Senior eFX Java Developer at Quanteam, London, £Contract Rate

Senior EFX Developer

CONTEXT

The FX electronic trading business is executing a strategic renewal programme that involves gradual and complete overhaul of the core pricing and trading systems.

The IT team comprises 80+ people across UK, Spain and Poland, and Latam, supported by BAs, Product Owners and QA, although we are organised into smaller functional squads of around 10 people each.

We currently have a tech stack comprising of various vendor products and in-house built Java components. We are actively migrating the vendor products to our own Java based solutions.

In addition, we are building ground up, our core pricing, hedging, and booking systems, using a blend of products and custom coding using the latest and best-in-class technologies.

We are also redesigning everything from the market connectivity adapters (e.g. Bloomberg, FxAll, 360T), pricing engines, risk engines, hedging circuits, to regulatory reporting modules and data lakes.

The ideal candidate will be a senior contributor specialised in low latency multi-threaded development using protocols/products like FIX, REST, Hazelcast, Aeron, Kafka. They will be focused in designing for low level performance, reliability, and scalability to handle larger pricing and trade volumes. Instrumentation and observability are also extremely important.

They should hit the ground running and be able to help with mentoring junior members of the team, leading by example though promotion of coding and testing best practices, whilst consistently shipping reliable code to production.

ESSENTIAL SKILLSET/EXPERIENCE
• Core Java 17+
• Low latency development techniques (zero GC/copy)
• Performance tuning, GC and OS optimization
• FIX protocol
• Low latency messaging (Aeron), optimised data transports (SBE, protobuf), Agrona, Chronicle
• FX knowledge or similar eTrading domain - pricing/trading/hedging/liquidity management, spot/fwd/NDF products
• RFQ & Streaming trading protocols, market-making, order management
• Grid compute/distributed caching (Hazelcast, Redis, Coherence or similar)

Hybrid 1 day per week in London office (Triton Square)