Senior Java Engineer Event-Driven Capital Markets Systems (Front to Back) x3

Zohorecruit; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Axiom Path is hiring a Senior Java Engineer for event-driven capital markets systems in New York City. You will contribute to mission-critical platforms supporting middle and back office operations across multiple asset classes, focusing on scalable data flows and robust event processing.

You will collaborate with product owners and quantitative teams, ensuring data integrity, regulatory compliance, and operational resilience in a fast-paced financial environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience developing enterprise applications in financial services environments.
• Proven experience supporting multi-asset class platforms (e.g., equities, fixed income, FX, derivatives).
• Strong background in middle/back office systems, post-trade processing, lifecycle management, or regulatory reporting.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain components for middle/back office functions across asset classes.
• Develop and enhance event-driven architectures that process trades and lifecycle events at scale.
• Model financial products and lifecycles to reflect state transitions and business events.

Skills

Java

Event-driven architecture

Financial services

Data modeling

Tools

Kafka

Messaging systems

Job description

Senior Java Engineer Event-Driven Capital Markets Systems (Front to Back) x3

New York City, United States | Posted on 10/06/2026

Axiom Path is an AI-first recruiting and staffing firm delivering RPO, MSP, and direct-hire solutions to enterprise clients across the U.S. Our team of experienced recruiters, supported by purpose-built automation, moves faster and communicates better so clients get qualified talent sooner and candidates get a clear, responsive process from first contact to start date.

Job Description

Be Part Of A High-Performing Team

This role supports a global financial services organization operating complex, multi-asset trading and post-trade platforms. The team builds and maintains enterprise systems that support the full lifecycle of financial products across multiple asset classes, with a strong emphasis on scalability, data integrity, and regulatory compliance. Engineers on this team collaborate closely with product owners, quantitative teams, and downstream consumers to ensure accurate event processing, reliable data flows, and resilient system behavior in a fast-moving financial environment.

What s In Store For You

This engagement offers the opportunity to work on mission-critical capital markets platforms that support middle and back office functions across multiple asset classes. You ll contribute to systems that process high-volume events, manage complex product lifecycles, and power downstream risk, finance, and reporting functions. The role provides exposure to enterprise-scale architecture, event-driven systems, and deep financial domain challenges within a collaborative, engineering-focused environment.

How You Will Make An Impact

• Design, build, and maintain application components supporting middle and back office functions across multiple asset classes
  
• Develop and enhance event-driven architectures that process trade, position, and lifecycle events reliably and at scale
  
• Model financial products and their full lifecycles, ensuring data structures accurately represent state transitions and business events
  
• Build and maintain services that consume and publish events to downstream systems (risk, P&L, reconciliation, reporting)
  
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure data consistency, regulatory compliance, and operational resilience
  
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues in distributed enterprise systems using logs, metrics, and event tracing
  
• Contribute to system documentation, data models, and architectural standards
  

Requirements

Are you an experienced capital markets technologist ready to make an impact?

• 10+ years of experience developing enterprise applications in financial services environments
  
• Proven experience supporting multi-asset class platforms (e.g., equities, fixed income, FX, derivatives, structured products)
  
• Strong background in middle and/or back office systems, including post-trade processing, lifecycle management, or regulatory reporting
  
• Hands-on experience with event-driven architectures (e.g., messaging, streaming, asynchronous workflows)
  
• Solid data modeling experience, including defining schemas that represent product lifecycles and business events
  
• Proficiency in at least one enterprise programming language such as Java, C#, or Python
  
• Experience working in regulated environments with strict controls around data security, privacy, and auditability
  
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across technology and business teams