Fidelity Wealth

Capital Markets

VicePresident,SoftwareEngineering(ElectronicTrading)

$140–285k Jersey City, New Jersey, United States FULL TIME
The Brief

“Vice President, Software Engineering (Electronic Trading) at Fidelity Wealth. Skills: Electronic trading, Software engineering, Technical leadership, Low latency. Lead design and development of trading systems. Build scalable trading infrastructure”

Industry & Context.

Capital Markets
Problems you'll solve

Identify performance bottlenecks; Identify scalability bottlenecks; Identify resilience bottlenecks; Analytical skills

Eligibility Requirements

Off hours support, Weekend support, On-call rotations

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

20+ years of hands-on software design and development experience in the electronic trading domain, 10+ 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, distributed, asynchronous, and 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 and 24 license preferred, 29West/Ultra-Messaging, Kafka, GitHub Copilot

What You'll Do.

Lead design and development of trading systems

Build scalable trading infrastructure

Architect distributed trading systems

Develop event-driven systems

Design algorithmic trading systems

Implement algorithmic trading systems

Lead performance tuning

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 product team

Communication Scope

Communication skills

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