Further details will be provided on applicationJava Electronic Trading Engineer – Front office
London – Hybrid
Java, Low Latency, FIX, SBE, Aeron, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS
The company
Harrington Starr has partnetred with a Global Digial Asset Trading organisation who is looking to hire a Senior Java Electronic Trading Engineer to join a Front Office Development Team based in London.
With a global footprint and a platform spanning trading, asset management, custody and tokenisation, they are scaling out their London trading technology team to build the next generation of crypto trading systems.
Excellent salaries and top benefits package in place to attract the best talent.
What you will get
If you would like to have a confidential conversation and find out more about this opportunity, please apply via link.
London – Hybrid
Java, Low Latency, FIX, SBE, Aeron, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS
The company
Harrington Starr has partnetred with a Global Digial Asset Trading organisation who is looking to hire a Senior Java Electronic Trading Engineer to join a Front Office Development Team based in London.
With a global footprint and a platform spanning trading, asset management, custody and tokenisation, they are scaling out their London trading technology team to build the next generation of crypto trading systems.
Excellent salaries and top benefits package in place to attract the best talent.
What you will get
- Up to £160,000 basic depending on experience.
- Discretionary bonus and equity / share schemes.
- Company-paid health and protective benefits for you and your dependents.
- Access to continuous learning, mentoring and personal growth.
- Free virtual coaching and counselling sessions.
- Hybrid working with a strong London office presence.
- Smart, entrepreneurial colleagues at the cutting edge of digital assets.
- Build the next generation of low-latency crypto trading systems from the ground up.
- Develop core server-side Java components across order management, market connectivity, low latency messaging and price distribution.
- Work deep in the stack — performance profiling, optimisation and tuning under live trading conditions.
- Collaborate closely with front office traders, quants and product teams.
- Own issues end-to-end — from design through to production support.
- Contribute to the technical strategy of a fast-growing trading platform.
- 10+ years of relevant Java development experience in a front office environment.
- Excellent core Java skills and exceptional knowledge of concurrency and multithreaded programming.
- Proven experience developing low latency pricing and trading systems in a Linux environment.
- Strong application performance profiling and optimisation skills.
- Experience working in a low latency, zero GC environment (eFX or similar a strong plus).
- Knowledge of institutional encodings (FIX, SBE) and low latency messaging (e.g. Aeron, 29West).
- Familiarity with fault tolerant, high availability, distributed computing.
- Crypto / digital asset experience or genuine curiosity about the space.
If you would like to have a confidential conversation and find out more about this opportunity, please apply via link.
