Senior Software Engineer - Risk & FX (Java)

Location: London, United Kingdom; hybrid position with at least 3 days in the office

Company

hirify.global is a global payments technology company, and Currencycloud operates within hirify.global after its acquisition in December 2021.

What you will do

• Build and maintain FX pricing engines, risk management systems, market data providers, and other mission-critical trading services.
• Process real-time FX market data from providers such as Barclays and JP Morgan using the FIX protocol.
• Design and implement high-throughput, low-latency services for large-scale FX transactions.
• Lead technical discussions on hexagonal architecture, event-driven patterns, and distributed systems.
• Own services end to end, including service boundaries and independent deployment paths.
• Mentor junior engineers and collaborate with Treasury, Trading, Platform, Product, and QA stakeholders.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of software development experience, including at least 2 years building Java microservices.
• Strong Java and SQL skills, including complex queries and relational databases such as MySQL.
• Experience delivering scalable, fault-tolerant, performant, and well-tested production systems.
• Experience with event-based and streaming solutions using Kafka, and applications running on Kubernetes.
• Working knowledge of AWS, Docker, microservices, distributed systems, and DevOps practices.
• Experience working collaboratively in agile, distributed, scale-up environments and reviewing peer code.

Nice to have

• Ability to read Ruby or Scala.
• Experience in the financial domain, particularly risk management.
• Familiarity with Terraform, Spring Boot, OpenAPI, Elasticsearch, Datadog APM, TDD, BDD, and contract testing.
• Experience working with contractors and outsourced teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on a 24x7 API and FX platform supporting large-scale cross-border transactions.
• Independent ownership and deployment paths for services.
• Modern cloud-native codebase using AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, and microservices.
• Agile development with continuous integration, continuous delivery, and GitHub-based peer review.
• Opportunities to make changes with measurable business impact and collaborate across multiple teams.