Role: Senior Java Engineer - Trading Platforms

Location: Sydney, Australia

Experience: 8-10+ Years

Duration: Permanent

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Java Engineer to design, develop, and support mission-critical trading platform applications within a fast-paced financial services workplace. The ideal candidate will have strong backend engineering expertise, experience working on complex trading or capital markets systems, and the ability to troubleshoot and optimize high-performance applications.

Key Responsibilities

- Design, develop, and maintain scalable Java-based backend services and microservices.
- Build and enhance applications supporting trading, market data, order management, and related business workflows.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, product teams, and engineers to deliver high-quality solutions.
- Perform application troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and performance tuning across production and non-production environments.
- Develop automated testing solutions and ensure code quality through unit and integration testing.
- Create and maintain CI/CD deployment pipelines and DevOps practices.
- Monitor application health, system performance, and operational metrics.
- Contribute to cloud-native and containerized application deployments.




- Participate in code reviews and ensure adherence to engineering best practices.

Required Skills & Experience

- 8-10+ years of hands-on software development experience.
- Strong expertise in:
- Java
- Spring Boot
- Maven
- JUnit / Mockito
- SQL, RDBMS, PostgreSQL
- Git / GitHub
- Docker
- Linux
- Shell Scripting
- Python
- Experience developing and supporting complex, high-availability enterprise applications.
- Strong understanding of system performance optimization and troubleshooting.
- Experience with API development, microservices, and distributed systems.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management abilities.

Preferred Skills

- Kubernetes
- Helm
- ArgoCD
- Grafana / Loki
- Apache Airflow
- AWS (EKS, Aurora, S3)
- AI-assisted development tools and engineering practices

Domain Experience
- Experience working with trading platforms, financial markets, capital markets, market data systems, order management systems (OMS), or execution management systems (EMS) is highly desirable.
- Exposure to high-volume, low-latency, or mission-critical transaction processing environments will be advantageous.

📌 Senior Java Engineer - Trading Platforms (Sydney)
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