Senior Software Engineer; Java

Role Overview

TP ICAP are looking for a Senior Java Developer delivering low‑latency, highly available trading system components with deep expertise in Java, FIX connectivity, and distributed real‑time messaging. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, building, and optimising mission‑critical trading services across multiple asset classes.

• Design and implement distributed, fault‑tolerant Java services for electronic trading environments
• Lead performance tuning, optimisation, and refactoring of low‑latency trading components
• Investigate and resolve production issues, ensuring system stability and high availability
• Collaborate with global teams, including Architecture, Dev Ops, and Product Mentor and guide engineers to improve technical capability and engineering standards

• Strong experience designing and building high‑performance, low‑latency Java services within electronic trading
• Strong experience with distributed messaging technologies (Solace/Kafka) and real‑time systems
• Strong experience designing and building event‑driven systems deployed to cloud environments (AWS, EC2, EKS, Kubernetes)
• Experience with memory architectures and network performance in low latency platforms
• Experience with Maven or Gradle (Maven preferred), and JUnit
• Experience in Git or other source control systems
• Experience in CI/CD concepts
• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across globally distributed engineering, product, and operations teams
• Knowledge of FX, Credit, or Commodities electronic trading flows
• Knowledge of FIX engines and market connectivity workflows
• Knowledge of Linux engineering, troubleshooting, and performance optimisation
• Experience with Spring Boot or Google Guice dependency injection frameworks
• Experience with observability stacks (Open Telemetry, Grafana)
• Experience with distributed caching solutions such as Hazelcast
• Experience with BDD and automation frameworks (Cucumber)