Senior Software Engineer

Join Cantor Fitzgerald Technology Markets' STP team to architect, build, and maintain high‑performance straight‑through processing platforms across FX, Credit, Fixed Income, and Rates. You will work with cutting‑edge financial messaging protocols, middleware, and regulatory reporting solutions, collaborating with cross‑functional teams to deliver end‑to‑end trade lifecycle capabilities.

• Design and develop high‑performance, real‑time STP systems for FX, Credit, Fixed Income, and Rates.
• Build trade delivery platforms interfacing with client risk systems via FIX, proprietary feeds, and third‑party APIs.
• Integrate delivery systems with middleware such as ICELink, Markitwire, Bloomberg VCON/TOMS, Reuters, MarkitServ, CME ClearPort, TRAFiX, and Traiana.
• Develop clearing solutions connecting to ICE, LCH, CME and other clearing houses.
• Create regulatory reporting modules interfacing with SDRs, DTCC, CME, FINRA, and other regulators.
• Collaborate with upstream trade capture and downstream post‑trade teams to ensure end‑to‑end flow.
• Partner with cross‑functional stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle for successful delivery.
• Implement and optimize messaging, caching, and streaming components for low latency.
• Drive CI/CD best practices, automated testing, and release automation.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to architectural decisions.

• Strong proficiency in Core Java, data structures, algorithms, and multithreading.
• Experience with Spring (including Spring MVC), Hibernate/JPA, RESTful services, and JSON.
• Hands‑on knowledge of FIX protocol and other financial messaging standards (FIXML, FpML).
• Familiarity with messaging middleware (Kafka, Solace, Tibco, IBM MQ) and streaming/caching technologies (Hazelcast, Ignite, EHCache).
• Expertise in XML processing tools (XMLBeans, XStream, XSLT, XPath, GSON, Jackson).
• Solid experience with relational databases (Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, PostgreSQL) and SQL.
• Proficiency with build tools (Maven/Gradle, Artifactory/Nexus) and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity).
• Comfortable working in Unix/Linux and Windows environments.
• Product knowledge of FX, Credit Derivatives, Fixed Income, Rates, and related clearing/reporting processes.
• Ability to collaborate across trade capture, post‑trade, risk, and regulatory teams throughout the project lifecycle.

 

Compensation Expectations: $150,000-$160,000

 

 

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