Location: NY, United States

Prime Technology is building a suite of applications to support Cantors Prime clients and the firms future vision. We seek a technically expert Development Lead to own and evolve our Swaps and Synthetic Prime Brokerage (SPB) platformscovering trade capture, resets, financing, collateral, dividends, corporate actions, and client reportingwhile mentoring the engineers who build and operate them. This inoffice role in New York works directly with trading desks, middleoffice, and operations teams.

Responsibilities

• Own endtoend delivery and operation of Swaps & Synthetic Prime Brokerage applications, from requirements through production support.
• Serve as the technical and domain subjectmatter 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, middleoffice, 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, rootcause 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 handson 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 subjectmatter expert in Swaps and Synthetic Prime Brokerage technology and domain.
• Deep working knowledge of the equity swap lifecycle and its flow across trading, middleoffice, 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, missioncritical systems.
• Ability to interact directly with users and translate business needs into welldefined technical requirements.
• Proficiency in Java, SQL, relational database design, and tradeprocessing messaging technologies (e.g., FIX, Kafka).
• Familiarity with swap booking and positionkeeping platforms such as Murex or Calypso (preferred).
• Knowledge of swaprelated regulatory and tax reporting requirements, including dividend withholding tax processing (preferred).

 

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

 

 

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Lead development of Cantors Swaps and Synthetic Prime Brokerage platforms, driving architecture, delivery, and team growth in New York.