Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Acquire Me is a leading quantitative trading firm seeking a Senior Java Engineer to join their Trading & Execution group. The role involves building and optimizing systems for trade capture, position management, and real-time trading workflows, while ensuring high reliability and low latency.
Responsibilities
- Build and optimise the systems that power trade capture, position management, and real-time trading workflows
- Design distributed platforms capable of processing millions of events with high reliability and low latency
- Work closely with traders, execution teams, and engineers to deliver critical trading infrastructure
- Own major technical initiatives from design through production
Skills
- 7+ years of software engineering experience
- Deep expertise building high-performance Java systems
- Strong understanding of JVM internals, GC optimisation, and low-latency design
- Experience with concurrent programming, lock-free algorithms, and distributed systems
Company Overview
We are a specialist technology recruiting firm dedicated to connecting the brightest and best STEM talent into the most exciting opportunities across the world’s most renowned scientific-led quantitative hedge funds, proprietary trading firms and high-growth start-ups. It was founded in 2018, and is headquartered in City of London, England, GB, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is http://www.acquireme.io.