Trading Platform Application Developer
Posted
Summary
Develops and supports Java-based applications, services, and integrations for electronic trading platforms — delivering enhancements, automation tooling, deployments, and production troubleshooting. Requires 6+ years' experience with Java, Linux/Unix, scripting, and SQL; FIX protocol and capital markets knowledge are pluses.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deliver application projects, enhancements, and change requests for electronic trading platforms.
- Develop and maintain Java-based applications, services, and integrations.
- Develop automation scripts and operational tooling to improve platform efficiency and resiliency.
- Support application onboarding, configuration, testing, deployment, and production implementation.
- Troubleshoot application, connectivity, and production issues and perform root cause analysis.
- Collaborate with business users, infrastructure teams, vendors, brokers, trading venues, and external counterparties.
- Support platform modernization, monitoring, automation, operational improvements, and resiliency initiatives.
- Participate in production support, release deployment, and operational readiness activities.
- Maintain technical documentation, implementation guides, and operational procedures.
Mandatory Skills:
- Minimum 6 years of software development and application support experience.
- Strong Java development experience.
- Linux/Unix administration and troubleshooting.
- Shell scripting (Bash, Korn Shell, Python, etc.).
- Experience with distributed, scalable, high-throughput applications.
- Performance tuning and optimization.
- Production support and root cause analysis.
- SQL and relational database knowledge.
- CI/CD pipeline and release management experience.
Preferred Skills:
- FIX Protocol (FIX 4.x / FIX 5.x)
- Electronic Trading Platforms
- Treasury & Markets / Capital Markets domain knowledge
- FX, Fixed Income, or Equities experience
- Kafka, MQ, AMQ, REST APIs, and Microservices