JAVA Full Stack Contractor

Are you an experienced Quant developer with a passion for risk management / modelling? Do you have strong software development skills in Python, R, C# or F#? Are you keen to work for a successful but growing Hedge Fund? If so this could be the perfect Risk Developer job for you.

You will be joining a close knit team that are responsible for performing Quant analytics for the firm's Portfolio Managers. The team operate in a hybrid technology and Quant capacity. This entails developing and improving operational processed by ensuring they are more automated, working as the layer between the technology team and the portfolio managers and performing data analysis of very large data sets.

The group has expanded rapidly, which provides numerous technical challenges and the opportunity for a clear career trajectory either deeper in Quantitave Analysis or alternatively into the trading / portfolio management space. This is a unique opportunity to be a key part of a successful Hedge Fund and get to learn from real expert Traders / Portfolio Managers.

The team are hiring multiple levels of experience. Developers with strong programming skills and a keen interest in learning about Trading will be considered and similarly candidates with excellent knowledge of Quantitative Analysis and multiple years of experience will also be considered. What is essential is a good technical background in a programming language such as Python, R, C#, or F#. Excellent numerical and analytical skills, Excel skills and an interest in financial products.

The firm focus on Options and Volatility trading, as such any interest or experience with Volatility and Equity Derivatives would be highly beneficial - however proven Quant experience in any asset class will be considered.

If you are interested in this Quant developer job and want to find out more please send me an updated version of your CV to yves.amar@nicollcurtin.com, if you do not have an updated version of your CV and would like to find out more, then please give me a call on 044 5785 330

Are you an experienced Senior JAVA software engineer with a passion for clean code? Have you been involved in the rearchitecture of large monolithic applications into Microservices? Are you interested in becoming part of a team that is responsible for API development, which enables developers to develop their own microservices? If so, this could be the perfect Senior JAVA Software Engineer job for you!

You will join a specialist team based in Zurich that take responsibility for API development. The team developed an integration engine that enables developers to develop their own microservices. They are a crack team that take responsibility for digitalisation efforts.

They do this by following a strict Agile approach to development, making use of high test coverage and also Cucumber for BDD. The core competencies are strong JAVA development skills, good knowledge of the Spring framework (Boot, Integration), microservices and Kafka for streaming. Given the nature of their work, there is containerization using Docker & Kubernetes. From a front end perspective, the team use React, although Angular experience is also ok, provided you are happy to use React.

As part of this team you will get the best of both worlds in the sense that you will work for a large well funded firm, but get to operate without as much of the classic red tape associated with a large environment.

The team communicate in German and as such German fluency is mandatory

The initial contract will run for 6 months but the expectation is that this will be a long term engagement with multiple extensions, depending on performance.

If you are interested in finding out more about this Senior JAVA Software engineer job, please send your CV to yves.amar@nicollcurtin.com or alternatively you can call me on 044 5785 330.