Development Manager

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New York, NY, USA
In-Office
250K-325K Annually
Expert/Leader
Financial Services
The Role
Owns the trading platform architecture, resilience, performance, release lifecycle, and production support. Leads development and QA teams, including hiring and performance management. Coordinates feature delivery, infrastructure and disaster recovery activities, client onboarding, vendor access, vulnerability remediation, and incident resolution. Requires extensive Java and enterprise messaging experience, FIX protocol expertise, production troubleshooting skills, low-latency design knowledge, FX product understanding, and strong security and infrastructure capabilities.
Summary Generated by Built In
Cantor International Services Limited is seeking a seasoned Development Manager to own the end‑to‑end architecture of its trading platform. You will build and lead a high‑calibre team of developers and testers, drive release cycles across multiple environments, ensure platform resilience and performance, and provide round‑the‑clock production support. The role requires close collaboration with product managers, infrastructure, client IT, and external vendors to deliver secure, low‑latency trading solutions. Responsibilities
  • Own platform architecture, ensuring resilience, high performance, and built‑in test automation.
  • Lead, develop, and hire development and QA teams, managing performance and growth.
  • Run the full release cycle: branch management, planning, execution, and hot‑fixes across DEV, QA, UAT, PROD, and DR.
  • Partner with Infrastructure to maintain healthy environments and participate in DR tests and CAB processes.
  • Provide 24x6 production support, triaging incidents, tracing trade flows, and driving root‑cause fixes.
  • Translate Product Manager requirements into delivered features and coordinate cross‑team integration.
  • Collaborate with client IT on connectivity, onboarding, SSO, questionnaires, and platform issues.
  • Manage vulnerability remediation, security questionnaires, and vendor/partner access to code repositories.
Qualifications
  • 10+ years of Java development with Spring, JMS, and enterprise messaging (e.g., Solace).
  • Experience with FIX protocol (QuickFIX/J) and XML/JSON message integration.
  • Strong Oracle/SQL skills for production trade and data troubleshooting.
  • Proven leadership of development and QA teams, including hiring and performance management.
  • Hands‑on production support and root‑cause analysis in a live trading environment.
  • Release and deployment management across multiple environments using Git, Jira, Jenkins, and test automation.
  • Excellent communication with traders, management, vendors, and client IT staff.
  • FX product knowledge (spot, forwards, NDFs, options) and market data integration (Refinitiv/RMDS).
  • Low‑latency design experience, such as the LMAX Disruptor pattern.
  • Security and infrastructure expertise: SSO/OAuth/SAML, SFTP, Linux administration, and vulnerability remediation.

Compensation Expectations: $250,000-$325,000 Base Salary



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Skills Required

  • 10+ years of Java development experience
  • Experience with Spring, JMS, and enterprise messaging platforms such as Solace
  • Experience with FIX protocol, including QuickFIX/J
  • Experience integrating XML and JSON messages
  • Strong Oracle and SQL skills for production trade and data troubleshooting
  • Leadership of development and QA teams, including hiring and performance management
  • Hands-on production support and root-cause analysis in a live trading environment
  • Release and deployment management across multiple environments
  • Experience with Git, Jira, Jenkins, and test automation
  • Excellent communication with traders, management, vendors, and client IT staff
  • FX product knowledge, including spot, forwards, NDFs, and options
  • Market data integration experience with Refinitiv or RMDS
  • Low-latency design experience, such as the LMAX Disruptor pattern
  • Security and infrastructure expertise, including SSO, OAuth, SAML, SFTP, Linux administration, and vulnerability remediation
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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
1,857 Employees
Year Founded: 1945

What We Do

Cantor Fitzgerald is a leading global financial services firm, serving clients from over 30 offices around the world. Founded in 1945 as a securities brokerage and investment bank, the firm pioneered computer-based bond trading, built one of the broadest distribution networks in the industry and became the market’s premier dealer of government securities. Today, Cantor Fitzgerald is known for its strength across a diverse array of businesses, including equity and fixed income capital markets, investment banking, commercial real estate finance and services, prime brokerage, asset management and wealth management, and e-commerce and online ventures. In all its businesses, the firm is an acknowledged leader in developing advanced technologies to expand market access, and help clients achieve their most important financial and strategic objectives. This commitment to client-centered innovation has led to enduring relationships with many of the world’s most demanding institutional investors and corporations. For more information please visit www.cantor.com.

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