platform with pricing engines running on top of more than 5K Virtual Machines deployed through several Computing Grids that can shrink and expand depending on demand, running billion of computations every day. You'll be working on one of the largest Scala codebases in the world with a lot of opportunities to make significant contributions and impact to Firm's business.
This is a front-office technology team. Depending on the project, they will be expected to have interactions with the trading desk and quants/strats as well as financial controllers, market risk and derivative operations departments. As pricing sits at the very core of the business, there will be interactions with a wide range of other technology teams as well, for example: RICE Core/FX/Credit, Optimus, Enterprise Applications Infrastructure, Analytics, and many others.
Benefits:
Healthcare insurance for you and your family (medical, dental, vision).
Short / Long term disability insurance.
Life Insurance.
Accidental death & disability Insurance.
3 weeks of Paid Time Off.
Support and fee coverage for immigration needs.
Remote office set up stipend.
Support for industry certifications.
Additional cash incentives.
Re-skilling opportunities to transition between technologies.
Schedule: Monday to Friday
Work Mode: Hybrid
Job Type: Full-time
We are: A high end technical consulting firm built and run by highly qualified technologists. Our workforce consists of 5000+ highly skilled professionals, with leadership from Wharton, MIT, IITs, IIMs, and NITs and decades of experience at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, MSCI, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Verizon, British Telecom, ISRO etc. Without any external funding or investments, Wissen Technology has grown its revenues by 100% every other year since it started as a subsidiary of Wissen Group in 2015. We have a global presence with offices in the US, India, UK, Australia, Mexico, and Canada.
You are: A true tech or domain ninja. Or both. Comfortable working in a quickly growing profitable startup, have a "can do" attitude and are willing to take on any task thrown your way.
You will:
Develop and promote the company's culture of engineering excellence.
Define, develop and deliver solutions at a top tier investment bank or another esteemed client.
Perform other duties as needed
Your Education and Experience:
We value candidates who can execute on our vision and help us build an industry-leading organization.
Graduate-level degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical field
Wissen embraces diversity and is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, skills, and abilities. We believe that the more inclusive our team is, the better our work will be. All qualified applicants, including but not limited to LGBTQ+, Minorities, Females, the Disabled, and Veterans, are encouraged to apply.
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