Engineer II

at  TD Bank

JOB DESCRIPTION:

TD Securities (TDS) is a top-two dealer in Canada with a growing US business and global execution capabilities, offering a full suite of capital markets and corporate and investment banking products.
The successful candidate will be working in a backend engineering role. Helping to build out core functionality and services in our data platform. Working with various programming languages (Java, Python, KDB) to meet the needs of the low latency trading business.

POSITION OVERVIEW

This role is focussed on data technology within the FICC Low Latency Trading technology team.
The FICC (Fixed Income, Currencies & Commodities) Low Latency Electronic Trading Team is part of the TD Securities Technology Solutions group, covering all latency sensitive products of the FX, Fixed Income and Commodities businesses.

The team is responsible for the development and support of the strategic low latency e-trading set of applications for TD Securities, covering:

• Pricing
• Dealer-to-Dealer order execution
• Dealer-to-Client quoting solutions
• Automated/algo execution capabilities
• Risk management
• Data pipelines, storage and analytics

Our applications utilize the latest low latency technology and DevOps approaches to deliver highly scalable technology solutions.
These applications are used globally by Front Office quants and traders and enterprise risk systems and are critical to TD’s client pricing and trading activities.
This is a global team with engineers in Toronto, London, Dublin and New York.

KEY QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS / EXPERIENCE

• Minimum 5 years’ experience working in a relevant engineering, statistical or financial role
• Significant experience working with Kdb/q:
• Detailed knowledge of Kdb architecture
• Experience writing analytics in Kdb
• Experience working with market data
• Knowledge of capital markets, preferably in eTrading else similar financial, operational or regulatory data lifecycles and system workflows
• Experience in framework, library and API design
• Experience working with quant and front office teams
• Understanding of test-driven development, tools, and practices
• Experience in requirements analysis and design patterns and soft engineering best practices
• Practitioner of agile methodologies, continuous integration and delivery tools and practices
• Passion for engineering and intuitive design

DESIRABLE SKILLS / EXPERIENCE

• Programming experience in either Java or Python
• Linux and shell-scripting experience
• DevOp tools and techniques
• Appreciation of DevOps and SRE practices
• Familiar with messaging protocols i.e. GRPC
• Experience working with containers, orchestration tools (docker, podman, Kubernetes)

WHO WE ARE

TD is one of the world’s leading global financial institutions and is the fifth largest bank in North America by branches/stores. Every day, we deliver legendary customer experiences to over 27 million households and businesses in Canada, the United States and around the world. More than 95,000 TD colleagues bring their skills, talent, and creativity to the Bank, those we serve, and the economies we support. We are guided by our vision to Be the Better Bank and our purpose to enrich the lives of our customers, communities and colleagues.
TD is deeply committed to being a leader in customer experience, that is why we believe that all colleagues, no matter where they work, are customer facing. As we build our business and deliver on our strategy, we are innovating to enhance the customer experience and build capabilities to shape the future of banking. Whether you’ve got years of banking experience or are just starting your career in financial services, we can help you realize your potential. Through regular leadership and development conversations to mentorship and training programs, we’re here to support you towards your goals. As an organization, we keep growing – and so will you.

The team is responsible for the development and support of the strategic low latency e-trading set of applications for TD Securities, covering:

• Pricing
• Dealer-to-Dealer order execution
• Dealer-to-Client quoting solutions
• Automated/algo execution capabilities
• Risk management
• Data pipelines, storage and analytic

The objectives of the role will include:

• Build common agnostic libraries and solutions across markets. This is a cross-asset role covering Global Foreign Exchange, Fixed Income Markets as well as Commodities.
• Own, support and contribute to the planning, communication, design, and implementation of core platform solutions.
• Manage, support, and improve the core data platform directly supporting the business.
• Establish and maintain strong working relationships with key internal and external stakeholders and business partners.
• Collaborate across business lines, functional partners (IT, Risk, Operations), external vendors as well as the business SME.
• Demonstrate and promote best practices; seek to continually evolve and improve our workflows, tooling, and development practices and environment.
• Contribute to the skills and capabilities of the overall team via mentoring, reviews, and knowledge-sharing.
• Simplify and streamline existing workflows and processes through innovation, tooling, and automation