Principal SW Engineer | Equities Trading | Portware EMS | 250k+ Hybrid

• Location: Battery Park City 
• Hybrid: 4 days in office 
• Compensation: 200k - 230k base + bonus 
• PTO: Unlimited 
• Benefits: Exceptional

Overview

• New Development 30%
• Enhancements 50%
• Maintenance 20%
• Backend 70%
• Frontend 30%

• Interface with Traders and Portfolio Managers; collaborate with Product Owner
• Hands-on implementation (building out solutions, SDLC pipelines, code reviews, test case design)
• Provide architectural input – influence design aligning with future state
• Lead, mentor

Tech Stack

• Java (50%)
• Java Swing (30% - for custom interfaces to EMS platform)
• SQL Server (10%)
• VB.net (10%)
• Portware EMS
• AWS, Snowflake
• Agile, Microservices
• TDD, Unit Testing (Pytest, UnitTest)
• GIT Co-pilot, Eclipse, VS Code, Jira, Confluence, Docker,
• Ideal experience: DevSecOps (ANT, Maven, Artifactory)

Skills & Qualifications

• Trading workflow (Equities, Futures, Options, FX)
• Portware (or other EMS)
• 10+ years Fullstack Software Engineering
• 4+ years Architecture (microservices and other architectural concepts)
• Mastery of Java and Java frameworks
• Experience with Java Swing is a plus
• Cloud-native development expertise (ideally AWS)
• Skilled in troubleshooting and debugging performance issues
• Nice to haves: BS or MS in Computer Science, Math or related, CFA, CRD/CRIMS experience