Lead Software & Platform Engineer NY

Summary

We are looking for a hands‑on Lead Software and Platform Engineer to drive the design, development, delivery, and operational reliability of large-scale, low‑latency microservices‑based trading platforms within our FX Engineering group. This role combines strong Java engineering expertise with platform ownership, production problem analysis, and Dev Ops/SRE practices. The successful candidate will remain close to the code while also providing technical leadership, guiding architecture decisions, improving platform reliability, and ensuring rapid diagnosis, patching, and release of business‑critical services.

You will work across engineering, architecture, infrastructure, and operations teams to build high‑performance, resilient, observable, and scalable FX trading systems. The ideal candidate brings deep experience in Java, Spring Boot, microservices, Kubernetes, public cloud platforms, low‑latency engineering, and production support of high‑throughput distributed systems.

• Lead the design, development, and delivery of large‑scale, low‑latency, high‑throughput trading platform services within the FX Engineering group.
• Build and maintain production‑grade Java, Spring Boot, and microservices‑based applications that support critical trading workflows.
• Design, build, deploy, and operate Java services running on Kubernetes in public cloud environments such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Remain hands‑on with the codebase while providing technical leadership across design, implementation, testing, release, and production support.
• Perform deep technical analysis of complex production issues across application, platform, infrastructure, network, and deployment layers.
• Identify issues in the platform and Dev Ops pipeline, propose effective solutions, and quickly patch, test, and release fixes to restore or improve platform stability.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers, fostering best practices in coding, performance engineering, system design, observability, and operational excellence.
• Partner closely with architects, product teams, Dev Ops, infrastructure, and other engineering groups to define and deliver scalable solutions for FX trading.
• Contribute to and guide the evolution of system architecture, ensuring performance, scalability, resilience, security, and maintainability.
• Design, build, and support high‑performance trading venues, platform services, and real‑time data processing components.
• Lead efforts to improve system observability, reliability, alerting, troubleshooting, and operational readiness.
• Develop automation to detect, prevent, and resolve production issues, reducing manual effort, downtime, and latency impact.
• Drive continuous improvements across performance optimization, cost efficiency, security, deployment quality, and developer experience.
• Champion Agile, Dev Ops, and SRE practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, infrastructure as code, operational acceptance, and production readiness reviews.
• Collaborate with global teams to investigate cross‑system issues, perform root‑cause analysis, and deliver long‑term corrective actions.
• Produce clear technical documentation, incident analysis, runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and knowledge‑base articles.

• Strong hands‑on expertise in Java development, with a passion for writing clean, efficient, maintainable, and production‑grade code.
• Proven experience developing enterprise applications using Spring Boot and microservices architecture.
• Strong experience deploying, operating, and troubleshooting Java services on Kubernetes in a public cloud environment.
• Experience building or supporting trading platforms, real‑time systems, or other business‑critical platforms requiring low latency and high throughput.
• Proven experience operating as a technical lead or senior engineer influencing design, delivery, architecture, and engineering standards.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, system design principles, data structures, algorithms, and service‑oriented architecture.
• Expertise in concurrency, multithreading, JVM tuning, memory management, and performance optimization.
• Strong…