Location: Charlotte, NC
Salary: $69.00 USD Hourly - $74.00 USD Hourly
Description: Lead Software Engineer - FIX Protocol (Digital Assets)Location: Charlotte, NC (Hybrid - in office 3 days/week)
About the JobWealth Management Technology is at a pivotal moment as AI, digital assets, and 24x7 markets reshape the financial landscape. The Digital & Trading Technology organization builds the platforms that power seamless, secure, and scalable digital wealth experiences.
As a
Lead Software Engineer with FIX Protocol expertise, you will play a critical role in designing and delivering large-scale, mission-critical trading and digital asset solutions. You will provide technical leadership across complex initiatives, influence engineering standards and best practices, and collaborate closely with business and technology partners to drive impactful outcomes.
Responsibilities- Lead complex, large-scale software engineering initiatives with enterprise-wide impact.
- Design, develop, test, debug, and maintain scalable services, APIs, and integration solutions.
- Serve as a technical leader by defining and promoting engineering standards, best practices, and architectural patterns.
- Analyze and resolve complex technical challenges by evaluating multiple factors, including ambiguous or unprecedented conditions.
- Provide hands-on leadership for FIX onboarding, certification, and production rollout with external counterparties.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and diagnose FIX connectivity and session issues, ensuring system reliability and performance.
- Collaborate with senior engineers, architecture teams, product partners, and external technical stakeholders.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, code quality, and production excellence.
Minimum Qualifications- 5 years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of hands-on experience with the FIX protocol, including session and application layers, message types, and tag structures.
- 5 years of experience onboarding FIX connections, including certification testing, conformance, and go-live coordination.
- Experience designing and building backend services, APIs, or integration platforms.
- Experience diagnosing FIX session issues (e.g., sequence gaps, heartbeat issues, message rejections).
- Understanding of networking fundamentals relevant to FIX connectivity (TCP/IP, TLS, firewalls, extranet providers).
- Experience with source control systems, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing.
- Ability to collaborate directly with external technical teams to resolve connectivity and message-mapping issues.
Preferred Qualifications- Experience mentoring engineers or serving in a technical leadership role.
- Experience building software in one or more general-purpose languages (e.g., C#, Java, Python).
- Familiarity with trading workflows, including order routing, executions, allocations, and confirmations.
- Experience with common FIX message flows (e.g., NewOrderSingle, ExecutionReport, OrderCancelRequest).
- Experience coordinating FIX certification and UAT with broker-dealers, exchanges, or ECNs.
- Experience working with cloud platforms and containerized environments (e.g., Kubernetes).
- Familiarity with cloud-native architectures, monitoring, and alerting strategies.
- Experience with CI/CD automation and modern development tools.
- Knowledge of secure software development practices and application security tooling.
- Willingness to participate in on-call or rotational production support.
Work Environment- Hybrid work model with in-office collaboration based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
- Agile, product-aligned teams with shared ownership and close partnership with business stakeholders.
- Modern engineering culture leveraging AI-assisted development, automation, and scalable cloud infrastructure.
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