Senior Java Front Office Engineer, Equity Trading Systems

Jefferies; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Jefferies seeks a senior engineer to own the Equity Front Office development, delivering scalable, high-performance trading applications. You will work within a global team, designing robust systems and partnering with traders to translate requirements into robust software.

Ideal candidates bring 10+ years in front-office development, 3+ years in architecture, and deep Java expertise, with experience in on-prem and cloud data stores and low-latency messaging.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in front-office development with 3+ years in software architecture
• Strong Java expertise and hands-on experience
• Experience with on-prem and cloud data stores; low-latency messaging is a plus

Responsibilities

• Lead front-office equity trading technology development
• Design scalable, robust trading applications for equity trading
• Collaborate with global traders and development teams to gather requirements
• Migrate existing applications to a microservices-based architecture and strategy

Skills

Front-office development

Software architecture

Java

Low-latency engineering

Trading domain knowledge

Team collaboration

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AMPS

Job description

Jefferies seeks a senior engineer to own the Equity Front Office development, delivering scalable, high-performance trading applications. You will work within a global team, designing robust systems and partnering with traders to translate requirements into robust software.

Ideal candidates bring 10+ years in front-office development, 3+ years in architecture, and deep Java expertise, with experience in on-prem and cloud data stores and low-latency messaging.