Job Description

Senior Java Engineer - FX eTrading** (Contract)

Duration: 12 Months (Possibility for extension)

Location: London/Hybrid (4 days per week on site)

Rate: A highly competitive Umbrella Day Rate is available for suitable candidates

Role Profile

As a Senior Java Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in delivering resilient and secure systems that meet the demands of modern trading. You'll collaborate closely with product, trading, and infrastructure teams to create seamless end-to-end features-from user interfaces to robust backend services. Embrace the latest AI coding tools to enhance delivery speed, code quality, and developer experience.

Key Accountabilities:

Architect and Implement: Design scalable, event-driven, microservices-based backend components, including APIs, market data, order/risk workflows, and real-time streaming capabilities.

Optimise Performance: Focus on improving latency, throughput, and reliability across the entire stack. Implement observability practises (metrics, tracing, logging) and conduct performance profiling.

Establish Best Practises: Champion engineering excellence through code standards, testing strategies (unit/integration/E2E), CI/CD processes, secure coding, and effective release management.

Mentorship: Guide and mentor fellow engineers through code reviews, design sessions, and hands-on pairing, fostering a culture of clean architecture and pragmatic delivery.

Leverage AI Tools: Utilise AI development tools for coding assistance, refactoring, test generation, secure code analysis, and documentation, while ensuring human oversight throughout the process.

Collaborative Design: Work closely with stakeholders to translate trading requirements into robust technical designs. Write clear specifications and implementation plans.

Skills & Experience:

Professional Experience: Strong background in software engineering with deep expertise in Core Java, multithreading/concurrency, and performance tuning.

Low Latency Expertise: Proven experience in low latency design and patterns that enhance trading performance.

Distributed Systems: Experience in designing and operating distributed systems, including microservices, event-driven architectures, and messaging/streaming solutions.

Computer Science Fundamentals: Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, networking, and operating systems.

E-Trading Knowledge: Familiarity with e-trading or real-time financial systems, particularly in FX, including market data, order flows, and execution workflows.

Hands-On Skills: Proficiency with CI/CD, containerisation, cloud/on-prem deployments, and observability practises.

AI Integration: Comfortable integrating AI coding tools into daily development workflows.

Communication Skills: Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement abilities, with a track record of leading initiatives and mentoring others.

Candidates will need to show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.

If you feel you have the skills and experience and want to hear more about this role 'apply now' to declare your interest in this opportunity with our client. Your application will be observed by our dedicated team.

We will respond to all successful applicants ASAP however, please be advised that we will always look to contact you further from this time should we need further applicants or if other opportunities arise relevant to your skillset.

Pontoon is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone's chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive.

As part of our standard hiring process to manage risk, please note background screening checks will be conducted on all hires before commencing employment.

We use generative AI tools to support our candidate screening process. This helps us ensure a fair, consistent, and efficient experience for all applicants. Rest assured, all final decisions are made by our hiring team, and your application will be reviewed with care and attention