Jobs at Cantor Fitzgerald

Senior Software Engineer responsible for refactoring and optimizing low-latency applications, analyzing network utilization, designing low-latency solutions and internal APIs, conducting unit tests, responding to production issues, leveraging AI tools, and mentoring junior engineers to improve performance, scalability, and reliability.

Senior risk leader responsible for designing and rolling out an operational risk framework, leading RCSA programs, embedding risk practices across business lines, overseeing risk event investigations, preparing risk reporting, chairing risk committees, and implementing risk technology while addressing conduct, IT security, BCP, and regulatory risks.

Provide legal advice and support to trading, treasury, and operations; draft, review, and negotiate ISDA, prime brokerage, and repo agreements; ensure regulatory compliance; manage transaction execution and legal risk; update documentation standards; collaborate with trading, compliance, and risk teams; monitor regulatory developments and participate in strategic projects.

Develop and maintain backend and web-based applications for equities compliance reporting. Design, build, and optimize RESTful APIs, microservices, caching, and messaging solutions; work in an Agile team, ensure code quality, and support cloud containerized deployments.

Lead development and support for post-trade systems, delivering greenfield and brownfield projects. Troubleshoot production issues, perform maintenance and upgrades, collaborate with cross-functional teams, document designs, participate in code reviews, and propose process improvements to ensure high system uptime and product delivery.

Lead and maintain the FCM and Introducing Brokers compliance program, ensure CFTC/CME rule adherence, manage regulatory exams and reporting, enhance surveillance and control frameworks, perform risk-based testing, advise business and tech teams, and deliver targeted compliance training.

Provide corporate legal advice on mergers & acquisitions, investments, joint ventures, and related corporate matters. Draft, review, and negotiate transaction documents and securities filings; conduct and oversee due diligence; advise management on corporate governance and transactional compliance; support business teams on securities law and stock exchange requirements.

Lead FIX Engineer responsible for client-facing FIX connectivity support, onboarding/certification, production issue investigation, OMS/order routing support, system configuration, migration from legacy platforms, and collaborating with trading, development, QA, and infrastructure teams to maintain and enhance equities trading connectivity and infrastructure.

Manage talent and learning platforms (Oracle HCM, Oracle Learning), support early career and internship programs, design employee communications and visual assets, maintain SharePoint and engagement pages, prepare executive-ready reports and presentations, coordinate development and engagement events, handle shared mailboxes and employee inquiries, process departmental invoices, and document meeting notes and action items to drive talent development and employee engagement.

Senior leadership role owning strategy, reliability, and modernization of Linux, storage, and platform services. Lead a 14-person global team, drive automation with IaC (Ansible, Terraform, Git), partner on Kubernetes and hybrid cloud, embed secure-by-default practices, support high-availability trading environments, and deliver a roadmap toward self-service, stability, and operational excellence.

Lead creation of consumer-focused digital content using generative AI and creative technologies across social platforms. Produce AI-generated video, motion graphics, animated assets, and performance-driven ads. Collaborate with marketing, brand, and business teams to translate financial concepts into engaging content, optimize for engagement and conversion, and ensure brand and regulatory compliance while managing multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.

Serve as primary technical contact for NYC trading clients, lead technical reviews and onboarding, troubleshoot connectivity, data feeds, and execution workflows, advise on execution models and scaling low-latency infrastructure, and relay customer needs to influence product roadmap.

Manage client and allocator relationships across a designated territory, identify introduction opportunities through market research, expand hedge fund and institutional investor coverage, coordinate events, maintain detailed records, respond to inquiries, and work on-site in the New York office Monday–Friday.

Lead external communications and media relations for Cantor Fitzgerald and BGC Group. Develop proactive media strategies, manage media inquiries, prepare executives for public appearances, support sensitive/reputational issues, drive thought leadership and social/digital communications, and monitor/analyze media coverage.

Perform independent credit analysis of hedge fund counterparties, review and challenge front-office credit proposals, evaluate collateral and margining, monitor exposures and stress scenarios, conduct periodic and trigger-based reviews, support portfolio-level and stress testing analysis, prepare dashboards and materials for senior management, and ensure compliance with internal policies and regulatory expectations.

Act as the primary technical/business escalation for LumeFX Support, own product deliveries and implementations, coordinate with Engineering, optimize client configurations, respond to technical inquiries, provide client training, document requirements to drive the product roadmap, and partner with Sales across the account lifecycle.

Serve as liaison between Shared Services and technology teams to identify, prioritize, and deliver AI-driven process improvements. Document requirements, map and optimize processes, facilitate stakeholder workshops, support change management, and collaborate with data, product, and engineering teams to implement transformation initiatives.

Partner with Shared Services to identify and prioritize AI and data analytics use cases; translate business needs into data solutions; perform data analysis (SQL/Python); design dashboards and data models; support data governance and AI/ML testing; collaborate with technology teams and communicate recommendations to stakeholders.

Design, implement, and support database and data-movement solutions across platforms. Develop advanced SQL, PL/SQL, and shell scripts; optimize queries; maintain schemas/views; troubleshoot production data issues; work with ETL/BI tools and engage stakeholders to meet analytics requirements within SDLC.

Provide Level 2 production support for trading applications across Credit, Rates, and FX. Monitor systems, troubleshoot issues using logs and dashboards (Grafana, Splunk), communicate with teams and clients, support scheduled jobs and releases, and follow ITIL incident/change/problem processes.