Trading Systems Developer – Core JAVA – Cash Equities- South China recruitment

Trading Systems Developer – Core JAVA – Cash Equities- 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 AVP / Vice President level JAVA developer to join their 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 core JAVA based high performance systems is. My client is in the process of improving the performance of their already sub millisecond low latency Cash Equities trading system and are looking for the best technologists. Your role will be to work closely with other members of the team to look outside of the box and push the JAVA language past its limitations. 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.

The successful JAVA developer must speak excellent English with Cantonese or Mandarin language skills as interaction on a global scale is necessary, communication with other offices, clients and users on a daily basis.  

This is an excellent opportunity to enter the finance industry and to join a tier one Investment Bank. For more information, please give me a call on +85225259551 or email me your CV to Winhola.leung@hays.com.hk