Java (Trading) Engineer

We are looking for an experienced

Senior Java Engineer

to join our Electronic Trading Technology team. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in building low latency, high-performance trading systems for global financial markets.

We regret to inform that only Singaporean or SGPR candidates will be considered.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and optimize low-latency, high-performance Java applications for electronic trading platforms.
• Build scalable, fault-tolerant, and highly available distributed systems capable of processing high volumes of market data and transactions.
• Collaborate with traders, quantitative analysts, product managers, and risk teams to deliver robust trading solutions.
• Optimize application performance through JVM tuning, concurrency, memory management, and network latency reduction.
• Integrate with exchanges, brokers, and market data providers using FIX and other market protocols.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues in mission-critical trading applications.
• Conduct code reviews, mentor engineers, and contribute to architectural decisions.
• Follow engineering best practices, including automated testing, CI/CD, and performance monitoring.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 12\+ years of hands-on Java development experience.
• Strong expertise in Java (Java 11/17/21), multithreading, concurrency, collections, and JVM internals.
• Proven experience

building low-latency, high-throughput, distributed systems.

• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, networking, and Linux.
• Experience with messaging technologies such as Kafka, Solace, Aeron, Chronicle Queue, or similar.
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases, REST APIs, and microservices architecture.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platforms is a plus.

Trading Domain Expertise

• 5\+ years of experience in electronic trading or capital markets.
• Strong understanding of one or more asset classes,

including Equities, Fixed Income, FX, Futures, Options, or ETFs.

• Experience with OMS, EMS, market data platforms, order routing, and the FIX protocol.
• Knowledge of the trade lifecycle, exchange connectivity, market microstructure, and low-latency trading architectures.
• Experience working closely with traders, quants, and front-office stakeholders.