Java Developer

Join a globally distributed engineering team responsible for building and enhancing strategic trading and risk management platforms supporting high-volume financial markets. The project focuses on a real-time platform that processes large volumes of market and transaction data, delivering low-latency analytics and risk insights to business users. The environment combines modern cloud technologies, event-driven architecture, and large-scale distributed systems.

Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services in Java

Build event-driven and streaming solutions using Apache Kafka

Develop REST APIs supporting real-time business workflows

Contribute to cloud-native applications running on GCP

Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code following TDD practices

Collaborate with architects, analysts, and engineering teams across multiple locations

Support platform modernization, scalability, and performance improvements

Participate in technical design, code reviews, testing, and production support

Troubleshoot and resolve complex production and technical issues

Help drive engineering best practices and continuous improvement initiatives across the team

Strong commercial experience with Core Java development

Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka and Kafka Streams

Experience designing and developing REST APIs

Strong knowledge of Test-Driven Development and automated testing

Experience working with MongoDB

Experience developing solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Understanding of distributed systems, software design patterns, and scalable architectures

Ability to solve complex technical problems

Experience working in Agile, globally distributed teams

Strong communication and collaboration skills

Nice to have:

Java 17, Scala

Spring Boot, Micronaut, Spring WebFlux

Terraform, Docker, GKE, Cloud Run

CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or TeamCity

Experience with real-time, high-throughput systems

Background in capital markets, trading systems, risk management, or market data platforms