This role pays more than
63%
of similar roles. Most pay
$143,686–$196,750
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$178k
versus about
$170k
for comparable roles.
Based on 238 similar postings.
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Listed pay typically runs
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Join our Equities Electronic Trading team as a VP-level Smart Order Router (SOR) Developer, responsible for designing and optimizing high-performance, low-latency microservices and applications within our core trading platform. You will lead the implementation of complex routing logic and venue analysis models to ensure best execution and system stability while collaborating with product development teams on new capabilities. Your day-to-day involves rigorous code reviews, technical design discussions, and driving continuous improvement in testing frameworks and deployment processes for a high-throughput environment. Expertise in Core Java, JVM internals, microservices architecture, and financial market protocols like FIX is essential, along with experience in automated trading systems and distributed systems development. This role demands strong communication skills to bridge complex technical and business concepts within the fast-paced equities trading domain.