Location: New York, NY, United States

Cantor Fitzgerald Technology Markets LLC is seeking a seasoned Senior Software Engineer to lead the development of a latencysensitive foreignexchange trading platform. The role blends deep technical expertise with strategic leadership, guiding architecture, mentoring engineers, and driving the resolution of critical production issues while collaborating closely with business and operations stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and document reliable, highperformance Java applications for a realtime FX trading platform.
• Translate business and product requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Lead architecture and design of complex, distributed, latencysensitive trading systems.
• Establish technical direction and mentor engineers on design, code quality, testing, and best practices.
• Partner with technology and business stakeholders to shape the engineering roadmap.
• Diagnose and resolve critical production incidents, performing rootcause analysis and preventive improvements.
• Evaluate and promote emerging technologies, including AIassisted tools, to enhance engineering efficiency.
• Ensure systems are resilient, highly available, and faulttolerant.
• Support 24/7 production environments with minimal downtime.
• Drive performance optimization for scalability, reliability, and low latency.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.
• 15+ years of software engineering experience, including highperformance Java development.
• Handson experience building and supporting multithreaded, distributed, realtime trading systems.
• Proven track record leading technical design and architectural decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and influence engineering standards.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and distributedsystem design.
• Expertise optimizing applications for performance, scalability, reliability, and latency.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with crossfunctional stakeholders.
• Experience with Linux environments, scripting, network programming, and relational databases (e.g., Oracle).
• Background in electronic order handling, FIX protocol, and marketdata processing is a plus.

 

Compensation Expectations: $150,000 - $250,000 Base Salary

 

 

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Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain a highperformance realtime FX trading platform for Cantor Fitzgerald Technology Markets.