Senior Java Systems Engineer – Low-Latency Trading

Adaptive; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 240,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid working model

Medical from the 1st of the following 

Dental and vision

23 days of vacation per calendar year

Group disability insurance

401K match up to 5%

Gym subsidy

Life insurance at 2 x salary

Commuter benefits

HSA/FSA

Mental Health First Aiders

Job summary

Adaptive is seeking a Senior Java / Systems Engineer with deep experience in Platform Exchange Systems to design and optimise production-ready, high‑performance, low‑latency Java services using Aeron. You will work across client teams and internal engineers to define models and exchange boundaries, implement automated testing, and drive production readiness with durable fixes.

You will collaborate with SREs, QA and leadership, benchmarking and profiling to reduce latency, improve reliability,

Qualifications

• Strong server-side, low-latency Java expertise with concurrency, memory management and performance profiling.
• Solid exchange, risk, or matching-engine experience.
• Experience building automated testing strategies and running performance benchmarks.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and optimise low-latency Java services and protocols for an Exchange Accelerator product.
• Define order, session, instrument, and account models and exchange integration boundaries.
• Develop automated testing strategies and perform evidence-based performance benchmarking and profiling.
• Collaborate with client teams, SREs, QA and leadership to ensure exchange readiness and durable production fixes.
• Engage with client engineering and business stakeholders to communicate technical trade-offs clearly.
• Support the product in production across multiple client deployments.

Skills

Low-latency Java

Distributed systems

Benchmarking

Problem-solving

Communication

Agile

Cloud computing

Tools

Aeron

Chronicle

LBM

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Job description

Adaptive is seeking a Senior Java / Systems Engineer with deep experience in Platform Exchange Systems to design and optimise production-ready, high‑performance, low‑latency Java services using Aeron. You will work across client teams and internal engineers to define models and exchange boundaries, implement automated testing, and drive production readiness with durable fixes.

You will collaborate with SREs, QA and leadership, benchmarking and profiling to reduce latency, improve reliability,