Senior Java Engineer – Fixed Income Electronic Trading

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As the founding entity of RAINBOW PARTNERS, Quanteam is a consulting firm specialized in Banking, Finance, and Financial Services. Through our core human values – proximity, teamwork, diversity, excellence – our 1000 expert consultants, hailing from 35 different nationalities, collaborate across 13 international offices:
Paris, Lyon, New York, Montreal, London, Brussels, Luxembourg, Geneva, Lisbon, Porto, Casablanca, Madrid and Singapore.

We are seeking a Senior Java Engineer to join a front-office technology team supporting a global electronic trading platform for Rates and Fixed Income products (government bonds, swaps, repos, futures). The platform enables algorithmic pricing, quoting, auto-execution, and smart order routing across major trading venues.

This is a front-office role in an algo/HFT environment, where technology is at the core of market-making automation, low-latency execution, and flow internalisation. You will work directly with traders, quantitative analysts, and sales to build and optimize components that operate under high-frequency, real-time conditions.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and optimize low-latency Java components powering algorithmic pricing, quoting, and execution workflows.
• Enhance performance, scalability, and resilience of a high-frequency trading platform.
• Collaborate closely with traders and quants to translate market requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Ensure production stability across global markets, supporting high-volume and spiky trading conditions.
• Contribute to automation and Dev Ops practices (continuous testing, CI/CD, monitoring, rollback).
• Act as a technical reference point within the team, promoting best practices in performance engineering and algo development.

Profile

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related quantitative field.
• 5+ years of core Java development in low-latency, high-frequency trading systems.
• Strong exposure to electronic trading workflows (pricing, execution, booking, connectivity).
• Prior experience in algo trading, smart order routing, or market-making automation is highly valued.
• Technical Skills:
• Java (8+), multi-threading, concurrency, performance tuning.
• Messaging middleware (TCP, JMS, Kafka, etc.).
• Familiarity with C++/JNI or ION Market View is a plus.
• Understanding of Fixed Income products is mandatory.
• Soft Skills:
• Proactive, accountable, and comfortable in a fast-paced front-office environment.
• Strong communicator with both technical and business stakeholders.
• Passionate about high-performance engineering and delivering robust trading solutions.

• Seniority level
  
  Mid-Senior level

• Employment type
  
  Full-time

• Job function Consulting
• Industries
  
  IT Services and IT Consulting and Investment Banking

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