SW Architect | Quant Equities Trading | Hybrid

Principal SW Architect

Algo Trading | Investment Management

Equities | Futures | Options | FX

Lead 5 developers

Support Traders, Trade Management, Quants

Influence architecture and delivery across EMS centric trading workflows

Location & Compensation

Location:

Battery Park City - NYC

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%) |  (10%)

Trading Platforms: CRIMS, Portware EMS

AWS, Snowflake, Kafka

Agile, Microservices

TDD, Unit Testing (Pytest, Unit Test)

GIT Co-pilot, Eclipse, VS Code, Jira, Confluence, Docker

Future State to include

Java | Java Script

AWS, Snowflake, Kafka

Trading Platforms:
Aladdin, CRIMS, Portware EMS

Dev Sec Ops

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