Job Details
Principal Software Engineer | Equity Trading | Portware 300k
2026-01-16 Living Talent Company all cities,AK
Description:
Implement automation strategies to improve trading workflows (Equities, Futures, FX, Options)
- Location: Battery Park City
- Hybrid: 4 days in office
- Compensation: 200k - 240k + 20-30% Bonus
- PTO: Unlimited
- Benefits: Exceptional
Implement automation strategies to improve trading workflows (Equities, Futures, FX, Options)
- New Development 30%
- Enhancements 50%
- Maintenance 20%
- Backend 70%
- Frontend 30%
- Interface with Traders and Portfolio Managers; collaborate with Product Owner
- Hands-on implementation (building out solutions, SDLC pipelines, code reviews, test case design)
- Provide architectural input - influence design aligning with future state
- Lead, mentor
- Java (50%)
- Java Swing (30% - for custom interfaces to EMS platform)
- SQL Server (10%)
- VB.net (10%)
- Portware EMS
- AWS, Snowflake
- Agile, Microservices
- TDD, Unit Testing (Pytest, UnitTest)
- GIT Co-pilot, Eclipse, VS Code, Jira, Confluence, Docker,
- Ideal experience: DevSecOps (ANT, Maven, Artifactory)
- Trading workflow (Equities, Futures, Options, FX)
- Portware (or other EMS)
- 10+ years Fullstack Software Engineering
- 4+ years Architecture (microservices and other architectural concepts)
- Mastery of Java and Java frameworks
- Experience with Java Swing is a plus
- Cloud-native development expertise (ideally AWS)
- Skilled in troubleshooting and debugging performance issues
- Nice to haves: BS or MS in Computer Science, Math or related, CFA, CRD/CRIMS experience