Full Stack Java Equity Trading Engineer

On-site role in Miami, FL

Full-time role with our client a leading Alternative Investment Management Firm in Miami, FL

Full Stack Java Engineer - Equities Autocallables

The firm is an active, multi-manager, whose business model demands flexible, scalable technology and advanced proprietary systems, including the development of the next generation of analytical and trading capabilities. This role sits within a global team responsible for enhancing and supporting a real-time trade capture platform that processes, normalizes, and enriches the firm’s executions across multiple asset classes, feeding downstream systems including real-time P&L, risk, and reporting. The team is currently focused on equities buildout, with particular emphasis on equities and options, and on integrating with third-party platforms such as Murex and ION.

Role:

• Design, develop, and maintain Java-based services that support a real-time trade capture platform for our autocallable buildout.
• Build and support Kafka-based streaming pipelines to process, normalize, and distribute trading and reference data to downstream systems (P&L, risk, reporting, and analytics).
• Collaborate closely with portfolio managers, traders, operations, and risk teams to translate requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Contribute to the architecture and design of low-latency, high-availability components, including multithreaded and distributed systems.
• Write clean, testable, and well-documented code, including: unit, integration, and regression tests; participate in code and design reviews.
• Build, test, and deploy production-grade AI solutions using generative AI approaches, including LLMs, RAG, fine-tuning, prompt optimization, and agentic workflows.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues related to trading workflows, data integrity, and system performance, including on-call rotation as needed.
• Partner with DevOps/Platform teams to enhance CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and observability (logging, metrics, alerting).

Required Skills:

• 7+ years of professional software development experience with a strong focus on Java 17+ (Core Java, collections, concurrency, JVM fundamentals).
• 2+ years of professional experience with front-end technologies using TypeScript/JavaScript; this role uses Angular.
• Deploy AI-assisted tools and modern developer workflows using MCPs, Agent Architecture, and post-AI evaluations.
• Functional exposure to the investment process, particularly equities, credit, futures, or products, is highly desirable.
• Practical experience with Kafka (designing, building, and supporting streaming/real-time data pipelines), CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins), DevOps tools/practices (e.g., Git, build tools, automated testing, deployment automation), and SQL databases such as Postgres and SQL Server.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and understand existing systems, data models, and business processes, working independently while collaborating effectively with a distributed global team across time zones.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

We look forward to reviewing your profile.

Thank you.

Talent Team @ SIAL TP