Senior C++ Developer with SWAP OR Equities experience

The Role

The candidate will be expected to develop and support financial services applications related to:

• Equity and Portfolio Swap life cycle and life cycle event.
• Synthetic Prime, Portfolio, Equity and Total Return Swaps.
• Equities and equity trading.
• Understanding of equity swap hedge execution lifecycle.
• Design and Implement best of breed technologies to re-position our existing platform for the future.

Requirements

• Possess good communication skills.
• Candidate should have strong knowledge of:
• Experience with managed and un-managed code C++ environment.
• Visual Studio and experience with TFS and JIRA.
• Frontend and server side development.
• Databases, Microsoft SQL Server programming.
• Understanding of message queues and middleware.
• Familiar with Kafka.
• Working knowledge of Portfolio and total return swaps in an equities environment, supporting traders, operations, and middle office.
• Team player with a "can-do" attitude who can deliver under high pressure and tight deadlines.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, as well as excellent communication skills, verbal and written to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Work independently in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines.
• High motivated and self-starter.
• 5-10+ years of experience in C++.
• 5-10+ years of experience in capital markets working and strong knowledge & understanding of financial products – ideally Equity Swaps/Synthetic Prime.

Preferred

• WPF development.
• Windows services.
• Web Services.
• Supporting traders, operations, middle office end to end.
• Equity derivatives.
• Stock borrow/stock loan.
• Other front office, back office, risk management and trading technologies are a plus.
• Angular.

Benefits

• A highly competitive compensation and benefits package.
• A multinational organization with 57 offices in 22 countries and the possibility to work abroad.
• 10 days of paid annual leave (plus sick leave and national holidays).
• Maternity & paternity leave plans.
• A comprehensive insurance plan including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and long-/short-term disability (plans vary by region).
• Roth retirement savings plans.
• A higher education certification policy.
• Commuter benefits (varies by region).
• Extensive training opportunities, focused on skills, substantive knowledge, and personal development.
• On-demand Udemy for Business for all Synechron employees with free access to more than 5000 curated courses.
• Coaching opportunities with experienced colleagues from our Financial Innovation Labs (FinLabs) and Center of Excellences (CoE) groups.
• Cutting edge projects at the world’s leading tier-one banks, financial institutions and insurance firms.
• A flat and approachable organization.
• A truly diverse, fun-loving, and global work culture.