Senior Software Engineer

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New York, NY, USA
In-Office
150K-160K Annually
Senior level
Financial Services
The Role
Architects, develops, and maintains high-performance straight-through processing platforms for financial markets across FX, credit, fixed income, and rates. Builds trade delivery, clearing, and regulatory reporting integrations using financial messaging protocols, middleware, APIs, databases, and streaming technologies. Optimizes low-latency systems, supports CI/CD and automated testing, collaborates across trade lifecycle teams, contributes to architecture, and mentors junior engineers.
Summary Generated by Built In
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. Responsibilities
  • 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.
Qualifications
  • 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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Skills Required

  • 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 and other financial messaging standards, including FIXML and FpML
  • Familiarity with messaging middleware such as Kafka, Solace, Tibco, and IBM MQ
  • Experience with streaming and caching technologies such as Hazelcast, Ignite, and EHCache
  • Expertise with XML processing tools including XMLBeans, XStream, XSLT, XPath, GSON, and Jackson
  • Solid experience with relational databases including Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL, plus SQL
  • Proficiency with Maven or Gradle, Artifactory or Nexus, and CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Bamboo, or TeamCity
  • Comfort working in Unix/Linux and Windows environments
  • Product knowledge of FX, credit derivatives, fixed income, rates, and related clearing and reporting processes
  • Ability to collaborate across trade capture, post-trade, risk, and regulatory teams throughout the project lifecycle
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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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