Overview 

Connecting clients to markets – and talent to opportunity

With 4,300 employees and over 400,000 retail and institutional clients from more than 80 offices spread across five continents, we’re a Fortune-100, Nasdaq-listed provider, connecting clients to the global markets – focusing on innovation, human connection, and providing world-class products and services to all types of investors.

At StoneX, we offer you the opportunity to be part of an institutional-grade financial services network that connects companies, organizations, and investors to the global markets ecosystem. As a team member, you'll benefit from our unique blend of digital platforms, comprehensive clearing and execution services, personalized high-touch support, and deep industry expertise. Elevate your career with us and make a significant impact in the world of global finance.

Business Segment Overview  

Commercial: With boots on the ground authenticity at the heart of everything we do, our comprehensive array of commercial products and services enable you to work directly with our clients, across hedging, risk management, execution and clearing, OTC products, commodity finance and more.

Position Purpose:   Within our strategic data group’s trade processing services we are looking for a Technical Lead member to help advance our FIX and Cloud Infrastructure.  As a Technical Lead you will assist in architecting, designing and implementing a new, cutting edge, cloud APIs and FIX Protocol services centered around Trade Lifecycle needs.   

Primary Accountabilities/Responsibilities:

• Create cloud API and FIX Gateway Solutions developing and integrating this software and system technologies – per written specifications; test, evaluate, engineer, implement and support said technologies.
• Establish connectivity to multiple exchanges and client integrations with FIX Protocol. Provide L2 support to those FIX services.
• Review, influence and contribute to new and evolving design, architecture, standards, and methods for operating and contributing to services within our cloud and trading ecosystem.
• Add to our existing infrastructure. Reviews existing designs and processes to highlight more efficient ways to complete existing workload more effectively through industry perspectives.
• Drive technical innovation and efficiency in infrastructure operations through automation by assisting in improvements to continuous integration, continuous deployment and general DevOps practices.
• Collaborates with technical teams and utilizes system expertise to deliver technical solutions, continuously learning and evolving our cloud and trading system infrastructure.
• Monitors and evaluates overall strategic data infrastructure; tracks system efficiency and reliability; identifies and recommends efficiency improvements and mitigates operational vulnerabilities. Respond to and resolve emergent service problems. Design solutions using automation and self-repair rather than relying on alarming and human intervention

Job Requirements:

• 5-10 years of work experience post completion of bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering or related majors.
• At least 5-10 years of experience with the FIX protocol and developing solutions utilizing QuickFix or other popular FIX engines.
• Knowledge of the financial markets and electronic trading life cycle.
• Hands-on experience in programing in C# or Java (Python and/or C++ a plus)
• Professional experience with Messaging and\or Event driven technologies (MQ based, Kafka, Red Panda).
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and various design patterns.
• Strong understanding of core principles of OO design and their application within a highly scaled distributed architecture.
• General Linux knowledge and experience.
• Knowledge of OS and networking protocols (TCP, UDP, etc) particularly in the context of FIX communication.
• Critical thinking: the ability to track down complex engineering issues, evaluate different algorithmic approaches to solve problems.
• Good Communication skills and willing to learn new tools and technologies
• Strong work ethic and emphasis on attention to details
• Knowledge of the financial markets and electronic trading life cycle.

Working environment: - 

• Hybrid/In-office/Remote   - 3 days WFO - subject to change.
• Travel Requirements (if applicable)