Lead Java Engineer (eTrading) – Fixed Income & FX

Lead Java Engineer (eTrading) – Fixed Income & FX, 1 year contract with extension via Harvey Nash, Remote

You will:

• Build and own electronic trading systems – order management, pricing engines, pre-trade workflows and execution systems

• Work directly with traders, quants and Front Office stakeholders on Fixed Income and FX trading platforms

• Design high-performance, low-latency, real-time backend components handling live market data and trade lifecycle

• Lead a growing team of 2–4 engineers while staying 90% hands-on

• Drive architecture decisions on distributed trading infrastructure migrating to Kubernetes-based microservices

• Implement and optimize multithreaded, concurrent systems under real-world production constraints

You bring:

• 10–15+ years of Java – with deep eTrading or Front Office technology experience

• Hands-on background in OMS, pricing engines, pre-trade risk or execution systems

• Strong domain knowledge in Fixed Income, FX, Swaps or Derivatives

• Production experience with Kafka, JMS or Solace in a trading context

• Deep Java internals – JVM, garbage collection, memory management, performance tuning

• Multithreading and concurrency at enterprise scale

• Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD – production-grade

• English C1

Nice to have:

• Solace, Redis, Apache Ignite

• React or Angular

• AWS / Azure

• AI-assisted development (Copilot, Claude Code)