Senior FICC E-Trading Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Senior FICC E-Trading Engineer (Fintech): Designing, developing, and optimizing a high-performance platform for real-time pricing, quoting, and lifecycle automation across various FICC derivatives products with an accent on driving real-time decision making and facilitating trade-booking. Focus on building robust and scalable solutions, ensuring optimal system reliability, accuracy, and efficiency, and incorporating AI tooling to enhance development workflows.

Location: Hong Kong, Tokyo

Company

hirify.global is a leading global investment banking, securities, and investment management firm founded in 1869.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and optimize a strategic, high-performance platform for real-time pricing, quoting, and lifecycle automation in various FICC derivatives products.
• Develop and maintain high-performance, low-latency electronic trading systems and infrastructure.
• Work extensively with Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol for order routing, market data, and post-trade communication.
• Collaborate with quantitative researchers, venues, traders, and sales to translate complex trading strategies and business requirements into robust code.
• Perform system analysis, performance tuning, and troubleshooting to ensure optimal system reliability, accuracy, and efficiency.
• Explore, evaluate, and incorporate AI tooling and machine learning techniques into development workflows.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Quantitative Finance, or a related technical discipline.
• 5+ years of professional experience in software development, with a focus on electronic trading systems and large-scale distributed platforms.
• Proven expertise in electronic trading concepts, including market microstructure and low-latency system design.
• In-depth knowledge and experience with FIX protocol versions (e.g., FIX 4.2, 4.4, 5.0 SP2).
• Strong programming skills in Java (commercial experience required), with additional proficiency in Python for data analytics and AI.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience in NoSQL data stores, e.g., Cassandra, MongoDB, or Elastic.
• Experience in modern message-oriented middleware, e.g., Kafka.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) for trading infrastructure.

Culture & Benefits

• Committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion.
• Training and development opportunities and firmwide networks.
• Benefits, wellness, and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs.