Senior Java Software Engineer
Posted 3 days ago by Airswift on Linkedin
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior Java Engineer role involves designing and enhancing trading engines for derivatives and structured financial products within an investment banking context. Candidates will work on building scalable systems and refactoring legacy components while leading database migrations and adopting modern architectures. The position requires a strong command of Core Java and algorithmic proficiency, with a focus on performance in a high-volume data environment. This is a contract position based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, with a long-term duration.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and enhance trading engines for derivatives and structured financial products.
- Build scalable systems to support high-volume operations (100s of TBs of data).
- Refactor and decouple legacy components, focusing on MongoDB and modern relational DBs like PostgreSQL.
- Drive cloud readiness, adopt microservices architecture, and contribute to distributed system designs.
- Lead database migrations from legacy systems (e.g., Sybase, DB2) to modern platforms.
Key Skills:
- Strong Core Java expertise, with a focus on performance tuning and optimisation.
- Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, and concurrent distributed environments.
- Proven experience with MongoDB and relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL).
- Familiarity with service-oriented architecture, cloud platforms, and containerised environments.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Belfast
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT