Jefferies
Senior Java Developer - Fixed Income ETrading
520 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10022
Full-time · $175k–$225k (as posted)
First seen by offpeak October 5, 2026
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Primary Responsibilities:
- Design & development of firm’s proprietary, high performance FI E-Trading platform encompassing fixed income all products (Credits/Rates)
- Understand RUN, Axes, RFQs workflow for Dealer to Client markets such as MarketAxess, TradeWeb, Bloomberg.
- Work alongside traders and quantitative analysts to specify and build out real-time trading applications that electronically execute orders across multiple ECNs.
- Supporting and enhancing existing infrastructure and application across a variety of technologies (ION, Java, KDB/Q)
- Drive implementation and design with emphasis on high availability, scalability and reusability
- Working with other Fixed Income front office teams lead to promote framework reusability across all business
- Champion best practice software development life cycle with emphasis in test driven coding methodology
- Balance time to market (client delivery) with proper governance, compliance and audit mandates
- Mentor junior developer
Education
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering or related
Required Background:
- 5+ years of financial service experience
- Able to communicate effectively with the desk.
- Strong design, coding, testing and debugging skills
- Strong experience in front office trading system with emphasis on E-Trading
- Programming Languages – Java (10+ years), Python a plus.
- Must have general Fixed Income Pricing and Analytic knowledge
- Must have strong multithreaded programming experience
- Must have knowledge of Credit Buy-Side/Sell-Side market structure
- Knowledge of FIX protocol a plus
- Knowledge of ION or Broadway API a plus
- Knowledge of KDB/Q a Strong plus
Primary Location Full Time Salary Range of $175,000 - $225,000.