Trading Platform Application Engineer
Trading Platform Application Engineer
Scope of Work
We are seeking a managed service resource to support project delivery, enhancements, and production support for electronic trading platforms and integrations.
The resource will be involved in the design, development, configuration, implementation, and support of solutions using vendor-based commercial trading and connectivity platforms to facilitate:
- Price discovery workflows
- Trade execution workflows
- Post-trade processing and trade lifecycle management
- Integration with external counterparties, brokers, trading venues, and internal applications
Key responsibilities include:
- Deliver application projects, enhancements, and change requests.
- Develop and maintain Java-based applications, services, and integrations.
- Develop automation scripts and operational tooling to improve efficiency and resiliency.
- Supportapplication onboarding, configuration, testing, and production implementation.
- Troubleshoot application, connectivity, and production issues and perform root cause analysis.
- Collaborate with business users, application teams, infrastructure teams, vendors, and external counterparties.
- Support platform modernization, automation, monitoring, operational improvements, and resiliency initiatives.
- Participate in production support, release deployment, and operational readiness activities.
- Maintaintechnical documentation, implementation guides, and operational procedures.
Mandatory Skills & Experience
Core Technical Skills
- Minimum 4+ years of hands-on software development and support experience.
- Strong proficiency in Java development for enterprise applications.
- Strong Linux/Unix administration and troubleshooting skills.
- Experience with shell scripting (Bash, Korn Shell, Python, or equivalent scriptingNlanguages).
- Experience developing and supporting:
High-throughput applications, Distributed systems, Scalable and resilient solutions
- Strong understanding of application performance tuning and optimization.
- Experience troubleshooting production issues and performing root cause analysis.
- Familiarity with relational databases and SQL.
DevOps & Platform Engineering
- Experience with CI/CD pipeline implementation and maintenance.
- Automated deployment and monitoring solutions.
- Application release and environment management experience.