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CMC Markets is one of the world&rsquo;s first ever fin-tech companies and was launched in 1989 to break down the barriers of financial trading and make trading accessible to everyone.
Our mission is to use our award-winning, Next Generation trading platform and unparalleled client service to empower millions of people to have the best trading experience out there. Our clients can trade on thousands of instruments using the best technology, supported by sophisticated charting, competitive pricing and automated execution.
We're trusted by investors globally, but also by banks, brokers, funds and trading desks though our top-tier liquidity institutional offering, enabling these businesses to expand into new markets and increase revenue potential.
We were recently listed on the FTSE250, and our business continues to go from strength to strength as we continue to invest in our technology and our people.

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We are currently recruiting 3 x Senior Trade Surveillance Analyst's on 6 month fixed term contracts. Within the role you will be assisting the Financial Crime Manager (Pillar 1) in trade surveillance reviews, investigations, and reporting. *** Please note that this role is onsite and would require 5 days per week in our London office near Liverpool Street. *** ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES Take responsibility for specific trade surveillance alerts as part of the global monitoring on a T 1 basis of all clients’ trading activity in line with the agreed monitoring procedures, as amended from time to time. Assist with the design, implementation, and thereafter review of, monitoring alerts for new products as introduced by the business and outside of the existing suite of monitoring reports. Assist with the design, implementation, and thereafter review of, CMC hedge trade monitoring alerts. Advise of refinements to existing Trade Surveillance report, according to industry best practice and regulatory guidance. Identifying, investigating and reporting clients to the Financial Crime Manager (Pillar 1) and/or Head of Department, whose individual trades and/or trading style is suspicious and potentially illegal, in breach of CMC Markets’ TOBs or would impact negatively on CMC Markets’ overall revenue. Reporting Filing Suspicious Transaction and Order Reports (STORs) and/or Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) to the FCA and NCA within the timelines agreed with by Financial Crime Manager (Pillar 1) and/or Head of Department Handling all follow up enquiries and new information requests from the FCA regarding trading activity. Responsible for the review and updating of Trade Surveillance procedure documentation as requested. Checking all trades manually entered on clients’ accounts by CMC Markets employees Helping to identify new ways clients can take advantage of our platform and helping to establish new controls to stop this from happening. Monitoring trades to ensure that these are being processed in line with our Best Execution obligations Surveillance of trading desks to ensuring we are performing activities in line with our Treating Customer Fairly and Best Execution obligations and to ensure no misconduct is occurring. Assisting with other areas of Trade Surveillance, Financial Crime and Compliance as required. Dealing with ad hoc queries from the business and other control functions. Maintain personal/professional development to meet the changing demands of the role, including all relevant regulatory and legislative training, internal and/or external. When dealing with all customers, clients or colleagues ensure that we provide a clear, fair and consistent high-quality service that presents a professional and positive image of CMC Markets Take all reasonable steps to ensure appropriate confidentiality Undertake such other duties, training and/or hours of work as may be reasonably required, and which are consistent with the general level of responsibility of this role KEY SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE A good understanding and knowledge of financial markets and CMC Markets’ products Previous experience within Trade Surveillance role with focus on Securities fraud and Insider Trading Accuracy and clarity when reporting or responding to regulators Excellent attention to detail Excellent numeracy skills Ability to make quick decisions and prioritise workload Strong ability to communicate and build rapport with other departments Adaptable and resilient in the face of changing priorities Willingness to show initiative and move the department forward CMC Markets is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.

Senior Trade Surveillance Analyst

CMC Markets is hiring!! We are looking for a Senior FIX Engineer to develop and enhance the technology underpinning our rapidly growing Institutional business. As part of the Institutional Core Services team, you will work alongside experienced engineers building and maintaining mission critical FIX APIs, which provide connectivity to CMCs global multi-asset trading platform. *** Please note that this role is onsite and would require 5 days per week in our London office near Liverpool Street. *** What you’ll be working on: You’ll be designing, implementing, maintaining, and supporting ultra-low latency FIX APIs Handling distribution of real-time market data to customers Handling order instructions across a variety of asset classes including CFD, FX, cash equity, and a wide variety of order types including algorithmic and advanced order strategies Utilising Java with specialised low latency programming and optimisation techniques Providing on-call technical support outside UK office hours Essential Skills &amp; Experience: Excellent knowledge of the FIX messaging protocol (version 4.4 and later) Excellent knowledge of Java (21) Understanding of low latency programming principles, including garbage reduction, lock and wait free algorithms, cache friendly algorithms, non-blocking I/O, unshared state, processor affinity, busy waiting Experience with Artio FIX engine Experience with Aeron Transport, Aeron Cluster Experience with Simple Binary Encoding (SBE) Proven track record building robust mission critical systems with a high degree of fault tolerance Passion for problem solving and innovation Strong communication skills Experience with automated unit and integration testing Experience with CI/CD Desirable Skills &amp; Experience: Microservice design and implementation Java and Linux performance testing and optimisation Good understanding of transport protocols TCP/IP, UDP Exposure to electronic trading systems and trading workflows CMC Markets is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age

Senior FIX Engineer

We are currently recruiting for a Senior Full Stack Developer who can demonstrate strong TypeScript and AWS development expertise. *** Please note that this role is onsite and would require 5 days per week in our London office near Liverpool Street. *** Why do we need Fullstack Developers? Our applications are made up of frontends, backends and infrastructure. We believe that if we have engineers capable of working on all three, the result is a much more cohesive application that is easier to evolve and maintain over time. We therefore encourage all of our developers to get involved in all aspects even if they've only ever worked on one of them in the past. We don't want to put people into boxes and limit their ambition or creativity, our goal for our engineers is to help them reach their potential. We can do this by providing the freedom to try new things, learn new skills (from formal training and collaboration) and get things wrong a few times before getting them right (without upsetting our customers!). We have a sack full of ambition and a backlog full of ideas to provide the best experience to our customers. We also have the desire to make the engineering team a great place to work; where people are encouraged to use their skills and experience and to work together to create something incredible. What do we expect from a Full Stack Engineer? Build web-based frontend features Design and code components and add them to our component library Build APIs that are deployed into AWS and our bespoke platform which meet agreed interface contracts Run those APIs, including monitoring performance and taking shifts on an on-call rota Review system designs and prototypes and work with frontend and downstream developers to create API contracts Evaluate new technologies that can be used to provide better customer value and experience Constantly monitor and improve APIs, fixing issues as soon as possible Provide a high standard of documentation to enable knowledge-sharing Have the opportunity to demonstrate the work you have done to technical and non-technical stakeholders Help to refine customer journeys and requirements for new features Work with product and design to create high-fidelity prototypes of potential new functionality Manage your own work, keeping boards up to date and attending stand-ups Key Skills &amp; Experience Tech stack includes: TypeScript/JavaScript, Jest, AWSServerless (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, etc...), GitHub Hands-on frontend development and delivery experience over a mix of languages and technologies. You’re familiar with product and design lifecycles, and collaborating closely with designers, engineers, and product managers Experience with using backendAPIs and optimising frontend performance Experience contributing and working with shared code libraries Passion for helping users succeed in their goals through the features you build Strong communication skills and an ability to take ownership of tasks and gather requirements Ability to solve complex coding challenges around performance and reusability while continuously improving code quality with a TDD approach An interest in learning new skills and collaborating on new technologies Source code and application versioning CMC Markets is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age

Senior Full Stack Developer

CMC Markets are hiring a skilled Derivatives specialist with a proven background working in ETD Operations. Covering a both Exchange Traded Options and Global Futures, plus CMC OTC Options product. F&amp;O Operations require a motivated individual to perform key control functions and liaise with our clients regarding all of their Operational requirements. Partnering with our execution desks, clearing teams and other internal support areas, the primary responsibilities are relationship management, query management and full adherence to regulatory commitments. This is a dynamic and challenging environment working to give excellent Client Service. Key Individual Responsibilities: Be responsible for the daily BAU End to End Exchange Traded Derivatives business, ensuring all trades, positions and cash are reconciled within a timely manner and ensure all broker and client margin calls are settled and booked. Assist New Business regarding the account set-up requirements on ETD Trading Platforms. Responsible for all UAT of new initiatives in F&amp;O Program of work Assisting in the on-going development and build out of F&amp;O Product globally from an operations perspective, ensuring operational efficiency and drive towards Operational Excellence. Pro-actively work with our Clearers and Front Office teams to during expiry and first notice periods to mitigate and manage risk with effective communication across teams to ascertain client intentions. Act as the primary conduit between our Front Office, Clearers and Vendors when resolving client trade breaks. Help develop the department KPI’s and KRI’s with relevant metrics. Ensure all KPI’s and KRI’s are adhered to, and relevant metrics are available to show how the department is performing. Be commercially aware and work in conjunction with the business, to deliver financial and business performance. Actively manage risk associated with Operations in accordance with the firm’s compliance and risk policies and procedures. Work with our clearers to ensure service levels are maintained. Manage the adherence to the SLA with our back-office supplier and lead the company monthly/quarterly SLA review meetings with the vendor services the firm provides to our clients. KEY SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE Experience in a broker dealer environment with a deep knowledge of Exchange Traded Derivatives and the trade lifecycle, including delivery and expiry experience. An understanding of the CASS rules and how they are applied to Exchange Traded Derivative. An understanding and experience of transaction reporting (MIFID and EMIR) from both a client and delegated perspective. Vendor management experience (both back office and front office relationships). The ability to form relationships and act a trusted partner is essential for this role, as well as providing visible leadership. Good people management skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced business. Capable of building relationships of trust with the desk and risk and control functions. Strong commercial awareness. Calm and balanced during challenging times - able to direct the team to complete objectives whilst communicating with confidence to stakeholders e.g. during incidents/outages or large-scale mandatory change. Previous experience and detailed knowledge in nuances of Global Exchanges (e.g. LME) Proven experience of working on and delivering strategic change projects. Knowledge of Front-End Applications such as CQG, TT, WebICE, CMEdirect. CMC Markets is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.