Job Description

Principal Engineer – C# / Java

3 days per week in Manila office

CBTR is supporting a client in the financial services space with the search for a Principal Engineer to join a high-performing technology team focused on post-trade affirmation, confirmation and straight-through processing workflows.

This is a senior technical leadership role for an experienced engineer with a strong background in enterprise application development, real-time messaging, and banking/trading systems. You will act as a key technical lead within the team, helping shape design decisions, guide delivery standards, and support the ongoing evolution of critical post-trade systems.

Key responsibilities

• Act as the senior technical lead for the team, providing direction on design, engineering decisions and best practice

• Develop and maintain enterprise-level applications supporting post-trade workflows and real-time message handling

• Build and enhance capabilities for message consumption, transformation and publishing

• Maintain high code quality through testing, peer review and engineering standards

• Support production deployments and assist with investigation of live issues when needed

• Work within Agile delivery frameworks and contribute to ceremonies and sprint processes

• Mentor and support junior engineers within the team

• Collaborate with teams across multiple regions and time zones

• Partner with architecture and DevOps functions to align with platform standards and delivery approaches

• Follow established SDLC practices, design patterns and development guidelines

Required experience

• Strong experience in global financial services technology environments

• Proven background in server-side design and development within banking or trading platforms

• Advanced hands-on experience with C# /.NET and Java in enterprise environments

• Strong experience working with XML, including data consumption, transformation and publishing across multiple endpoints

• Solid knowledge of SQL Server, including complex query writing and database interaction

• Experience with AWS, ideally deploying and supporting applications on EC2 and/or EKS

• Experience using Jenkins and GitLab for CI/CD and deployment processes

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with close attention to detail

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in collaborative engineering teams

• Experience working in Agile environments, including SaFe and/or Scrum

Highly desirable

• Experience with post-trade confirmation and affirmation workflows

• Knowledge of STP processes, trade confirmations, clearing, and third-party messaging/vendor integrations

• Exposure to FIX Protocol and FIX engines

• Experience working with messaging middleware such as Solace and/or Tibco

• Background in electronic trading and/or market data systems

• Familiarity with Grafana for monitoring and observability

• Experience with Cucumber for BDD and automated testing

• Exposure to Terraform or Ansible for infrastructure as code

• Experience with Kubernetes and AWS EKS

What’s on offer

• Opportunity to take on a genuine technical leadership role within a business-critical engineering team

• Work on complex, high-value systems in a fast-paced financial services environment

• Join a collaborative engineering culture with strong exposure across architecture, DevOps and distributed teams

• Influence the direction of enterprise platforms and engineering standards