Fidelity Wealth
Capital Markets
Director,SoftwareEngineering(ElectronicTrading)
“Director, Software Engineering (Electronic Trading) at Fidelity Wealth. Skills: Electronic trading systems, Low latency, High throughput, Technical leadership. Lead design and development of trading systems. Build scalable trading infrastructure”
What You'll Achieve.
Deliver low-latency, high-throughput trading platforms; Build seamless, end-to-end electronic trading workflows; Build next-generation trading systems; Build scalable, resilient, high-performance trading infrastructure; Deliver robust and resilient systems
Industry & Context.
Analytical skills; Identify performance bottlenecks; Identify scalability bottlenecks; Identify resilience bottlenecks
Off hours support, Weekend support, On-call rotations
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent, 15+ years of hands-on software design and development experience in the electronic trading domain, 5+ years of technical leadership, managing a team, and mentoring software developers, Experience in building algorithmic trading systems for equities and options, Experience with equities and options market data, Expertise in C/C ++, Expertise in Python, Expertise in Linux, Deep experience with low latency messaging systems, Proficiency in KDB + or other time-series databases, background in building scalable applications, background in building distributed applications, background in building asynchronous applications, background in building event-driven applications, Advanced knowledge of low latency design patterns, Advanced knowledge of performance optimization techniques, Experience in Capital Markets or Brokerage systems, Experience in order management, Solid understanding of the FIX protocol, Solid understanding of FIX engines, Experienced with using GenAI developer assist tools, Experience with CI/CD tools, Experience with deploying applications and services in AWS
Nice to Have
Series 57 license
What You'll Do.
Lead design and development of trading systems
Build scalable trading infrastructure
Architect distributed trading systems
Develop event-driven trading systems
Design algorithmic trading systems
Implement algorithmic trading systems
Lead performance tuning efforts
Lead and mentor engineers
Promote engineering best practices
Support production environments
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate across teams; Collaborate with internal and external teams; Work with leadership
Communication Scope
Communication skills
Process & Methodology
Manage multiple tasks
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