Senior Java Developer Trading Hub / Capital Markets

Senior Java Developer Trading Hub / Capital Markets

Location: New York, NY / Pittsburgh, PA
Work Model: Hybrid 3 to 4 days onsite per week

COI Requirement: Certificate of Insurance (COI) required

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Senior Java Developer with strong Trading Hub/Capital Markets experience to design, develop, enhance, and support enterprise-grade trading applications. The ideal candidate will have 9 12 years of hands-on Java development experience with a strong understanding of trading systems, financial markets, trade processing, and high-performance distributed applications.

The candidate should have strong expertise in Core Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, REST APIs, messaging technologies, SQL/databases, and distributed systems, along with experience working within financial services or capital markets environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable Java-based applications supporting trading and capital-markets platforms.
• Develop backend services using Java/J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot, and Microservices architecture.
• Work on Trading Hub applications and integrations across trading systems.
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and event-driven services.
• Integrate applications with internal and external trading, market-data, and downstream systems.
• Support trade-processing workflows including trade capture, validation, enrichment, execution, booking, and downstream processing.
• Build high-performance and resilient applications capable of processing large transaction volumes.
• Work with messaging/event-streaming technologies such as Kafka, MQ, JMS, or equivalent platforms.
• Design and optimize database queries using SQL and relational databases.
• Troubleshoot production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and implement permanent fixes.
• Write clean, maintainable, reusable, and well-tested code following enterprise development standards.
• Develop unit and integration tests and participate in code reviews.
• Work with CI/CD pipelines and modern software-development practices.
• Collaborate with business analysts, architects, QA engineers, DevOps teams, and trading/business stakeholders.
• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies and contribute throughout the SDLC.

Required Qualifications

• 9 12 years of professional software-development experience.
• Strong hands-on development experience with Java/J2EE.
• Advanced knowledge of Core Java, including multithreading, concurrency, collections, exception handling, and performance optimization.
• Strong experience with Spring Framework and Spring Boot.
• Hands-on experience developing Microservices and RESTful APIs.
• Experience with Trading Hub, trading applications, or capital-markets systems.
• Good understanding of the trade lifecycle and financial-services technology environment.
• Experience with messaging/event-driven technologies such as Kafka, JMS, IBM MQ, RabbitMQ, or similar.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with relational databases such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server.
• Experience with distributed, highly available, and scalable enterprise applications.
• Strong knowledge of Git, Maven/Gradle, CI/CD, and automated testing.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and analytical skills.

Preferred Skills

• Banking, investment banking, brokerage, or capital-markets experience.
• Knowledge of Equities, Fixed Income, FX, Derivatives, Securities, or other financial instruments.
• Understanding of front-office, middle-office, and back-office trading workflows.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Cloud exposure to AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience with observability/monitoring tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, or AppDynamics.
• Knowledge of application security, authentication, authorization, and secure API development.