Senior Specialist, Full-Stack Developer

Overview

Who We Are?

For over 235 years, Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon) has been at the center of the global financial markets, providing the world's leading institutions the tools, capabilities, and services to be distinctive investors. BNY Mellon has approximately $16.5 billion in revenues and a 23% return on tangible common equity.

BNY Mellon is a leader in the world of investment services and investment management, and our businesses support the full range of stakeholders of the financial system including:

• Managing the custody of approximately $37 trillion financial assets of the world's leading institutional investors, hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds, and corporates
• Investing approximately $2 trillion as one of the largest global asset managers across a wide range of asset classes
• Providing collateral, liquidity, and funding for the world's largest banks through our markets franchise
• Serving family offices and high net worth individuals through our wealth management franchise
• Providing a full suite of solutions to advisors, broker-dealers, family offices, hedge and '40 Act fund managers, registered investment advisor firms and wealth managers
• Advising large global corporations on a range of trust and other solutions
• Providing integrated managed data services to asset managers

What We Do:

Execution Services - Capital Markets

Execution Services is a trading organization providing execution and other trading services to internal asset management clients, with more than $650B in AUM. We are looking to externalize this offering by building an Outsourced Trading business to support external clients. The Technology team works closely with the Execution Services trading and quant research teams to develop industry-leading trading technology as we continue to evolve our business, infrastructure, and processes.

Role Overview:

This is an opportunity for an experience Full-Stack Developer to get involved from the ground-up, as we design, architect, and build a state-of-the-art platform to empower extensive reporting capabilities, research, and real-time analytics, in support of our new global, multi-asset trading organization.

Role-Specific Responsibilities:

• Play a key role in the design, architecture, and implementation of:
  • Trading research platform
  • Real-time decision support service
  • Reporting platform and service
• Build a historical and real-time data management platform for a global, multi-asset trading organization.
• Design and architect API-driven solutions, utilizing open-source resources.
• Design and develop quant libraries for research and production.
• Create back testing and simulation tools, for development and testing of execution tactics, creation of trading signals, studies of PM and trader behavior.
• Implement a system of data quality checks.
• Put into production trading signals, analytics and decision support tools created through the quant research process.
• Implement workflow tools and automation to mitigate risks associated with trade execution.
• Programming well-designed, testable, secure, and efficient code.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, statistics or related discipline OR equivalent work experience is required.
• Seven to Nine (7-9) years of experience in software development is required.
• Proficient in Python coding. Experience in Java or C++ is a plus.
• Experience with Equities, Derivatives, Futures, FX, and/or Fixed Income trading, analytics, and reporting.
• Broad experience with front-end and server-side, multi-platform development tools and toolkits, especially open-source software.
• Job holder must have understanding interdependencies and business impact of future IT plans.
• S/he must have prior lead experience selecting and implementing vendor-specific methodologies and prior consulting experience with structured methodologies.

Preferred Skills:

• Understanding of financial engineering and mathematical finance concepts.
• Deep knowledge of time series database technologies and data optimization and visualization
• Experience in PostgreSQL, Redis and other DB solutions.
• Experience building ETL data pipelines.
• Deep understanding of REST, gRPC and other API-related frameworks, concepts, and tools.
• Experience market data API's, such as Bloomberg Market Data Feed (BPIPE).
• Web-based UX design experience. JavaScript, Angular, and React experience preferred.
• Containerization frameworks experience, such as Docker.
• Automation frameworks experience, such as Airflow.
• Knowledge of agile development methodologies, coding best practices, and ITID change management standards.
• Experience in the securities or financial services industry is a plus.

Consults with internal business groups to provide appropriate application software development services or technical support. Provides application software development services or technical support in more complex situations. May also be responsible for requirements gathering and BRD/SRD preparation. Has thorough knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle. Conducts reviews of the test Plan and test Data. May allocate/ coordinate work within a team/project. The job holder leads the technical design, development and documentation of cross-functional, multi-platform application systems. S/he analyzes, defines and documents requirements for data, workflow, and logical processes and interfaces with other systems. S/he also ensures that expected application performance levels are achieved by coordinating, coding, testing, implementation and documentation. Must have thorough and demonstrative knowledge on or both the user-side frontend of a website, as well as the backend, server-side that powers the user-side. Additional requirements include intermediate understanding of security principles, relational databases and architecture design principles. Programming well-designed, testable, efficient code. Analyze, design and develop tests and test-automation suites. Develop flowcharts, layouts and documentation to satisfy requirements and solutions. Maintain software functionality and currency (technical debt and gain). Actively participate in code reviews. Integrate software components into a fully functional software system. Apply security and privacy principles. Execute full lifecycle software development. Develop software verification plans and quality assurance procedures. Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing systems. Ensure software is updated with latest features. Participate in deployment process following all change controls. Provide ongoing maintenance, support and enhancements in existing systems and platforms. Provide recommendations for continuous improvement. Active learning engagement. Complete all required mandatory training / policy awareness curricula on time. Use learning tools such as Pluralsight to complete both recommended and aspirational targets set in personal development plans. Demonstrate teamwork. Leverage existing products/functionality and promote reuse. Work alongside other engineers on the team to elevate technology and consistently apply best practices. Collaborate closely with all the other members of the team to take shared responsibility for the overall efforts that the team has committed to. Collaborate cross-functionally with data engineers, business users, project managers and other engineers to achieve elegant solutions. Utilize local meetups to gain and share knowledge. Compiles documentation written by more senior developers of all procedures used in system. Acts as mentor to junior level engineers. Prior experience with using a specific application development toolkit and knowledge of front end and backend development coding languages such as C#, Java, HTML, NodeJS, CSS, JSON, Angular, JavaScript. Must also have proficiency in Core Spring, ANSI, Docker. Communications and organization skills; teamwork skills. N/A. Contributes to the achievement of area objectives.

BNY Mellon is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Minorities/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans. Our ambition is to build the best global team - one that is representative and inclusive of the diverse talent, clients and communities we work with and serve - and to empower our team to do their best work. We support wellbeing and a balanced life, and offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies and employee forums.

Employer Description:

For over 230 years, the people of BNY Mellon have been at the forefront of finance, expanding the financial markets while supporting investors throughout the investment lifecycle. BNY Mellon can act as a single point of contact for clients looking to create, trade, hold, manage, service, distribute or restructure investments and safeguards nearly one-fifth of the world's financial assets. BNY Mellon remains one of the safest, most trusted and admired companies. Every day our employees make their mark by helping clients better manage and service their financial assets around the world. Whether providing financial services for institutions, corporations or individual investors, clients count on the people of BNY Mellon across time zones and in 35 countries and more than 100 markets. It's the collective ambition, innovative thinking and exceptionally focused client service paired with a commitment to doing what is right that continues to set us apart. Make your mark: bnymellon.com/careers.

EEO Statement:

BNY Mellon is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Minorities/Females/Individuals With Disabilities/Protected Veterans. Our ambition is to build the best global team - one that is representative and inclusive of the diverse talent, clients and communities we work with and serve - and to empower our team to do their best work. We support wellbeing and a balanced life, and offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies and employee forums.