Applications Engineer – FIX Solutions Engineer

Veritas Partners - Philadelphia, PA

Hiring: Applications Engineer – FIX Solutions Engineer Company: Veritas Partners Location: Philadelphia, PA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 14:57:18 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : Change Management, Equities, Linux, SQL About the job Experience: •5+ years of experience supporting or implementing FIX connectivity in a brokerage, trading firm, exchange, fintech, OMS/EMS vendor, or financial technology environment. Required Skills: •Support, enhance, and expand electronic trading connectivity for our global client facing brokerage trading business. •Implement, configure, test, and support FIX connectivity for clients, counterparties, exchanges, ATSs, ECNs, brokers, OMS/EMS platforms, and trading vendors. •Manage full connectivity onboarding lifecycle, including requirements gathering, session setup, message specification review, certification, production rollout, and post-go-live support. •Analyze FIX messages across order entry, cancel/replace, execution reports, drop copy, allocations, and administrative workflows. •Troubleshoot production issues involving order flow, rejects, sequence gaps, session disconnects, latency, routing behavior, and trade reporting discrepancies. •Maintain and enhance FIX session configurations, routing rules, symbol handling, account mappings, entitlement controls, and message transformations. •Partner with developers and infrastructure teams to improve connectivity platforms, monitoring, alerting, resiliency, and operational tooling. •Interface directly with business stakeholders to understand trading workflows and translate requirements into technical connectivity specifications. Qualifications: •3-5+ years of experience supporting or implementing FIX connectivity in a brokerage, trading firm, exchange, fintech, OMS/EMS vendor, or financial technology environment. •In-depth knowledge of the FIX protocol, including session-level and application-level messages. •Operational familiarity with electronic trading concepts, order lifecycle, routing, executions, allocations, and trade capture. •Hands-on experience troubleshooting FIX sessions using logs, message viewers, network tools, or trading support platforms. •Strong analytical, communication, and documentation skills. •Demonstrated capacity to work directly with clients, vendors, traders, developers, and operations teams. •Demonstrated capacity to work onsite in Philadelphia, PA office on a weekly basis. Will offer hybrid 4 days in office a week flexibility. •Eligible to legally work in the US without current or future sponsorship. Compensation: •$140,000 - $180,000 / year •Annual Bonus and Sign-on bonus Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!