System Engineer

System Engineer

Location: New York, NY

Work Arrangement: Hybrid - 2 days per week in office

Base Salary: $120,000-$160,000 + Bonus

Employment Type: Full-Time

Position Overview

A financial technology organization is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer with Fixed Income and Capital Markets experience to support sophisticated trading and post-trade technology environments.

This is a hands-on technical role combining systems engineering, application support, troubleshooting, automation, and financial markets expertise. The ideal candidate has supported trading or post-trade platforms and is comfortable working directly with front-office and middle-office users in a fast-paced financial environment.

Candidates should bring strong experience with Windows Server, SQL, FIX messaging, TCP/IP networking, and Fixed Income products. Experience within a bank, broker-dealer, trading firm, hedge fund, exchange, or financial technology organization is highly desirable.

What You'll Do

- Provide hands-on systems engineering and application support for Fixed Income and Capital Markets platforms.

- Troubleshoot complex production and customer issues across applications, servers, databases, and networks.

- Analyze Windows system logs, application logs, databases, services, and network activity to identify root causes.

- Support trading and post-trade workflows across Fixed Income products.

- Work directly with front-office and middle-office users to understand technical issues, business impact, and priorities.

- Investigate FIX messaging and other electronic trading or post-trade communication issues.

- Install, configure, deploy, and maintain applications across development, UAT, and production environments.

- Write SQL queries to investigate application and data issues within MS SQL Server.

- Create scripts and automation to streamline deployments, operational workflows, monitoring, and recurring support tasks.

- Partner with software development teams to analyze defects, escalate complex issues, test fixes, and coordinate releases.

- Support release engineering processes including versioning, environment promotion, rollback, and deployment automation.

- Document incidents, troubleshooting procedures, technical configurations, and support resources.

- Monitor application performance and identify opportunities to improve stability and operational efficiency.

- Participate in an after-hours support rotation for priority production issues.

- Serve as a technical resource to clients and internal teams on Fixed Income trading, pricing, market data, and reference data.

Required Qualifications

- Professional experience supporting Fixed Income, Capital Markets, trading, or post-trade technology environments.

- Proven experience with trade processing and/or position-keeping systems.

- Strong knowledge of Fixed Income products such as:

- Bonds

- Repos

- U.S. Treasuries

- Interest Rate Swaps (IRS)

- Interest Rate Derivatives (IRD)

- Credit Default Swaps (CDS)

- FX

- Equity Derivatives

- Strong hands-on experience with Windows Server administration and troubleshooting.

- Strong knowledge of MS SQL Server and ability to write and understand SQL queries.

- In-depth knowledge of FIX messaging protocol.

- Strong understanding of TCP/IP networking protocols.

- Experience analyzing system and application logs, databases, services, and network-related issues.

- Working knowledge of Unix/Linux environments.

- Experience with scripting and automation using PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar technologies.

- Experience supporting software deployments and release processes.

- Strong understanding of SDLC practices and experience collaborating with software development teams.

- Excellent communication skills and ability to work directly with business and technical stakeholders.

- Ability to manage multiple priorities within a fast-moving production environment.

Preferred Technical Experience

Experience with several of the following would be highly valuable:

- Electronic trading, clearing, and confirmation workflows

- MarkitWire

- Bloomberg VCON

- Reuters RTNS

- ICELink

- LCH

- CME

- Eurex

- DTCC and regulatory reporting

- MiFID reporting

- Bloomberg Data License

- Bloomberg Server API / B-PIPE

- Reuters RFA / SFC / Marketlink

- FpML

- FIX messaging

- Docker and containerized environments

- Octopus Deploy, Jenkins, or similar deployment tools

- Nexus, Artifactory, or GitHub Packages

- Database schema versioning and deployment integration

- CI/CD security practices including dependency, container/image, and secrets scanning

- Release strategies including canary, blue/green, and automated rollback

- Interdealer Broker (IDB) operations

- Electronic trading platforms and exchanges

Ideal Candidate

The strongest candidate is not simply a general Systems Engineer.

We are looking for someone who combines strong systems and application troubleshooting capabilities with genuine Fixed Income/Capital Markets domain knowledge.

You should be comfortable speaking with traders and other business users, investigating issues across Windows servers, SQL databases, networks and FIX messages, and then working directly with development teams to resolve underlying application problems.

Prior experience supporting trading or post-trade systems within a financial institution or financial technology environment will be strongly preferred.

Compensation

Base Salary: $120,000-$160,000, depending on experience and qualifications, plus bonus.

Work Arrangement

New York, NY - Hybrid

Candidates must be able to work from the New York City office 2 days per week.

Confidential Search: Additional information about the organization will be provided to qualified candidates as they progress through the recruitment process.