FIX Senior Software Engineer, AVP

Who We Are Looking For

Global link, a division of State Street Global Markets, is a market leader in providing electronic trading platforms for multiple asset classes. The primary focus will be on developing enhancements and supporting the ongoing evolution of State Street’s industry‑leading foreign exchange trading and supporting services. These systems serve customers around the globe and enable them to make smart trading decisions, execute trades, and settle large currency/derivatives trades, as well as provide them with necessary analytics and data services.

The team you will be joining is a part of a trading technology function that is vital to the company.

• Develop backend code that adheres to architecture and overall design of the trading platform and facilitates integration between several trading applications within State Street and external clients.
• Write unit tests to ensure that implemented code introduces zero defects.
• Adhere to company SDLC, IR Risk, and compliance policies.
• Efficiently use AI to maximize developer productivity and efficiency.

• Work closely with Product owners, architects, QA engineers, and other development team members to use current technologies where appropriate, and implement full life‑cycle, full stack development tasks.
• Develop enhancement and support the ongoing evolution of State Street's industry‑leading foreign exchange trading and supporting services.
• Write comprehensive documentation, unit tests and review code of other developers.
• Use common design patterns to write commercial, fault tolerance, multi‑threaded, real‑time, performance critical (measures in microseconds), and scalable systems software including Java multi‑threading, multiple messaging brokers, and JVM optimizations.
• Use FIX protocol to integrate State Street financial applications and external clients.
• Develop complex database programs, queries, and utilities utilizing SQL and PL/SQL for packages/stored procedures with Oracle.
• Expert in core Java – efficiently use complex multi‑threading techniques and other state‑of‑the‑art Java features.
• Excellent knowledge and in‑depth work experience with multiple (at least two) messaging brokers such as Rabbit MQ (preferred), Kafka, and/or JMS‑based messaging brokers (Active MQ, Sonic MQ).
• Excellent knowledge and demonstrated work experience with AI tools and platforms such as Git Hub Copilot to improve developer productivity and efficiency, increase testing coverage, and introduce innovation to the platform.
• Leverage experience in developing CI/CD pipeline scripts using Jenkins, Groovy, JFrog, GIT etc.
• Hands‑on experience deploying and managing low‑latency, high‑throughput systems on AWS, preferably within financial services or trading platforms.
• Preferred experience in migrating legacy applications to cloud‑native architectures using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Cloud Formation) and container orchestration in production environments.
• Excellent organizational skills and an ability to see ‘the big picture’.
• The highest level of written and verbal communication skills and ability is required to customize communications for each target audience. This includes representing the company in a professional manner while interacting with clients.
• This position requires constant communication with other developers, QA team members, product managers world‑wide (New York, Boston, London, Singapore, Australia and Tokyo), and stakeholders at other State Street business units.
• Ability to efficiently troubleshoot critical code, especially code related to client integrations for sensitive clients, must be able to be on‑call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This includes providing a quick turnaround in patching code with short notice, such as within a day.

• Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field; plus
• 10 years of experience in backend Java development, including 3 years in financial domain.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills,…