Application Support Engineer

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.

Preferred Skills

• 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

Skills

Automation Systems, Platform Modernization, application troubleshooting, Java Applications, Root Cause Analysis, Network Connectivity, Electronic Trading Platform, implement production, Monitoring, Production Support, Automation Scripting, Functionality Enhancements, Services Solutions, collaborative business partnering, Deployment, Testing