Senior Low-Latency Engineer – FinTech Trading

Forbes Technical Consulting; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Potential sign-on bonus

401(k) with employer match

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

PTO and additional benefits

Job summary

Forbes Technical Consulting is seeking a Sr. Low Latency Engineer in Chicago to design and build high-throughput trading infrastructure, including exchange and clearing components. The role emphasizes ultra-low-latency systems, distributed architecture, and performance optimization.

You will work with Java, Kafka, and microservices, collaborating with product teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions and participating in on-call rotations. Hybrid in Chicago/New York market focus.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Advanced Java expertise, including concurrency, JVM tuning, memory management.
• Performance optimization experience.
• Experience building low-latency, high-throughput backend systems.
• Experience with Kafka, PostgreSQL, microservices, REST and WebSocket APIs.

Responsibilities

• Design and build core exchange and clearing infrastructure.
• Develop features within: matching engines, order management systems, clearing workflows.
• Build ultra-low-latency messaging architectures using: Aeron, Hydra or similar frameworks.
• Develop customer-facing APIs using: FIX, REST, WebSocket.
• Build fault-tolerant distributed systems leveraging Kafka, PostgreSQL, in-memory processing.
• Collaborate with Staff Engineers on architecture and technical direction.
• Improve scalability, latency, reliability, and system performance.
• Partner with product and business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Participate in production support and on-call rotations.

Skills

Advanced Java

Concurrency

JVM tuning

Memory management

Performance optimization

Low-latency systems

High-throughput messaging

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering

Tools

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Microservices

REST APIs

WebSocket APIs

Aeron

Hydra

Job description

Forbes Technical Consulting is seeking a Sr. Low Latency Engineer in Chicago to design and build high-throughput trading infrastructure, including exchange and clearing components. The role emphasizes ultra-low-latency systems, distributed architecture, and performance optimization.

You will work with Java, Kafka, and microservices, collaborating with product teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions and participating in on-call rotations. Hybrid in Chicago/New York market focus.