Senior Java Performance Engineer - Low-Latency Trading

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plan

Dental plan

Vision plan

Health Savings Account

Health Flexible Spending Account

Dependent Care Flexible Spending

Supplemental Life Insurance

Short/Long Term Disability Insurance

Business Travel Insurance

401(k) with match

Weekly Pay

Job summary

ManpowerGroup is seeking a Senior Java Developer for the Thinkorswim Performance Engineering team in Southlake, TX. You will independently plan and deliver performance and resiliency initiatives for a Java-based trading platform, focusing on latency, scalability, and reliability.

The role requires 5+ years in Java/J2EE, Spring stack, Linux, and diagnostics of JVM issues, with a contract-to-hire path and onsite expectation of 4 days per week.

Qualifications

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

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 for repeatable test execution.
• Gather and analyze performance requirements with project owners and translate findings into actionable code and design recommendations.
• Monitor application behavior during tests and production support, identify code-level performance bottlenecks.

Skills

Java

J2EE

Spring

Spring Boot

Spring Cloud

Linux

Shell scripting

Concurrency

Performance debugging

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Splunk

Grafana

Job description

ManpowerGroup is seeking a Senior Java Developer for the Thinkorswim Performance Engineering team in Southlake, TX. You will independently plan and deliver performance and resiliency initiatives for a Java-based trading platform, focusing on latency, scalability, and reliability.

The role requires 5+ years in Java/J2EE, Spring stack, Linux, and diagnostics of JVM issues, with a contract-to-hire path and onsite expectation of 4 days per week.