Equity Trading | SW Architect | Investment Management | Hybrid in NYC

Senior Software Architect & Developer

Front Office Investment Technology

Investment Management | Equity Trading

Support Traders, Trade Management, Quants

Influence architecture and delivery across EMS centric trading workflows

Focus on Equities, Futures, FX, Options

Location: Battery Park City (Relocation Available)

Hybrid: 4 days in office

Compensation: 200k - 220k base + bonus

PTO: Unlimited

Benefits: Exceptional

Architect, design & develop EMS customizations & interfaces

Optimize end-to-end trade workflows

Balance delivery across: New development: 30% Enhancements: 50% Maintenance: 20%

Backend: 70% | Frontend: 30%

Partner with: Traders, Quants, Portfolio Managers, Product Owner

Provide architectural direction aligned with future-state platforms.

Drive AI adoption to increase development efficiency & velocity.

Troubleshoot & resolve performance & stability issues.

Java (50%)

Java Swing (30% for custom interfaces to EMS platform)

SQL Server (10%) | VB.net (10%)

Trading Platforms: CRIMS, Portware EMS

AWS, Snowflake, Kafka

Agile, Microservices

TDD, Unit Testing (Pytest, UnitTest)

GIT Co-pilot, Eclipse, VS Code, Jira, Confluence, Docker

Java | JavaScript

AWS, Snowflake, Kafka

Trading Platforms: Aladdin, CRIMS, Portware EMS

DevSecOps

Implementation of AI tools

Deep front-office acumen

Clear communicator with stakeholders

Strong presentation and leadership presence

Strong understanding of trading workflows and EMS architecture

Asset class exposure: Equities, Futures, Options, FX

EMS (Portware or other)

Expert-level Java (Java 8+)

10+ years full-stack software engineering

4+ years architecture experience (microservices and related patterns)

Cloud-native development experience (AWS preferred)

Proven ability to diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks

Java Swing

BS or MS in Computer Science, Math, or related

CFA

Experience with: Aladdin, CRD / CRIMS