Trading Platform Application Engineer (FIX Protocol)

ENCORA TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

ENCORA TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD. is seeking a skilled software professional for a 6-month fixed-term assignment in Singapore to deliver, enhance, and support electronic trading platform applications.

You will develop Java-based services, build automation scripts, and collaborate with brokers, venues, and internal teams to improve reliability and performance. The role focuses on production support, deployment readiness, and documentation, with emphasis on high-throughput systems, FIX protocol usage,

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of software development and application support experience.
• Strong Java development experience.
• Linux/Unix administration and troubleshooting.
• Shell scripting (Bash, Korn Shell, Python, etc.).
• Experience with distributed, scalable, high-throughput applications.
• Performance tuning and optimization.
• Production support and root cause analysis.
• SQL and relational database knowledge.
• CI/CD pipeline and release management experience.
• FIX Protocol (FIX 4.x / FIX 5.x)

Responsibilities

• Deliver application projects, enhancements, and change requests for electronic trading platforms.
• Develop and maintain Java-based applications, services, and integrations.
• Develop automation scripts and operational tooling to improve platform efficiency and resiliency.
• Support application onboarding, configuration, testing, deployment, and production implementation.
• Troubleshoot application, connectivity, and production issues and perform root cause analysis.
• Collaborate with business users, infrastructure teams, vendors, brokers, trading venues, and external counterparties.
• Support platform modernization, monitoring, automation, operational improvements, and resiliency initiatives.
• Participate in production support, release deployment, and operational readiness activities.
• Maintain technical documentation, implementation guides, and operational procedures.

Skills

Java development

Linux administration

Shell scripting

SQL

CI/CD

FIX Protocol

Distributed systems

Root cause analysis

Performance tuning

Kafka

REST APIs

Tools

Kafka

MQ

AMQ

REST APIs

Microservices

Job description

6 Months

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver application projects, enhancements, and change requests for electronic trading platforms.
• Develop and maintain Java-based applications, services, and integrations.
• Develop automation scripts and operational tooling to improve platform efficiency and resiliency.
• Support application onboarding, configuration, testing, deployment, and production implementation.
• Troubleshoot application, connectivity, and production issues and perform root cause analysis.
• Collaborate with business users, infrastructure teams, vendors, brokers, trading venues, and external counterparties.
• Support platform modernization, monitoring, automation, operational improvements, and resiliency initiatives.
• Participate in production support, release deployment, and operational readiness activities.
• Maintain technical documentation, implementation guides, and operational procedures.

Mandatory Skills

• Minimum 3 years of software development and application support experience.
• Strong Java development experience.
• Linux/Unix administration and troubleshooting.
• Shell scripting (Bash, Korn Shell, Python, etc.).
• Experience with distributed, scalable, high-throughput applications.
• Performance tuning and optimization.
• Production support and root cause analysis.
• SQL and relational database knowledge.
• CI/CD pipeline and release management experience.
• FIX Protocol (FIX 4.x / FIX 5.x)

• Electronic Trading Platforms
• Treasury & Markets / Capital Markets domain knowledge
• FX, Fixed Income, or Equities experience
• Kafka, MQ, AMQ, REST APIs, and Microservices