Senior Software Engineer (Java)

Salary: £70,000 - 82,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong experience designing and building high-performance, low-latency Java services within electronic trading
• Strong experience with distributed messaging technologies (Solace/Kafka) and real-time systems
• Strong experience designing and building event-driven systems deployed to cloud environments (AWS, EC2, EKS, Kubernetes)
• Experience with memory architectures and network performance in low latency platforms
• Experience with Maven or Gradle (Maven preferred), and JUnit
• Experience in Git or other source control systems
• Experience in CI/CD concepts
• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across globally distributed engineering, product, and operations teams
• Experience with FX, Credit, or Commodities electronic trading flows
• Knowledge of FIX engines and market connectivity workflows
• Knowledge of Linux engineering, troubleshooting, and performance optimisation
• Experience with Spring Boot or Google Guice dependency injection frameworks
• Experience with observability stacks (Open Telemetry, Grafana)
• Experience with distributed caching solutions such as Hazelcast
• Experience with BDD and automation frameworks (Cucumber)

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement distributed, fault-tolerant Java services for electronic trading environments
• Lead performance tuning, optimisation, and refactoring of low-latency trading components
• Investigate and resolve production issues, ensuring system stability and high availability
• Collaborate with global teams, including Architecture, DevOps, and Product
• Mentor and guide engineers to improve technical capability and engineering standards

Technologies:

• AWS
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Cucumber
• DevOps
• EC2
• Git
• Gradle
• Grafana
• JUnit
• Java
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Maven
• Network
• Spring
• Spring Boot

More:

We are TP ICAP Group, a world-leading provider of market infrastructure. Our purpose is to provide clients with access to global financial and commodities markets by improving price discovery, liquidity, and data distribution through responsible and innovative solutions. We connect clients to superior liquidity and data solutions through our people and technology. We operate from more than 60 offices in 27 countries and employ 5,300 people. We are committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone can flourish, and our TP ICAP Accord employee network supports awareness, collaboration, best practice, and continuous cultural improvement. This is a full-time Senior Java Developer role based in London (135 Bishopsgate), offered at Manager / Level 6, with a hybrid working arrangement.

last updated 34 week of 2026