McGregor Boyall
Senior Low-Latency Java Engineer - London
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I'm working with a leading global investment bank looking for an exceptional low-latency engineer to join its specialist electronic trading technology team.
This is a highly hands-on position—around 90% coding—building Java and Rust event-sourcing frameworks that support algorithmic trading platforms across the bank.
The technology operates at serious scale, with response times in the 10-100 microsecond range.
We're looking for experience in:
- Modern Java and JVM performance optimisation
- Low-latency algorithmic trading systems
- Market data and back-testing/simulation tools
- Linux internals, system calls and kernel tuning
- TCP/IP and kernel-bypass technologies
- Event-driven or event-sourcing microservices
- Performance analysis and targeted optimisation
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Experience with KDB, Rust or C++ would be highly advantageous.
📍 London - hybrid working, with up to two days from home
💷 £Excellent basic plus strong bonus potential
This is an excellent opportunity for someone who remains passionate about hands-on engineering while also enjoying technical leadership and mentoring others.
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Desired Skills and Experience
- Java
- Low-Latency Systems
- Electronic Trading
- Algorithmic Trading
- JVM
- Market Data
- Linux
- Performance Tuning
- Event-Driven Architecture
- Microservices
- Multithreading
- TCP/IP
- Kernel Bypass
- KDB+
- Rust
- C++
- Backtesting
- Trading Systems
- Financial Markets Technology
- System Architecture
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