About Careertakes

👉 Important disclosure: Careertakes is a third-party recruiting platform supporting this hiring process. If selected, you will be employed directly by our client, Financial Services.

Applicants for this role may also receive access to additional matched opportunities through the Careertakes platform.

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What You’ll Do

You will join a confidential client engineering team responsible for designing and delivering large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, distributed software systems that support trading and post-trading workflows. Typical responsibilities include:

• Design, implement, and maintain server-side services and components for order state management and trading platforms across asset classes (Equity and Options).
• Build and operate high-throughput distributed messaging and data pipelines.
• Develop robust integrations with relational and NoSQL data stores.
• Author and maintain unit and performance tests; participate in performance tuning.
• Lead or participate in scrum ceremonies; drive deliverables to completion with cross-functional teams.
• Contribute to CI/CD, version control practices (Git), and operational runbooks.

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What You’ll Bring

Minimum requirements (applicants must meet the education/experience criteria below):

• Education & experience:
  • Master’s degree in Applied Computer Science, Computer Science, Educational Technology, or a related field and three (3) years of relevant experience in the role or equivalent positions; OR
  • Bachelor’s degree in the fields above and five (5) years of relevant experience in equivalent technology roles.
• Technical experience (at least three (3) years with each unless otherwise noted):
  • Java
  • Linux / Unix
  • Kafka
  • MQ (message queuing)
  • SQL and JDBC
  • Relational databases and NoSQL databases (e.g., Redis)
  • Unit testing and performance testing
  • Git
  • Shell or Perl scripting
  • Spring Framework
  • XML
  • Distributed messaging systems
  • Multi-threaded server-side development
  • Web services (RESTful and SOAP)
  • Apache Camel
• Additional requirement:
  • One (1) year of experience with JMS

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Nice to Have

• Hands-on experience with trading or post-trade systems and order state management.
• Familiarity with MS SQL Server.
• Experience in low-latency, high-throughput financial services systems.
• Prior work in Agile/Scrum environments and experience leading technical delivery.

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Location & Work Arrangement

• Job location: New York, NY (onsite with hybrid flexibility).
• Telecommuting permitted up to 2 days per week as operationally appropriate.

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Compensation & Benefits

• Expected base pay at commencement: $198,000 — $210,000 per year. Final pay is determined on an individualized basis and may be supplemented by discretionary bonuses, long-term incentives, and other total compensation components.
• Competitive benefits typical of Financial Services employers (healthcare, retirement plans, paid time off, etc.) — specifics provided by the confidential client at offer time.

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Equal Opportunity & Hiring Transparency

Careertakes and our client are Equal Opportunity Employers committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We prohibit discrimination or harassment of any kind. To support a fair and efficient hiring process, AI tools may be used to assist with application review or resume screening. These tools do not replace human decision-making. Final hiring decisions are made by people.

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