Principal SW Engineer | Equity Trading | Investment Management | Java

Senior Software Architect & Developer

Front Office Investment Technology

Investment Management | Equity Trading

Support Traders and Quants

Hands on Architecture, Design and Development

Influence architecture and delivery across EMS centric trading workflows

Focus on Equities, Futures, FX, Options

Location:

Battery Park City

Hybrid: 4 days in office

Compensation: 200k - 225k base + bonus

PTO:
Unlimited

Benefits:
Exceptional

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.

Java (50%)

React, Java Swing (30% for custom interfaces to EMS platform)

C#,.Net, SQL Server (10%)

Trading Platforms: CRD, Factset Portware

AWS, Snowflake, Kafka

Agile, Microservices

TDD, Unit Testing (Pytest, Unit Test)

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

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

Trade Execution (EMS)

Expert-level Java (Java 8+) or C#

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

BS or MS in Computer Science, Math, or related

CFA

Experience with:
Aladdin, CRD / CRIMS