Job Description

Job Title: FIX (Financial Information eXchange) Developer

Remote (US)

Job Type: Contract



Mandatory Skills:

• FIX Protocol
• SQL
• Oracle

Role Overview:

• We are seeking a highly skilled FIX Developer with strong experience in Foreign Exchange (FX) systems to design, implement, and maintain pricing engine integrations using the Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol.
• The candidate will be responsible for building robust and low-latency connection with pricing engine, and trading platforms to support real-time FX pricing, execution, and market data distribution.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, Implement a FIX solution for FX price distribution engine
• Must have backend Java development design and testing experience with prior financial industry experience.
• Monitor and troubleshoot: Monitor message flow in real-time, analyze FIX logs for errors, and quickly resolve connectivity incidents.
• Develop solutions: Develop code for low-latency trading systems, parse FIX messages, transform data into other formats and work with messaging/queueing technologies.
• Ensure that the design is scalable
• Collaborate: Work closely the project team and vendor to integrate and configure FIX sessions.
• Documentation: Produce concise functional FIX specifications, integration design, workflows, and operational runbooks from start to finish that can be used by partners.
• Audit and logging: Develop audit and logging capabilities for troubleshooting.
• Provide production support and incident resolution for pricing and execution-related issues.

Essential Skills and Qualifications:

• FIX protocol expertise: Deep understanding of FIX protocol, including different version ( eg. FIX 4.2 - 5.0)
• Proficiency in at least one programming language, preferably Java or C++.
• Experience with SQL on any DBMS preferably, Oracle, SQL Server database environments required.
• Must have a strong understanding of market structure for FX products, pricing and order management.
• Networking knowledge: Familiarity with network protocols such as TCP/IP, Stunnel, MPLS

Additional Skills: Knowledge of XML, real- time messaging, and FIX engines

Requirement and skills:

• 7+ years of experience technology preferably on buy-sell side or trading vendor.
• In dept knowledge of FX markets and its trading technologies for dealers and institutional clients.
• FIX Protocol certification/connectivity experience a must.
• Experience with FIX engines such as QuickFIX or similar.
• Lead technical discussions with partners.
• Familiarity with messaging protocols like AMQP, MQTT, or Kafka.

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