FIX Senior Software Engineer, AVP

About the role

Globallink, a division of State Street Global Markets, is a market leader in providing electronic trading platforms for multiple asset classes. The primary focus will be on developing enhancements and supporting the ongoing evolution of State Street’s industry-leading foreign exchange trading and supporting services. These systems serve customers around the globe, enabling them to make smart trading decisions, execute trades, settle large currency/derivatives trades, and provide necessary analytics and data services.

The role is a principal application developer position within a small, fast-paced development team, requiring hands-on expertise with FIX protocol, Java multi-threading, Oracle, Spring Boot, messaging brokers, and other backend Java technologies.

Responsibilities

• Develop backend code that adheres to the architecture and overall design of the trading platform, facilitating integration between several trading applications within State Street and external clients.
• Write unit tests to ensure implemented code introduces zero defects.
• Adhere to company SDLC, IR Risk, and compliance policies.
• Efficiently use AI to maximize developer productivity and efficiency.
• Work closely with Product owners, architects, QA engineers, and other development team members to implement full life-cycle, full-stack development tasks.
• Develop enhancements and support the ongoing evolution of State Street's industry-leading foreign exchange trading and supporting services.
• Write comprehensive documentation, unit tests, and review code of other developers.
• Use common design patterns to write commercial, fault-tolerant, multi-threaded, real-time, performance-critical (measured in microseconds), and scalable systems software, including Java multi-threading, multiple messaging brokers, and JVM optimizations.
• Use FIX protocol to integrate State Street financial applications and external clients.
• Develop complex database programs, queries, and utilities utilizing SQL and PL/SQL for packages/stored procedures with Oracle.
• Troubleshoot critical code, especially related to client integrations for sensitive clients, with a requirement to be on-call 24/7 and provide quick turnaround for patching code, sometimes within a day.

Requirements

• Expert in core Java – efficiently use complex multi-threading techniques and other state-of-the-art Java features.
• Excellent knowledge and in-depth work experience with multiple (at least two) messaging brokers such as Rabbit MQ (preferred), Kafka, and/or JMS-based messaging brokers (Active MQ, Sonic MQ).
• Excellent knowledge and demonstrated work experience with AI tools and platforms such as GitHub Copilot to improve developer productivity, increase testing coverage, and introduce innovation.
• Leverage experience in developing CI/CD pipeline scripts using Jenkins, Groovy, JFrog, GIT, etc.
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing low-latency, high-throughput systems on AWS, preferably within financial services or trading platforms.
• Preferred experience in migrating legacy applications to cloud-native architectures using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation) and container orchestration in production environments.
• Excellent organizational skills and an ability to see “the big picture.”
• Highest level of written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to customize communications for each target audience, including representing the company professionally while interacting with clients.
• Constant communication with other developers, QA team members, product managers worldwide (New York, Boston, London, Singapore, Australia, and Tokyo), and stakeholders at other State Street business units.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 10 years of experience in backend Java development, including 3 years in the financial domain.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with development and QA team members.

Schedule

• Work from the Boston location in the USA.
• Ability to work from the office at least 4 days per week.
• On-call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for critical code troubleshooting and patching.

Pay

Salary Range: $100,000 - $167,500 Annual. The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location, the applicable range could differ.

Benefits

• Retirement savings plan (401K) with company match.
• Insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages.
• Paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short-term disability, and family care responsibilities.
• Access to Employee Assistance Program.
• Incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans).
• Eligibility for certain tax-advantaged savings plans.
• Paid volunteer days.
• Vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most.