Senior Java Developer (E-Trading)

Position: Senior Java Developer (E-Trading)
Location: New York City, NY

Project description
This is a unique opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a greenfield development project to design and develop a low-latency, electronic trading platform for interest rate swaps, US treasuries and futures. In this role, you will interact directly with trading, quantitative, compliance and risk, and IT functions to deliver new trading capabilities and services leveraging modern technologies and data & software architectures.

Responsibilities:
Hands on Senior Java Developer with over 5 years of enterprise development experience
Work with multiple business teams including trading and quantitative analysts
Provide work estimates as needed
Develop system architectures, designs and concepts
Maintain and improve code quality using static & dynamic code analyses, security vulnerability scans, code coverage and CI/CD pipeline gating
Provide technical guidance and be a technical mentor to the development team
Design, build and configure applications to meet business process and application requirements
Participate in all phases of software delivery lifecycle from analysis through support.

Skills Must have:
5+ years of core Java server development experience with a focus on electronic trading systems.
Experienced Java Developer (JDK 11 or 17)
Experience designing and supporting low latency, high throughput trading applications
Spring (including Spring Boot and Spring Boot Actuator)
Apache Camel (Version 3)
REST API (including Enterprise Authentication and Authentication)
Enterprise services (including monitoring, state management)
JMS (Active MQ or similar)
MS SQL Server and/or Sybase experience
Extensive experience with asynchronous, event-driven programming & concurrency
Working knowledge of Agile, CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Git, SonarQube)
Proven track record of leading small-to-medium teams, mentoring developers, and managing deliverables
Excellent communication and stakeholder management.
Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
Ability to handle multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Proactive, self-motivated, and team oriented.
Bachelor degree in Mathematics, Engineering or Computer Science.

Nice to have:
Experience designing, developing and maintaining low-latency electronic trading solutions for US treasuries, futures or swaps.
Experience integrating proprietary components with ION, TradeWeb or Bloomberg
Experience with Capital Markets, understanding how Derivatives instruments are priced and valued, RFQ workflow