Senior Java/Kotlin FX Risk Platform Engineer

Grid Dynamics; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible schedule

Medical, vision, dental insurance

Corporate social events

Professional development opportunities

Well-equipped office

Job summary

Grid Dynamics is partnering with a Tier 1 bank to build its FX Risk Platform, focusing on the FX Options end-of-day valuation for the Asia trading desk. The role centers on Java/Kotlin-based, event-driven services on JVM, with deep engagement from requirements through release.

The candidate will own end-to-end quality, apply TDD, and drive rapid production releases while modernising legacy components and building scalable data and market-expansion platforms.

Qualifications

• Expert-level Java and Kotlin experience in enterprise-grade systems.

Responsibilities

• Re-engineer core trading and post-trade systems into event-driven, cloud-native services on the JVM.
• Modernise legacy components while keeping a live platform stable.
• Build data and market-expansion platforms underpinning the programme.
• Design for event-driven systems: failure handling, ordering guarantees and replay semantics.
• Practice TDD with containerised dependencies and end-to-end ownership of deliverables.
• Deliver iteratively with trunk-based development, CI/CD and weekly production releases.
• Engage with stakeholders and upstream/downstream teams to build domain knowledge.
• Use AI-assisted tooling to accelerate analysis of legacy code and testing.

Skills

Java

Kotlin

Test-Driven Development

CI/CD

Capital markets knowledge

Autonomy at senior level

Education

BS in Computer Science

MS in Computer Science/Software Engineering/Machine Learning

Tools

Java

Kotlin

Apache Flink

Job description

Grid Dynamics is partnering with a Tier 1 bank to build its FX Risk Platform, focusing on the FX Options end-of-day valuation for the Asia trading desk. The role centers on Java/Kotlin-based, event-driven services on JVM, with deep engagement from requirements through release.

The candidate will own end-to-end quality, apply TDD, and drive rapid production releases while modernising legacy components and building scalable data and market-expansion platforms.