Senior Trading Applications Engineer (Fintech)

Location: Hybrid, Manila - 6805 Ayala Ave

Company

hirify.global provides financial technology platforms and services supporting trading, portfolio management, market data, and post-trade operations.

What you will do

• Provide advanced production support for trading, OMS, EMS, portfolio management, market data, and post-trade platforms.
• Investigate issues across the full trade lifecycle, from order creation and execution through settlement, reconciliation, and reporting.
• Perform root cause analysis for trade breaks, allocation failures, booking issues, reconciliation discrepancies, and data quality concerns.
• Troubleshoot applications, APIs, FIX connectivity, databases, middleware, market data feeds, messaging platforms, batch processes, and vendor integrations.
• Use SQL for incident investigation, data validation, reconciliations, and operational reporting.
• Review application code, develop automation and monitoring tools, support releases and regression testing, and act as a senior escalation point for complex incidents.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience supporting trading systems, financial technology platforms, or enterprise applications within capital markets environments.
• Strong experience with OMS, EMS, portfolio management, market data, or post-trade systems.
• Advanced SQL skills, including complex queries, data analysis, reconciliation, and troubleshooting.
• Experience reviewing and troubleshooting code written in C#, VB.NET, Java, Python, or similar languages.
• Strong understanding of the end-to-end trading lifecycle across front-, middle-, and back-office functions.
• Knowledge of equities, fixed income, FX, and derivatives.
• Experience supporting FIX connectivity and electronic trading workflows.
• Ability to investigate trade breaks, settlement issues, allocation failures, and cross-system data discrepancies.
• Familiarity with APIs, distributed systems, messaging platforms, systems integrations, and market or reference data providers such as Bloomberg, ICE Data Services, Refinitiv, or similar.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving, and communication skills, including the ability to work with business users, technical teams, and external vendors in high-pressure production environments.

Nice to have

• Experience in buy-side trading environments or electronic trading platforms.
• Exposure to market connectivity, exchange integrations, or low-latency systems.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, Tableau, or other reporting and analytics tools.
• Experience with automation, observability tooling, AI-assisted operations, or intelligent monitoring solutions.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment in a collaborative, engaging, and inclusive environment.
• Workplace focused on safety, respect, authenticity, and valuing diverse perspectives.
• Hybrid work arrangement in Manila.