Senior Java Developer - Trade Platform - Front Office

Our client is a leading and well-established player in the Digital Asset and Cryptocurrency Quantitative/Algorithmic trading industry. The business is going from strength to strength, they are currently going through a period of exponential growth and are enjoying record profits.

As a consequence, the need has arisen to hire an additional Senior Java Developer, you will be working on greenfield projects to build out and enhance their low latency trading systems. Working as part of the trading technology team, the candidate should be a Java expert and have a detailed    working knowledge of Core Java, the JVM, garbage collection, and data structures.

Our client is looking for the very best and are able to offer an above-market basic salary in addition to exceptional bonuses!

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Excellent Core Java Skills
• Good knowledge of concurrency and multithreaded programming
• Experience of developing low latency pricing and trading systems in a Linux environment
• Application performance profiling and optimisation

ADVANTAGEOUS:

• Development experience in a low latency, zero GC environment
• Development experience in one or more of STP / OMS / Market Connectivity / Messaging / Risk / Pricing
• Knowledge of institutional encodings (FIX, SBE)
• Fault tolerant, high availability, distributed computing
• Knowledge of low latency messaging (e.g. Aeron, 29West)
• Docker / Kubernetes / AWS