Software Development Manager - Part-Time

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance electronic trading platforms that support real-time pricing, market data distribution, order management, execution workflows, and connectivity to liquidity providers.
• Contribute to the architecture and implementation of distributed systems using modern software engineering principles, including microservices, event-driven architecture, domain-driven design (DDD), CQRS, event sourcing, and related integration patterns.
• Enhance platform scalability, reliability, and performance through effective use of concurrency, asynchronous processing, distributed caching, and application performance optimization techniques.
• Develop and maintain enterprise integration solutions and APIs using technologies such as REST, gRPC, messaging platforms,and event-streaming frameworks.
• Support cloud-native application development and deployment initiatives using containerization, orchestration platforms, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and DevOps practices.
• Contribute to the establishment and adoption of engineering standards, secure software development practices, code quality frameworks, and architecture review processes.
• Perform system performance analysis, capacity planning, application monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimization activities.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, product teams, architects, infrastructure engineers, and cybersecurity teams to deliver technology solutions that meet business and operational requirements.
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including solution design, development, testing, deployment, production support, and platform enhancement initiatives.
• Provide technical guidance, knowledge sharing, and mentorship to team members where appropriate.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related field. Candidates with equivalent practical experience and relevant technical expertise are also encouraged to apply.
• Demonstrated 10 years of relevant work experience in designing, developing, and supporting distributed systems, electronic trading platforms, financial technology solutions, or other high-availability, real-time applications.
• Strong proficiency in Java and related enterprise development frameworks such as Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and ORM technologies.
• Experience with distributed systems,microservices architecture, event-driven applications, service-oriented architecture (SOA), and enterprise integration patterns.
• Solid understanding of software engineering principles, including object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms,design patterns, and system scalability.
• Experience working with messaging and event-streaming technologies such as Kafka, JMS-compatible messaging platforms, or similar solutions.
• Knowledge of relational and/or NoSQL databasetechnologies and experience in database design, optimization, and performance tuning.
• Experience with cloud-native technologies,containerization platforms, orchestration tools, CI/CD pipelines, and modern software delivery practices.
• Understanding of application security principles, secure API development, authentication and authorization frameworks, and secure coding practices.
• Experience within foreign exchange (FX),electronic trading, capital markets, investment banking, financial markets, or other transaction-intensive environments.
• Familiarity with market data platforms, pricingsystems, order management systems, execution management systems, or relatedtrading technologies.
• Knowledge of multithreading, concurrency, asynchronous programming, JVM performance tuning, and low-latency application design.
• Experience with distributed caching,coordination technologies, observability platforms, monitoring tools, and distributed tracing solutions.
• Exposure to cloud platforms and enterprise architecture practices.
• Experience with scripting or automation languages such as Python, Shell, Ruby, or similar technologies.
• Relevant professional certifications in software development, cloud technologies, enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, or financial markets.