Senior Software Engineer
at BGC Partners
Posted 6 days ago
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- City
- New York City
- Country
- United States
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Senior Software Engineer role within BGC Group’s Fixed Income Inter-Dealer Brokerage technology team. Design, develop, and maintain server-side Java applications for fixed income trading platforms, leveraging Spring Framework, Spring Boot, and Maven. Collaborate with analysts, traders, and fellow developers to deliver mission-critical, high-throughput, low-latency features in real-time trading environments, while ensuring code quality with unit tests and automation. Contribute to DevOps and deployment automation using GitLab CI/CD, Git, Maven, and containerization with Docker.
Location: New York, NY, United States
BGC Group is seeking a highly skilled Java Developer to join our Fixed Income Inter-Dealer Brokerage technology team. This role focuses on building and enhancing high-performance, low-latency applications that support trading and brokerage operations for global fixed income markets.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain server-side Java applications for fixed income trading platforms.
- Implement robust, scalable solutions using Spring Framework and Spring Boot.
- Collaborate with business analysts, traders, and other developers to deliver mission-critical features.
- Optimize application performance for high throughput and low latency in a real-time trading environment.
- Ensure code quality through unit tests and end-to-end test automation.
- Participate in DevOps pipeline development and deployment automation using GitLab CI/CD, Git, and Maven.
- Containerize applications using Docker for deployment.
- Troubleshoot production issues and provide timely resolutions.
Core Competencies & Skills:
- Strong proficiency in Java (8+) with a focus on server-side development.
- Expertise in Spring, Spring Boot, and Maven for enterprise application development.
- Solid understanding of multithreading, concurrency, and performance tuning.
- Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization (Docker).
- Familiarity with messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, JMS) and RESTful services.
- Knowledge of SQL and relational databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL).
- Exposure to financial markets, preferably fixed income or inter-dealer brokerage, is highly desirable.
Qualifications
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 5+ years of professional experience in Java development.
- Prior experience in electronic trading systems, brokerage platforms, or financial services technology is a strong plus.
Desirable Skills:
- Experience with at least one web application development framework (e.g., Angular, React, or similar).
- Monitoring and observability tools: Splunk, ELK stack, Grafana/Prometheus.
