Low-Latency Java Engineer – Fixed Income Trading

Cantor Fitzgerald; New York (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial technology services firm in New York is seeking a highly skilled Java Developer to join their Fixed Income Inter-Dealer Brokerage technology team. The role focuses on building and enhancing high-performance applications that support trading operations. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in Java development, expertise in Spring and Spring Boot, and familiarity with financial markets. This position offers opportunities for collaboration in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in Java development.
• Prior experience in electronic trading systems or financial services technology is a strong plus.
• Experience with at least one web application development framework (e.g., Angular, React).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain server-side Java applications for fixed income trading platforms.
• Implement robust, scalable solutions using Spring Framework and Spring Boot.
• Optimize application performance for high throughput and low latency in a real-time trading environment.

Skills

Java (8+)

Spring

Spring Boot

Maven

Multithreading

Concurrency

Performance tuning

DevOps practices

CI/CD pipelines

Docker

Messaging systems

RESTful services

SQL

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Spring Framework

GitLab CI/CD

Git

Maven

Splunk

ELK stack

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

A financial technology services firm in New York is seeking a highly skilled Java Developer to join their Fixed Income Inter-Dealer Brokerage technology team. The role focuses on building and enhancing high-performance applications that support trading operations. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in Java development, expertise in Spring and Spring Boot, and familiarity with financial markets. This position offers opportunities for collaboration in a dynamic environment.