Fixed Income Front Office Software (Contract) Engineer

Responsibilities

'- Build and enhance pricing and distribution systems for the fixed income business
- Provide hands-on front-office support for traders and sales, resolving issues quickly and driving permanent fixes.
- Gather requirements directly from the desk, propose pragmatic solutions, and deliver changes through to production.
- Collaborate with quantitative analysts and technology teams to deliver integrated pricing capabilities across the platform
- Contribute to a global team across Hong Kong, Paris, London, and New York.

Profile required

'- Strong ownership and problem-solving skills, comfortable working under time pressure and supporting production systems
- Operate with a high degree of autonomy, owning issues and enhancements end to end from idea to production
- Proficiency in an object-oriented language, ideally C# and .NET
- Solid SQL skills and experience with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL.
- Experience with messaging or event-driven systems like RabbitMQ, NATS or Kafka 
- Familiarity with modern delivery practices and tooling such as Git, CI/CD pipelines, and Jira.
- Understanding of software design principles and writing maintainable code

Preferred:

- Experience building web UIs using frameworks like React, Angular or Vue
- Experience building desktop user interfaces with WPF and DevExpress
- Experience building robust and scalable real-time web applications with ASP.NET and SignalR
- Exposure to containerized deployment and cloud environments.
- Knowledge of Fixed Income and FX products such as bonds, interest rate swaps, and FX swaps

Behavioral Skills

• Client - Client  focus: I put long term relationship with our clients at the center of my actions, whatever my position 
• Team Spirit - Collective mindset: I favour the team’s interest over my own results
• Innovation - Thinking out of the box/Creativity: I propose new ideas and solutions
• Responsibility - Performance: I strive for high performance
• Innovation - Technology: I adopt new  technologies in the solutions and projects I work on
• Commitment - Sustainability: I strive to develop my skills and knowledge