Java/Kotlin Software Engineer (Quantitative Trading)

Location: London, UK; hybrid work with office attendance required 4 days per week for 3 weeks of the month and 5 days during the final week.

Company

Quantitative trading and technology firm developing research and trading infrastructure.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain distributed services for ingesting and processing market reference data.
• Deliver Java and JDK upgrade projects across production applications.
• Improve the reliability, scalability, performance, and security of distributed systems.
• Enhance platform observability with telemetry and monitoring tools.
• Work with Kubernetes services, deployment pipelines, CI/CD, and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Collaborate with software engineers, platform teams, and quantitative researchers while using AI-assisted development tools.

Requirements

• Commercial software engineering experience with Java.
• Experience upgrading or modernizing Java applications, preferably through JDK migrations.
• Experience building distributed systems or backend services.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and containerized applications.
• Exposure to observability tools such as OpenTelemetry or similar technologies.
• Interest in building reliable and scalable infrastructure for high-performance systems.

Nice to have

• Experience with Kotlin and/or Python.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent employment.
• Modern software development practices and cloud-native engineering.
• AI-assisted development tools are used to improve productivity and delivery speed.
• Close collaboration with platform engineering and quantitative research teams.