FIX Senior Software Engineer, AVP
About The Position
Globallink, 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 global 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 role is a principal application developer with experience with FIX protocol, Java multi-threading, Oracle, Spring Boot, messaging brokers, and other backend Java technologies. This is a hands-on developer position within a small development team in a very-fast-paced environment. The position is for a senior developer to be involved in sophisticated software development.
Requirements
- 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 GitHub Copilot to improve developer productivity and efficiency, increase testing coverage, and introduce innovation to the platform.
- 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, excellent organizational skills
- Ability to work with development and QA team members in collaborative fashion
Nice To Haves
- Preferred experience in migrating legacy applications to cloud-native architectures using Docker and Kubernetes
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation) and container orchestration in production environments.
- 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.
Benefits
- our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match
- insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages
- paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities
- access to our Employee Assistance Program
- incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans)
- eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans
- inclusive development opportunities
- flexible work-life support
- paid volunteer days
- vibrant employee networks
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
