Newmark
Senior Software Engineer
55 Water St, Fl 28, New York, NY 10041
Full-time · $150k–$250k (as posted)
First seen by offpeak October 4, 2026
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- Design, develop, test, and document reliable, high‑performance Java applications for a real‑time FX trading platform.
- Translate business and product requirements into robust technical solutions.
- Lead architecture and design of complex, distributed, latency‑sensitive trading systems.
- Establish technical direction and mentor engineers on design, code quality, testing, and best practices.
- Partner with technology and business stakeholders to shape the engineering roadmap.
- Diagnose and resolve critical production incidents, performing root‑cause analysis and preventive improvements.
- Evaluate and promote emerging technologies, including AI‑assisted tools, to enhance engineering efficiency.
- Ensure systems are resilient, highly available, and fault‑tolerant.
- Support 24/7 production environments with minimal downtime.
- Drive performance optimization for scalability, reliability, and low latency.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.
- 15+ years of software engineering experience, including high‑performance Java development.
- Hands‑on experience building and supporting multithreaded, distributed, real‑time trading systems.
- Proven track record leading technical design and architectural decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and influence engineering standards.
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and distributed‑system design.
- Expertise optimizing applications for performance, scalability, reliability, and latency.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with cross‑functional stakeholders.
- Experience with Linux environments, scripting, network programming, and relational databases (e.g., Oracle).
- Background in electronic order handling, FIX protocol, and market‑data processing is a plus.
Compensation Expectations: $150,000 - $250,000 Base Salary
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