Senior Software Engineer (Java)

Overview

Senior Java Developer at TP ICAP responsible for designing and delivering low-latency, highly available trading system components. You will build and optimize mission-critical services across asset classes and work with global teams to ensure stability. The role blends Java engineering, FIX connectivity, and distributed real-time messaging to support electronic trading. You will influence performance, reliability, and cloud-ready architectures in a fast-paced, data-driven environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement distributed, fault-tolerant Java services for electronic trading environments
• Lead performance tuning, optimisation, and refactoring of low-latency trading components
• Investigate and resolve production issues to ensure system stability and high availability
• Collaborate with global teams including Architecture, DevOps, and Product
• Mentor engineers to raise technical capability and engineering standards

Key requirements

• Strong experience designing and building high-performance, low-latency Java services within electronic trading
• Strong experience with distributed messaging technologies (Solace/Kafka) and real-time systems
• Strong experience designing and building event-driven systems deployed to cloud environments (AWS, EC2, EKS, Kubernetes)
• Experience with memory architectures and network performance in low latency platforms
• Experience with Maven or Gradle (Maven preferred), and JUnit
• Experience in Git or other source control systems
• Experience in CI/CD concepts
• Strong communication skills across globally distributed teams

• strong communication
• collaboration across globally distributed teams
• mentoring and technical leadership
• Java
• low-latency systems
• distributed messaging (Solace, Kafka)

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