Technical Lead Java Engineer - Ultra Low Latency Trading Systems
Location
london, england
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Engineering
Posted
May 31, 2026
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.
My client is looking for highly technical engineers with experience across:
- 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 ...