Global Banking & Markets, FICC Trading Platform Software Engineer (Java), Associate/Vice President, Singapore

Location: Singapore, Singapore; office location: Singapore.

Company

hirify.global is a global investment banking, securities, and investment management firm serving institutional clients through offices worldwide.

What you will do

• Own a FICC trading platform area end to end, covering architecture, delivery, and production health for pricing, risk, quoting, and automation.
• Set technical direction for a multi-year public-cloud migration, including connectivity, service identity, authentication, infrastructure as code, deployment topology, and cutover strategy.
• Decompose legacy messaging and monolithic components into resilient microservices while protecting trading desks from regressions.
• Define reliability standards through SLOs, capacity and latency budgets, observability, tracing, progressive rollout, incident response, and post-mortems.
• Build safe delivery automation with testing, CI/CD, static analysis, and quality gates.
• Represent the platform to engineering and business stakeholders across jurisdictions, including APAC initiatives and regional regulatory considerations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience for Associate or 8+ years for Vice President, including complex systems delivered in production-critical environments.
• End-to-end ownership of substantial systems or workstreams, from architecture and implementation through production operation.
• Deep expertise in modern Java 17/21+ and the JVM, including concurrency, memory management, garbage collection, profiling, and production performance diagnosis.
• Strong distributed-systems knowledge, including consistency, failure modes, idempotency, exactly-once semantics, backpressure, partitioning, and recovery.
• Experience with event-driven and streaming architectures such as Kafka and asynchronous or reactive service frameworks.
• Experience running containerized services on public cloud, preferably AWS, with orchestration and infrastructure as code such as CDK or Terraform.
• Experience with reverse proxies, service mesh, TLS/mTLS, certificate lifecycle, OAuth2/OIDC, JWT authentication, and authorization.
• Strong production-operations skills in metrics, distributed tracing, structured logging, alerting, and incident handling.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including technical design documentation and briefings for senior technical and business audiences.
• Ability to own concurrent workstreams and stakeholder groups across time zones, plus genuine interest in fixed income, rates, credit, FX, or commodities and electronic market making.

Nice to have

• Front-office trading technology experience in pricing, quoting, RFQ or streaming workflows, execution, market data, or real-time risk.
• Experience with kdb+/q or comparable high-performance time-series platforms.
• Experience with quantitative model development lifecycles and production model engineering.
• SRE or platform-engineering experience, including capacity planning, cost and performance tuning, and resilience testing.
• Experience with regulated legacy-to-cloud or legacy-middleware decommissioning, including migration sequencing, dual running, and rollback design.
• Modern web experience with TypeScript or React, familiarity with relational, document, and object stores, and experience using AI-assisted development tooling safely.
• Experience working across APAC, EMEA, and Americas engineering teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Global work environment supporting collaboration across regions and jurisdictions.
• Training and development opportunities and firmwide professional networks.
• Benefits, wellness, personal finance offerings, and mindfulness programs.
• Commitment to diversity, inclusion, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodations during recruitment.