International financial firm needs 2 team members to help build scale out and modernize production trading platform. 2 days a week in their downtown office in NYC.

Candidate must have experience working with high volume systems.

Candidate will be expected to be able to hit the ground running on projects such as trading systems (i.e. matching engines, smart order routing, etc.

• Strong Java on Linux, approx 5+ years experience
• Experience with multi-threaded real time systems
• Experience optimizing systems for performance
• Strong relational db experience (MS SQLServer/Sybase/Postgres)
• FIX protocol knowledge is a must
• Experience UNIX shell scripting and with scripting languages (any one of
• python/perl/ruby)
• Experience with 24x7 always on applications in which downtime is limited
• and operational tools are important
• Big data experience with HBASE and map/reduce environment.
• Messaging systems (Kafka, Solace, RabbitMQ, JMS, Etc)
• Small company experience is a plus.
• Education from Top School
• Candidate is expected to be/have:
• Good communications skills.
• A self-starter, able to work independently and as part of a team.
• Capable picking up a wide range of technologies that they may not have
• worked with on in the past.
• An awareness of working in a customer facing business and develop an
• understanding of the impact of their work.
• Understanding of AWS.
• implemented Docker into an environment is an advantage.