Etrading Java Developer

Matlen Silver; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 106,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Matlen Silver is seeking an E-Trading Java Developer for a hybrid 18-month W-2 contract in New York City/Jersey City. The role focuses on designing and delivering a high-performance real-time trading platform, integrating with market venues and modern DevOps practices.

You will collaborate with traders, quants, and engineers to extend the platform and ensure low-latency, scalable order execution and RFQ negotiation capabilities.

Qualifications

• Five to seven years hands-on Core Java experience.
• Experience in a front-office role and interacting with traders.
• Experience with agile development and modern DevOps practices, including iterative delivery, CI/CD, continuous deployment, and automated testing.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and support a high-performance, real-time electronic trading platform.
• Work with engineers, quantitative analysts, and traders to modernize and extend the existing platform using current and new technology frameworks.
• Develop frameworks and core services for real-time order execution, auto-quoting, and RFQ negotiation.
• Contribute to platform modernization, expansion into global markets, connectivity to new trading venues, Central Risk Book algorithms that internalize trading flow, and platform stability improvements.
• Refactor existing code and improve system performance and design.

Skills

Front-office experience

Core Java

Java 8+

Multithreading

Messaging middleware

CI/CD

Spring Framework

Ansible

Jenkins

Git/Bitbucket

FIX/FpML

Market APIs

RFQ/RFM/RFT

Fixed income knowledge

Real-time trading

Job description

Salary: $106,000 - 120,000 per year

Requirements:

• Communicate clearly and analytically, explaining trade-offs and alternatives.
• Have experience in a front-office role and interacting with traders.
• Bring experience with agile development and modern DevOps practices, including iterative delivery, CI/CD, continuous deployment, and automated testing.
• Have five to seven years of hands-on Core Java experience, with Java 8 or later required; C# experience is a plus.
• Demonstrate strong analytical skills and a solid technical or engineering background.
• Be comfortable working collaboratively in front-office development and responding promptly to production issues.
• Have strong Java multithreading skills and experience with messaging middleware, such as publish/subscribe, JMS, MQ, Solace, or Tibco RV.
• Have experience refactoring existing code and addressing performance or design issues.
• Be able to design extensible modules and write clean, testable, maintainable code.
• Have experience with Linux, Windows, Core Java, Spring Framework, Ansible, Jenkins, Git or Bitbucket, Artifactory, and unit testing.
• Understand real-time trading system design, including message-driven and service-oriented architectures, low-latency performance and scaling, multithreaded models, object-oriented design, and enterprise patterns that separate functionality from implementation.
• Have experience with industry-standard protocols such as FIX or FpML.
• Have experience integrating APIs from market venues such as Bloomberg, Tradeweb, Brokertec, CME, Nasdaq, Dealerweb, or BGC.
• Bring experience with RFQ, RFM, or RFT negotiation workflows.
• Knowledge of fixed-income products such as government bonds, interest rate swaps, or futures is a strong plus; experience with other traded products or systems, such as equities or FX, is also relevant.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and support a high-performance, real-time electronic trading platform.
• Work with engineers, quantitative analysts, and traders to modernize and extend the existing platform using current and new technology frameworks.
• Develop frameworks and core services for real-time order execution, auto-quoting, and RFQ negotiation.
• Contribute to platform modernization, expansion into global markets, connectivity to new trading venues, Central Risk Book algorithms that internalize trading flow, and platform stability improvements.
• Refactor existing code and improve system performance and design.

Technologies:

• Ansible
• BitBucket
• C#
• CI/CD
• DevOps
• Flow
• Git
• Support
• Java
• Jenkins
• Linux
• Spring
• TIBCO
• Windows

More:

We are hiring an E-Trading Java Developer for an 18-month W-2 contract, with a hybrid schedule of three days onsite in New York City or Jersey City. Our technology team designs and supports a large, high-performance real-time trading platform serving market data, trading, orders, and real-time algorithms across Rates, MBS, and Emerging Markets. The platform connects to more than 40 exchanges and serves over 2,000 internal and external clients. The role offers the opportunity to collaborate with technology-focused engineers, quantitative analysts, and traders on a platform supporting multiple business lines.

last updated 41 week of 2026