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Senior Java Developer

Selby JenningsAlameda, CA🇺🇸United StatesPosted 2 Sept 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hybrid Senior Java Developer role offers an exciting opportunity to build high-performance, data-intensive systems within a leading technology firm in the capital markets industry, fostering significant growth in distributed systems and backend infrastructure expertise. You'll thrive here if you enjoy tackling complex challenges in performance-sensitive applications and are eager to contribute to a dynamic team focused on reliability and innovation. Apply now to advance your career in a rewarding and impactful environment.

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Full Time
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Alameda, CA, United States
Posted
19 hours ago
SQLJavaKafkaPythonRESTgRPC

Job Description

Senior Java Software Engineer | Market Data & Distributed Systems (No Sponsorships)

A leading technology firm serving the quantitative trading and capital markets industry is seeking a Senior Java Software Engineer to join its data systems team. This is a hybrid opportunity focused on building high-performance systems that process, validate, transform, and distribute large volumes of real-time market data.

This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy working on backend infrastructure, performance-sensitive applications, event-driven systems, and data-intensive platforms where reliability and correctness are critical.

What You'll Do

  • Design and develop Java-based components for high-throughput data processing systems
  • Build solutions that transform, validate, and normalize time-series and event-driven datasets
  • Enhance platform performance, reliability, observability, and test coverage
  • Investigate and resolve production issues related to data quality, latency, throughput, and system behavior
  • Partner closely with domain experts, platform engineers, and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable, maintainable solutions

What We're Looking For

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Strong hands-on Java development experience
  • Background building backend services, distributed systems, or data-processing platforms
  • Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and system design
  • Experience working with multithreaded, asynchronous, or performance-sensitive applications
  • Familiarity with streaming, event-driven, time-series, or large-scale data systems
  • Exposure to cloud environments, monitoring/observability tools, CI/CD, and automated testing
  • Comfortable with Linux/Unix environments, SQL, Python, and scripting tools

Nice to Have

  • Experience within financial markets, trading technology, exchanges, or other high-volume data environments
  • Familiarity with technologies such as Kafka, Protobuf, gRPC, Parquet, REST APIs, and related tooling

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