Technical Engineer - Low-Latency Trading, FIX & Linux/Python

About the role

Synechron is seeking a Technical Engineer to support low-latency equities trading platforms across APAC markets. The role translates business and technology requirements into technical changes, coordinates platform upgrades and connectivity, and provides advanced production support. It contributes to reliable, high-performance trading solutions by improving platform stability, supporting exchange integrations and collaborating across regional and global technology teams.

Key responsibilities

• Translate business and technology requirements into changes across low-latency trading platforms.
• Support new venues, trading functionality, upgrades and connectivity implementations.
• Coordinate technical changes with application, infrastructure, network, production support, vendor, carrier and client teams.
• Contribute to network architecture decisions based on latency, throughput, resilience and security.
• Provide third-level production support for critical trading services, investigate incidents and perform root-cause analysis.
• Support exchange connectivity, trading protocols, market data and co-location environments.
• Maintain technical documentation, implementation plans, test evidence and operational procedures.
• Promote consistent engineering standards, identify automation and reliability improvements, and make technical decisions within approved standards.

Required profile

• Approximately 5+ years of experience in technical, production, infrastructure or electronic trading engineering.
• Experience supporting low-latency trading platforms and coordinating technical changes across internal and external teams.
• Experience with equities trading, exchange connectivity, market data or co-located infrastructure, and supporting critical production systems.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, Mathematics or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• Preferred: financial services, capital markets or fintech experience; preferred certifications in Linux, networking, cloud, ITSM, Agile or information security.

Required skills

• Essential: Python 3.x, Bash or Unix shell scripting, Linux/Unix administration and troubleshooting, FIX messaging, Git, incident/change/release management tools, network diagnostics (Wireshark, tcpdump, netstat).
• Preferred: exchange protocols (OUCH, Arrowhead), market-data platforms, FPGA-based trading, Grafana/Prometheus, CI/CD, configuration management, C/C++/Java, multicast/UDP, TLS/SSH, Kubernetes.