Senior Java Developer

Selby Jennings Ltd
  • Oakland, CA
    22 days ago

    Job Description

    Senior Java Software Engineer | Market Data & Distributed Systems (No Sponsorships)

    A leading technology firm serving the quantitative trading and capital markets industry is seeking a Senior Java Software Engineer to join its data systems team. This is a hybrid opportunity focused on building high-performance systems that process, validate, transform, and distribute large volumes of real-time market data.

    This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy working on backend infrastructure, performance-sensitive applications, event-driven systems, and data-intensive platforms where reliability and correctness are critical.

    What You'll Do

    • Design and develop Java-based components for high-throughput data processing systems
    • Build solutions that transform, validate, and normalize time-series and event-driven datasets
    • Enhance platform performance, reliability, observability, and test coverage
    • Investigate and resolve production issues related to data quality, latency, throughput, and system behavior
    • Partner closely with domain experts, platform engineers, and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable, maintainable solutions

    What We're Looking For

    • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
    • Strong hands-on Java development experience
    • Background building backend services, distributed systems, or data-processing platforms
    • Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and system design
    • Experience working with multithreaded, asynchronous, or performance-sensitive applications
    • Familiarity with streaming, event-driven, time-series, or large-scale data systems
    • Exposure to cloud environments, monitoring/observability tools, CI/CD, and automated testing
    • Comfortable with Linux/Unix environments, SQL, Python, and scripting tools

    Nice to Have

    • Experience within financial markets, trading technology, exchanges, or other high-volume data environments
    • Familiarity with technologies such as Kafka, Protobuf, gRPC, Parquet, REST APIs, and related tooling

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationOakland, CA

    Skills

    • Algorithmsunmatched
    • Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
    • Capital Marketsunmatched
    • Cloud Computingunmatched
    • Concurrencyunmatched
    • Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
    • Continuous Integrationunmatched
    • Data Processingunmatched
    • Data Qualityunmatched
    • Data Setsunmatched
    • Data Structuresunmatched
    • Distributed Computingunmatched
    • Engineeringunmatched
    • Environmental Monitoringunmatched
    • High Throughputunmatched
    • Javaunmatched
    • Large-Scale Systemsunmatched
    • Linux Operating Systemunmatched
    • Machine Toolunmatched
    • Multithreaded Programmingunmatched
    • Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
    • Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
    • REST (Representational State Transfer)unmatched
    • SQL (Structured Query Language)unmatched
    • Scripting (Scripting Languages)unmatched
    • Software Engineeringunmatched
    • Stock Marketunmatched
    • Test Automationunmatched
    • Testingunmatched
    • Trading Systemsunmatched
    • Unix Operating Systemsunmatched

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