Job Summary
Synechron is seeking a Technical Engineer to support low-latency equities trading platforms across APAC markets. The role will translate business and technology requirements into technical changes, coordinate platform upgrades and connectivity, and provide advanced production support.
The position contributes to reliable, high-performance trading solutions by improving platform stability, supporting exchange integrations, and strengthening collaboration across regional and global technology teams.
Software Requirements
Required:
- Python 3.x and Bash or Unix shell scripting
- Linux/Unix administration and troubleshooting
- FIX messaging and electronic trading workflows
- Git or equivalent version-control tools
- Incident, change, and release management tools
- Network diagnostic tools such as Wireshark, tcpdump, netstat, or equivalent
- Experience with Linux-based low-latency trading environments
Preferred:
- Exchange protocols such as OUCH, Arrowhead, or comparable protocols
- Market-data and trading connectivity platforms
- FPGA-based trading solutions
- Monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, or equivalent
- CI/CD, configuration management, or infrastructure automation tools
Overall Responsibilities
- Translate business and technology requirements into changes across low-latency trading platforms.
- Support new venues, trading functionality, upgrades, and connectivity implementations.
- Coordinate technical changes with application, infrastructure, network, production support, vendor, carrier, and client teams.
- Contribute to network architecture decisions based on latency, throughput, resilience, and security requirements.
- Provide third-level production support for critical trading services.
- Investigate incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and implement corrective actions.
- Support exchange connectivity, trading protocols, market data, and co-location environments.
- Maintain technical documentation, implementation plans, test evidence, and operational procedures.
- Promote consistent engineering standards and best practices across regional and global teams.
- Identify opportunities to improve automation, reliability, performance, and responsible use of infrastructure resources.
Technical Skills (By Category)
- Programming: Essential—Python, Bash, Unix shell scripting. Preferred—C, C++, Java, or other systems programming languages.
- Data and Messaging: Essential—FIX messaging, trading workflows, logs, timestamps, and message analysis. Preferred—market-data platforms and exchange-specific protocols.
- Infrastructure and Networks: Essential—Linux, TCP/IP, network troubleshooting, latency analysis, and co-location environments. Preferred—multicast, UDP, FPGA, and kernel-bypass networking.
- Trading Technology: Essential—equities trading platforms and the trading life cycle. Preferred—front-, middle-, and back-office integration experience.
- Tools and Methodologies: Essential—Git, testing, change management, incident management, documentation, and Agile delivery. Preferred—CI/CD, monitoring, automation, and infrastructure as code.
- Security: Essential—secure access, authentication, authorization, secrets management, least privilege, and secure operational practices. Preferred—TLS, SSH, certificates, VPNs, firewalls, and network segmentation.
Experience Requirements
- Approximately 5+ years of experience in technical engineering, production engineering, infrastructure engineering, or electronic trading technology.
- Experience supporting low-latency or ultra-low-latency trading platforms.
- Strong experience with Python, Linux/Unix, shell scripting, and FIX messaging.
- Experience with equities trading, exchange connectivity, market data, or co-located infrastructure.
- Experience coordinating technical changes across internal teams and external partners.
- Experience supporting critical production systems and resolving complex incidents.
- Financial services, capital markets, or financial technology experience is preferred.
- Equivalent experience in networking, telecommunications, distributed systems, high-performance computing, or real-time systems may be considered.
Day-to-Day Activities
- Review requirements for new venues, trading functionality, upgrades, and connectivity.
- Develop scripts and tools for automation, testing, monitoring, and diagnostics.
- Analyze FIX messages, logs, network traces, and platform metrics.
- Test trading and market-data connectivity across development, certification, and production environments.
- Coordinate implementation plans, testing, releases, and rollback activities.
- Monitor production systems and respond to incidents and performance issues.
- Participate in stand-ups, technical reviews, release meetings, incident reviews, and stakeholder discussions.
- Collaborate with application, network, infrastructure, operations, security, vendor, and client teams.
- Maintain technical designs, support procedures, topology diagrams, and root-cause analyses.
- Make technical decisions within approved architecture, security, risk, and change-management standards.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
- Equivalent professional experience and demonstrated technical capability may be considered.
- Preferred certifications include Linux, networking, cloud, IT service management, Agile delivery, or information security certifications.
- Completion of Synechron onboarding, security, compliance, market, and project-specific training is required.
- Ongoing learning in low-latency systems, trading protocols, network engineering, automation, security, and operational resilience is expected.
Professional Competencies
- Evidence-based troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
- Ability to assess trade-offs involving latency, reliability, security, scalability, and cost.
- Effective collaboration across regional, global, technical, business, and external teams.
- Clear communication of technical information, risks, dependencies, and decisions.
- Ability to manage priorities during projects, releases, and production incidents.
- Adaptability when working with new venues, protocols, tools, and technologies.
- Commitment to automation, documentation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
SYNECHRON’S DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT
Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more.
All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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