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I have 2 leads on C# WPF positions with Financial Trading Application companies.
I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who's every worked in a role as a developer in a company like this.
They didn't ask for any prior experience in the industry, but I'm mostly concerned about what prerequisite knowledge I will need going in. Is it math intensive? Do I need a lot of experience with financial calculations?
I know every job/company is different, but I'm looking for some general feedback. Both positions are fairly high paying, so I'd like to find out what they're looking for before I dive too deep in.
Thanks
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Everything that I have read in the news indicates that the financial industry and accountants prefer "creative" math over accurate math.
Just an observation...
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the job listing did not list prerequisite or necessary experience?
If it's only WPF, I assume it will be high level programming (UI...)
I'd rather be phishing!
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You might be working with an existing system/framework. If so, then you will be doing maintenance work and maybe some new enhancements, at first. Being able to show that you can solve problems, quickly and correctly, is paramount.
I use to write software for a financial institution (forbes 500), which will remain nameless. 
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Slacker007 wrote: I use to write software for a financial institution (forbes 500), which will remain nameless bankrupt.
FTFY 
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No, they are very far from bankrupt, I assure you. Although, I am sure the anti 1%, wish they were.
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It's ok, Slacker... He was just confusing you with me... Mine went bankrupt, and though I won't identify them, pretty much everyone would recognize the name.
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Many years ago I worked on a large commodities based financial trading application for a large company. In my case, we hired PHDs and math geniuses to write the most important calculations and we just called them and invoked them on demand. The gist is that my experience is unless you're requested to do intense financial calculations in your job description, with a required strong math background, chances are they realize the skills do not typically overlap. We had to teach one guy how to write calculations in C#, and how to tell us what injection dependencies he might require, but we submitted numbers and got answers we assumed we could trust.
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I worked for a quants team some years back and they did all the math heavy lifting and I only had to figure out how to implement their magic. Also, worked trading floors and found that a strong disposition and not letting the traders bully you was more important than my coding ability. 
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Only quant roles are maths intensive. If you're not applying for one, you can rest assured that's not what they're hiring you for.
It's most likely high level UI work, so you'll have to be good with asynchronous programming, dealing with different third party products and frameworks, etc. Ask, ask, ask questions during the interviews.
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread 
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As others have said, there's usually a pretty clear separation between developers and quants.
The quants are the math geniuses who write the valuation models.
The developers handle the UIs, data processing, and the less-intensive math.
As a general rule for the non-quant side, expect to need algebra but not calculus. Some understanding of finance is always helpful, but if they didn't ask for it, they're probably just looking for UI work. Just make sure you're clear with them about what you can and can't do.
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Would assume that some part of the programming would involve real-time acquisition / monitoring of data, not missing data for even a single time instant. In essence, aspects of multi-threaded programming, concurrency, etc.
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http://xkcd.com/1503/[^]
Now, who wants to guess which squirrel normally asks questions in QA?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That's no balloon... that's a B-Ark.
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All 10 of them!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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I counted 11.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Binary is so old school! 
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Strange, but the oldschool ways somehow also meant less holy wars, not so steep learning curves, more productivity, less documentations, no Q&A, no conventions and style wars, managers actually knew that they were clueless and things usually were around for a longer time than a month or two.
When did we leave those things to complete Bozos to decide over? And why did we do that?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I think it is a funny cartoon, but just as for most of the XKCDs I think I'm missing the actual joke.
Someone care to explain?
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Doofus T Brain-Cell wrote: I am looking for a COBOL Developer for a emerging technology/Software development based company in the heart of Cork.
 I cannot in any shape or form bring "COBOL" and "emerging technology" together without placing "is not an" between the two.
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Doofus T Brain-Cell
I used to work for that guy... I see they're still looking to replace me. 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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You worked for someone with the name Doofus?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I didn't say that was his name... who hasn't at one time or another worked for or with a Doofus?
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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