Senior Java Engineer - Capital Markets, Remote & AI

eFinancialCareers; Glasgow; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Pension

Life assurance

Critical illness insurance

Job summary

eFinancialCareers is seeking a Senior Java Developer to join our engineering team and drive the design, development and evolution of a post-trade technology platform. You will work on in-house systems, APIs, client reporting and a web portal, while mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with offshore teams.

You will operate in a capital markets environment, applying TDD/BDD, SOLID principles and modern CI/CD practices, with exposure to AI and cloud-native infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Java development in financial services
• Proficient in Java 11+ and Spring/Spring Boot
• Experience with multi-threading, profiling, performance tuning and RMI
• Strong capital markets knowledge (post-trade/brokerage)
• Experience with TDD, Agile, and automated builds/deployments
• Good knowledge of CI build and deployment tools
• Experience with test frameworks (JUnit/Spock) and mocking (Mockito)
• Version control with Git and Maven
• Microservices architecture awareness
• Understanding of SOLID, Design Patterns and Clean Code principles
• Able to collaborate with IT and non-technical stakeholders and translate requirements

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain in-house systems, APIs, reporting tools and client web portal
• Use AI in the software development lifecycle
• Customize and extend third-party trading systems
• Write clean, well-tested code following SOLID and patterns
• Apply TDD/BDD and maintain test coverage with JUnit/Spock/Mockito
• Mentor a team of Java developers and drive engineering standards
• Collaborate with Client Services and Product Management to understand requirements

Skills

Java 11+

Spring Boot

Multi-threading

RMI

TDD/BDD

Agile

CI/CD

Git

Maven

Microservices

SOLID/Design Patterns/Clean Code

Tools

JUnit

Spock

Mockito

Job description

eFinancialCareers is seeking a Senior Java Developer to join our engineering team and drive the design, development and evolution of a post-trade technology platform. You will work on in-house systems, APIs, client reporting and a web portal, while mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with offshore teams.

You will operate in a capital markets environment, applying TDD/BDD, SOLID principles and modern CI/CD practices, with exposure to AI and cloud-native infrastructure.