Overview
Kotak Institutional Equities (KIE) is a market-leading institutional research and broking platform in India, recognized for its strong fundamentals-driven research, deep sector coverage, and long-standing institutional relationships. KIE, a Kotak Mahindra Group company, leverages strong analytics, corporate access, and advanced technology platforms to drive research, analytics, and client engagement at scale. The firm is known for its independent approach, excellent governance, and skill at turning complex data into practical investment advice. KIE offers a high-performance environment that values intellectual rigor, innovation, and collaboration across research, markets, and technology.
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated FIX Client Onboarding Engineer to join our Institutional Equities technology team. The successful candidate will play a key role in onboarding institutional clients to our electronic and algorithmic trading platforms, ensuring seamless integration via FIX protocol and internal connectivity solutions such as UL Link.



This role requires strong technical expertise in trading systems, Java technologies, and up-to-date CI/CD practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Support FIX client onboarding for institutional equities trading, including configuration, testing, certification, and production rollout.
- Implement and support connectivity using UL Link and FIX protocol for electronic and algorithmic trading systems.
- Work closely with clients, trading desks, product teams, and vendors to ensure smooth onboarding and integration.
- Troubleshoot connectivity, order flow, and execution issues across electronic and algorithmic trading platforms.
- Develop and enhance onboarding tools, automation, and integration components using Java.
- Collaborate with development and Dev Ops teams to deploy, monitor, and maintain systems using CI/CD pipelines.
- Participate in release management, testing, and deployment activities.
- Monitor system performance, s

📌 Fix client onboarding engineer (Mumbai)
🏢 Kotak Securities
📍 Mumbai