Senior Low-Latency Java Engineer – Front Office Trading

CMC Markets Middle East; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

CMC Markets seeks a Senior Low Latency Java Developer to join our Quantitative Strategies team within Pricing & Risk, working on our high-performance, high-frequency trading platform. This hands-on role sits at the core of our market-making technology, where nanoseconds matter and engineering excellence is critical.

You will design and build ultra-low latency pricing and risk systems, collaborate with quants and front office, mentor junior engineers, and drive performance tuning, JVM

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on Java development experience within low latency financial systems.
• Deep understanding of performance optimisation, concurrency and JVM internals.
• Experience working on pricing, risk or electronic trading platforms.
• Minimum 2:1 degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or another numerate discipline.

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimise high-performance Java systems for pricing, risk and trading.
• Design scalable, resilient and maintainable low-latency trading components.
• Collaborate with Quants, Front Office and Operations to support live trading.
• Mentor junior developers and promote best practices.
• Build tooling for monitoring and performance diagnostics.

Skills

Java

Low latency

Performance optimisation

Concurrency

JVM internals

Pricing / risk platforms

Electronic trading

Mentoring engineers

Front-office collaboration

Education

2:1 degree in Computer Science/Mathematics/Physics or numerate discipline

Job description

CMC Markets seeks a Senior Low Latency Java Developer to join our Quantitative Strategies team within Pricing & Risk, working on our high-performance, high-frequency trading platform. This hands-on role sits at the core of our market-making technology, where nanoseconds matter and engineering excellence is critical.

You will design and build ultra-low latency pricing and risk systems, collaborate with quants and front office, mentor junior engineers, and drive performance tuning, JVM