About Global Precious Metals
Global Precious Metals is a niche player in the wealth management industry. The company grew out of a family office and services high net worth clients who want to allocate part of their portfolio to alternative assets, including physical precious metals, as ‘wealth insurance’. The company has a diverse global clientele ranging from high net worth individual, family offices, investment funds and precious metals trading companies.
About Global Precious Metals Internship
A minimum 6-month internship aimed at a young talent, who has a passion for software engineering and keen interest to gain exposure in the wealth management industry. This is a backend development internship with the objective to deploy a functional proof-of-concept, where you will be given an opportunity to work on a project that will address real-time business needs in the area of inter-systems connectivity. You will be reporting to the Head of Strategy.
Core Responsibilities
- Build on current processes and experiment to use our providers API to trade and settle (REST/webosckets)
- Assess and suggest cryptographic options; While an interest and understanding of underlying cryptographic concept is desirable, the focus will be on libraries assessment
- Deploy as webapp for internal use only; the front-end design is not a core focus. Rather support for deployment and extensive documentation is
- Document your research, software requirement and express opinions on how business process can/should be impacted in the future
- Participate in a workgroup with our ERP provider to help them spec API calls (they will develop that part, and integration is not part of the requirement)
- Contribute in software prototyping, system design
What you will learn
- You will receive a comprehensive orientation on the working of the company and will be exposed to latest industry trends
- Have an opportunity to be coached about a wide range of subjects and a chance to support the trade life cycle
Requirement
Required Skills:
- Master’s degree in Computer engineering/Software engineering/Software developer or related field
- Must have programming experience in Python. Provide github or similar repository links as appropriated
- Application framework and module experience with Django/Flask and Request
- Understanding of modern cryptographic frameworks
- Skills in the area of designing, coding, developing, testing patterns, prototyping and deploying
- Good to have prior exposure to the financial services industry
- Optional skills- previously worked in a technical environment contributing as a backend engineer
What we are looking for:
- The right attitude and if you have a learning mind, we are happy to teach
- Demonstrate a strong interest for the financial industry, in particular within the area of financial services
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