Java Developer (FO eTrading Technology)

About Phi Partners

Phi Partners has been a trusted capital markets consultancy for more than 20 years, providing quantitative and technology expertise across front office, pricing and risk.

We support more than 80 financial institutions across the buy-side and sell-side through niche capabilities spanning quant, engineering, vendor platforms and cloud infrastructure.

Our teams work on complex, real-world problems across models, analytics, applications, data and cloud infrastructure, within an international delivery organisation built around regional hubs and specialist centres of excellence.

For people who enjoy technically demanding work in capital markets, Phi offers the opportunity to work closely with expert colleagues and major financial institutions on high-value, business-critical initiatives.

About the Practice

Part of our partnerships with various clients, we are currently expanding our front office eTrading and technology teams to keep pace with the rapid growth in this business. This build is being led by industry-leading front-office and quantitative specialists, bringing deep experience from top-tier investment banks, hedge funds, and asset managers

Our consultants gain exposure to a variety of projects across asset classes and trading functions (including electronic trading, pricing & analytics, execution platforms, and risk technology), with each project typically taking 12 to 18 months. As a firm we engage in a wide range of services including but not limited to:

• Front office and eTrading platform development supporting electronic execution, pricing, and trade workflows
• Low-latency, mission-critical systems for pricing, execution, market connectivity, and regulatory compliance
• Modernisation of legacy trading platforms into scalable, event-driven and microservices-based architectures
• Engineering of high-performance backend systems supporting real-time trading and market data processing

About the Role and Responsibilities

The consultant will be working closely with Front Office stakeholders, quants, and engineering groups to design, develop, and enhance electronic trading platforms and front office systems. This includes multi-year transformation initiatives across trading technology departments to modernise execution platforms, pricing components, and realtime trading services.

The role involves hands-on development across the full software lifecycle, contributing to the build-out of lowlatency services, core trading components, and distributed systems. Consultants will participate in translation, documentation, implementation and systems support and testing of front office eTrading environments.

Main responsibilities will include developing scalable and robust Java services, contributing to distributed and event-driven architectures, implementing core trading and execution workflows, and supporting the ongoing evolution of front office platforms.

Key Skills:

To be successful in the role, the ideal candidate will have a combination of functional and technical skills such as:

• 4+ years of hands-on experience with Java frameworks and libraries such as spring/spring boot, messaging frameworks
• Exposure OR experience in front office eTrading or electronic trading technology, such as execution platforms, or pricing engines, or real-time services, or full trade lifecycle workflows
• Experience in enterprise level java development, with an understanding of JVM fundamentals, multithreading, concurrency, memory management, and performance tuning
• Experience building and supporting distributed systems, including RESTful services, asynchronous processing, and messaging-based architecture
• Practical knowledge of relational databases and SQL, including schema design, performance optimisation, and data modelling
• Awareness of enterprise engineering practices, such as fault tolerance, scalability, logging, monitoring, CI/CD, containerisation, and modern tooling (Git, Maven, Jenkins); Cloud exposure (AWS/Azure) is a plus
• Experience or exposure working in financial services or capital markets environments delivering technology solutions in collaboration with global team
• Strong problem-solving mindset with the ability to sperate in a fast-paced, front office-aligned environments

Nice to have:

• Knowledge in trading concepts such as order management, execution workflows, pricing engines, or understand market connectivity
• Functional Understanding of financial instruments and front office trading workflows

Next steps

This is an excellent opportunity to join a world-leading Capital Markets consultancy which offers the chance to accelerate your career by working with multiple elite financial institutions.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply below. We look forward to speaking with you and discussing your application in more detail at your earliest convenience.

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