Java Developer - Multi-Threaded Experience

Job Title: Java Developer - Multi-Threaded Experience

Location: London/Birmingham/Sheffield/Edinburgh

Salary/Rate: Up to £525 per day INSIDE IR35

Start Date: 06/05/2025

Job Type: Contract

Company Introduction

We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our sector-leading financial services clients! They are currently looking for a skilled Java Developer with multi-threaded development experience to join their team for a six-month contract.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

Within FX eRisk IT, there are a number of applications which are responsible for managing liquidity, generating client prices, handling and executing orders both internally and externally using algorithmic execution where applicable. These distributed systems are all highly reliable – some of which are directly client facing. The successful candidate will work with other team-members to design, develop, test and release these systems. The candidate will also have the opportunity to work across the pricing and algorithmic execution stack to deliver cutting edge initiatives.

Experience working on low latency distribution/pricing and algorithmic trading components is essential as is a proven track record of agile delivery of Business requirements.

As a senior Java developer, the successful candidate will be expected to perform the following duties with a high level of competence:

1. Liaise with nominated business stakeholders when required to ensure that business requirements are fully understood before commencing design and development.
2. Draw-up detailed technical designs for components in response to business requirements and high-level technical architecture.
3. Work effectively with any external consultancies engaged during the project to provide technical and graphical design expertise.
4. Implement best-of-breed technical solutions based on agreed technical design, adopting industry standard development patterns and methodologies (including continuous integration and automated unit and integration testing).
5. Fully test implemented solutions in advance of User Acceptance Testing.
6. Assist (when required) with the deployment of components to development and test environments.
7. Participate in intra-day and overnight Support rotas (when required).

Required Skills/Experience

The ideal candidate will have the following:

1. Solid Java server side development experience is essential. The candidate must be able to demonstrate knowledge of multi-threaded development.
2. Demonstrable experience with highly available, multithreaded, distributed systems is essential.
3. Demonstrable experience with developing and tuning low latency systems.
4. Demonstrable experience of FX spot or Equities algo execution and pricing.
5. Knowledge of writing Technical documentation.
6. Experience of liaising effectively with Front Office, Production Support and other IT teams within the Bank.
7. Business knowledge: operation of trading desks in a large, multi-site Investment Bank with significant eCommerce offering, foreign Exchange in a high volume low latency environment, experience working on enterprise systems but also agile delivery of Business requirements, Spot FX and Forward FX market conventions.

Desirable Skills/Experience

Although not essential, the following skills are desired by the client:

1. Front Office development team in Large Investment Bank, supporting global trading desk.
2. A background of solid architectural work.
3. Knowledge of Enterprise Integration and messaging technologies (29 West, Multicast).
4. Knowledge of the FIX protocol.
5. Familiarity with time series databases (KDB).
6. Knowledge of lock free algorithms, low latency tuning and threading.