Senior Java Developer (E-Trading)

Location: New York City, New York Duration: 6+ Months

Project Description: This is a unique opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a greenfield development project to design and develop a low-latency, electronic trading platform for interest rate swaps, US treasuries and futures. In this role, you will interact directly with trading, quantitative, compliance and risk, and IT functions to deliver new trading capabilities and services leveraging modern technologies and data & software architectures.

Responsibilities:

• Hands on Senior Java Developer with over 5 years of enterprise development experience
• Work with multiple business teams including trading and quantitative analysts
• Provide work estimates as needed
• Develop system architectures, designs and concepts
• Maintain and improve code quality using static & dynamic code analyses, security vulnerability scans, code coverage and CI/CD pipeline gating
• Provide technical guidance and be a technical mentor to the development team
• Design, build and configure applications to meet business process and application requirements
• Participate in all phases of software delivery lifecycle from analysis through support

Skills Must Have Required:

• 5+ years of core Java server development experience with a focus on electronic trading systems.
• Experienced Java Developer (JDK 11 or 17)
• Experience designing and supporting low latency, high throughput trading applications
• Extensive experience with asynchronous, event-driven programming & concurrency

Preferred:

• Spring (including Spring Boot and Spring Boot Actuator)
• Apache Camel (Version 3)
• REST API (including Enterprise Authentication and Authentication)
• Enterprise services (including monitoring, state management)
• JMS (Active MQ or similar)
• MS SQL Server and/or Sybase experience
• Working knowledge of Agile, CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Git, SonarQube)
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management. Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to handle multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Proactive, self-motivated, and team oriented.
• Bachelor degree in Mathematics, Engineering or Computer Science.

Nice to have:

• Experience designing, developing and maintaining low-latency electronic trading solutions for US treasuries, futures or swaps.