Stakeholder Partnership: Act as a key strategic partner to product development leaders, quantitative researchers, and other senior technology stakeholders to define the product roadmap and deliver transformative trading capabilities.
Engineering Excellence: Champion and spearhead continuous improvement initiatives across the entire software development lifecycle, including advanced testing frameworks, developer tooling, and CI/CD pipelines tailored for a low-latency, high-throughput environment.
Complex Problem Resolution: Serve as the ultimate escalation point for the most complex technical challenges, providing expert guidance and solutions based on deep analysis of business requirements, system architecture, and industry-leading practices.
Architectural Governance: Define and enforce system architecture, data flow patterns, and development standards for coding, testing, debugging, and implementation across the electronic trading platform.
Platform Resiliency: Architect and deliver robust, scalable solutions for real-time trading platform monitoring, automated trade reconciliation, and seamless application recovery.
Risk and Control Ownership: Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Client, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.
Qualifications
10+ years of progressive, hands-on software development experience, with a distinguished track record in building and leading the development of high-performance, ultra-low-latency systems.
Expert-level mastery of Core Java, including a profound understanding of JVM internals, advanced concurrency models, garbage collection tuning, and memory management in a latency-sensitive environment.
Extensive and proven experience architecting and delivering automated trading systems in Equities or similar domains, including smart order routing, benchmark algorithms, and other sophisticated execution strategies.
Deep expertise in financial market protocols (e.g., FIX) and extensive practical experience designing systems to handle high-volume order and market data.
Demonstrated experience in designing and scaling distributed systems using a microservices architecture.
Proven leadership in implementing modern testing frameworks, Agile methodologies, and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) processes.
Exceptional communication and leadership skills, with the ability to articulate and influence complex technical and business strategy at a senior level.
Significant experience with messaging and data grid technologies (e.g., Solace, AMPS, Chronicle, KDB+), infrastructure automation (e.g., Ansible), or expertise in other high-performance languages like Rust is highly desirable.
Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience is required; a Master's degree in a relevant technical field is strongly preferred.
Dexian stands at the forefront of Talent + Technology solutions with a presence spanning more than 70 locations worldwide and a team exceeding 10,000 professionals. As one of the largest technology and professional staffing companies and one of the largest minority-owned staffing companies in the United States, Dexian combines over 30 years of industry expertise with cutting-edge technologies to deliver comprehensive global services and support.
Dexian connects the right talent and the right technology with the right organizations to deliver trajectory-changing results that help everyone achieve their ambitions and goals. To learn more, please visit https://dexian.com/.
Dexian is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.
