Senior Software Engineer
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Summary
Senior Java engineer on a major financial services firm's trading team in London, building distributed, event-driven, high-throughput trading systems with messaging, networking and real-time market data, plus cloud-native services, alongside traders and quant developers.
Senior Software Engineer - Java - £150k + Trading Bonus
We are working with a Major Financial Services company that is looking for a Senior Software Engineer skilled in Java to join their Trading team. This is an opportunity to work on highly scalable, business-critical technology at the intersection of software engineering, financial markets and the energy transition.
What you’ll be doing:
- Building distributed, event-driven, high-throughput trading systems
- Developing core Java applications in Linux environments
- Working with messaging, networking and real-time data
- Designing cloud-native infrastructure and production-ready services
- Collaborating closely with traders, quantitative developers and architects
What we’re looking for:
- 5+ years' software engineering experience
- Strong Java and concurrent/multi-threaded programming skills
- Experience with distributed or event-driven systems
- Exposure to high-throughput, low-latency or data-intensive environments
- Messaging, networking and/or market data experience
- AWS or cloud infrastructure experience is beneficial
- Trading, financial markets or energy market experience is highly desirable