JAVA Developer- Trading Systems Developer – South China recruitment

JAVA Developer- Trading Systems Developer – South China

JAVA, Threading, Generics, Garbage collection, performance tuning, memory management, TCP/IP, data structures, algorithms, Cash Equities, Trading

Tier 1 Investment Bank based in South China requires an experienced developer to join their rapidly expanding Cash Equities Trading business.

Essential Skills: Excellent core JAVA (NOT J2EE) multi-threading, i/o, generics, garbage collection; experience of developing highly transactional distributed low latency applications; performance tuning; memory management; understanding of how the JVM works; TCP/IP; understanding of data structures and algorithms.

The successful candidate will act as a senior developer in the extension and support of the global Cash equities trading system. The candidate will be expected to be comfortable with low level computing and networking concepts as the use of 3rd party libraries or applications is severely limited.

Prior Investment Banking experience is not a pre-requisite but excellent working experience of developing JAVA high performance systems is. My client is in the process of improving the performance of their already sub millisecond low latency trading system and are looking for the best technologists. At present the system is able to process over 600, 000 events per second and the intention is to improve on this so that the system can remain the best in the City.

For more information, please send your CV to Winhola.Leung@hays.com.hk or call in to +85225259551