National Futures Association ยท 2 days ago
Senior Application Developer
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$104K/yr - $176K/yrNational Futures Association (NFA) is dedicated to safeguarding the integrity of the derivatives markets and protecting investors. As a Senior Applications Developer, you will be responsible for designing and maintaining applications that handle large volumes of market data, ensuring their accuracy and integrity, while also mentoring junior developers and contributing to architectural decisions.
AssociationGovernmentNon Profit
No H1B
Responsibilities
Design and maintain applications that process, analyze, and store large volumes of market data, ensuring accuracy and data integrity
Apply a strong understanding of financial market products (examples include futures, options, swaps, clearing, margining, and trade reporting) to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions
Prototyping and implementing designs in keeping with NFA software development lifecycle practices
Enhance and optimize alerting to improve accuracy and efficiency
Support ongoing changes and initiatives to ensure applications and surveillance tools evolve with the regulatory landscape
Contribute to architectural decisions, technical standards, and best practices across the application development lifecycle
Mentor junior developers and provide technical leadership and training on complex initiatives and enhancements
Qualification
Required
Extensive experience developing applications in a regulated or data intensive environment with a focus on complex financial systems
Bachelor's degree required
Skilled in SDLC, system testing, production support, and change management
Demonstrated ability to work directly with non-technical regulatory stakeholders and translate business needs into technical designs
Preferred
Experience supporting financial, regulatory organizations, exchanges, or financial institutions strongly preferred
Familiarity with trade surveillance concepts such as spoofing, layering, manipulation preferred
Advanced degree preferred
Experience with Visual Studio, Microsoft Access, Entity Framework, Azure DevOps, XML, API and Azure Cloud Computing experience helpful
Additional technologies used may include Dapper, Blazor, and REACT
Company
National Futures Association
National Futures Association (NFA) is the self-regulatory organization for the U.S. derivatives industry
Founded in 1982
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Tom Sexton
President and Chief Executive Officer
David Hawrysz
Senior Vice President, CFO, Treasurer
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