eTrading Java Lead Engineer

Apex Systems, LLC; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 91,000 - 94,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

ESPP program

401K

Job summary

Everforth Apex is seeking an eTrading Java Lead Engineer in Jersey City, on-site. You will define and lead the engineering approach for complex trading features, delivering high-performance systems and end-to-end solutions. You will supervise engineers, collaborate with desks and quants, and drive platform builds.

You will own design and delivery, ensure market connectivity, and optimize price distribution while mentoring a technical team in a fast-paced trading environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building eTrading solutions for market connectivity or RFQ engines.
• 4-6+ years in lead software engineering roles with trading systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead engineering approach for complex trading features.
• 2) Enable development efficiencies across the team.
• 3) Provide technical leadership across multiple implementations.
• 4) Own end-to-end design and delivery for high-performance trading systems.
• 5) Supervise and grow engineering talent within the team.
• 6) Collaborate with trading desks, strategists, and quants for L3 support.
• 7) Gather requirements and design new platform builds.
• 8) Maintain and optimize high-throughput market connectivity.

Skills

Java/Spring

FIX trading

Python

JDK debugging

CI/CD

Maven/Gradle

Unix/Linux

SQL/NoSQL

Reactive streams

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

Maven

Gradle

SBT

Jenkins

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

GraphQL

gRPC

Job description

## Job Description# eTrading Java Lead EngineerApply**Job#: 3057885****Job Description:**eTrading Java Lead Engineer**Location:** Jersey City, New Jersey (On-site)Role OverviewThis role is responsible for defining and leading the engineering approach for complex features to deliver significant business outcomes. The successful candidate will deliver complex features and technology, enable development efficiencies, and provide technical thought leadership based on conducting multiple software implementations. Accountabilities include end-to-end solution design and delivery within a sophisticated trading environment.Key Responsibilities* Define and lead the engineering approach for complex trading features and technology delivery.* Enable development efficiencies across the engineering team.* Provide technical thought leadership based on conducting multiple software implementations.* Own end-to-end solution design and delivery for high-performance trading systems.* Supervise and grow engineering talent within the technical team.* Collaborate with trading desks, strategists, and quantitative analysts for L3 support on production trading systems.* Gather requirements and design solutions for new platform builds.* Maintain and optimize high-throughput market connectivity and price distribution systems.Required Qualifications**Experience:** Proven experience as a Lead Software Engineer building eTrading solutions used in market connectivity, price distribution, or RFQ engines. Experience building out D2D, D2C, and bilateral eTrading connectivity is required. Deep knowledge of Credit or Rates eTrading workflows and market structure is essential.**Technical Skills:** High proficiency in Java/Spring with expertise in developing FIX trading solutions. Advanced proficiency in debugging and profiling JDK-based languages (such as Java, Scala, Kotlin, or Clojure). Competency in Python is required. Strong experience with JDK CI/CD and build toolchains, including Maven, Gradle, SBT, and Jenkins, is necessary.**Architectural & Environmental Skills:** Experience with modern RPC microservices, specifically GraphQL and gRPC, is required. Proficiency in developing for Unix/Linux-based environments, including shell basics and process/network diagnostics, is required. High proficiency in data architecture across SQL and NoSQL data stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchDB, or HBase is required. Experience with reactive streams implementations and observables (e.g., ReactiveX, Akka Streams, Monix, Spring Reactor) is expected.**Infrastructure & Tooling:** Exposure to monitoring, metrics, and tracing tooling including ELK stack, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Graphite, OpenTSDB, OpenTrace, or Jaeger. Exposure to message-oriented architecture such as ZeroMQ, JMS, AMPS, RabbitMQ, Kafka, or Google pub/sub. Exposure to process/container orchestration technologies including Mesos, Kubernetes, OpenShift, or Docker.**Design & Frontend:** Experience or familiarity with UI Architecture, UX design, and visual design principles.Preferred Qualifications* Understanding of machine architecture and natively compiled languages such as C++ and Rust.* Experience with CQRS architecture.* Experience with Scala functional and/or concurrency libraries such as ZIO. *Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.**Everforth Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click here for more details. By applying for this job, you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages, or emails from Everforth Apex and its affiliates, and contracted partners. Frequency varies for text messages. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You can reply STOP to cancel and HELP for help. You can access our privacy policy at https://www.apexsystems.com/privacy-policy**Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.**Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.**If you require an accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act to participate in an interview with a virtual recruiter or to use our website for a search or application, please contact our Benefits Department at [e-mail] or 804-523-8228. Please note that this contact information is strictly to be used for medical ADA accommodations and that no other inquiries will be answered.**UnitedHealthcare creates and publishes the Transparency in Coverage Machine-Readable Files on behalf of Everforth Apex Systems.***Employee Type:** Contract**Location:** Jersey City, NJ, US**Job Type:****Date Posted:** October 30, 2026**Pay Range:** $66 - $68 per hour