Java – Low Latecy – High Frequency Trading recruitment

A tier 1 investment bank is looking to appoint a Java Developer to their Foreign Exchange/ FX team to extend and support the low latency trading system to a new asset class within the business.

Candidates are expected to have extensive experience of writing multi-threaded, low latency trading applications and have a solid understanding of sockets and the workings of Java VM. Core areas platform include a trading execution engine, interaction and messaging between federations of trading/ pricing engines and order-management and risk/ position management.

Key skills/ experience required is server side/ Core Java, low latency, multi-threading, SQL, OO, Maven and ANT build systems and good experience of operating within a front office environment. Specific FX and/ or Commodities knowledge is not necessary for this post