Java Architect (Low-Latency & Trading)

Role: Java Architect (Low-Latency & Trading)

Location: NYC NY/Jersey City NJ(2-3 days Onsite/Week)

Full Time Permanent

Description

We are seeking a visionary and highly accomplished technical leader to join our Equities Electronic Trading team as a Senior Vice President. This senior-level position is responsible for driving the strategy, architecture, and execution of our next-generation low-latency execution platform. The core objective of this role is to own the technical innovation and implementation of our algorithmic trading engines, which are foundational to our electronic trading infrastructure. You will leverage state-of-the-art, high-performance Java and microservices architecture to deliver a best-in-class trading platform.

Responsibilities:

• Own and Drive the Architectural Vision : Lead the end-to-end design, development, and optimization of high-performance, ultra-low-latency microservices and applications that define the firm's algorithmic trading capabilities.
• Strategic Implementation : Architect and implement sophisticated trading logic, advanced execution strategies, and novel performance optimizations to guarantee superior execution quality, system resilience, and market leadership.
• Technical Leadership : Lead and set the agenda for technical design sessions and architectural reviews. Uphold and elevate our engineering standards through rigorous code reviews, mentoring senior and junior engineers, and fostering a culture of quality and performance.
• Stakeholder Partnership : Act as a key strategic partner to product development leaders, quantitative researchers, and other senior technology stakeholders to define the product roadmap and deliver transformative trading capabilities.
• Engineering Excellence : Champion and spearhead continuous improvement initiatives across the entire software development lifecycle, including advanced testing frameworks, developer tooling, and CI/CD pipelines tailored for a low-latency, high-throughput environment.
• Complex Problem Resolution : Serve as the ultimate escalation point for the most complex technical challenges, providing expert guidance and solutions based on deep analysis of business requirements, system architecture, and industry-leading practices.
• Architectural Governance : Define and enforce system architecture, data flow patterns, and development standards for coding, testing, debugging, and implementation across the electronic trading platform.
• Platform Resiliency : Architect and deliver robust, scalable solutions for real-time trading platform monitoring, automated trade reconciliation, and seamless application recovery.
• Risk and Control Ownership : Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of progressive, hands-on software development experience, with a distinguished track record in building and leading the development of high-performance, ultra-low-latency systems.
• Expert-level mastery of Core Java, including a profound understanding of JVM internals, advanced concurrency models, garbage collection tuning, and memory management in a latency-sensitive environment.
• Extensive and proven experience architecting and delivering automated trading systems in Equities or similar domains, including smart order routing, benchmark algorithms, and other sophisticated execution strategies.
• Deep expertise in financial market protocols (e.g., FIX) and extensive practical experience designing systems to handle high-volume order and market data.
• Demonstrated experience in designing and scaling distributed systems using a microservices architecture.
• Proven leadership in implementing modern testing frameworks, Agile methodologies, and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) processes.
• Exceptional communication and leadership skills, with the ability to articulate and influence complex technical and business strategy at a senior level.
• Significant experience with messaging and data grid technologies (e.g., Solace, AMPS, Chronicle, KDB+), infrastructure automation (e.g., Ansible), or expertise in other high-performance languages like Rust is highly desirable.
• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience is required; a Master’s degree in a relevant technical field is strongly preferred.