Senior Java Developer for Low-Latency Trading

Experis Austria; Southlake (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 94,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contract-to-hire

Onsite 4 days/week

Job summary

ManpowerGroup is seeking a Senior Java Developer to join the thinkorswim Performance Engineering team in Southlake, TX. The role focuses on latency, scalability, reliability, and resiliency for a Java-based trading platform.

Expect independent planning and delivery of performance initiatives, with tooling, analysis, and cross-team collaboration. You will work with Splunk and Grafana to monitor performance, and a contract-to-hire arrangement with onsite presence four days per week.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering.
• 5+ years of Java and J2EE development experience including Spring, Spring Boot, and Spring Cloud.
• 5+ years of distributed systems, real-time processing, relational databases, and messaging systems.
• Linux background with shell scripting experience.
• Strong diagnostic skills with JVM troubleshooting and concurrency understanding.

Responsibilities

• Code performance test scripts in Core Java to support performance and resiliency initiatives.
• Develop and maintain Unix shell and Python-based framework components used for performance testing.
• Create custom tooling, including mock services, and maintain a tool repository to support repeatable test execution.
• Gather and analyze performance requirements with project owners and translate findings into code, configuration, capacity, and design recommendations.
• Monitor application behavior during tests and production support, identify code-level bottlenecks.

Skills

Java

J2EE

Spring

Spring Boot

Spring Cloud

Distributed systems

Real-time processing

Linux

Shell scripting

Concurrency

Multi-threading

Performance testing

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/engineering

Tools

Splunk

Grafana

Job description

ManpowerGroup is seeking a Senior Java Developer to join the thinkorswim Performance Engineering team in Southlake, TX. The role focuses on latency, scalability, reliability, and resiliency for a Java-based trading platform.

Expect independent planning and delivery of performance initiatives, with tooling, analysis, and cross-team collaboration. You will work with Splunk and Grafana to monitor performance, and a contract-to-hire arrangement with onsite presence four days per week.