Equity Trading | Sr. SW Developer | Investment Management | Hybrid in NYC
Senior Software Architect & Developer Front Office Investment Technology Investment Management | Equity Trading
- Support Traders, Trade Management, Quants
- Influence architecture and delivery across EMS centric trading workflows
- Focus on Equities, Futures, FX, Options
Location & Compensation
- Location: Battery Park City (Relocation Available)
- Hybrid: 4 days in office
- Compensation: 200k - 220k base + bonus
- PTO: Unlimited
- Benefits: Exceptional
The Role
- Architect, design & develop EMS customizations & interfaces
- Optimize end-to-end trade workflows
- Balance delivery across:
- New development: 30%
- Enhancements: 50%
- Maintenance: 20%
- Backend: 70% | Frontend: 30%
- Partner with: Traders, Quants, Portfolio Managers, Product Owner
- Provide architectural direction aligned with future-state platforms.
- Drive AI adoption to increase development efficiency & velocity.
- Troubleshoot & resolve performance & stability issues.
Tech Stack - Current State
- Java (50%)
- Java Swing (30% for custom interfaces to EMS platform)
- SQL Server (10%) | VB.net (10%)
- Trading Platforms: CRIMS, Portware EMS
- AWS, Snowflake, Kafka
- Agile, Microservices,
- TDD, Unit Testing (Pytest, UnitTest)
- GIT Co-pilot, Eclipse, VS Code, Jira, Confluence, Docker,
Future State to include
- Java | JavaScript
- AWS, Snowflake, Kafka
- Trading Platforms: Aladdin, CRIMS, Portware EMS
- DevSecOps
- Implementation of AI tools
Skills & Experience
- Deep front-office acumen
- Clear communicator with stakeholders
- Strong presentation and leadership presence
- Strong understanding of trading workflows and EMS architecture
- Asset class exposure: Equities, Futures, Options, FX
- EMS (Portware or other)
- Expert-level Java (Java 8+)
- 10+ years full-stack software engineering
- 4+ years architecture experience (microservices and related patterns)
- Cloud-native development experience (AWS preferred)
- Proven ability to diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks
Nice to Have
- Java Swing
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Math, or related
- CFA
- Experience with: Aladdin, CRD / CRIMS
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