Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

Join Cantor Fitzgerald Technology Markets' STP team to architect, build, and maintain high-performance straight-through processing platforms across FX, Credit, Fixed Income, and Rates. You will work with cutting-edge financial messaging protocols, middleware, and regulatory reporting solutions, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end trade lifecycle capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop high-performance, real-time STP systems for FX, Credit, Fixed Income, and Rates.


• Build trade delivery platforms interfacing with client risk systems via FIX, proprietary feeds, and third-party APIs.


• Integrate delivery systems with middleware such as ICELink, Markitwire, Bloomberg VCON/TOMS, Reuters, MarkitServ, CME ClearPort, TRAFiX, and Traiana.


• Develop clearing solutions connecting to ICE, LCH, CME and other clearing houses.


• Create regulatory reporting modules interfacing with SDRs, DTCC, CME, FINRA, and other regulators.


• Collaborate with upstream trade capture and downstream post-trade teams to ensure end-to-end flow.


• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle for successful delivery.


• Implement and optimize messaging, caching, and streaming components for low latency.


• Drive CI/CD best practices, automated testing, and release automation.


• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to architectural decisions.

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in Core Java, data structures, algorithms, and multithreading.


• Experience with Spring (including Spring MVC), Hibernate/JPA, RESTful services, and JSON.


• Hands-on knowledge of FIX protocol and other financial messaging standards (FIXML, FpML).


• Familiarity with messaging middleware (Kafka, Solace, Tibco, IBM MQ) and streaming/caching technologies (Hazelcast, Ignite, EHCache).


• Expertise in XML processing tools (XMLBeans, XStream, XSLT, XPath, GSON, Jackson).


• Solid experience with relational databases (Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, PostgreSQL) and SQL.


• Proficiency with build tools (Maven/Gradle, Artifactory/Nexus) and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity).


• Comfortable working in Unix/Linux and Windows environments.


• Product knowledge of FX, Credit Derivatives, Fixed Income, Rates, and related clearing/reporting processes.


• Ability to collaborate across trade capture, post-trade, risk, and regulatory teams throughout the project lifecycle.

Compensation Expectations: $150,000-$160,000

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