Senior Software Engineer, Trading & Custodian Integrations

As a Senior Software Engineer, Custodian & Trading Integrations, you will build the systems that connect Performativ’s investment platform to custodians, brokers, trading venues, and market infrastructure. You will work on complex financial integrations across legacy file-based formats, modern APIs, trading applications, and reconciliation workflows that sit at the heart of the investment management lifecycle.

What You’ll Do 📈

• Own and build integrations with custodians, brokers, trading venues, and other financial infrastructure providers.
• Design, develop, and operate data flows across positions, transactions, cash, instruments, orders, executions, settlement, and corporate actions.
• Work with both legacy financial formats and modern integration methods, including files, APIs, message-based flows, and event-driven architectures.
• Build reliable ingestion, validation, reconciliation, and monitoring systems for high-volume investment data.
• Develop and improve trading-related workflows, including order routing, execution flows, confirmations, allocations, and reconciliation against custody data.
• Investigate complex production issues across internal systems, external providers, and client environments.
• Work closely with Product, Operations, and Engineering teams to understand real-world investment workflows and turn them into scalable systems.
• Help improve the quality, observability, and resilience of Performativ’s custodian and trading network.
• Make pragmatic technical decisions that balance speed, correctness, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
• Contribute to the technical direction of a core platform area that is critical to Performativ’s growth.

What We’re Looking For 🎯

• You have 4-10 years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in fintech, banking, asset management, wealth management, trading, or financial infrastructure.
• Experience with trading applications, FIX, order management systems, execution management systems, broker APIs, or low-latency compute is highly preferred.
• You have experience building and maintaining production systems where correctness, reliability, and data integrity matter.
• You understand, or are highly motivated to understand, the investment management lifecycle, including custody, settlement, instruments, transactions, cash movements, market venues, and portfolio data.
• You have worked with complex integrations, including APIs, file-based formats, message queues, SFTP flows, FIX, or other financial protocols.
• You are comfortable debugging complex real-world data issues across multiple systems and providers.
• You have strong backend engineering skills and are comfortable working with technologies such as Python, Golang, PHP, TypeScript, MySQL, Redis, AWS, and CI/CD tooling.
• You understand how to design systems that are observable, testable, and resilient under production usage.
• You can work closely with non-engineering stakeholders and explain technical issues clearly.
• You have a structured, analytical mindset and strong attention to detail.
• You take ownership of problems end to end, from discovery and design to implementation, production support, and continuous improvement.
• Experience with reconciliation between trading, portfolio, and custody systems is a strong plus.
• Experience in regulated environments or mission-critical financial systems is a plus.
• You actively use AI or agent-assisted development tools and think critically about how to apply them responsibly to increase quality and speed.

What We Can Offer You 🌱

• Trust and responsibility to shape the future of Performativ’s success in the European market from day 1.
• Join a fast-growing fintech scaleup supported by top-tier VCs.
• Work with intelligent, passionate, and driven professionals with experience from leading institutions (such as Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, BCG, Amazon etc).
• Accelerate your career with opportunities for professional development and leadership.

Join a Team of Fintech heroes! 🚀

Performativ is making waves in the wealth management ecosystem and is changing the way investment advisors and financial institutions do business around the world. Working at Performativ means working at a fast-paced tech scaleup with intelligent people who are passionate about their work. We are on a scaling journey beyond all metrics and expectations - and can't wait to have you join us in making a real impact.

We are funded by some of the leading VC funds in the world and expectations are set to be established as a European market leader in a record amount of time.

You can read more about our product at performativ.com

We value passion 🔥

At Performativ, we are builders first. We are passionate with ambitious goals and value the time and effort people put into their work. You will be part of the family from day one, and responsible for making your mark and driving forward your vision. Autonomous work is embedded in our culture, and we are committed to ensure you have all the tools and support you need while acknowledging the importance of flexibility.