Core Java Developer

Description

Job Title: Core Jave Developer

Duration: 18 Month W2 Contract

Location: Jersey City or Pennington, NJ

Required Pay Scale: $60-$68/hour

Job Title: Equities Cash Technology OMS: Core Java Software Engineer

Job Description:

Equities Technology, part of Global Markets Technology, brings together both Electronic Trading Technologies (ETT) and High Touch trading platforms into a unified engineering organization. Specifically, Equities Cash Tech covers a broad set of capabilities, including Client and Market Connectivity, Smart Order Routing, Algorithmic Trading, Internal Crossing Engines, Analytics, Regulatory & Compliance Reporting, as well as High Touch trading applications used by sales traders and execution desks. The platform supports both low-touch electronic execution flows and high-touch trading workflows, enabling seamless interaction with global clients, trading venues, and internal users. This includes real-time order capture, execution management, pricing support, and advanced decision-making tools for traders. ECT teams design, build, and maintain highly scalable, low-latency systems that are critical to supporting diverse trading strategies and client requirements across markets. The team is global with a strong presence in every region (AMRS, EMEA and APAC). We aim to maintain a global perspective while recognizing and responding to specific regional requirements that make each market unique. This role requires a strategic mindset, an ability to understand technology development, transformation and change management, a strong customer service mindset in support of our growing equities trading franchise and an ability to leverage data to manage transparently, identify risks and drive consistent delivery.

This requirement is for a core Java Engineer to design and implement end-to-end solutions for low latency Order

Management applications. Analyze requirements across markets and develop low-latency, high-throughput Core Java applications. As a senior developer, contribute to architecture, and drive engineering excellence. Leverage GenAI and Copilot tools to improve productivity, code quality, and delivery speed.

The ideal candidate will also have:

• Business Knowledge - Understanding of Equities and FFO markets
• Strategic Thinking: Strategic vision, Business knowledge, Innovation & Creativity
• Business Results: Client relationships, Analytical ability, Execution
• Personal Effectiveness: Communication, decisiveness, energy & drive, courage, character

Your Background:

• Responsible for designing and developing complex requirements to accomplish business goals.
• Ensures that software is developed to meet functional, non-functional, and compliance requirements.
• Ensures solutions are well designed with maintainability/ease of integration and testing built-in from the outset.
• Possess strong proficiency in development and testing practices common to the industry and have extensive experience of using design and architectural patterns.
• At this level, specializations start to form in either Architecture, Test Engineering or DevOps. Contributes to story refinement/defining requirements.
• Participates and guides team in estimating work necessary to realize a story/requirement through the delivery lifecycle.
• Performs spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas.
• Codes solutions and unit tests to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements. Utilizes multiple architectural components (across data, application, business) in design and development of client requirements.
• Assists team with resolving technical complexities involved in realizing story work.
• Designs/develops/modifies architecture components, application interfaces, and solution enablers while ensuring principal architecture integrity is maintained.
• Designs/develops/maintains automated test suites (integration, regression, performance).
• Sets up and develops a continuous integration/continuous delivery pipeline. Automates manual release activities.
• Mentors other Software Engineers on CI-CD practices and automating tool stack. Individual contributor.

Required Skills:

Specifically, the following skills are required:

• In depth understanding of core Java API's (collections, concurrency, nio etc) - Must have extensive understanding and proven industrial experience with multithreaded systems, working knowledge of the Java garbage collector, familiar with low latency IO
• AI First approach
• Enthusiastic, passionate engineer able to work closely with project teams in a multi-faceted role
• Automation first mindset across the software development lifecycle, particularly around shift-left testing
• Practical experience within an Electronic Trading environment in an investment bank or similar
• Development practices - Use test driven development and be familiar with UML and OO design. Should have experience with Eclipse/IntelliJ, Jenkins, Git, TeamCity, Gradle and continuous build servers.
• Knowledge of FIX (heart-beating, login, sequence numbers, message types etc)
• In-depth experience of sockets and understanding of network connectivity
• Demonstrable experience of front office system design and architecture
• Team Player - Must be able to work with and help more junior members as well as take technical direction from the team lead.
• Experience with Order Management systems, including analytics
• Experience with Spring framework: Spring Boot, Java, Transactional backend development
• Knowledge in architecting applications for Cloud and/or Containerized Environments
• Practical, hands-on experience with Agile and test-driven development

About Matlen Silver

Experience Matters. Let your experience be driven by our experience. For more than 40 years, Matlen Silver has delivered solutions for complex talent and technology needs to Fortune 500 companies and industry leaders. Led by hard work, honesty, and a trusted team of experts, we can say that Matlen Silver technology has created a solutions experience and legacy of success that is the difference in the way the world works.

Matlen Silver is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, the presence of a non-job-related medical condition or disability, or any other legally protected status.

If you are a person with a disability needing assistance with the application or at any point in the hiring process, please contact us at email and/or phone at: [email protected] // 908-393-8600

At The Matlen Silver Group, Inc., W2 employees are eligible for the following benefits:

• Health, vision, and dental insurance (single and family coverage)
• 401(k) plan (employee contributions only)