Role: Software Engineer
Location: Central Sydney
Mode of working: Contract role for 1 Year
Hybrid role
Job Purpose:
This role designs, builds, and supports the trading and analytics applications the desk depends on daily. We build our own tooling, we own it end-to-end, and we hold it to the same standard as any production trading system. You will work directly with traders and operations staff, ship real software, and apply genuine engineering discipline - including structured AI-assisted development as a first-class part of the workflow.
Key Responsibilities:
· Design, build, test, and support Python back-end services and React front-end applications covering order flow, position and risk views, trade analytics, and reporting - modelled explicitly around business domain concepts: OrderRouter, RiskGate, MarketDataFeed, Strategy, OMS.
· Maintain and extend FIX connectivity and order routing integrations across APAC venues; support Fidessa/Triton configuration, session management, and user troubleshooting.
· Design and own PostgreSQL and MSSQL schemas that accurately reflect trading domain models; write and tune queries supporting real-time and end-of-day analytics workflows; coordinate larger database work with the US team.
· Translate trader and operations requirements into clear specifications, walk stakeholders through design decisions, and communicate incident impact and resolution in plain language.
· Apply a structured TDD cycle without exception: spec sign-off, implementation plan sign-off, automated tests agreed and written before code, peer review of all output (human or LLM-generated), and continuous test execution covering functional correctness, non-functional behavior (latency, throughput, resilience), and code quality gates.
· Use Copilot and LLMs as a disciplined co-author operating inside that defined cycle-spec, sign off, implement, test, review, repeat. Unstructured vibe coding is not practiced here and will not be accepted in peer review.
Pay: $35.00 – $70.00 per hour
Application Question(s):
- How many years of hands-on trading application development experience you have?
Experience:
- Python: 1 year (Required)
- React/TypeScript: 1 year (Required)
Work Authorisation:
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Sydney NSW
