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    Investec is a distinctive Specialist Bank serving clients principally in the UK and South Africa. Our culture gives us our edge: we work hard to find colleagues who'll think out of the ordinary and we put them in environments where they'll flourish. We combine a flat structure with a focus on internal mobility. If you can bring an entrepreneurial spirit and a desire to learn and collaborate to your work, this could be the boost your career deserves.

    Embedded in our culture is a sense of belonging and inclusion. This creates an environment in which everyone is free to be themselves which helps to drive innovation, creativity and ultimately business performance. At Investec we want everyone to find it easy to be themselves, and to feel they belong. It's a responsibility we all share and is integral to our purpose and values as an organisation.

    Research shows that some candidates can be reluctant to apply to a role unless they meet all the criteria. We pride ourselves on our entrepreneurial spirit here and welcome you to do the same – if the role excites you, please don't let our person specification hold you back. Get in touch!

    About the role

    Quantitative Strategies is a team of 16 quants and developers based in London. The team supports Investec's trading businesses and acts as the banks trading book calculation engine as well as offering trade capture and risk reporting functionality across the group.

    This role description accurately reflects the key responsibilities and associated skills, knowledge and attributes required for to perform this role at this time.  This role sits within the Solutions team of Quant Strats in Investec's Corporate and Investment Banking division. The role is focused on developing and supporting an in-house trading and risk management system built in C++ and C#. You will be a C++/C# developer with an interest in problem solving, programming and application architecture.  The application is expanding into new business areas and we are looking to hire bright individuals who can help with this growth.  You will be working very closely with technology, quants, trading, dealing and market risk. Developers in this team are responsible for ensuring the system can support trade capture, live market data, PnL/Risk calc, trade lifecycling and reporting.

    Role/responsibilties

    • Full lifecycle from design, writing and releasing code into production.
    • Writing and maintaining unit tests
    • Code Reviews
    • Excellent communication and an ability to work to tight deadlines is essential in this front office role.
    • A maths/physics/computer science graduate or other advanced STEM degree
    • Databases (Eg MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase)
    • 1-5+ years' development experience
    • Working in a team

    Who you are

    Any other attributes that would be helpful, but not essential for the role.

    • A background in financial services is beneficial but not essential
    • Other programming languages such as VBA, Python, Go would be beneficial
    • SQL/ Redis
    • CMake/ Git/ Jira/ Clang
    • Continuous Integration tools (Jenkins/ Team City)
    • Cloud experience eg Azure/ AWS
    • DevOps experience
    • Strong communication skills with the ability to work in a highly analytical environment is key
    • Someone who can confidently and calmly deal with ambiguity when it occurs