Lead Software Engineer (FIX)

As a lead software engineer within the Global Equity Derivatives Risk Management team you will help drive the delivery of a best in class platform that handles real time streaming position and risk management for a wide range of complex financial products.

The individual selected for this role will combine a unique mix of strong hands-on development skill, involvement in technical design and architecture decisions, and ability to draw on deep experience to provide technical leadership and mentoring to a new and growing team of technologists.

You will help drive the full delivery lifecycle through design, development, testing, deployment and support.

The successful candidate must be passionate about working in a fast moving environment, collaborating across a global team of multiple disciplines and agile development process.

The candidate must be excited about working with new technologies and continually learning and evolving their skillset.

Job Responsibilities


* Design, develop and maintain high-quality Java applications, ensuring clean, efficient and well-structured code.


* Provide technical leadership to a small team, guiding developers on design, implementation, code quality and best practices while ensuring timely and high-quality delivery.


* Build and optimize low-latency, high-throughput components for equities risk systems, ensuring real-time processing and stable performance during peak market loads.


* Apply object-oriented design principles and industry-standard design patterns to create modular, scalable and maintainable systems.


* Adopt Test-Driven Development (TDD) to deliver reliable, well-tested and production ready code.


* Ensure compliance with coding standards, security guidelines and architectural best practices throughout the development life cycle.


* Implement and support CI/CD pipeline principles, enabling automated build, test and deployment workflows


* Monitor, troubleshoot and optimize application performance, ensuring reliability, scalability and efficient resource utilization.


* Follow Agile principles and actively participate in Scrum ceremonies, supporting iterative and collaborative development.


* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver end to end features and resolve technical issues efficiently.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

Core Technical Skills


* Formal training or certification in Software Engineering concepts and 10 + years of hands-on experience with Java technologies.


* Ability to lead and mentor a small engineering team in architecture, development and problem-solving.


* Java 17 + experience with multi-threaded, high-performance backend development.


* Hands-on experience with Spring Boot and Spring Framework, including microservices, REST services and dependency management.


* Practical experience with FIX protocol, including message parsing, handling and connectivity to trading venues.


* Exp...