Senior Java Engineer – Inter-Office Trading Platform

HKEX Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

HKEX Group in London seeks a Senior Engineer to advance the LMEsmart platform. You will design high-throughput, low-latency inter-office integrations, automate test tooling, and drive real-time performance insights for governance and market oversight.

You will work in a cloud-enabled environment, employing Java (JVM), distributed systems and container orchestration to deliver robust automation and documentation for stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or related; 5+ years in software development with Java (JVM).
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and memory-management concepts; profiling and optimization.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, data streaming (Kafka) and big-data concepts.

Responsibilities

• Engineer resilient Inter-Office integrations and workflows to automate recovery and governance.
• Develop automation for test tooling and framework for LMEsmart platform.
• Operate and evolve automated test suites and CI/CD pipelines; document environments.

Skills

Java (JVM)

Performance optimization

Profiling

Cloud architectures

Distributed systems

Kafka

Scrum/Agile

Git/DevOps

Containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)

Security in SDLC

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Master's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Cloud platforms (AWS / Azure / GCP)

CI/CD tooling

Job description

HKEX Group in London seeks a Senior Engineer to advance the LMEsmart platform. You will design high-throughput, low-latency inter-office integrations, automate test tooling, and drive real-time performance insights for governance and market oversight.

You will work in a cloud-enabled environment, employing Java (JVM), distributed systems and container orchestration to deliver robust automation and documentation for stakeholders.