Careers

We develop and operate web-based applications using open-source technology for top-tier brokers, investment managers, and the alternative investment sector. Our current applications include the Trade Idea Monitor, the Trade Ideas Repository and Distribution Centre, and the Hedge Fund Information Provider.

Our applications address the finance industry's leading-edge business and regulatory requirements. They are transforming the industry landscape in the sectors where we compete.

Assist team and management in making assignments at weekly team meeting.

Develop youDevise's on-demand applications for financial markets.

Analyse assigned features and bug fixes with product owners, making use of user stories and tracking software to record agreed requirements.

Design and build automated tests for assigned features and bug fixes; these may be unit tests (using JUnit), functional tests (using Selenium), or specialised tests (e.g. performance tests using our custom-built tool).

Write code for assigned features and bug fixes using test-driven development and pair programming where appropriate.

Hold code reviews and "show and tell" sessions to examine and improve newly written code and features.

Participate in team retrospectives to improve processes.

Regularly assist in improving our automated testing tools, for example parallelising our automated functional tests.

Responsibility for writing blog posts describing new processes or tools.

Periodically lead internal training sessions and coding dojos.

BSc in computer science or related technical field.

A minimum of 3 years. coding experience.

High performance against youDevise.s bespoke evaluation testing for candidates.

Experience in Java is a strong advantage, but youDevise will consider candidates who demonstrate exceptional talent in other languages.

Interest or experience in the finance sector.

youDevise Ltd offer a broad range of benefits to all employees including private healthcare, pension up to 8% of salary, and a bonus representing a profit share distributed to all staff.

• The Trade Idea Monitor (the TIM) is the first open web-delivered virtual portfolio management application for brokers and their clients. We developed the TIM with four core customers in 2005, and launched the TIM as a service worldwide in February 2006. We have gained over 100 buy and sell-side customers in Europe, Africa, the Far East and America during the first year of operation.
• Brokers use the TIM to deliver trade ideas to their clients (hedge funds and more traditional asset managers), by building virtual portfolios. Buy-side clients use the TIM to measure the contribution of their brokers, and to determine their commission share.
• A TIM implementation is successful when sales or research authors at brokers, and analysts at buy-side clients, use the product to convey all their ideas to portfolio managers, and when the portfolio manager bases trading commission decisions on the statistics the TIM provides.
• TIM Client Managers are assigned to a group of brokers and/or buy-side clients that use the TIM. The Client Manager’s role is to help the assigned companies derive maximum value from the TIM, to drive customer take-up, to inspire confidence in the product and in YouDevise, and to display leadership and independence at clients’ sites.
• TIM Client Managers are measured on customer satisfaction and on the increase in take-up within their accounts.

TIM Client Managers help their assigned customers gain maximum value from the TIM. To this end, TIM Client Managers have the following responsibilities in their assigned accounts:
• Expand the TIM subscriber base within the assigned account and within the brokers or clients that the assigned account works with.
• Build TIM usage among existing subscribers within the assigned account and within the brokers or clients that the assigned account works with.
• Train end-users and help them to troubleshoot problems, identify defects and report them to our Development team.
• Identify useful new features, and work with our Development and Product Management organisations to implement those features.
• Oversee user administration.
• Oversee invoicing and collections.

• You will work as part of small development teams consisting of developers and business analysts. While you will report to senior management, you will work with colleagues that will impress you and help you.

• The Hedge Fund Information Provider (the HIP) is the first commercially available web-delivered portfolio management application for funds-of-hedge-funds. We launched the HIP in May 2006. We have a growing user base in the UK and increasingly in other regions.
• Funds-of-hedge-funds use the HIP to manage performance, liquidity, cash, and foreign exchange exposure. It can also provide automated links with fund-of-hedge-funds’ administrators and investors, and with the hedge funds in which they invest.
• A HIP implementation is successful when a client enters its entire portfolio of hedge fund investments into the HIP and is reliant on the HIP for a broad range of portfolio management activities.
• Client Managers are assigned to a group of companies that use the HIP. The Client Manager’s role is to help the client derive maximum value from the HIP, to inspire confidence in the product and in YouDevise, and to display leadership and independence at client sites.

• Work with new HIP clients to decide strategies for HIP implementation and to develop implementation plans. This requires understanding the structure of the client’s data and matching that understanding with a deep knowledge of the HIP’s features and data migration tools.
• Assist and sometimes manage HIP implementations, including analysis of source data, migration of data into the HIP, and reconciliation of HIP output with pre-HIP systems and with data provided by administrators.
• Monitor clients’ ongoing usage of the HIP. Help clients to realise greater value from the HIP by identifying any opportunities for greater usage within their organisation.
• Train end-users and help them to troubleshoot problems.
• Identify defects and report them to our Development team.
• Identify new features that will enhance the value that clients derive from the HIP. Write specifications to communicate new features to our Product Management and Development teams. Help Product Management and Development to prioritise and implement new features.
• Provide sales support such as demonstrating the HIP to prospective clients.
• Test new features to ensure compliance with business requirements and the highest standards of usability.
• Test new releases to prevent regression of pre-existing functionality.

• You will work as part of a team that includes business analysts, developers, and product managers. You will report to senior management. You will work with colleagues that will impress you and help you.

• Our trade ideas and fund-of-hedge-funds products are implemented at existing clients. We are continuously enhancing them with new features and customising them for new customers.
• We will develop new applications that exploit our technical and industry skills, and our strong customer relationships in the finance sector.
• We create value for our customers through our excellence in functional design and our thoroughness in testing, as well as through our technical expertise.

• Producing functional designs of new applications and enhancements by working with senior-level clients to develop requirements specifications.
• Testing new applications and enhancements to ensure compliance with business requirements and the highest standards of usability.
• Conceptualising new applications that create value for financial market participants.

• You will work as part of small development teams consisting of developers and business analysts. While you will report to senior management, you will work with colleagues that will impress you and help you.