Sr. Software Engineer: ETrading, ION

Description

TD Bank Group

Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with more than 85,000 employees in offices around the world, The Toronto-Dominion Bank and its subsidiaries are collectively known as TD Bank Group (TD). TD offers a full range of financial products and services more than 25 million customers worldwide through three key business lines:

Canadian Retail  including TD Canada Trust, Business Banking, TD Auto Finance (Canada), TD Wealth (Canada), TD Direct Investing and TD Insurance

U.S. Retail  including TD Bank, America’s Most Convenient Bank, TD Auto Finance (U.S.), TD Wealth (U.S.) and TD’s investment in TD Ameritrade

Wholesale Banking  including TD Securities

TD had CDN$1.3 trillion in assets on October 31, 2018. TD also ranks among the world’s leading online financial services firms, with more than 12 million active online and mobile customers. The Toronto-Dominion Bank trades on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges under the symbol "TD".

The Toronto-Dominion Bank is a chartered bank subject to the provisions of the Bank Act (Canada). It was formed on February 1, 1955 through the amalgamation of The Bank of Toronto, chartered in 1855, and The Dominion Bank, chartered in 1869.

Business Context

TD Securities (TDS) is a top-two dealer in Canada with a growing US business and global execution capabilities, offering a full suite of capital markets and corporate and investment banking products.

The FICC (Fixed Income, Currencies & Commodities) Electronic Trading Team is part of the TD Securities Technology Solutions group, covering all products of the FX, Fixed Income and Commodities businesses.

The team is responsible for the development and support of the e-trading suite of applications for TD Securities, covering: 
• Pricing
• Dealer-to-Dealer order execution
• Dealer-to-Client quoting solutions
• Automated/algo execution capabilities
• Risk management

• Straight Through Processing (STP) for trade execution

• Data pipelines, storage and analytics

Our applications utilize the latest low latency technology and DevOps approaches to deliver highly scalable technology solutions.

These applications are used globally by Front Office traders, quants, and enterprise risk systems – they are critical to TD’s client pricing and trading activities.

This is a global team with engineers in Toronto, London, Dublin and New York.

Position Overview

The Fixed Income (FI) E-Trading Technology Team is looking for a senior-level (Director) software engineer in North America to lead the regional technology teams, with the following responsibilities:

Shape the existing North America e-trading resources into cohesive team capable of effecting change and supporting the full suite of pre-trade applications

Act as the face of pre-trade technology to the North American FI trading desks

Form a vision for the strategic direction of the FI pre-trade platform and work with their global counterparts to execute

The ideal candidate has the following skills:

Education and Accreditation:

College/University degree with emphasis on numerical subjects (Computer Science, Engineering, Maths, Sciences etc.)

Must Have Skills:

7+ years’ experience as a software engineer delivering FO pricing/trading/risk solutions

Ability to work with sales/trading/quant teams on implementing pre-trade requirements

Strong Core Java knowledge, JDK 8+

Demonstrated experience in hands-on development and deployment of major components into production trading systems

Ability to develop high performance event-driven messaging systems

Experience with enterprise level middleware – examples: Solace, Tib RV/Faster Than Light, Aeron, Redis, Hazelcast

Superior analysis and debugging skills in support of active production trading operations

Experience with implementing automated unit + regression testing into CI/CD development pipelines

Strong understanding and experience with multi-threaded programming

Strong knowledge of Interest Rate Swap products (FRA/IRS/XCCY)

Can discuss problems and solutions with technologists, quants, trading business leads

Familiar with current dev-ops tools and best practices. Examples: Git/Bitbucket, JIRA, TeamCity, Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, Artifactory

Low latency techniques, low or zero GC techniques and mindset

Good to Have:

Experience working with Bloomberg APIs (i.e. BPIPE, SAPI, DAPI)

FIX protocol for market data and/or order lifecycle

KDB/Q experience

ION experience

Candidate should also be or have: 

A strong leader on technical design and solutions,

Ability to provide technical expertise with a focus on efficiency, reliability, scalability, and security; includes planning, evaluating, recommending, designing, operationalizing, and supporting solutions in compliance with enterprise and industry standards

Ability to plan, evaluate, recommend, design, operationalize, and support solutions in compliance with enterprise and industry standards

Ability to lead and help team members on technical implementations

Ability to work on multiple initiatives at the same time

Additional Information :

Join in on what others in TD Technology Solutions are doing:

Inspire a positive work environment and help champion quality, innovation, teamwork and service to the business.

Learn voraciously, stretch your thinking, share your knowledge and educate others.

Communicate and collaborate with both technical and non-technical professionals.

Cultivate winning relationships by building trust with business and technology partners.

Share our commitment to productivity, effectiveness and operational efficiency.

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Who We Are

TD Securities offers a wide range of capital markets products and services to corporate, government, and institutional clients who choose us for our innovation, execution, and experience. With more than 6,500 professionals operating out of 40 cities across the globe, we help clients meet their needs today and prepare for tomorrow. Our services include underwriting and distributing new issues, providing trusted advice and industry-leading insight, extending access to global markets, and delivering integrated transaction banking solutions. In 2023, we acquired Cowen Inc., offering our clients access to a premier U.S. equities business and highly-diverse equity research franchise, while growing our strong, diversified investment bank. We are growth-oriented, people-focused, and community-minded. As a team, we work to deliver value for our clients every day.

Our Total Rewards Package
Our Total Rewards package reflects the investments we make in our colleagues to help them and their families achieve their financial, physical, and mental well-being goals. Total Rewards at TD includes a base salary, variable compensation, and several other key plans such as health and well-being benefits, savings and retirement programs, paid time off, banking benefits and discounts, career development, and reward and recognition programs.
 

Additional Information:
We’re delighted that you’re considering building a career with TD. Through regular development conversations, training programs, and a competitive benefits plan, we’re committed to providing the support our colleagues need to thrive both at work and at home.

Please be advised that this job opportunity is subject to provincial regulation for employment purposes. It is imperative to acknowledge that each province or territory within the jurisdiction of Canada may have its own set of regulations, requirements.
 
Colleague Development 
If you’re interested in a specific career path or are looking to build certain skills, we want to help you succeed. You’ll have regular career, development, and performance conversations with your manager, as well as access to an online learning platform and a variety of mentoring programs to help you unlock future opportunities. Whether you have a passion for helping customers and want to expand your experience, or you want to coach and inspire your colleagues, there are many different career paths within our organization at TD – and we’re committed to helping you identify opportunities that support your goals.
 
Training & Onboarding
We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you’ve got everything you need to succeed in your new role.

Interview Process 
We’ll reach out to candidates of interest to schedule an interview. We do our best to communicate outcomes to all applicants by email or phone call.

 
Accommodation 
Your accessibility is important to us. Please let us know if you’d like accommodations (including accessible meeting rooms, captioning for virtual interviews, etc.) to help us remove barriers so that you can participate throughout the interview process.

We look forward to hearing from you

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