Senior Java Tech Lead - Hybrid, Trading Platform

Cpl Group; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid and flexible working

Competitive salary 100-120K

Private medical, life and disability

Wellbeing support

Generous annual leave

Learning and leadership development

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Cpl Group, partnering with a leading financial services organisation, is recruiting a Lead Java Developer. You will lead a global technology team, set technical direction and own a trading workflow platform, while remaining hands-on in design, development and performance tuning.

You will mentor developers, safeguard code quality, and drive architecture decisions in an Agile environment across multiple regions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software development experience with strong Java expertise.
• Proven track record leading and mentoring software teams.
• Hands-on with Java, concurrency, streams and asynchronous programming.
• Experience with Spring Boot, PostgreSQL and OpenShift.
• Strong design/architecture skills and ability to drive technical decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of Java developers, providing technical direction.
• Remain hands-on with Java development and design of core platform components.
• Own trading workflow applications and ensure scalability and reliability.
• Drive engineering standards, code quality, testing, and performance.
• Review code and guide complex development work across regions.
• Collaborate with traders, product owners, and technology teams in Agile.
• Oversee production issues and support, and optimize CI/CD pipelines.
• Profile and tune JVM/application performance and release tooling.
• Coordinate with Risk, Quant, DevOps, and Finance on platform initiatives.

Skills

Java expertise

Team leadership

Concurrency

Software architecture

Algorithms & data structures

Multi-threaded programming

Spring Boot

PostgreSQL

OpenShift

TDD / automated testing

Performance tuning / JVM profiling

Production debugging

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related discipline

Job description

Cpl Group, partnering with a leading financial services organisation, is recruiting a Lead Java Developer. You will lead a global technology team, set technical direction and own a trading workflow platform, while remaining hands-on in design, development and performance tuning.

You will mentor developers, safeguard code quality, and drive architecture decisions in an Agile environment across multiple regions.