Global financial services firm spanning capital markets, prime brokerage, and digital assets
Cantor Fitzgerald operates a complex, multi-asset trading and brokerage business with 10,000+ employees across 30+ offices worldwide. The tech stack reveals a legacy fixed-income trading infrastructure (FIX, Fidessa, Sybase, Oracle) layered with modern workflow tools (Jira, Asana, Wrike, Monday.com) and emerging security upgrades (Palo Alto Networks, F5), indicating active modernization of compliance and risk systems. Hiring is accelerating across engineering and finance with a senior-heavy seniority mix, concentrated on mission-critical fixed-income applications, equity derivatives platforms, and real-time risk monitoring—core to their capital markets and prime brokerage lines.
Cantor Fitzgerald is a global financial services firm founded in 1945, now structured around capital markets (equity and fixed income), investment banking, commercial real estate finance, prime brokerage, asset management, and digital/e-commerce ventures. The firm operates from over 30 offices and serves institutional investors and corporations through a combination of dealer networks, agency services, and technology-driven platforms. The business generates demand for high-throughput, low-latency trading infrastructure, regulatory compliance automation, and real-time risk monitoring—evidenced by active projects in equity swaps platforms, proprietary matching engines, and mission-critical inter-dealer brokerage systems. Engineering and finance hiring is accelerating, with global recruitment spanning the United States, Canada, UK, Poland, India, China, Japan, and Peru.
Core: FIX, Fidessa, Oracle, Sybase, Java, SQL. Infrastructure: Junos OS, Cisco IOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Ansible, UNIX. Workflow: Jira, Asana, Wrike, Monday.com. Currently adopting Palo Alto Networks and F5 for security/networking.
Equity swaps trading platform, proprietary matching engine components, mission-critical fixed-income inter-dealer brokerage applications, digital assets initiatives, risk framework development, and infrastructure design for highly available global networks.
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