Lead Java Engineer – Low Latency, High Throughput, Front Office, LMAX Disruptor, Aeron, Real-time Streaming, SQL, Fixed Income
A Lead Java Engineer with expertise in low latency, high throughput Front Office trading systems is sought after by a global Investment Bank to join their Fixed Income Technology Platform team.
The team are responsible for the core platform underpinning several business lines including Emerging Markets & Repos, and following recent investment from the business, are embarking on a major replatforming and modernisation programme.
The aim of this platform is to reduce system latency, pushing towards real-time streaming capabilities, re-architect into a highly componentised microservices based platform, as well as long-term strategic cloud migration.
As a Lead Engineer, you will have direct input into shaping this modernisation programme with regards to future-state architecture, development approach and acting as a liaison between the engineering team and the business.
To be successful, you will demonstrate:
1. Strong hands-on Core Java skills with deep knowledge of multithreading, concurrency, garbage collection, caching etc.
2. Experience with any of LMAX Disruptor, Aeron, Solace or Kafka to achieve low latency
3. An understanding of cloud-based engineering and componentised/microservices architecture
4. A background in Front Office...