- Sydney CBD
- Hybrid
- Build high-performance Front Office trading platforms in a greenfield environment
About the role: Our client is a leading financial markets business investing heavily in the next generation of its Front Office trading technology. As part of a major technology expansion, they're looking for a hands-on Trading Engineer to help design, build and optimise high-performance trading systems supporting electronic trading across multiple asset classes.
Working directly alongside traders, quant teams and senior stakeholders, you'll play a key role in developing low-latency applications that underpin real-time pricing, market data and electronic execution. This is an opportunity to work on complex engineering challenges where performance, scalability and reliability are critical.
What's a typical day look like?
- Design, develop and optimise low-latency trading applications using Java, C++ and/or Python
- Build and enhance Front Office trading platforms supporting Equities and Fixed Income markets
- Work directly with traders and quantitative teams to deliver high-performance technology solutions
- Develop real-time pricing, market data and electronic trading capabilities
- Improve application performance, scalability and reliability across latency-sensitive systems
- Build and integrate market connectivity using protocols such as FIX and exchange APIs
- Participate in architecture discussions and contribute to greenfield platform development
- Continuously identify opportunities to improve execution speed, system performance and engineering best practice
About you:
- Solid commercial experience developing software in Java, C++ and/or Python
- Experience building low-latency, high-performance or real-time distributed systems
- Exposure to electronic trading, market data or Front Office technology environments
- Understanding of FIX Protocol, market connectivity or exchange messaging is highly regarded
- Experience with multithreading, concurrency and performance optimisation
- Comfortable working directly with business stakeholders, traders or quantitative teams
- Excellent problem-solving skills with a passion for building scalable, high-performance applications
- Experience within investment banking, proprietary trading, market making or financial markets technology
- Must be an Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident
If you're an experienced Software Engineer looking to work on some of the most technically challenging Front Office systems in the market, we'd love to hear from you. Reach out to Shannon at
[email protected] or apply directly with your updated resume. Kapital Consulting is a niche FinTech Recruitment Business specialising in Technology, Project Services and Data Recruitment across Australia. For more information, connect with us at www.kapitalconsulting.com.au and follow us on www.linkedin.com/company/kapital-consulting .
📌 Trading Engineer (Sydney)
🏢 Kapital Consulting
📍 Sydney