Position Title: Senior Developer - Fixed Income Trading

Line of Business: Fixed Income

Est. Start Date: 6/1/2025

Duration: 6 months (Possibility of Extension and conversion)

Possibility of conversion to FTE: Y

Working Location: GTA based - may require to be in office at 100 King st W Toronto 100% remote currently but candidates will need to be able to go in for occasional events and meetings

Role Mandate:

CLIENT aspires to build best-in-class platform for our Fixed Income trading desk covering a wide spectrum of Investment Grade and

High Yield bonds to serve the growing needs of our clients globally. Our vision is to build industry-leading fixed income trading platform using modern software development principles to allow for adaptability, future growth, and integration with both external systems and CLIENT's proprietary pricing/risk tools.

We are searching for a senior developer with extensive experience building complex software solutions to join our team and help us on our current initiatives. This role will work closely with the team of developers, business analysts, product managers, production support teams to execute both short-term tactical and long term goals.

Role Responsibilities Include (but are not limited to):

• Provide leadership and innovative ideas with respect to development design and integration with other components

• Quickly adjust, redesign and adapt design and functionality based on the frequent feedback from traders and other stakeholders

• Build effective partnership with other team members and key stakeholders to establish productive, mutually respective work environment

• Build high-quality documentation artifacts (solution diagram, trade flow, current vs target state, etc.) as required by CLIENT standards

• Maintain current trading systems, provide system enhancement and production support

• Effectively unit-test own software deliverables, participate in planning and execution of test suites

• Partner with others in the organization to advance CLIENT's overall IT capabilities in the areas of real-time messaging, application integration, application high-availability, other

Must-Have Skills:

• 7+ years of demonstrated experience developing complex software solutions serving the needs of large geographically dispersed organizations

• True Agile practitioner, can start with a concept and rapidly change to arrive at the end result

• Experienced in system development with high performance, real time streaming, data update, highly integrated with backend internal & external services (TCP, HTTP, MQ, FIX)

o FIX experience a must

• Experienced in software languages: Java, Python, C++, and Oracle database,

• DevOps, CI/CD Git, Linux server, Shell scripting, Windows server

• Work experience in Capital Markets - FI Income, Credit trading, rates is an asset

• Work experience in large Capital Markets trading platforms (Bloomberg TOMS, FIS BondOne, Calypso, WSS ) is an asset

• Equally effective partnering with all levels including senior technology and business stakeholders, and other members of the team

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Nice to Have Skills:

• AWS software development an asset

Interviews:

• 1st round with hiring manager

• 2nd round technical interview with hiring manager's supervisor

• Candidate's should be able to speak to the skillsets on their resume as they will be expected to demonstrate the indicated skillset

• Please ensure resumes are neat, grammatically correct, and formatting is uniform

About Us: SPECTRAFORCE is one of the fastest-growing workforce solutions firms in the United States. As a diversity-owned business, we place human connection at the heart of everything we do, building strong relationships with both clients and candidates to fill roles successfully. Our teams in North and Central America and India serve more than 150 Fortune clients globally, leveraging custom AI technology to provide direct hire, executive search, nearshoring, offshoring, and project staffing solutions.

Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers a Group Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) Program to all eligible employees. We also offer an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and an employee discount program, which provides exclusive access to thousands of discounts on travel, entertainment, and more. SPECTRAFORCE offers unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave, paid holidays, and paid vacation as required by law.

Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family status, genetic characteristics, disability, conviction for an offence for which a pardon has been granted or in respect of which a record suspension has been ordered, or any other prohibited grounds as identified by provincial or territorial law. Please contact Human Resources at if you require reasonable accommodation.

At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position's starting pay is: $85.00/hr.