Senior Java Front-Office Trading Engineer

Luxoft Poland; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

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Job summary

Luxoft Poland teams for UBS are hiring a Senior Java Developer to design, develop and support front-office electronic trading applications used in the Derivatives Principal Flow Trading business. You will work within globally distributed Agile teams to deliver high-performance, scalable solutions for traders and quants.

You will own end-to-end deliveries, mentor juniors, and apply best practices for security, reliability, and observability while driving innovation with AI-assisted software

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience, preferably in electronic trading or front-office environments.
• Strong Java development expertise with experience building high-performance, low-latency applications.
• Experience developing and supporting business-critical trading systems.
• Knowledge of distributed systems, messaging, and event-driven architectures.
• Strong Linux and scripting skills.
• Experience with software engineering best practices, including testing, observability, and production support.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work directly with business stakeholders.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools, preferably GitHub Copilot.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and support latency-sensitive trading applications and trading algorithms.
• Drive projects and end-to-end deliveries, taking ownership from design through production deployment.
• Work closely with traders, quants, and business stakeholders to translate complex business and regulatory requirements into innovative technical solutions.
• Build robust, scalable, and highly available Java server-side systems.
• Apply software engineering best practices to ensure solution quality, security, reliability, performance, and compliance.
• Enhance observability, monitoring, and production support capabilities, proactively identifying and resolving operational risks.
• Investigate incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement long-term remediation measures.
• Collaborate within a global Agile team delivering business value in iterative development cycles.
• Mentor junior developers and actively contribute to engineering excellence and knowledge sharing initiatives.
• Drive adoption of modern development practices, including AI-assisted software engineering and automation.

Skills

Java development

Low-latency

Distributed systems

Linux scripting

Observability

Testing & production support

Stakeholder communication

AI-assisted development tools

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Luxoft Poland teams for UBS are hiring a Senior Java Developer to design, develop and support front-office electronic trading applications used in the Derivatives Principal Flow Trading business. You will work within globally distributed Agile teams to deliver high-performance, scalable solutions for traders and quants.

You will own end-to-end deliveries, mentor juniors, and apply best practices for security, reliability, and observability while driving innovation with AI-assisted software