Senior Java Engineer – Finance Tech

Hunter Bond; Greater London; On-site; GBP 111,000 - 129,000; Full time

Job summary

Hunter Bond is seeking experienced Senior Java Engineers to join a leading technology organisation operating across financial services and energy trading. This hands-on role focuses on complex, bespoke solutions for financial markets clients, spanning greenfield and brownfield development in settlements/post-trade environments.

You will collaborate with veteran engineers, own technical challenges from investigation to delivery, and work in on-prem setups with Azure/cloud exposure.

Qualifications

• 5–10+ years' commercial software development experience.
• Strong Spring / Spring Boot experience.
• Experience with complex greenfield and/or brownfield systems.
• Experience in financial services, financial markets, trading or energy trading.
• Hands-on development; not a pure architecture role.
• Good problem-solving skills and ability to work independently in ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance server-side Java/JVM applications using Java as the primary back-end tech.
• Build robust services with Spring and Spring Boot.
• Contribute across greenfield and brownfield projects in financial services/trading environments.
• Develop solutions supporting settlement and post-trade workflows, especially equities.
• Work with Kubernetes, event-driven architecture and cloud infra; mostly on-prem with Azure/cloud exposure.
• Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver solutions.
• Own technical challenges from investigation to delivery.
• Navigate ambiguity and changing requirements in a fast-moving setting.

Skills

Java

Spring / Spring Boot

Kubernetes

Cloud infrastructure

Problem solving

Independent work

Tools

Kubernetes

Azure

Job description

Hunter Bond is seeking experienced Senior Java Engineers to join a leading technology organisation operating across financial services and energy trading. This hands-on role focuses on complex, bespoke solutions for financial markets clients, spanning greenfield and brownfield development in settlements/post-trade environments.

You will collaborate with veteran engineers, own technical challenges from investigation to delivery, and work in on-prem setups with Azure/cloud exposure.