Flow Traders is a leading principal trading firm with Headquarters in
Amsterdam, and offices worldwide in New York, Singapore, Cluj, Romania
and Hong Kong.
What will you do?
Software engineers in Flow Traders are working on applications that
support the core business of the company. Our systems make it possible
for Flow Traders to be present and competitive on exchanges worldwide.
There is all kinds of code to write, from systems on (or close to) the
critical path from receiving market data to placing orders, to systems
handling huge amounts of data in reliable, performant and traceable
manner.
Our future colleague will be writing code, creating new designs and
maintaining existing applications with a focus on performance and
stability. Our business users are typically only a walk away, which
helps to create short feedback loops and to see your changes provide
value in the shortest time possible.
To enable that, we strive to follow best software engineering
practices and are supported by the best working environment, latest
technology and continuous support from all parts of Flow Traders
organisation.
How you do it
We work in small teams, grouped by business area. Each team is
typically responsible for a set of related applications, and works in
tight collaboration with business owners. We maintain libraries shared
across the teams to enable code re-use and to have a common view on
application architecture. We write extensive unit tests, and have a QA
team that supports us with integration testing. We follow agile
practices, tailored to the problem area and preferred team approach.
Some of the things we use in development process:
- Java 8
- Guava, Jetty, Lucene, Mockito, SLF4J
- Spring MVC, Hibernate
- Swing, JavaFX, Mustache
- Maven, Git
- Atlassian stack
- Bitbucket for code review. We do all work in pull requests, which are reviewed by other developers.
- Bamboo for continuous integration.
- JIRA, Confluence
- SonarQube for continuous code quality inspection
- IntelliJ IDEA
- Python for scripts/testing
- MariaDB, Cassandra
A day in the life
Morning is normally started with a standup meeting with your team.
This is an opportunity to catch up on progress of development, raise
problems and discuss plans for the day. Business representative is also
present, so questions to trading can be resolved instantly. After
standup, you go back to your desk to program, review code on pull
requests submitted by colleagues, and discuss functionality with
traders. Sometimes a production issue is raised by support, and help
from development is needed to provide advice. At lunch time, you join
your team for lunch in the canteen and enjoy a company-provided lunch.
During the day, if there are no pressing issues or you feel that you
need a break, you can unwind at the pool table or table tennis, or do a
workout at the gym. After the day is done you can join your colleagues
to celebrate a successful release or just socialize at our bar.
What you need to succeed
- BSc or MSc in Computing Science or equivalent
- 3+ years post-graduation work experience
- Core Java experience
- Experience in parallel and multithreaded programming
- Knowledge of algorithms and data structures
- Interest in achieving maximum performance from available hardware and software
- Ability to communicate with technical and business colleagues
- Working experience in professional software development
- Fluency in English
Application process
- Apply on our website: flowtraders.com/careers/jobs/tech
- Complete our HackerRank test
- Phone interview with the responsible recruiter
- Codepair with one of our Java Developers
- Face to face interviews in Amsterdam
We offer
Flow Traders offers you an exciting job and lots of
opportunities within the most dynamic of environments with an excellent
compensation package. We like to think that talent grows at Flow and
stays at Flow. To ensure this, we provide our employees with the best
working environment, the latest technology, continuous support, and we
go out of our way to retain the small business feeling with which we
started. We offer a competitive salary and reserve a percentage of our
business results for our bonus pool.
Company
Flow Traders is a principal trading firm. We are a leading
global technology-enabled liquidity provider specialized in Exchange
Traded Products (ETPs). We continuously provide liquidity to the major
financial markets. Our sophisticated in-house technology platform
enables us to quote prices on many exchanges simultaneously. We also
quote bid and ask prices off-exchange to institutional counter-parties
on request. Robust risk management is at the core of our business, and
our risk functions are closely integrated into our platform. Our
headquarters in Amsterdam and offices in New York, Singapore and Cluj,
accommodate over 300 employees.
Flow Traders grew to be as
successful as we are today out of the expertise and experience of our
founding partners. Our non-hierarchical approach stimulates innovation
and achievement. We invest in our talented, highly motivated people
since they hold the key to our success. Our demanding, sophisticated
work continuously puts us to the test. We wouldn't have it any other
way. We. Love. This. Job.