Senior Software Engineer

Senior Developer – Fixed Income Trading (6-Month Contract)

Location: Remote (GTA-based, occasional onsite at downtown Toronto HQ)

Duration: 6 months (high likelihood of extension or full-time conversion)

About the Opportunity

Our client is a leading North American financial institution known for its innovation in capital markets, investment banking, and wealth management. They're building a best-in-class Fixed Income trading platform to serve the evolving needs of global institutional clients — and they’re looking for a seasoned Senior Developer to help drive this ambitious transformation.

As part of a high-impact, collaborative development team, you'll play a pivotal role in enhancing and modernizing trading systems that support Investment Grade and High Yield bond trading. This is your chance to contribute to a strategic initiative with broad visibility, cutting-edge technology, and the potential to evolve into a long-term career move.

What You’ll Do

• Design and build scalable, high-performance trading applications in a real-time, event-driven environment
• Collaborate closely with traders, product managers, business analysts, and technologists to rapidly iterate and evolve the platform
• Integrate internal and external systems using industry protocols (e.g., FIX, TCP, MQ, HTTP)
• Provide production support and enhancements to existing systems as needed
• Contribute to technical documentation and testing best practices
• Bring innovative ideas to improve design, architecture, and performance

What We’re Looking For

• 7+ years of hands-on software development experience in complex, distributed systems
• Deep expertise in Java, Python, and/or C++
• Strong understanding of real-time data streaming, low-latency trading, and high-performance systems
• Proficiency with FIX protocol and other messaging/integration tools (TCP, MQ, HTTP)
• Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, Git, Linux servers, Shell scripting
• Experience in Capital Markets, ideally in Fixed Income or Credit trading
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills in a fast-paced, Agile environment

Nice to Have

• Experience with cloud development, especially AWS
• Familiarity with major trading systems like Bloomberg TOMS, FIS BondOne, Calypso, or WSS

Why Apply?

• Join a flagship initiative at a Tier-1 financial institution with long-term potential
• Enjoy remote flexibility with the benefit of occasional in-person collaboration
• Be part of a collaborative team building modern, mission-critical software
• Competitive compensation and the opportunity for full-time conversion

If you thrive in fast-paced environments and want to make a real impact in the capital markets space, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now to learn more!

The target hiring compensation for this role is between 75/hr-95/hr. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.