Front Office Trading Systems Engineer

EFG Private Banking; Lugano; Vor Ort; CHF 110.000 - 170.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

EFG International in Lugano is seeking a Software Engineer to join the IT Trading & Treasury team, supporting mission‑critical front‑office systems used daily by a trading room of around 50 traders.

You will own the technical delivery and operational support of our order management, pricing and position keeping platforms across asset classes — securities, derivatives and structured products — as well as the in‑house applications we build to close gaps around them.

Qualifikationen

• 3–8 years of experience in application development and/or support within financial services IT.
• Solid development skills in Java and/or Python — you write production code, not only scripts.
• Very good knowledge of SQL and relational database systems (Oracle, MS SQL), including the ability to read and optimise queries; familiarity with application servers (Windows mainly, Linux).
• Understanding of financial products, related workflows and pricing concepts: mark‑to‑market and valuation logic, volatility and market data inputs, P&L attribution.
• University degree in computer science, engineering, finance or an equivalent background.

Aufgaben

• Develop, customise and maintain components across the order management, pricing and position keeping platforms, to support new business requirements and platform evolution.
• Design and build in‑house applications for the trading desk — integration layers, reporting tools, automation and health‑check utilities — where the vendor platforms do not cover the need.
• Deliver enhancements and full project phases end‑to‑end: analysis, technical design, development, testing, deployment and documentation.
• Work front‑to‑back across the technology stack, working across databases (Oracle, MS SQL), application servers (Windows, Linux) and front‑end components.
• Manage and troubleshoot FIX protocol connectivity towards brokers, exchanges and execution venues — session configuration, message flow analysis, troubleshooting.
• Build and maintain integrations between trading platforms, market data providers, the core banking system and downstream risk and back‑office systems.
• Ensure data consistency across systems with different data models and formats, and design the mapping and reconciliation logic.
• Provide L2/L3 application support across trading workflows, from intraday incidents to root‑cause analysis and permanent fixes.
• Act as technical escalation point of complex issues, coordinating with external vendors and other IT teams to resolve them.
• Manage incidents with the trading desk with clear communication on impact and expected resolution time — and write the post‑mortem when it matters.
• Work directly with traders, Market Risk and Operations to translate business needs into technical solutions, and to challenge requirements where a better technical answer exists.
• Partner with internal IT teams in a small, senior team where technical decisions are discussed openly and ownership is real.

Kenntnisse

Java

Python

SQL

English fluency

Ausbildung

University degree in computer science, engineering, finance or equivalent

Tools

FrontArena

Ullink

FinIQ

CI/CD

Powershell

Jobbeschreibung

EFG International in Lugano is seeking a Software Engineer to join the IT Trading & Treasury team, supporting mission‑critical front‑office systems used daily by a trading room of around 50 traders.

You will own the technical delivery and operational support of our order management, pricing and position keeping platforms across asset classes — securities, derivatives and structured products — as well as the in‑house applications we build to close gaps around them.