Java Software Engineer

We’re working with a leading organisation in the energy sector that is investing heavily in digital trading technology and building a new team focused on modern, high-performance trading platforms. We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer with strong Java and distributed systems experience to join this growing team.

You’ll be working on the design and development of high-throughput, event-driven trading systems supporting automated and quantitative trading across energy markets.

Responsibilities

• Building core trading platform components and services
• Developing distributed, event-driven and high-performance systems
• Working with real-time market data and messaging
• Developing exchange/venue connectivity and trading infrastructure
• Designing solutions around replay, recovery and sequencing
• Building and deploying cloud-native services using AWS
• Improving observability, reliability and production performance
• Working closely with traders, quantitative developers and technical architects
• Contributing to the evolution of automated and digital trading platforms

Key Skills

• Strong Java development skills
• Excellent understanding of concurrency and multithreading
• Experience building distributed or high-throughput systems
• Strong Linux experience
• Background working with messaging, networking or data-intensive applications
• Experience with AWS/cloud technologies
• Good understanding of production engineering, monitoring and observability
• Strong problem-solving and system-design skills

Experience within trading, financial markets, energy, market infrastructure or another latency-sensitive environment would be highly advantageous.