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Technical Lead Java Engineer - Ultra Low Latency Trading Systems

📍 Location
london
⏰ Job Type
Full-time
📅 Posted
May 21, 2026

About the Role

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...

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