Hybrid FIX Applications Engineer for Trading Connectivity

Veritas Partners; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Veritas Partners is seeking an Applications Engineer specializing in FIX connectivity to join our Philadelphia team. The role focuses on maintaining and onboard FIX-based connectivity for clients, brokers, venues, and OMS/EMS platforms across asset classes.

Eligible candidates have 3–5+ years in FIX connectivity within financial services, strong Linux/SQL skills, and a proven production-support background. Hybrid schedule with four in-office days per week.

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years of FIX connectivity experience in brokerage/trading environments.
• Strong FIX protocol knowledge (session and application messages).
• Experience with SQL, scripting, and Linux.
• Understanding of electronic trading concepts and order lifecycle.
• Proven production support and incident management experience.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and documentation skills.
• Ability to work onsite in Philadelphia, PA with hybrid schedule.
• Eligible to work in the US without sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Support, enhance, and expand FIX connectivity for global client trading.
• Implement, configure, test, and support FIX connectivity for clients and venues.
• Manage the full connectivity onboarding lifecycle.
• Analyze FIX messages across order entry, execution, and admin workflows.
• Troubleshoot production issues affecting order flow and routing.
• Maintain FIX session configurations, routing rules, and mappings.
• Collaborate with developers and infra teams to improve connectivity platforms.
• Translate business trading workflows into technical specifications.
• Participate in certification testing with exchanges, brokers, vendors.
• Provide incident response and remediation for connectivity issues.
• Occasional off-hours support for releases and market events.

Skills

FIX connectivity

Linux

SQL

Scripting

Electronic trading concepts

Production support

Troubleshooting

Client/vendor interactions

Documentation

Tools

Linux

SQL

Trading support tools

Job description

Veritas Partners is seeking an Applications Engineer specializing in FIX connectivity to join our Philadelphia team. The role focuses on maintaining and onboard FIX-based connectivity for clients, brokers, venues, and OMS/EMS platforms across asset classes.

Eligible candidates have 3–5+ years in FIX connectivity within financial services, strong Linux/SQL skills, and a proven production-support background. Hybrid schedule with four in-office days per week.