Java Developer

We’re hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join a technology team building and supporting a mission-critical securities trade processing platform used to handle high volumes of financial transactions.You’ll work on distributed Java systems where performance, reliability and low latency matter — from designing new services to troubleshooting complex production issues.What you’ll doBuild and enhance high-performance Java applications and distributed servicesDevelop event-driven systems using Kafka, JMS or similarWork on concurrency, messaging, fault tolerance and high-throughput processingProfile and optimise applications across JVM, memory, CPU and threadsInvestigate production issues, perform RCA and deliver lasting fixesUse SQL to troubleshoot data discrepancies across distributed systemsBuild automated integration and end-to-end testingWork with product, architecture and platform teams on system improvementsSupport platform modernisation while maintaining production stabilityUse AI-assisted engineering tools to improve development and operational efficiencyWhat we’re looking for5+ years of hands-on Java engineering experienceStrong Core Java, multithreading/concurrency and JVM internalsExperience with high-throughput, low-latency distributed systemsStrong understanding of messaging concepts including ordering, idempotency, retries and failure recoveryHands-on performance profiling and optimisation experienceStrong SQL skillsExperience with automated integration/E2E testingProduction support, incident management and RCA experienceFamiliarity with AI-assisted software engineering toolsBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related fieldNice to haveExperience in capital markets/securities trading, Snowflake, Prometheus/Grafana/Elasticsearch, Maven or Gradle, state-machine workflows, or modernising legacy enterprise platforms.If you enjoy solving complex distributed systems problems and want to work on software where reliability and performance genuinely matter, we’d love to hear from you.