Senior Java Engineer – Hedge Fund
Quant Capital
Overview
In this role you will help build a new risk engine for a high-profile systematic trading hedge fund. You will work on a large, Java-based distributed system that processes real-time data for portfolio management, focusing on performance and scalability. You’ll join a technically ambitious team that values open-source approaches and thoughtful decision-making. The opportunity offers exposure to cutting-edge financial technology and the chance to impact risk and data infrastructure at scale. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to shape robust, low-latency solutions in a calm, performance-driven environment.
Responsibilities- Develop and maintain a large distributed system (Java) handling real-time data for portfolio management
- Help design and expand a data platform from scratch with financial domain input
- Contribute to building a new risk engine for systematic trading clients
- Apply low-level Java and performance-oriented techniques to meet latency requirements
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams in a relaxed, decision-focused culture
- 2:1 Computer Science degree from a UK or EU university
- 10+ years of commercial development experience
- Strong low-level Java experience (Java 8+)
- Experience with Sockets and ByteBuffers
- Strong database skills
- Messaging and code generation expertise
- Fundamental knowledge of OOP, threading, concurrency, and distributed systems
- problem-solving
- self-motivated
- ability to work in a calm, open environment
- Java 8+
- Sockets
- ByteBuffers
Reference: WJ-747_30186837