Trading Platform Application Engineer

6 Months Key Responsibilities • Deliver application projects, enhancements, and change requests for electronic trading platforms. • Develop and maintain Java-based applications, services, and integrations. • Develop automation scripts and operational tooling to improve platform efficiency and resiliency. • Support application onboarding, configuration, testing, deployment, and production implementation. • Troubleshoot application, connectivity, and production issues and perform root cause analysis. • Collaborate with business users, infrastructure teams, vendors, brokers, trading venues, and external counterparties. • Support platform modernization, monitoring, automation, operational improvements, and resiliency initiatives. • Participate in production support, release deployment, and operational readiness activities. • Maintain technical documentation, implementation guides, and operational procedures. Mandatory Skills • Minimum 3 years of software development and application support experience. • Strong Java development experience. • Linux/Unix administration and troubleshooting. • Shell scripting (Bash, Korn Shell, Python, etc.). • Experience with distributed, scalable, high-throughput applications. • Performance tuning and optimization. • Production support and root cause analysis. • SQL and relational database knowledge. • CI/CD pipeline and release management experience. Preferred Skills • FIX Protocol (FIX 4.x / FIX 5.x) • Electronic Trading Platforms • Treasury & Markets / Capital Markets domain knowledge • FX, Fixed Income, or Equities experience • Kafka, MQ, AMQ, REST APIs, and Microservices