Technical Lead Java Engineer - Ultra Low Latency Trading Systems
Location
london, england
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Engineering
Posted
May 21, 2026
Overview
Technical Lead Java Low Latency Engineers required to help build the next generation of ultra-low latency eTrading and pricing platforms within a leading Front Office FX technology environment.
This is a true Front Office engineering role working directly with trading, quant, and pricing teams on systems operating in the microsecond and millisecond space.
Responsibilities
- Ultra low latency Java development
- FX eTrading and pricing systems
- Garbage Collection optimisation and JVM tuning
- High-performance concurrent programming
- Microsecond/millisecond latency reduction
- Messaging technologies such as Aeron, Kafka, JMS or Solace
- Market data and real-time distributed systems
- Linux performance tuning and systems engineering
- Modern low latency architectures and microservices
- Profiling, benchmarking and performance engineering
- Building and mo...