Development Lead

Job Description

Prime Technology is building a suite of applications to support Cantor's Prime clients and the firm's future vision. We seek a technically expert Development Lead to own and evolve our Swaps and Synthetic Prime Brokerage (SPB) platforms-covering trade capture, resets, financing, collateral, dividends, corporate actions, and client reporting-while mentoring the engineers who build and operate them. This in-office role in New York works directly with trading desks, middle-office, and operations teams.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery and operation of Swaps & Synthetic Prime Brokerage applications, from requirements through production support.
• Serve as the technical and domain subject-matter expert for trade capture, resets, financing, collateral, dividend processing, and client reporting.
• Design and oversee integration with vendor platforms, managing data and trade feeds, processing handshakes, and exception handling.
• Lead, mentor, and grow multiple engineering teams, setting clear expectations and fostering a culture of accountability and technical excellence.
• Engage directly with trading, middle-office, and risk stakeholders to translate business needs into actionable technical requirements.
• Provide architectural guidance ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, highly available, and resilient.
• Manage production stability, including incident response, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement of operational processes.
• Establish and enforce engineering best practices for design, code quality, testing, and release management.
• Drive technical initiatives aligned with stakeholder priorities and the broader technology roadmap.
• Remain hands-on to guide the team through complex technical challenges and earn technical respect.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of technology experience in capital markets with a proven record of increasing responsibility.
• Recognized subject-matter expert in Swaps and Synthetic Prime Brokerage technology and domain.
• Deep working knowledge of the equity swap lifecycle and its flow across trading, middle-office, and general ledger.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing engineering teams, including mentoring technical talent.
• Strong technical foundation in software engineering, distributed systems, and security.
• Experience building and operating highly available, mission-critical systems.
• Ability to interact directly with users and translate business needs into well-defined technical requirements.
• Proficiency in Java, SQL, relational database design, and trade-processing messaging technologies (e.g., FIX, Kafka).
• Familiarity with swap booking and position-keeping platforms such as Murex or Calypso (preferred).
• Knowledge of swap-related regulatory and tax reporting requirements, including dividend withholding tax processing (preferred).

Compensation Expectations: $225,000 - $250,000 Base Salary

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