Ultra-low Latency Aggregator & eFX Solution Platform that grows with your ambition
Improved fill rates
Customised trading experience
Built-in compliance tools
WHY CHOOSE SPARK?
Advanced technologies
We recognize the technological gap that exists between the best Tier 1 bank Market Makers and other market participants.
That’s why we aim to equip our clients with the similar level of proficiency – all thanks to Spark’s unique proprietary technology and robust architecture. Our eFX solution rivals that of the biggest Tier 1 FX banks in the world.
 | Ye Ting Song, Spark’s Founder & Chief Technology Officer |
Spark’s eFX platform is built entirely in-house using the best in class leading edge technologies. Spark suite of advanced technologies aim to provide the most complete eFX solution on the market.
 | Open architecture CEP technology allows plug and play Algo trading strategies deployed right into the trade engine, providing versatile automated solutions ranging from algorithmic order, price making, auto hedging, analytics and more. | | Our proprietary binary messaging protocol ensures the best performance in price aggregation and market access. | | Sophisticated real-time risk management is built right into the trade engine. | | Spark’s proprietary time series tick database offers the best of breed analytics. |
| Open architecture CEP technology allows plug and play Algo trading strategies deployed right into the trade engine, providing versatile automated solutions ranging from algorithmic order, price making, auto hedging, analytics and more. |
| Our proprietary binary messaging protocol ensures the best performance in price aggregation and market access. |
| Sophisticated real-time risk management is built right into the trade engine. |
| Spark’s proprietary time series tick database offers the best of breed analytics. |
Built-in risk control system
Our customised risk management solution is based on what our clients need, so we can negate your risk during the trading process.
When we first approached Taishin Bank, they were looking at cutting platforms instead of adding more.
We sat down with the Traders and the Risk team to discuss the problem, and eventually, developed a solution which will work, not only for them, but for the industry as a whole, based on best-practices.
Many of the existing platforms weren’t willing to develop something new.
 | Jason Wang Kee Huat, Chief Operations Officer |
Tailored to your business needs
We recognise that each customer is different. Our system is customisable and flexible to your unique workflow, with the aim to help improve your workflow efficiencies.
The existing vendor for a Singapore Bank had a poor track record of delivering on time and quality. There was an opportunity for us to build out some totally new features which their incumbent didn’t have.
We gladly took on the challenge, as it not only helped Spark build out unique features, it also helped prove our delivery capabilities, and more importantly, improved the efficiency for our client.
To date, not many platforms would be able to put together Primary Markets, direct LPs and ECNs, and still execute fairly based on the FX market’s unsaid rules of engagement, like not to hit a direct LP and a Primary Market at the same time.
 | Wong Joo Seng, Spark’s Chief Executive Officer |
Ultra-low latency
We’ve built our platform to keep up with fast market fluctuation without breaking or pausing. By eradicating non-efficiency, we’re directly helping traders to gain more trade opportunities.
Sparks’ API and technology are the best that I’ve come across, and I’d readily recommend banks, hedge funds and other financial institutions to leverage your expertise in delivering low latency access to the market.
Paul Liew, Quant Trader,
Phoenix Capital
Support from industry professionals
Our customer support agents are industry professionals with years of experience – they understand your business, your sales process, they will know right away to provide the right solution.
With multiple strategies across multiple portfolio managers, Spark has been able to cater to our unique needs.
The dedicated level of attention and technical expertise from Spark’s client service team has been a key driver of success in our relationship with the company.
 | Alain Kamagi, Managing Partner at UNTL on  |
Spark eFX Platform
Cutting edge systems designed for efficient access to FX liquidity and reduced trading costs.
- Ultra-Low Latency Aggregator
- Price Construction & Distribution
- Risk Control & Management
- White Labeling Your Brand
| Aggregate liquidity pool via GUI/ API with best execution |  |
| Well designed and intuitive interface |
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| High fill ratios with low market impact |
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| Product types supported: Spot, Forward, NDF, SWAP, NDF SWAP |
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| Wide range of order types and expiry |
| Define liquidity sources and depth by pricing groups |  |
| Easy configurable of spreads/ skew by currency pairs |
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| Synthetic cross creation and risk splitting |
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| Rule-based and Algo-Driven auto-hedging |
| Margin calculation and auto-closeout |  |
| Trading limits – NOP, ticket, counterparty |
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| Real-time risk control functions: Credit Limit and Fat Finger Limit |
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| Privileged user may set trading limit controls by Firm, Book, Ticket for traders |
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| Post trade analytics |
| Help client deliver pricing solution with their own branding |  |
| Customized trading experience |
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| Enhance client’s offering to their customers |
Ultra-Low Latency Aggregator
| Aggregate liquidity pool via GUI/ API with best execution. |
| Well designed and intuitive interface. |
| High fill ratios with low market impact. |
| Product types supported: Spot, Forward, NDF, SWAP, NDF SWAP. |
| Wide range of order types and expiry. |
Price Construction & Distribution
| Define liquidity sources and depth by pricing groups. |
| Easy configurable of spreads/ skew by currency pairs. |
| Synthetic cross creation and risk splitting. |
| Rule-based and Algo-Driven auto-hedging. |
Risk Control & Management
| Margin calculation and auto-closeout. |
| Trading limits – NOP, ticket, counterparty. |
| Real-time risk control functions: Credit Limit and Fat Finger Limit. |
| Privileged user may set trading limit controls by Firm, Book, Ticket for traders. |
| Post trade analytics. |
White Labeling Your Brand
| Help client deliver pricing solution with their own branding. |
| Customized trading experience. |
| Enhance client’s offering to their customers. |
Compare Spark Systems with traditional platforms
Traditional Platform
 | High rejection rates in volatile markets |
| Rigid legacy systems |
| Separate chargeable risk management options |
| High implied trading cost |
| Limited liquidity pool/ venue connectivity |
 | Improved fill ratios in volatile markets |
| Customised trading experience |
| Built in risk management tools |
| High trading returns through low market impact |
| Ability to aggregate broad variety of liquidity sources |
Developed by industry veterans
Our team of experts holds over a century of industry experience, and are available to provide unique insights, knowledge and expertise on how you can best build Spark into your workflow and implement our end-to-end FX trading solution.
FOUNDER & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
WONG JOO SENG
Wong Joo Seng is founder and CEO of Spark Systems. A company he conceptualised and started up in April 2016. Spark’s focus is on building the next generation of FX trading platforms that are ultra-fast, resilient, low latency and cost efficient. In addition to being a recipient of an MAS grant, Spark Systems also raised USD8.7 million in a Series A investment round (with venture capital as well as strategic investors) in 2017.
Joo Seng is also a Venture Capitalist and is a Venture Partner with both Vickers Venture Partners as well as an Investment Partner with True Global Ventures. Wong, Joo Seng is also co-founder of M-DAQ; Jan 2010 and the company’s founding Chairman (Non Executive). He assumed the role of Executive Chairman in Jan 2014 and led the company to a successful Series C investment round with a major e-commerce company in Nov 2015 with a valuation of $250 million.
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
YE TING SONG
Prior to Spark Systems, in 2013 Ting Song worked at “buy side” US hedge fund Pine River Capital Management in Hong Kong, where he designed and built from scratch a bespoke state-of-the-art algorithm electronic trading system, and managed intraday trade strategies and executions. Before his return to Asia in 2011, Ting Song has already built a distinguished career having worked in London for over 10 years.
He first entered the world of FX electronic trading in 2009, at Barclays Capital in London, where he was a senior quant developer for Barclay’s bespoke Algorithmic Trading System (BATS). The BATS team was responsible for providing automated pricing and electronic risk management for the award-winning Barclay’s FX e-commerce platform BARX – it was one of the top three single-dealer platforms in the world at the time.
CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER
JASON WANG KEE HUAT
As Chief Operations Officer at Spark Systems, Jason Wang is tasked to manage the day-to-day operations of the business, handle the upstream relationships with the liquidity providers on the platform as well as oversee the sales and marketing functions of the business. Jason has a long and illustrious career in FX and FX sales. He has joined Spark Systems from KGI Futures, where he was Head, Institutional Sales covering a vast geography including Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai, Korea, Japan, India and Australia.
Prior to that, he was the Head of FX Sales in Flextrade, covering a similar geography and targeting clients looking at FX Trading Solutions, White Label and FX Treasury Solutions. Before Flextrade, he was Vice President, Sales for Hotspot FX at Knight Capital Group focused on client acquisition and account management for the same wide reach and geography, promoting Hotspot FX’s ECN Liquidity.
FOUNDER & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
WONG JOO SENG
Wong Joo Seng is founder and CEO of Spark Systems. A company he conceptualised and co-founded in April 2016. Spark Systems’ focus is on building the next generation of FX trading platforms that are ultra-fast, low latency, resilient and cost efficient. The company is a recipient of an MAS FSTI grant.
Joo Seng is also a Venture Capitalist and is a Venture Partner with Vickers Venture Partners, an Investment Partner with True Global Ventures and a founding member of Vanda Global Capital.
Joo Seng is also co-founder of M-DAQ; Jan 2010 and the company’s founding Non Executive Chairman. He then assumed the role of Executive Chairman in Jan 2014 and led the company to a successful Series C investment round at a valuation of $250 million with a major e-commerce company in Nov 2015.
Prior to M-DAQ, Joo Seng was the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of G K Goh Financial Services (S) Private Ltd., (GKGFS) then a member firm of Singapore Exchange – Derivatives Trading (“SGX- DT”). GKGFS is the wholly owned securities & derivative brokerage and foreign exchange trading subsidiary of G K Goh Holdings Ltd; a Singapore listed company. He joined in 1998 and was instrumental in the start-up of the unit as its founding CEO, a role he continued in until his departure in Jan 2014 when he joined M-DAQ as Executive Chairman. In his time there, he grew GKGFS into one of the largest institutional foreign exchange trading houses in Asia.
Joo Seng started his career in 1987 in United Overseas Bank Singapore as a trader in Gold, Silver, Platinum over-the-counter Spot, Forwards and Options as well as exchange traded Futures and Options.
Thereafter he joined Republic National Bank of New York, Singapore; now part of the HSBC, as Vice President – Foreign Exchange & Precious Metals Options. At Republic National Bank of New York, he was responsible for interbank price-making and risk management of the bank’s foreign exchange and precious metal options portfolio in Asia, as part of a global options risk management team with centers in New York, London and Singapore.
He subsequently joined Bank of New Zealand in Wellington, New Zealand as Manager – Foreign Exchange Options where he was overall in charge of the currency options desk. His responsibilities included the strategic positioning of the bank’s global currency options portfolio and all price-making activities to both retail & institutional clients of the bank as well as to the interbank market at large.
He returned to Singapore to take up the position of Head of Treasury at TLB Bullion and Futures, the wholly owned derivative brokerage arm of Tat Lee Bank Singapore, prior to joining G K Goh to start up and run G K Goh Financial Services (S) Private Ltd.
Joo Seng holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Mathematics from the National University of Singapore. He is also a member of Mensa Singapore, the local chapter of Mensa International.
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
YE TING SONG
Prior to Spark Systems, in 2013 Ting Song worked at “buy side” US hedge fund Pine River Capital Management in Hong Kong, where he designed and built from scratch a bespoke state-of-the-art algorithm electronic trading system, and managed intraday trade strategies and executions.
He first entered the world of FX electronic trading in 2009, at Barclays Capital in London, where he was a senior quant developer for Barclay’s bespoke Algorithmic Trading System (BATS). The BATS team was responsible for providing automated pricing and electronic risk management for the award-winning Barclay’s FX e-commerce platform BARX – it was one of the top three single-dealer platforms in the world at the time.
Previous to Hong Kong, in 2011 he was a FX Algorithmic Trading Strategist at the “Sell Side” investment bank – JP Morgan, in Singapore, where he was responsible for developing the electronic pricing of Asian and NDF currencies on the bank’s e-commerce FX platform, including building and supporting the pricing infrastructure and auto risk management.
Before his return to Asia in 2011, Ting Song has already built a distinguished career having worked in London for over 10 years. He first entered the world of FX electronic trading in 2009, at Barclays Capital in London, where he was a senior quant developer for Barclay’s bespoke Algorithmic Trading System (BATS). The BATS team was responsible for providing automated pricing and electronic risk management for the award-winning Barclay’s FX e-commerce platform BARX – it was one of the top three single-dealer platforms in the world at the time.
Ting Song’s first crack at banking industry was at UBS in 2007, where he was associate director and led a team of high calibre developers to design and deliver a Java/Oracle-based enterprise data solution, as part of a high-profile bank-wide strategic integration framework initiative.
After his graduation from Trinity College, University of Cambridge with a degree in Computer Science in 2000, Ting Song started his career in telecoms during its boom in the early 2000s. He later moved into the consultancy industry and became technical architect and principal consultant with the boutique UK firm Detica, now BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, where he led technical teams and managed consultancy projects such as CASE Management System for the UK government and customer insight project for telecom company T-Mobile.
CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER
JASON WANG KEE HUAT
As Chief Operations Officer at Spark Systems, Jason Wang is tasked to manage the day-to-day operations of the business, handle the upstream relationships with the liquidity providers on the platform as well as oversee the sales and marketing functions of the business.
Jason has a long and illustrious career in FX and FX sales. He has joined Spark Systems from KGI Futures, where he was Head, Institutional Sales covering a vast geography including Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai, Korea, Japan, India and Australia. Prior to that, he was the Head of FX Sales in Flextrade, covering a similar geography and targeting clients looking at FX Trading Solutions, White Label and FX Treasury Solutions.
Before Flextrade, he was Vice President, Sales for Hotspot FX at Knight Capital Group focused on client acquisition and account management for the same wide reach and geography, promoting Hotspot FX’s ECN Liquidity. Clients included Hedge Funds, Bank Trading Desk and Broker Dealers. He was also responsible for strategic alliances between Prime Brokers and other FX trading platforms.
Prior to Flextrade, Jason was with Standard Chartered Bank in Advanced Channel Solution Sales. Other institutions that Jason has worked with include Saxo Capital Markets, Barclays and Accenture where he was the integration and interface team lead for the IRAS (Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore) Project, one of the biggest NET project in Asia.
Jason holds a Bachelor of Computing with Merit from the National University of Singapore.
KEY TEAM MEMBERS
Ashley Koh
COO (Strategy and Operations)
Chin Shi Mei
CFO (Chief Financial Officer)
Goh Boon Yam
Head of Sales
Patrick Ng
Head of Client Services
Lee Piau
Project Director
Low Han Tah
IT Infrastructure Lead
ADVISORS
Alain Kamagi
Advisor
Mervyn Fong
Advisor
ADVISOR
ALAIN KAMAGI
Alain is Managing Partner at UNTL, a leading global capital markets expert specializing in foreign exchange. The firm was founded by professionals with over 35 years of combined foreign exchange and capital markets experience in major financial institutions.
Prior to co-founding UNTL, Alain was Managing Director at HSBC Bank U.S.A., where he established and led a team which covered Central Banks, Foreign Pension Funds, Multinational Corporations, Hedge Funds, Proprietary Desks and Family Offices. In that role, he also assembled and spearheaded a multi-product team responsible for cross selling FX and Fixed Income products to international institutional and family office clientele.
Alain graduated from the University of Houston with a BA in Finance and possesses an MBA from the C.T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston.
ADVISOR
MERVYN FONG
Mervyn has had a distinguished career spanning over 36 years with leading financial institutions and industry associations. As an Advisory Board Member of Spark Systems, Mervyn brings extensive knowledge in investment banking, treasury & capital markets origination, structuring, sales & trading, and strategic management, making him a valuable resource to Spark System’s operations.
Mervyn is also an Independent Non-Executive Director of Keppel REIT Management Limited and the Manager of SGX listed Keppel REIT. He serves as a member of the Audit & Risk Committee, and Nominating & Remuneration Committee.
He started his career at London-based Samuel Montagu & Co Limited as a merchant banker. Following its acquisition by the HSBC Group, Mervyn moved to HSBC where he would eventually spend a total of 26 years holding various senior management positions including Managing Director and Head of Treasury and Capital Markets. From the firm’s regional hub in Singapore, he was responsible for HSBC’s trading, sales, treasury and capital market operations. Although he retired from HSBC in 2008, Mervyn rejoined the HSBC Group in 2016 as an Independent Non-Executive Director and Chairman of the Board Risk Committee at HSBC Bank (Singapore) Limited.
After retiring from HSBC in 2008, Mervyn spent the next decade as the Managing Director of ACI Singapore; the industry association for financial markets professionals in Singapore. He also served on the Global Council, Committee for Professionalism, and Board of Education of ACI – The Financial Markets Association, the largest wholesale financial markets industry association representing ACI members from over 60 countries. Mervyn was also a past Chairman of the Singapore Investment Banking Association.
Apart from his professional career, Mervyn serves actively as a member of the Executive Board and Vice Chairman of the Board of Finance of the Trinity Annual Conference (TRAC), representing the 21 English churches in the Methodist Church in Singapore.
Mervyn graduated from the University of Birmingham with a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) and also holds an MBA from the National University of Singapore.
PRESS
Spark Systems in the Media
Goldman-Backed FX Platform Clinches HSBC, Citigroup Funding
BLOOMBERG, 15 MAY 2020
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Citi, HSBC back Singapore fintech startup Spark in $10.5m round
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Singapore-based Spark System, a tech-enabled trading platform, today announced the first close of its series…
Singapore-based forex platform clinches HSBC, Citigroup funding
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Helping doctors make faster and better decisions
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Citi launched a pricing engine that cuts the time it takes to route a trade between Singapore to Tokyo…
Young guns fire up Singapore industries
THE BUSINESS TIMES, 4 OCT 2019
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Adding a spark to forex trading
THE BUSINESS TIMES, 18 SEP 2019
From a little spark may burst a flame, as the saying goes. For Spark Systems, that is exactly the point…
Wong Joo Seng, Jason Wang & Ye Tingsong, Spark Systems
MONEY FM, 18 SEP 2019
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BLOOMBERG, 16 SEP 2019
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S'pore aims to cut sub-second lag to boost forex trading
THE STRAITS TIMES, 26 APR 2019
Singapore is grabbing a sub-second opportunity to win a bigger slice of the world’s US$5.1 trillion (S$7 trillion) a day foreign exchange market…
Shaving milliseconds off currency trades could make Singapore billions
THE BUSINESS TIMES, 25 APR 2019
Singapore is grabbing a sub-second opportunity to win a bigger slice of the world’s US$5.1 trillion-a-day foreign exchange market…
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INFRA ENGINEER – DC
Singapore | Fulltime
Seeing the challenges of Foreign Exchange (FX) today with high latency, rejection rates, fragmented marketplace and outdated technology, Spark Systems sets out to build a robust trading platform designed for low-latency access to worldwide FX liquidity with smart algorithmic execution, reducing trading costs for our clients. We are also delivering our next-generation automated data-driven decision tools to help our clients discover market opportunities with the deep tech and data analytics we have on our platform.
Infra Engineer role is to manage the servers and storages in Spark Systems Data Centers, as an Infra Engineer, you will be responsible for monitoring, troubleshooting and automating infrastructure tasks and operating systems to ensure system health and efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Provision & commissioning & maintaining on premises, virtualized infra or on cloud.
- Troubleshooting server, network, storage and relevant infra stack.
- Assisting senior to analyze & harden the security fixes and updates of infrastructure firmware in term of security and regulatory compliant.
- Automating system tasks for system efficiency and lower the human intervention time.
- Participate in the design of information and operational support systems.
- Liaise with vendors and other functional team for problem resolution.
- Infrastructure related change management and incident management
- Manage and ensure all production equipment and technologies are monitored using Nagios, Cacti, SmokePing & etc.
- PC Troubleshooting, deployment and Asset Management for Internal Users.
Educational Background & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject.
- 1 – 2 years’ experience in infrastructure technology field.
Required Skills
- Knowledge on DNS, DHCP , NFS, Kerberos, SNMP , SMTP , LDAP , NTP , HTTP/S, TLS, Proxy and Load Balancers setup
- Knowledge on Data center equipment, server, switches, NGFW & proxies
- Knowledge on virtual environments with the use of VMware (Vsphere 6.7 or later)
- Knowledge of Scripting (Shell/Bash, Yaml / Python)
- Basic networking knowledge (OSI network layers, TCP/IP, NAT)
- Basic understanding on packet capture tools like tcpdump & Wireshark for troubleshooting server network issues.
- Experience with servers and network monitoring including but not limited to [Nagios XI, Cacti, SmokePing].
- Basic knowledge on Cloud Technologies including Amazon Web Services including but are not limited to [EC2, S3, CloudFront, Directory Service, IAM, SES, Kinesis, LightSail]
Preferred Traits
- Ability to develop clear, concise documentations.
- Team player but also able to work independently
- Active and keen learner who keeps up to date with industry trends
Interested candidates, please send your resume to hr@sparksystems.sg and indicate the job title in subject field.
INFRA ENGINEER – LINUX
Singapore | Fulltime
Seeing the challenges of Foreign Exchange (FX) today with high latency, rejection rates, fragmented marketplace and outdated technology, Spark Systems sets out to build a robust trading platform designed for low-latency access to worldwide FX liquidity with smart algorithmic execution, reducing trading costs for our clients. We are also delivering our next-generation automated data-driven decision tools to help our clients discover market opportunities with the deep tech and data analytics we have on our platform.
Infra Engineer role is to manage the servers and storages in Spark Systems Data Centers, as an Infra Engineer, you will be responsible for monitoring, troubleshooting and automating infrastructure tasks and operating systems to ensure system health and efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Provision & commissioning client’s virtual instances, on premises or on cloud.
- Troubleshooting Linux, Windows, network and relevant infra stack.
- Assisting senior to analyze & harden the security fixes and updates of infrastructure firmware in term of security and regulatory compliant.
- Automating system tasks for system efficiency and lower the human intervention time.
- Participate in the design of information and operational support systems.
- Liaise with vendors and other functional team for problem resolution.
- Infrastructure related change management and incident management
- Manage and ensure all production equipment and technologies are monitored using Nagios, Cacti, SmokePing & etc.
- PC Troubleshooting, deployment and Asset Management for Internal Users.
Educational Background & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject.
- 1 – 2 years’ experience in infrastructure technology field. Preferably Linux, Ansible automation.
Required Skills
- Knowledge on DNS, DHCP , NFS, Kerberos, SNMP , SMTP , LDAP , NTP , HTTP/S, TLS, Proxy and Load Balancers setup.
- Knowledge on Linux troubleshooting
- Knowledge on virtual environments with the use of VMware (Vsphere 6.7 or later)
- Knowledge of Scripting (Shell/Bash, Yaml / Python) for infrastructure automation
- Basic understanding on packet capture tools like tcpdump & Wireshark for troubleshooting server network issues.
- Basic networking knowledge (OSI network layers, TCP/IP, NAT)
- Experience with servers and network monitoring including but not limited to [Nagios XI, Cacti, SmokePing].
- Basic knowledge on Cloud Technologies including Amazon Web Services including but are not limited to [EC2, S3, CloudFront, Directory Service, IAM, SES, Kinesis, LightSail]
- Good to have knowledge in Ansible, SSH, High Availability clustering, Elastic Search
Preferred Traits
- Ability to develop clear, concise documentations.
- Team player but also able to work independently
- Active and keen learner who keeps up to date with industry trends
Interested candidates, please send your resume to hr@sparksystems.sg and indicate the job title in subject field.
SENIOR WEB DEVELOPER
Singapore | Fulltime
Seeing the challenges of Foreign Exchange (FX) today with high latency, rejection rates, fragmented marketplace and outdated technology, Spark Systems sets out to build a robust trading platform designed for low-latency access to worldwide FX liquidity with smart algorithmic execution, reducing trading costs for our clients. We are also delivering our next-generation automated data-driven decision tools to help our clients discover market opportunities with the deep tech and data analytics we have on our platform.
We are seeking a Senior Web Developer to play a lead role in design and development of the Web UI architecture for our low latency, high performance electronic trading system.
Responsibilities
- Successful candidates will lead the initial build out by working closely with server-side development team to build a new Web UI.
- To work closely with Sales and BAs on functional requirement, planning and solutioning
Who We are Seeking
- Degree educated in an Engineering or Computer Science related subject.
- Minimum 10 years of experience working across frontend technology stack in financial trading environment.
- Strong full stack web development experience with JavaScript, HTML/CSS/SCSS, NodeJS, Angular/React/Vue, REST API, SQL databases.
- Experience of developing high-performance, real-time web trading application.
- Competent in low latency, performance and scalability design.
- Familiar with security framework such as JWT, Token authentication (OAuth).
- Knowledge on Java would be advantageous.
- Knowledge in development lifecycle and build tools such as Git, Maven, Jira, Jenkins.
- Working knowledge of Linux / UNIX, bash or Perl or scripting skills.
- Independent, good work ethics, resourceful and problem solver, being able to gain initiative, work independently and produce high quality solution.
Interested candidates, please send your resume to hr@sparksystems.sg and indicate the job title in subject field.
PROJECT/DELIVERY MANAGER
Singapore | Fulltime
Seeing the challenges of Foreign Exchange (FX) today with high latency, rejection rates, fragmented marketplace and outdated technology, Spark Systems sets out to build a robust trading platform designed for low-latency access to worldwide FX liquidity with smart algorithmic execution, reducing trading costs for our clients. We are also delivering our next-generation automated data-driven decision tools to help our clients discover market opportunities with the deep tech and data analytics we have on our platform.
Scope & Responsibilities
- Manage and track multiple project implementations, ensure project goals are achieved in term of timeline, scope, budget and quality.
- Ensure the project requirements, scope, milestones, dependencies and risks are well defined and manage all change requests.
- Document management – analyze and write clear and concise functional requirements with supporting use cases, with proper sign off and effective change and version control.
- Drive day to day operational aspects of project management –this includes driving prioritization process, tracking tasks assigned to teams, delivery coordination to meet project schedule, quality and budget.
- Establish sync points with internal teams, external vendors and clients to meet project delivery timeline.
- Actively monitor and communicate timely project status updates to all stakeholders, effectively managing issue escalation throughout the project lifecycle.
- Experience in collaborating and supporting cross-functional teams (sales, engineering, dev-ops etc) and multiple stakeholders to ensure efficient and timely delivery of projects.
- Reduce dependencies, remove blockers and co-ordinate seamlessly with all stakeholders.
Required Skills
- 4-8 years IT business analyst and/or project management experience within the financial services industry.
- Business knowledge of Foreign Exchange (FX) or other financial asset classes is a plus. Good understanding of FX trade cycle from market data, order entry, trade execution, to trade confirmation and settlement.
- Familiarity and extensive background with project management tools and methodologies. Knowledge of Jira and Confluence is a plus.
- Comprehensive understanding of end-to-end software development lifecycle. Good understanding of Agile values, principles, processes and methods.
- Effective (written and verbal) communication and negotiation skills, expertise in managing stakeholder expectations.
- Strong team player who can manage cross functional processes and timelines.
Interested candidates, please send your resume to hr@sparksystems.sg and indicate the job title in subject field.
ANDROID DEVELOPER
Singapore | Fulltime
Seeing the challenges of FX today with high latency and rejection rates, fragmented marketplace and outdated technology, Spark Systems sets out to build a robust trading platform designed for low-latency access to worldwide FX liquidity with smart algorithmic execution, reducing trading costs for our clients. We are also delivering our next-generation automated data-driven decision tools to help our clients discover market opportunities with the deep tech and data analytics we have on our platform.
Responsibilities
- Successful candidates will be part of our mobile development team.
- Design and develop Forex trading application on mobile.
- Translate requirements and become domain expert on UX (User Experience)
- Improve the existing codebase and develop new products.
Who we are seeking
- Degree educated in an Engineering subject, Computer Science
- Has experience to deliver/maintain native Android application in Java/Kotlin with Android Studio
- Has understanding on Android application architecture and UI framework to deliver reusable codebase and scalable application
- Fast-learner, able to research on his/her own through self-study
- Good work ethics, resourceful and problem solver
Interested candidates, please send your resume to hr@sparksystems.sg and indicate the job title in subject field.
SENIOR JAVA DEVELOPER
Singapore | Fulltime
Responsibilities
- Build best in class low latency, high performance electronic trading system.
- Develop distributed and scalable solution for market connectivity gateways using FIX or other financial protocol in a very low latency environment/
- Continuous improving tools for performance tracking, monitoring and reporting on suit of trading applications.
- Communication with sales and clients about new feature requirement and participate in solutioning.
Educational Background and Experience
- Degree educated in an Engineering subject
- Minimum 5 years of server side core java development experience
Required Skills
- Advanced programing knowledge in Core Java and multithreading
- Competent in low latency, high performance server side development
- Knowledge with FIX or other financial transaction protocols
- Knowledge in development lifecycle and build tools such as Git, Maven, Jira, Jenkins etc
- Knowledge in open source libraries and frameworks such as Spring framework, apache commons, Disruptor etc
- Working knowledge of Linux / UNIX, bash or Perl or scripting skills
- Working knowledge of SQL databases, queries and stored procedures
- Self-starter, good work ethics, resourceful and problem solver, being able to gain initiative, work independently and produce high quality solution
Additional Requirements
- Knowledge of financial markets and financial transactions such as Forex, Equities, Futures
- Skilled in high performance, low latency java development
Interested candidates, please send your resume to hr@sparksystems.sg and indicate the job title in subject field.
SOFTWARE QA ENGINEER
Singapore | Fulltime
Seeing the challenges of FX today with high latency and rejection rates, fragmented marketplace and outdated technology, Spark Systems sets out to build a robust trading platform designed for low-latency access to worldwide FX liquidity with smart algorithmic execution, reducing trading costs for our clients. We are also delivering our next-generation automated data-driven decision tools to help our clients discover market opportunities with deep tech and data analytics developed on our platform.
Job Overview
- Involved in the whole development life cycle
- Test case design and planning
- Perform Manual testing
- Bug analysis and tracking
- Setting up and maintenance of a testing environment
- Continuous improvement of the testing process and testing quality and efficiency
Educational Background and Experience
- Bachelor degree or above in engineering, computer science or other related fields
- At least 2-3 years of working experience in software test development
Required Skills
- Have a deep understanding of Manual test methodologies and principles
- Proficient in test procedures and test case design methods can take the initiative to technical research
- Highly Experienced with testing tools such as Jira, TestRail, Git, TestNG, CI/CD pipelines, etc
- Strong logical thinking ability, negotiation ability, and conflict management ability;
- Good at teamwork, understand and adapt to changes, take results and actions as the criterion, and strive for success.
Additional Requirements
- Familiar with Linux or Unix operating system
- Familiar with at least one programming language such as C/C++/Java
- Familiar with at least one UI automation framework
- Familiar with FIX message
- Experiences in database and SQL
Interested candidates, please send your resume to hr@sparksystems.sg and indicate the job title in subject field.
GUI DEVELOPER
Singapore | Fulltime
Develop top grade trading application GUI connected to backend trading engine with the state-of-art in-house built transport protocol, for front office trading desks.
- Develop UI tools/dashboards to track performance, provide first-level analysis, visualizing, monitoring and reporting for suite of server-side applications
- Extensive experience in developing application front-end GUIs, thick clients.
- Strong UI programming skills in Java or C#
- Proficient in one or more GUI development frameworks such as WPF, Swing or Java FX
- Solid knowledge of MVVM design patterns and other client-server design patterns
- Highly skilled in developing responsive and interactive applications
- Experiencing in any of modern web framework is a plus.
- Proficient in CSS style sheets for customizing UI elements
- Good understanding of object-oriented Analysis and Design
Interested candidates, please send your resume to hr@sparksystems.sg and indicate the job title in subject field.
GRADUATE DEVELOPER
Singapore | Johor Bahru, Malaysia | Fulltime
Seeing the challenges of FX today with high latency and rejection rates, fragmented marketplace and outdated technology, Spark Systems sets out to build a robust trading platform designed for low-latency access to worldwide FX liquidity with smart algorithmic execution, reducing trading costs for our clients. We are also delivering our next-generation automated data-driven decision tools to help our clients discover market opportunities with the deep tech and data analytics we have on our platform.
As a Graduate Developer, you will gain first-hand knowledge to cutting edge and class leading technology for financial trading solutions; receive on the job coaching from senior members of the team; gain Forex market knowledge.
Responsibilities
- Successful candidates will grow into one or more of the following roles:
- Develop distributed and scalable server side solution for the core trade engine and its components, become low latency/high-performance programming expert
- Develop top grade trading GUI application on multiple platforms (Desktop, Web and Mobile), become domain expert on UX (User Experience)
- Manage and support network and infrastructure catered for high performance distributed trading applications
- Assist new client onboarding and support client operation, gain firsthand knowledge with FX trading business
Who are we seeking
- Degree educated in an Engineering subject, Computer Science
- Numerical training with an analytical mindset
- Passionate about programming or technology in general
- Fast-learner, able to research on his/her own through self-study
- Good work ethics, resourceful and problem solver
Interested candidates, please send your resume to hr@sparksystems.sg and indicate the job title in subject field.
