FIX Engineer, New York

The Platform Infrastructure team plays a critical role in keeping the production and development environments running smoothly and securely. This role will utilize advanced cloud capabilities to facilitate the Platform Infrastructure strategy of market agility and learn operating principles with a strict focus on quality to meet the ever-growing demands of our clients. seeking a highly collaborative, creative and intellectually curious Platform Engineer who is passionate about forming and implementing cutting-edge cloud computing capabilities. This individual will take on diverse responsibilities in a prominent role, engaging in various facets of the business.

Responsibilities

Provide FIX Protocol support for institutional trading clients, equity trading, and client integrations.

Support proprietary interfaces for various OMS vendors.

Drive the client on-boarding process through pre- and post-sales technical advice.

As a member of the Platform Infrastructure team, you will be involved in building highly available solutions across the entire SDLC stack with primary focus on an internet facing fintech site.

You will be responsible for developing and maintaining tools to support the development environment on MacOS and Linux tool environment with a focus on improving developer productivity.

You will also be part of the team responsible for maintaining Site reliability with focus on building highly scalable systems integrating resiliency and high availability at all levels.

Develop software and tooling to secure and automate cloud infrastructure building software delivery capabilities with fully automatic workflows.

Design and operation of a Kubernetes environment for container management and orchestration.

Experience with distributed systems design, maintenance, and hands-on troubleshooting and debugging skills.

Qualifications

5+ years of experience in technology preferably on the buy-side, sell-side, or with a trading vendor

5+ years of professional experience supporting electronic trading

5+ years of FIX Protocol certification/connectivity experience

5+ years of DevOps, TechOps or SRE experience with 2+ years of AWS experience

Knowledge of at least one buy-side or sell side order management system preferred

Microservices (Docker, Kubernetes) experience in a production environment strongly desired

Strong Linux OS-level and command-line/scripting knowledge and configuration management principles

Working knowledge of databases such as MongoDB, Postgres, DynamoDB

Coding beyond simple scripting with strong opinions on maintainable and reusable code in Python, Ruby or Java is desired

Experience with computer provisioning on a Cloud based platform using Terraform or Cloud formation

Exceptional analytical skills, able to apply knowledge and experience in decision-making to arrive at creative and commercial solutions

Experience building a Microservice based architecture

Good written and spoken communication skills

Able to design and implement complex, but easily managed, automated infrastructure

Enthusiasm for sharing knowledge, teaching, and learning within a team environment

Expert level knowledge of networking

Experience with at least one version of FIX - FIX 4.2, FIX 4.4, or FIX 5.0

Experience with debugging issues with the FIX protocol to include maintaining/establishing fix sessions and/or session management + order routing

Experience in system tuning and performance testing

AWS certifications are a plus

Benefits

The base salary range for this role is $120,000 to $160,000.