Ultra-low Latency Aggregator & eFX Solution Platform that grows with your ambition

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.

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 currently serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee for both Mizuho Securities Asia Limited and Mizuho Securities (Singapore) Pte Ltd. In addition, he is also an Independent Director of Keppel REIT Management Limited, and the manager of SGX-listed Keppel REIT, where he serves as a member of the Audit & Risk Committee, Nominating & Remuneration Committee and ESG 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 from 2016 to 2022 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.

ADVISOR

ASHLEY KOH

Ashley was COO at Spark Systems looking after end-to-end business and technology operations, before co-founding a fund management business. Prior to Spark Systems, she was General Manager and Chief of Staff at MatchMove Pay, to kick start and build their cross-border money transfer business on MatchMove‘s banking-as-a-service platform. She also represented the FinTech sector as part of Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)’s Direct FAST and PayNow Working Group. Her first foray into FinTech was as Chief Product Officer and Group COO at M-DAQ Global, a FX startup that was majority invested by Ant Financial at $250 million valuation, to power real-time foreign exchange conversion for cross-border eCommerce.

Ashley started her career in New York City with JP Morgan in their e-FX sales and trading team, before joining the world’s largest fund manager BlackRock to build up their enterprise trading platform (Aladdin) for FX asset class as Product Director.

Ashley holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Statistics from the National University of Singapore, and an MBA from Central Michigan University.

BUSINESS ANALYST

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. We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Business Analyst to join our dynamic team in the eFX domain.

As a Business Analyst, you will play a critical role in analyzing business needs, designing solutions, and ensuring seamless integration of our platform with our end clients

• Conduct thorough analysis of user requirements, business processes, systems, and workflows to identify areas for development, integration, and improvement.
• Facilitate requirements workshops to engage various stakeholders such as front office, middle office, back office, compliance etc. to ensure delivery meets business needs.
• Create comprehensive documentation, including business requirements, functional specifications, process flows, and user guides.
• Engage external and internal stakeholders to meet project timeline - primarily client users, sales, engineering, and QA teams, working closely to resolve issues and ensure effective and efficient implementation.
• Work closely with development teams to ensure the successful implementation of solutions, including testing and troubleshooting.
• Participate and drive user and functional acceptance testing and contribute to problem resolution, tracking, escalation, and defect closure. Lead and manage issues during UAT to ensure all defects are tracked to closure.
• Provide training and support to end-users and stakeholders on new systems and processes.

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems/Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
• Minimum 5-7 years IT business analyst and project management experience within the banking industry, preferably with Bank eFX system experience
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a keen attention to detail.
• Proven experience in client-facing roles, with excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Strong understanding of banking systems, integration technologies, and data management principles. Extensive experience with bank integration projects involving systems such as risk management system, post trade/STP system, trade reconciliation etc.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team-oriented environment.
• Ability to work independently and multi-task in a fast-paced environment as well as adapting to changing priorities in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Business knowledge of Forex or other financial asset classes is a plus. Good understanding of Foreign Exchange (FX) products and trade process such as trade entry, confirmation, and settlement.
• Familiar with Agile Scrum, principles, processes, and methods such as iterative and incremental development, continuous integration, test-driven development, unit testing, code refactoring and Scrum ceremonies. Knowledge of Jira Tracking Tool is a plus.

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.

• 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.

ACCOUNT MANAGER

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.

• Build and maintain strong relationship with institutional clients and seek to understand their requirements and feedback any gaps back to internal product teams.
• Be the main contact of clients and collaborate with internal departments to ensure successful client’s experience. Ensure successful onboarding of new clients and train new users, with the goal of increasing the client usage and trading volume on the platform, and revenue.
• Work closely with internal teams to help product development focus on client and market needs.
• Monitors competition by gathering current marketplace information on pricing, new products, etc.
• Assist with client acquisition process by coordinating requirements, integrating contract requirements with business operations.
• As part of the Sales team, prepare and maintain Marketing Collaterals (powerpoints, brochures)
• Conduct testing of new features to ensure product quality, and that the product satisfy client use cases.
• Collaborate with Liquidity Provider and partners of the company, to deliver a wholesome service to our clients.

Educational Background and Experiences

• Bachelor’s Degree in any subject

Required Skills and Experiences

• Knowledge of Foreign Exchange and International Financial Markets
• Must be able to read, speak and write Mandarin and English fluently
• Passionate about financial technology in general
• Fast-learner, able to research on his/her own through self-study
• Good work ethics, resourceful and problem solver
• Strong communication and attention to detail

Interested candidates, please send your resume to hr@sparksystems.sg and indicate the job title in subject field.

Software Developer Engineer in Test (SDET)

Singapore | Fulltime

We are seeking an experienced SDET to help deliver the test automation framework for our FX products:

• Design and implement test automation framework using proven techniques and tools
• Integrate the test automation framework to our CI/CD pipelines
• Provide leadership and guidance on developing automated tests to other testers
• Work as part of the Scrum team together with the developers and testers to deliver high quality deliverables
• Good coding skills and capable of producing easy to read and maintainable code
• Excellent testing skills including test planning, creating test cases and even manual testing if required
• Ability to extend test automation framework and tools to cover different platforms including low latency FX platform (FIX API), desktop GUI, mobile and web

Educational Background and experience

• Degree educated in an Engineering or Computer Science related subject
• 3+ years of experience in delivering and maintaining automated tests and test frameworks
• Have worked as a software developer previously
• Experience in setting up test automation frameworks from scratch

Required Skills and experiences

• Experience with QA concepts and methodology
• Knowledge of industry standard test automation tools/frameworks such as (but not limited to) Robot Framework, Cypress, Cucumber and etc. and experience in developing test harnesses
• A good developer in Java with good understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and capable of writing clean, good quality and maintainable code
• Knowledge in development lifecycle and build tools such as Git, Maven, Jira, Jenkins
• Working knowledge of Linux / UNIX, bash or Perl or scripting skills such as Python
• Working knowledge of SQL databases, queries and stored procedures
• People leadership and mentoring experience
• Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem-solving skills

Interested candidates, please send your resume to hr@sparksystems.sg and indicate the job title in subject field.

JAVA DEVELOPER

Singapore | Fulltime

• 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 2 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.

SENIOR QA ENGINEER

Singapore | Fulltime

As a Senior QA Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the quality of our software products. You will be responsible for designing and implementing test strategies, conducting comprehensive testing, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve quality issues. This role requires a strong technical background, extensive knowledge of quality assurance methodologies, and the ability to lead and mentor junior QA engineers.

Key Responsibility

• Collaborate with product managers and development teams to define comprehensive test strategies for software projects.
• Identify test objectives, scope, and success criteria.
• Develop test plans and test cases based on project requirements and technical specifications.
• Perform manual testing as needed, including exploratory testing, functional testing, and user acceptance testing.
• Execute test cases and document test results, defects, and issues.
• Set up and maintain test environments, including configurations, databases, and third-party integrations.
• Manage test data and ensure data integrity for testing purposes.
• Define and enforce quality assurance best practices and processes within the team.
• Document and track defects using issue tracking systems (e.g., JIRA).
• Work with the project management and development team to prioritize and resolve defects in a timely manner.
• Plan, execute, and analyze performance tests to identify bottlenecks and optimize software performance.
• Recommend improvements and optimizations based on performance test results.
• Generate test reports and provide clear, concise documentation of test cases and results.
• Communicate quality status and issues to stakeholders.
• Lead and mentor junior QA engineers, providing guidance and support in test planning, execution, and automation. Lead and mentor junior QA engineers, providing guidance and support in test planning, execution, and automation.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven experience as a QA engineer, with a focus on test automation.
• Strong programming skills in languages such as Java, Python, or C#.
• Extensive experience with test automation frameworks and tools.
• In-depth knowledge of software testing methodologies, best practices, and industry standards.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and integration with automated testing.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, agile development environment.
• Prior experience with performance testing and security testing is a plus.
• Familiarity with regulatory compliance in the financial industry is a plus.
• Knowledge in FIX APIs, including order execution, trade confirmations, and market data feeds is a big plus.

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.

SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER

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.

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.

Scope & Responsibilities

• Develop subject matter expertise on eFX products, with deep understanding of all drivers for revenue and cost in order to maintain a competitive product.
• Assist sales and account management in developing client facing marketing materials to educate both internal team members and external clients.
• Work with business users and sales/account management to elicit and validate business requirements for both new product requests and change requests.
• Analyze user requirements and identify gaps within the system and translate them into functional and technical specifications.
• Facilitate requirements workshops to engage various stakeholders such as front office, middle office, back office, compliance etc. to ensure product/features meet end-to-end business and regulatory needs.
• Document management – clear and concise requirements ensuring input from all relevant parties, with proper sign off and effective change and version control.
• Work with project manager to drive day to day operational aspects of product delivery – this includes driving prioritization process, tracking tasks assigned to teams, delivery coordination to meet project schedule, quality and budget.
• Engage external and internal stakeholders to meet project delivery timeline - primarily client users, sales, engineering and QA teams, working closely with all to ensure efficient and effective implementation.
• Support user acceptance testing with clients and assisting with post implementation support to ensure production process is stable before handing off to client services team. s

Required Skills

• 5-7 years product management and/or project management experience within the Finance industry.
• Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or related discipline.
• Business knowledge of Forex or other financial asset classes is a plus. Good understanding of Foreign Exchange (FX) products and trade processes such as order management system, execution management system and trade confirmation and settlement.
• Strong written and verbal communication, including technical writing skills.
• Ability to work independently and multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
• Proactive personality with good analytical and organization skills.
• Familiar with Agile values, principles, processes and methods such as iterative and incremental development, continuous integration, test-driven development, unit testing, code refactoring and Scrum ceremonies. Knowledge of Jira Tracking Tool is a plus.

Interested candidates, please send your resume to hr@sparksystems.sg and indicate the job title in subject field.

CLIENT SERVICE SPECIALIST

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 – Client Services Specialist (Rotating Shifts: Afternoon Shift: 2pm to 11pm or Overnight Shift: 10:30pm to 7:30am)

We are looking for a Client Services Specialist within our energetic startup team. This is a fantastic opportunity to play an integral role in delivering unparalleled customer service to our clients. An ideal candidate is someone who exhibits great personality, strong passion for customer success and continuous improvement on customer service. This role will suit an individual who loves to build client relations and deliver exceptional customer service.

Responsibilities

• Perform daily system health checks.
• Provide 1st and 2nd level technical and functional support for client queries and issues over phone and email.
• Research problems thoroughly, test solutions and make recommendations to clients.
• React to critical issues on a timely basis i.e. troubleshoot, investigate and escalate (if necessary) issues and create or apply appropriate solutions to immediate issues.
• Troubleshoot problems across a wide range of technical skills including Unix, SQL, XML, FIX and Java.
• Provide assistance in our product and explaining processes in accordance with internal procedures.
• Provide project management for onboarding of (i) Client setups and (ii) Bank connections.
• Provide weekend support for deployment and post-checks.
• Configure demo environments for sales.
• Maintain awareness of relevant technical and product trends with self-learning and job shadowing.
• Work across teams to continually provide feedback, improve product, and drive future innovation.

Required

• Able and willing to work on night shifts and public holidays
• Experience working in a Technical Support environment with excellent customer service skills.
• Basic understanding of FX market and/or a desire to learn FX.
• Ability to communicate effectively and professionally, both verbally and in writing with customers and colleagues at all levels of technical and non-technical skill sets.
• Knowledge on UNIX command line, SQL or Java programming is a plus.

Qualifications

• Minimum Diploma in Computer Studies or related discipline.
• Basic knowledge of Linux environment.
• At least 2 years of experience in support related fields is required.
• Knowledge of FX is a strongly preferred. If not, knowledge in other financial asset class is helpful.
• A positive and helpful attitude to serve customers and assist colleagues.
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize and deliver in a mission critical / time pressured environment.
• Someone who is undeterred and would not give up easily.
• Proactive with good analytical and organization skills.
• Positive work attitude, motivated and resilient in tough situations.
• A drive to learn and master new technologies and techniques.

Interested candidates, please send your resume to hr@sparksystems.sg and indicate the job title in subject field.

iOS App Developer

Singapore | Fulltime

Responsibilities

• Develop top grade trading iOS application connected to backend trading engine.
• Implement mechanism to monitor iOS application performance and continuously improve existing implementation and user experience.
• Gain first-hand knowledge of cutting-edge and class-leading technology for financial trading solutions.
• This role is on-site Singapore-based.

Educational Background and Experience

• Degree educated in an Engineering subject
• 1+ years of mobile development experience

Educational Background and Experience

• Degree educated in an Engineering subject
• 1+ years of mobile development experience

Language

• English

Required Skills and experiences

• Proficient in iOS application development
• Strong UI programming skills with SwiftUI and UIKit
• Knowledge of iOS application design principles and application interface
• Understanding on mobile application architecture to deliver reusable codebase and scalable application
• Having understanding/experience in hybrid mobile app is a plus
• Highly skilled in developing responsive and interactive applications
• Familiar with code versioning tools, eg. Git
• Familiarity with push notifications, APIs and cloud messaging
• Self-starter, good work ethics, being able to gain initiative, work independently and produce high quality solutions
• Trading system UI development experience and knowledge of financial industry is desired

Interested candidates, please send your resume to hr@sparksystems.sg and indicate the job title in subject field.

QA ENGINEER

Singapore | Fulltime

As a QA Engineer, you will work closely with the QA team to test and verify the quality of software applications and products. You will be responsible for identifying, reporting, and helping to resolve defects, as well as ensuring that the software meets specified requirements and functions properly.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with senior QA engineers and developers to understand project requirements and create detailed test plans and test cases.
• Execute test cases and record test results, ensuring comprehensive coverage of the software's features and functionality.
• Identify and document software defects, including clear and detailed bug reports. Work with the development team to resolve issues.
• Conduct regression testing to ensure that previously identified issues have been fixed and that new changes have not introduced new defects.
• Learn and work with automated testing tools and frameworks to improve test efficiency and coverage.
• Maintain and update test documentation, including test cases, test scripts, and test data.
• Provide regular status updates and test progress reports to the QA team and project stakeholders.
• Collaborate with developers, product managers, and other team members to address quality concerns and ensure the successful delivery of high-quality software.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies in quality assurance and testing.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field is preferred.
• Knowledge of software testing principles and methodologies.
• Familiarity with programming languages, databases, and relevant testing tools.
• Proficient in one of the Programming Language such as Python, Java or C++
• Familiarity with software development processes and lifecycle.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
• Attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality results.
• Basic understanding of test automation tools is a plus.
• Eagerness to learn and grow in the field of quality assurance.

Interested candidates, please send your resume to hr@sparksystems.sg and indicate the job title in subject field.