Senior Equity Derivatives Developer

Senior Equity Derivatives Developer

Hybrid at New York,NY

Long term contract

Role Overview

We are looking for a highly motivated, hands-on Senior Equity Derivatives Developer with strong software engineering, quantitative integration, and Front Office technology experience.

The successful candidate will design, develop, integrate, and support applications used by Equity Derivatives trading and quantitative teams, with particular emphasis on volatility fitting and surface construction, quantitative pricing and calibration workflows, Murex API integration , Bloomberg BPIPE market-data integration, Front Office pricing and trade workflows, and Level 3 production support.

The candidate should combine strong Java and Python development capabilities with a practical understanding of Equity Derivatives products, pricing concepts, volatility analytics, and enterprise integration. The role works closely with traders, quantitative analysts, business analysts, Murex specialists, market-data teams, and production-support teams to deliver reliable, scalable, controlled, and supportable solutions.

Core Techincal Requirements

• Strong hands-on software development experience using Java and Python.
• Strong Java development experience for enterprise services, APIs, workflow orchestration, messaging, and platform integration.
• [nice to have] Strong Python development experience for quantitative analytics, numerical methods, optimization, calibration, pricing, or market-data processing.
• Experience designing, developing, and supporting REST APIs and other service-based integrations.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architectures, messaging platforms, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Experience developing resilient, high-throughput, and low-latency services used by Front Office applications.
• Strong understanding of API design, data contracts, versioning, error handling, performance optimization, resilience, and security best practices.
• Experience integrating internal applications with third-party trading, pricing, risk, and market-data platforms.
• Strong knowledge of unit, integration, contract, regression, performance, and automated testing.
• Experience with relational databases, SQL, data persistence, caching, messaging, and distributed processing technologies.
• Experience with source control, code review, CI/CD, database change management, observability, auditability, release management, and production change controls.
• Comfortable participating in all phases of the software development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, solution design, development, testing, deployment, and Level 3 production support.
• Strong diagnostic skills for production issues involving pricing calculations, volatility calibration, market data, system integration, application performance, and trade workflow behavior.