Senior Java Backend Developer

Role Description

Job Role: Sr. Java Backend Developer

Job Location: Mississauga, Ontario

Job Description

The evolution of electronic trading and automation has changed the way that rates products trade forever driving a need for real‑time low latency pricing, market making and risk technology. In this increasingly electronic and competitive landscape, the client is a key player due to its leading e‑Trading platform and investment in technology.

The Rates e‑Trading team is responsible for the client’s electronic connectivity and distribution platform enabling our Rates business to achieve its market‑leading position. Our competitive advantage is our technology and having a platform that provides an exceptional and dependable trading experience.

We are looking for a talented and passionate developer to continue to evolve our next‑generation trading applications. The role requires a detailed understanding of software design best practices along with strong technical ability. This is a challenging and exciting opportunity to work on high‑profile trading applications. The team works closely with end users, gaining direct exposure to the fast‑paced world of front‑office trading and finance.

Job Background Context

Fixed Income Technology is responsible for delivering state‑of‑the‑art technology solutions to the Global Rates business. Initiatives include deliveries across sales, risk, pricing, algorithmic trading, execution, trade processing and much more.

The Fixed Income business has set out an ambitious growth plan, and strong technical development is critical to achieving our goals and enhancing our leading position in the financial market.

Job Responsibilities

• Designing and developing front‑office e‑Trading applications to the trading business.
• Working directly with traders, sales and quants to shape the future direction of the platform.
• Utilizing creativity and innovation to improve the technical capabilities of the platform, ensuring it remains stable, flexible and maintainable.
• Driving engineering standards and continuously striving for best.
• Enhancing our automated testing efforts and optimizing our UAT process.
• Troubleshooting challenging performance and scalability issues.
• Assisting in third‑line support during core trading hours.
• Liaising with the global business support and development teams on various exciting projects.

Job Opportunities

• Build a strong profile in a high‑performance global team (London, Paris, NY, Mississauga, Shanghai, Sydney, Tokyo).
• Learn and apply low‑latency programming solutions.
• Develop efficient and robust solutions to challenging business problems.
• Work on a globally distributed team to deliver the next‑generation e‑Trading experience for traders at client.
• Gain knowledge and exposure to front‑office trading systems, Fixed‑Income and derivatives flows.

Qualifications

Required

• 7 years of experience in server‑side Core Java and multithreading.
• Experience with Spring framework, Linux, relational databases.
• Solid architectural understanding of enterprise applications.
• Experience with modern software development practices such as Agile development, test‑driven development, and continuous integration and continuous delivery.
• Understanding of computing science fundamentals: concurrency, algorithms, data structures, design patterns, etc.

Preferred

• Experience developing large financial software trading systems with substantial hands‑on development experience in building systems with an attention to optimizing and tuning performance while also demonstrating critical thinking skills related to reuse, scalability and troubleshooting.
• Knowledge of major fixed‑income products (repo, US Treasuries, interest‑rate swaps and broker‑customer markets, electronic trading flows).
• Worked in an Agile globally distributed team using tools such as Jira, GitHub, Sonar, TeamCity.
• Worked with tools such as IntelliJ, Gradle, etc.
• Experience with ION.
• Experience with JSON, XML and REST service.
• KDB experience.
• Experience with AI tools Copilot, Claude, Devin.

Education

• Bachelors degree / University degree or equivalent experience.
• Masters degree preferred.

Competencies

• Excellent communication skills, oral and written ability to face off to business users.
• Good teamwork skills and the ability to work in a distributed global team environment.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills.
• Self‑motivated with the determination to learn and achieve his/her goals.
• Flexible and able to deliver quality results in the required timeframe.
• Experience in full life‑cycle development.
• Ability to inspire and raise the level of his/her team.

Skills

• Mandatory: Java, Spring, SpringBoot, SpringMVC.

Vacancy Type

New Vacancy

Benefits and Perks

• Comprehensive medical plan covering medical, dental, vision.
• Health care spending account.
• Short‑term and long‑term disability coverage.
• Life insurance.
• Annual vacation and other paid leaves.
• Maternity leave top‑up pay.

Disclaimer

The compensation and benefits information provided herein is accurate as of the date of this posting.

Accessibility and Reasonable Accommodation

The company has an accommodation process in place and provides accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If you require a specific accommodation because of a disability or a medical need, please write to us at so that arrangements can be made for the appropriate accommodations to be in place.

Benefits

Compensation range: $90,000.00 to $125,000.00 per year.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

The company is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity in the workplace. Our employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, family‑care status, veteran status, marital status, civil union status, domestic partnership status, military service, handicap or disability or history of handicap or disability, genetic information, atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait, union affiliation, affectionate or sexual orientation or preference, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law, except where such considerations are bona fide occupational qualifications permitted by law.

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