Senior Front-Office Trading Engineer — Ultra-Low Latency Java

CMC Markets; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

CMC Markets is seeking a Senior FO Trading Engineer to join our Quantitative Strategies team within Pricing & Risk. This hands-on role focuses on ultra-low latency pricing and risk systems that power our global trading operations from our London office.

The position requires strong Java development skills, deep knowledge of performance tuning, and experience with pricing, risk or electronic trading platforms.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Java development experience in low-latency financial systems.
• Strong understanding of performance optimisation, concurrency and JVM internals.
• Experience with pricing, risk or electronic trading platforms is highly beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimise ultra-low latency pricing and risk systems in a high-frequency trading environment.
• Design scalable, resilient trading and risk components and contribute to architectural decisions.
• Collaborate with Quants, Front Office and Business Operations to evolve electronic trading infrastructure.
• Mentor junior developers and promote clean-code practices and robust design patterns.

Skills

Java development

Performance tuning

Concurrency

JVM internals

Pricing/risk/trading platforms

Problem solving

Job description

CMC Markets is seeking a Senior FO Trading Engineer to join our Quantitative Strategies team within Pricing & Risk. This hands-on role focuses on ultra-low latency pricing and risk systems that power our global trading operations from our London office.

The position requires strong Java development skills, deep knowledge of performance tuning, and experience with pricing, risk or electronic trading platforms.