Location: New York, NY (Hybrid)
Compensation: $160,000-190,000 + bonus + equity

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Company and Role Overview

Our client is a global financial technology platform powering modern investing infrastructure for partners worldwide. Their technology enables organizations to deliver seamless, embedded investment experiences to their customers through robust APIs and highly scalable trading systems. They are seeking a senior‑level engineer to help build and optimize the core infrastructure that powers real‑time trade execution across global markets.

This is a mission‑critical engineering role focused on performance, reliability, and scalability within distributed trading systems.

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Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate cross‑functionally with trading, quantitative, product, risk, and compliance teams to enhance core trading systems

• Lead design and development of greenfield Java services using modern engineering practices

• Optimize engine latency and throughput across varying load scenarios

• Monitor production systems and analyze large datasets to troubleshoot and resolve issues quickly

• Deliver trading infrastructure supporting multiple asset classes, including equities, fixed income, and options

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Core Requirements

• Experience working in trading, brokerage, fintech, or other real‑time transaction platforms

• Strong knowledge of Fixed Income and Options asset classes

• Experience deploying applications in AWS or similar cloud environments

• Strong computer science fundamentals including data structures and system design

• 5+ years building low‑latency, high‑throughput distributed systems

• Deep expertise in Java concurrency and multithreading

• Understanding of JVM internals and garbage collection tuning

• Experience writing robust unit and integration tests

• Solid understanding of operating systems and networking fundamentals

• Strong analytical thinking and communication skills

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Preferred Experience

• Messaging systems or streaming frameworks (Kafka, JMS, Aeron, ActiveMQ, etc.)

• Containerization technologies (Docker, Podman, etc.)

• FIX protocol knowledge

• PostgreSQL or similar relational databases

• Linux shell scripting

Ideal Profile

• Successful candidates typically come from environments such as:

• Trading platforms or exchanges

• Investment banks

• Hedge funds or market makers

• Real‑time infrastructure teams

Engineers who excel in this role tend to be highly detail‑oriented, performance‑driven, and motivated by solving complex systems problems where reliability and speed are critical.

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Why This Role Stands Out

• Work on infrastructure that directly powers real financial transactions

• Solve deeply technical distributed systems challenges

• Influence architecture decisions for next‑generation trading platforms

• Join a team where engineering quality and system performance are top priorities

Our Commitment to Inclusive Hiring

Research indicates that men will apply to a role when they only meet 50-60% of the descriptions, however, when looking at women and other minority groups, they can look for up to a 99% match in order to apply to a role. If you feel you are a fit for our role, please still apply, don’t worry if you don’t tick every single box. We’d still love to hear from you. We encourage underrepresented talent to apply to all our roles & support accessibility needs.