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Front Office SW Architect Trading EMS Hybrid NYC 250k+

Living Talent

New York, New York Construction Posted Jul 30, 2026

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Job Description

Senior Software Architect & Developer

Front Office Investment Technology

Investment Management Equity Trading

Support Traders and Quants

Hands on Architecture, Design and Development

Influence architecture and delivery across EMS centric trading workflows

Focus on Equities, Futures, FX, Options

Location & Compensation

Location: Battery Park City

Hybrid: 4 days in office

Compensation: 200k - 225k base + bonus

PTO: Unlimited

Benefits: Exceptional

The Role

Architect, design & develop EMS customizations & interfaces

Optimize endtoend trade workflows

Balance delivery across:
- New development: 30%
- Enhancements: 50%
- Maintenance: 20%

Backend: 70% Frontend: 30%

Partner with: Traders, Quants, Portfolio Managers, Product Owner

Provide architectural direction aligned with futurestate platforms.

Drive AI adoption to increase development efficiency & velocity.

Troubleshoot & resolve performance & stability issues.

Tech Stack - Current State

Java (50%)

React, Java Swing (30% for custom interfaces to EMS platform)

C#, .Net, SQL Server (10%)

Trading Platforms: CRD, FactsetPortware

AWS, Snowflake, Kafka

Agile, Microservices,

TDD, Unit Testing (Pytest, UnitTest)

GIT Co-pilot, Eclipse, VS Code, Jira, Confluence, Docker,

Skills & Experience

Deep frontoffice acumen

Clear communicator with stakeholders

Strong presentation and leadership presence

Strong understanding of trading workflows and EMS architecture

Asset class exposure: Equities, Futures, Options, FX

Trade Execution (EMS)

Expertlevel Java (Java 8+) or C#

10+ years fullstack software engineering

4+ years architecture experience (microservices and related patterns)

Cloudnative development experience (AWS preferred)

Proven ability to diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks

Nice to Have

BS or MS in Computer Science, Math, or related

CFA

Experience with: Aladdin, CRD / CRIMS

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