Senior Java Developer

Overview

In this role you will build and evolve scalable backend services for Prime Finance equities platforms using Kotlin and Java. You will work within a cross-functional team to modernize production systems and support platform transformation and market expansion. You will tackle performance, reliability, and data-processing challenges in a cloud-native, event-driven architecture. You will drive technical excellence, mentor engineers, and collaborate with stakeholders across the equities domain.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain backend services for trading and post-trade platforms
• Build scalable event-driven applications and messaging-based integrations
• Develop services in Kotlin and Java within JVM ecosystems
• Contribute to architecture decisions and technology choices
• Advocate for TDD to ensure quality across the lifecycle
• Implement reliable data processing, event replay, and failure recovery
• Participate in CI/CD pipelines and frequent production deployments
• Analyze and resolve complex production and performance issues
• Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders across the equities domain
• Mentor engineers and promote technical excellence
• Apply knowledge of capital markets workflows to solution design

Key requirements

• 7+ years of Java development experience
• Kotlin experience preferred or willingness to learn Kotlin
• Hands-on capital markets experience, especially trade lifecycle and post-trade processing
• Experience building event-driven distributed systems
• Deep understanding of messaging concepts (ordering, resiliency, replay, failure handling)
• Strong TDD practices with end-to-end quality ownership
• Solid experience in Agile delivery, CI/CD, and trunk-based development
• Knowledge of trade booking, position management, settlement, accounting, and cashflows
• Strong system design and architectural decision-making skills
• Ability to operate autonomously in complex, business-critical environments

• collaboration across cross-functional teams
• mentoring and technical leadership
• autonomy in complex environments
• Java development
• Kotlin or willingness to learn
• event-driven distributed systems

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