Lead Java Engineer

Senior Java Engineer Front-Office Banking | Rates & Credit | New York | Hybrid Long Contract Are you a hands-on Java engineer who thrives on building high-performance, low-latency trading systems? We have partnered with a well-established, globally recognised banking
- financial services innovative FinTech company scaling up seeking an experienced Lead/Senior Java Engineer to help develop and optimise its front-office electronic trading platform across Rates and Credit. This is an exciting opportunity to work on business-critical trading technology where performance, scalability and engineering quality make a tangible difference. You'll be involved in designing, coding and testing enhancements across market connectivity, pricing, RFQ workflows and straight-through processing (STP). Why consider this opportunity?
* High-impact engineering: Optimise latency, throughput, concurrency and system performance across a front-office trading platform.
* Complex technical challenges: Work on messaging infrastructure, caching strategies, data structures and performance-sensitive applications.
* Front-office exposure: Contribute directly to electronic trading workflows across Rates and Credit.
* Long-term engagement: An opportunity to make a sustained contribution to a strategic banking technology platform.
* Competitive contract rate with flexibility depending on relevant experience.
* New York

location:
Hybrid working, with 3-4 days per week on-site in the New York metropolitan area. The role You'll take a hands-on role in the design, development, testing and optimisation of the electronic trading platform, including:
* Developing server-side Java applications for Rates and Credit electronic trading.
* Implementing and enhancing electronic communication network (ECN) connectivity.
* Supporting pricing engines, request-for-quote (RFQ) processing and STP workflows.
* Improving application latency, throughput, scalability and capacity.
* Optimising messaging layers, caching, data structures, multithreading and concurrency.
* Contributing to robust, maintainable production-quality code and automated delivery pipelines.
* Collaborating with technology and front-office stakeholders to deliver reliable, high-performance solutions. What we're looking for Essential experience
* Strong hands-on experience developing server-side applications in Core Java.
* A solid understanding of multithreading, concurrency, garbage collection, memory management and performance tuning.
* Experience with messaging technologies such as Solace, Kafka, Aeron or MQ .
* Strong SQL and relational database experience, ideally MS SQL Server or Oracle.
* Experience with CI/CD and DevOps tooling such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions or UrbanCode.
* Direct experience developing or supporting front-office electronic trading platforms in Fixed Income, Rates, Credit, Equities or FX .
* Practical understanding of market connectivity, ECNs, RFQ workflows, pricing and/or STP.
* Ability to work in the New York metropolitan area and attend the office 3-4 days per week. Desirable experience
* AWS services, including S3, SQS, SSM and KMS.
* Proven experience optimising high-throughput, low-latency trading applications.
* Two or more years of application development experience within a front-office Fixed Income, Equities or FX environment. Please apply asap with your CV showing all your relevant experience and skills and email your CV, daily rate/annualised gross salary expectations and availability to interview and start to marina.economidou@templeton-recruitment.com Marina Economidou, Executive Solutions Consultant