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Certus Sales Recruitment lists this Senior Software Engineer opportunity in new york, New York. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Senior Software Engineer – Multi-Asset Order Management System (OMS)
New York, NY | Hybrid
Competitive Salary + Excellent Benefits
Our client is a well-funded financial technology business building a next-generation, multi-asset Order Management System (OMS) from the ground up.
The platform will support trading across equities, fixed income, options, futures, FX, digital assets and alternative investments through a single, unified platform.
This is a senior, hands-on opportunity for an engineer who enjoys building complex financial infrastructure, solving challenging distributed systems problems and having genuine ownership over architecture and development.
The Role
You’ll play a key role in designing and building a mission-critical trading platform from the ground up.
You’ll be responsible for:
Designing and developing a scalable multi-asset OMS
Owning the full trade lifecycle, including order routing, execution, allocations, positions and reconciliation
Building FIX, exchange, custodian and third-party trading integrations
Developing high-performance market data and execution pipelines
Designing resilient, event-driven distributed systems
Scaling the platform to support high volumes of concurrent orders and multiple asset classes
Evolving the platform towards a fully real-time trading environment
Working closely with technical and executive leadership on long-term architecture
About You
You’ll be an experienced trading systems engineer with a strong background building production systems that handle live capital.
You’ll bring:
8+ years' experience building production trading systems
Expert-level Python for backend services, integrations and data processing
Strong C++ experience in high-performance or low-latency environments
Experience with Smart Order Routing and exchange connectivity
Deep knowledge of distributed systems, event-driven architecture and messaging
Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS or similar technologies
Strong PostgreSQL and high-volume data processing experience
Experience building real-time streaming systems and scalable data pipelines
Strong understanding of financial markets, execution, reconciliation and trading workflows
Experience supporting highly available, mission-critical production environments
Excellent communication skills and the ability to work with both technical and executive stakeholders
Nice to Have
Low-latency trading systems experience
AWS and cloud architecture
Algorithmic execution strategies such as VWAP, TWAP or implementation shortfall
Trading risk and exposure management
Custodian or brokerage integrations
Experience across digital assets, private markets, hedge funds or alternative investments
The Opportunity
Join a well-funded and rapidly growing FinTech business
Build core trading infrastructure from the ground up
Work across multiple asset classes and complex financial systems
Significant technical ownership and influence
Solve challenging distributed systems and real-time trading problems
Work alongside experienced technical and business leadership
Help shape the architecture of a next-generation trading platform
If you're a senior engineer with deep trading systems experience and want to build something genuinely complex from the ground up, we'd love to hear from you.
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Worksite address
new york, NY, 10261, US
Who can apply
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