FIX Senior Software Engineer, AVP

FIX Senior Software Engineer, AVP

Who we are looking for

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.

Why this role is important to us

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

What you will be responsible for

As a FIX Software Engineer, AVP you will:
- 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

What we value

These skills will help you succeed in this role

• 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 GitHub 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/CloudFormation) 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.

Education & Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or relat