Hybrid Senior Market Data Developer

at BMLL

• Job title: Senior Market Data Developer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Linux, Python
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Senior Developer at BMLL processing market data and building data parsers using C++ and Python. Collaborating with teams to improve data processing and reliability in a hybrid work environment.

Responsibilities

• Owning the full scope of assigned development projects such as data parsers, including liaising with the business to gather requirements, designing the solution with the team, and building and delivering completed functionality to production
• Planning and leading small projects, which may be cross-team
• Delivering new data parsers and other data generation processes, primarily in C++, with an emphasis on quality and reliability
• Understanding the data, how it reaches BMLL, how we process it and deliver it to customers
• Communicating with technical teams both within BMLL and sometimes at data providers such as financial exchanges
• Some second-line support of the daily parsing processes and the data, shared amongst the team

Requirements

• Experience of working with equities or derivatives market data from financial exchanges, using protocols such as ITCH, GTP, EOBI, iMpact, Pillar, Optiq. This is a must-have for this role.
• Industry experience of writing production-level C++ and delivering functioning, well-tested systems
• Demonstrated ability to plan and lead small projects
• Industry experience of developing on a Linux platform
• Industry experience of Python development
• Experience of industry-standard development methodologies such as source code control, unit testing and continuous integration
• Ability to self-organise and deliver a project over a period of up to a few months
• Strong problem solving skills
• Strong communication skills
• Computer science or other STEM degree

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Discretionary Bonus
• Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• Work remotely abroad for up to 40 business days each year
• Life Insurance
• Combination of remote and London-based office working, with 2 days in the office per week.
• A yearly Well-being Physical Activity budget
• Continuous learning through funded training and challenging projects
• Collaborative culture
• Weekly team lunches
• Free Fruit, snacks, and drinks provided throughout the day (When office-based)
• Regular Team Socials
• Cycle to Work Scheme