Trading Platform Application Engineer

About the role

Key responsibilities

• Deliver application projects, enhancements, and change requests across electronic trading platforms.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance Java-based applications, services, integrations, and supporting components.
• Build automation scripts and operational tools to improve platform efficiency, stability, monitoring, and resiliency.
• Support application onboarding, environment configuration, testing, deployment, and production implementation.
• Troubleshoot application, connectivity, integration, and production issues; perform root cause analysis and implement corrective actions.
• Collaborate with business users, infrastructure teams, vendors, brokers, trading venues, and external counterparties.
• Contribute to platform modernization, monitoring, automation, performance optimization, and operational resilience initiatives.
• Participate in production support, release deployments, incident management, and operational readiness activities.
• Prepare and maintain technical documentation, implementation guides, runbooks, and operational procedures.

MANDATORY SKILLS

• Minimum 3 years of professional experience in software development and application support.
• Strong hands-on experience in Java development and enterprise application engineering.
• Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix administration, system monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Practical scripting experience using Bash, KornShell (KSH), Python, or similar scripting technologies.
• Experience working with distributed, scalable, high-throughput, and production-critical applications.
• Good understanding of application performance tuning, optimization, and troubleshooting.
• Strong experience in production support, incident resolution, and root cause analysis.
• Good working knowledge of SQL and relational database systems.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, release processes, deployment practices, and source-control workflows.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Hands-on or working knowledge of FIX Protocol, including FIX 4.x and/or FIX 5.x.
• Experience supporting or developing electronic trading platforms
• Knowledge of Treasury & Markets / Capital Markets technology and workflows
• Domain exposure to Foreign Exchange (FX), Fixed Income, Equities, or related trading products
• Experience with Kafka, IBM MQ / messaging systems, AMQ, REST APIs, and microservices architectures

ENGAGEMENT DETAILS

Location: Singapore

Position: 1

Duration: 6 months (extendable)

Start Date: Immediate

Interested candidates can share their updated resume with: [email protected]