Position Details: 

Client Domain: Investment 

Job Title: Senior Engineer – Total Fund Management, Trading 

Department: Total Fund Management, Trading (TFM T), Public Markets Technology, Technology & Data 

Location:  Toronto, ON (Hybrid:  Mon -Thur Onsite) 

Duration: 6 months + possible extension / conversion to full time 

Start Date: ASAP 

Job Description: 

• You will work as a Senior Engineer in Public Markets Technology, partnering with Client’s ?traders, investment professionals and operations staff to design and implement solutions enabling trading and post trade activities.  

• You will be responsible for hands on development and maintenance of solutions covering a number of asset classes including equities, fixed income, derivatives, OTC and FX.  

• Through close partnership with investment professionals and operations, you will see firsthand how your software is impacting trade activities and delivering long-term value to the Client’s Fund for the benefit of 20 million Client's contributors and beneficiaries. 

The Opportunity:  

• Work in collaboration with Client's Investments’ trading professionals, operations and technology teams to design and build solutions enabling trade activities across a number of asset classes including futures, equities, fixed income, derivatives, OTC and FX.  

• Collaborate with team members to conceptualize, design and develop new software applications. Applications may be server-side enterprise solutions, GUI, or highly customized solutions developed for the specific needs of a business partner.  

• Create solutions tailored to business requirements aligned with the long-term architecture and technology strategy using AWS for Cloud development.  

• Maintain and improve existing applications to support trading functions.  

• Effectively unit test and perform integration testing on software components.  

• Prepare and document design and program specifications.  

• Manage timelines/deliverables towards the successful delivery of projects. 

• Develop the right IT behaviors to enable building scalable solutions within predictable time frames.  

• Provide knowledge transfer to team members and support staff through application demos, walkthroughs, and documentation. 

• Provide responsive business assistance while adhering to processes required for quality enterprise-level software development and support.  

• Other duties as assigned.  

Must haves: 

• University degree in Engineering or Computer Science.  

• Good understanding of trading, derivatives, trade life cycle with an eagerness to contribute to the systems that support them.  

• Strong hands-on experience in Python, RestAPI, AWS Cloud and Kubernetes.  

• Good working experience in C++.   

• Strong working knowledge of Databases i.e. SQL.  

• Experience in capital markets and eagerness to contribute to the systems that support trading activities.  

• Strong knowledge of software development best practices and patterns.  

• Commitment to Client’s guiding principles of integrity, partnership and high performance.  

• Experience in in DevOps and CI/CD.  

Nice to haves : 

• Experience in Terraform.  

• Knowledge of Bloomberg and/or Murex trading platforms.  

• Knowledge of FIX protocol.   
• Experience in other programming languages like Java.