Team Lead – Order Gateway

Role: Order Gateway - Team Lead

Team : Order Gateway

Department: Development

Location(s): London

Squarepoint is a global investment management firm that utilizes a diversified portfolio of systematic and quantitative strategies across financial markets that seeks to achieve high quality, uncorrelated returns for our clients. We have deep expertise in trading, technology and operations and attribute our success to rigorous scientific research. As a technology and data-driven firm, we design and build our own cutting-edge systems, from high performance trading platforms to large scale data analysis and compute farms. With main investment offices in New York, London and Singapore, we emphasize true, global collaboration by aligning our investment, technology and operations teams functionally around the world.

Position Overview:

The Order Gateway team develops and maintains Squarepoint Order Entry Gateways which are used by our Strategies to route orders and receive trade information from various exchange and brokers across multiple asset classes globally.

• Manage and lead a team of Order Gateway Developers to implement and deliver Business requirements and contribute to technical roadmaps.
• Work closely with stakeholders to define requirements and ensure they are delivered timely with high quality standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand the business requirements, design, and implement the required solution which meets business needs.
• Strong ownership of projects throughout their full engineering lifecycle.
• Actively contribute across various phases of delivery such as Architecture, Design and Code reviews across various Order Gateway products.
• Streamline team workflow and process to improve overall efficiency.
• Drive the team to excel by fostering skill enhancement and professional growth as well as performance reviews.
• Enforce best practices across development and release cycles.
• Continuously improve performance, scalability, and efficiency of order gateway products.
• Enhance performance and reliability of Order Gateway products.
• Ensure testing being central part of overall development process and procedures.
• Work with technology operations in providing Level 2 support as required.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related subject
• 5+ years of experience in managing technical team.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skill to effectively collaborate with global team members and stakeholders.
• Knowledge of software development best practices, version control, and testing methodologies.
• Strong understanding of modern C++ development techniques.
• Professional experience working in Linux environment.
• Strong knowledge of Data Structures, Networking concepts.
• Proficiency in Python.

Nice to have:

• Advanced degree in Mathematics or Computer Engineering (MSc)
• Capable of developing industrial strength software components with colleagues across the globe.
• Knowledge of any scripting language.
• Knowledge of exchange connectivity protocols would be a great addition,
• Good financial knowledge in equities, derivatives, and other asset classes.
• Experience with low latency development.