Senior Principal Software Engineer - Equities Platform

Jobtailor; New York (NY); On-site; USD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in New York is seeking a senior software leader to own and advance the Prime Equity Finance platform. You will guide a local development team, ensure code quality, and deliver robust Java/C++/Python components in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.

You will mentor engineers, drive the full SDLC, participate in design reviews, and collaborate with traders and global teams to create scalable, resilient solutions that meet business needs and regulatory standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in CS, Engineering, Math, Physics, or similar.
• 10–15 years of demonstrable hands‑on development experience.
• Minimum 7+ years of hands‑on Java, C++, C#, Rust, or Python development.
• Strong domain knowledge of Securities Lending, including trade lifecycle, locate/availability management, collateral processing, rate calculation, and funding.
• Knowledge of Equity Synthetics and Equity Trading workflows.
• Java 21, Spring Boot 3, Java Streams API, concurrency, profiling, GC, JDBC, JMS.
• Relational DBs, SQL, stored procedures, query optimization.
• NoSQL (MongoDB) and in‑memory caching (Redis).
• Messaging/streaming data infra; microservices in Docker/Kubernetes.
• Software design principles; UX‑driven UI development.
• Remote or hybrid collaboration with global teams is common.

Responsibilities

• Act as technical owner for existing and new components within the Prime Equity Finance space
• Own and manage an agile development process for the local team
• Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and leadership to developers while remaining hands-on
• Produce robust, tested, modern software components
• Own development of Java applications with focus on correctness, resilience, and quality
• Manage the full software development lifecycle from initial discussions through design, development, testing, and deployment
• Conduct code reviews and design reviews
• Follow global development and change-management standards
• Collaborate with traders and operations to understand needs and create technical solutions
• Help build a strategic platform for Global Equities and solve local/global business problems
• Communicate professionally with IT staff and business clients under strict deadlines
• Collaborate with global technology, business, client, and vendor teams across a matrix reporting environment
• Document discussions, solutions, and processes; track development and issues using Confluence and Jira
• Share ideas, observations, and improvements with the global team
• Assist Production Services and traders with issue resolution when needed
• Document postmortems and own follow-ups
• Help maximize system uptime and minimize business impact during incidents

Skills

Java Development

Agile Development Process Management

Securities Lending Domain Knowledge

Microservices Deployment

Relational Database Management

NoSQL Databases

Caching (Redis)

Messaging/Streaming

Software Design Principles

Docker/Kubernetes

AWS

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in CS/Engineering/Math/Physics

Tools

Spring Boot 3

Docker

Kubernetes

Confluence

Jira

Redis

MongoDB

AWS

GitLab CI/CD

Kafka

Job description

Jobtailor in New York is seeking a senior software leader to own and advance the Prime Equity Finance platform. You will guide a local development team, ensure code quality, and deliver robust Java/C++/Python components in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.

You will mentor engineers, drive the full SDLC, participate in design reviews, and collaborate with traders and global teams to create scalable, resilient solutions that meet business needs and regulatory standards.