Expert Rates Consultant
Expert Rates Consultant
Kraków, PL, 30-302
Type of contract: B2B contract
Salary range: 155-205 PLN/H
What will you do?
You will join a team responsible for building and enhancing FX Forward Pricing solutions used by global trading desks. The role focuses on developing low-latency, high-availability pricing systems, integrating quantitative models and market data feeds, and delivering pricing capabilities for electronic trading channels in a fast-paced investment banking environment.
Your tasks
- Work directly with FX traders and quantitative teams to gather and refine requirements
- Design and develop FX forward pricing and trading solutions
- Create detailed technical designs for new features and enhancements
- Develop low-latency and multi-threaded Java applications
- Integrate pricing models and market data feeds into the platform
- Collaborate with development teams across the global trading programme
- Implement automated testing and continuous integration practices
- Support deployments to development and test environments
- Participate in production support and on-call activities when required
Your skills
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with Java server-side development
- Strong knowledge of multi-threaded and concurrent programming
- Experience building distributed enterprise systems in high-availability environments
- Experience working in low-latency or real-time trading platforms
- Knowledge of FX markets, including Spot FX and Forward FX products
- Experience with system design, testing, and software development best practices
- Ability to work closely with traders, quants, and business stakeholders
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Openness to work hybrid from our client's office (Kraków) 8 days a month
Nice to have
- Experience with FX or eRates pricing platforms
- Knowledge of KDB/Q
- Experience with Python
- Experience working in investment banking environments
- Understanding of electronic trading and eCommerce platforms