Global Banking & Markets, FICC E-trading Engineer Vice President (Electronic Trading)

Location: Hong Kong or Tokyo

Company

hirify.global is a global investment banking, securities, and investment management firm operating financial markets and engineering platforms worldwide.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and optimize high-performance platforms for real-time pricing, quoting, and lifecycle automation across FICC derivatives.
• Build and maintain low-latency electronic trading systems and distributed infrastructure.
• Implement FIX protocol integrations for order routing, market data, and post-trade communication.
• Collaborate with quantitative researchers, traders, sales, venues, and counterparties to deliver production-ready solutions.
• Analyze system performance, troubleshoot distributed systems, and develop monitoring, alerting, and reporting tools.
• Contribute to architecture, code reviews, automated testing, DevOps, continuous deployment, and AI-enabled 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 software development experience focused on electronic trading systems, distributed platforms, and automation.
• Expertise in electronic trading concepts, including market microstructure, RFQ/RFT workflows, auto-quoting, charge models, and low-latency design.
• In-depth hands-on experience with FIX protocols, including message parsing, session management, and custom tag implementation.
• Commercial Java experience and additional Python proficiency for data analytics and AI.
• Experience with real-time data processing, multithreaded programming, derivatives products, financial markets, trading workflows, and risk or regulatory requirements.

Nice to have

• Experience with NoSQL databases such as Cassandra, MongoDB, or Elastic and messaging middleware such as Kafka.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP for trading infrastructure.
• Knowledge of low-latency networking, kdb+/Q, time-series databases, or complex distributed-system debugging.
• Experience working directly with trading and sales users.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a fast-paced global engineering environment with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Access training and development opportunities and firmwide professional networks.
• Benefits include wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs.
• Support for reasonable accommodations during the recruiting process.