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£1000 - Outside IR35 Contract – Low Latency Java / Core Trading Platform Engineer

Location: UK or Europe

Contract: Outside IR35

Technology: Java | Low Latency | Distributed Systems | Electronic Trading

I'm working with a major European energy trading organisation that is making a significant investment in its electronic and algorithmic trading capabilities.

They're building out a new digital trading platform, bringing the engineering principles and technology typically associated with investment banks, hedge funds and high-frequency trading firms into the energy markets.

This is a genuinely hands-on engineering opportunity to help design and build the core infrastructure underpinning a modern electronic trading platform.

What you'll be working on:

• Building high-performance, low-latency Java trading infrastructure.
• Developing Order Management Systems (OMS) and exchange connectivity.
• Designing high-throughput market data and messaging infrastructure.
• Building sequencing, replay and recovery mechanisms.
• Developing concurrent, multithreaded and event-driven systems.
• Improving platform resilience, observability and production performance.
• Working directly with traders, quantitative developers and architects.

What we're looking for:

• Strong hands-on Java engineering experience.
• Experience building low-latency, high-throughput or distributed systems.
• Excellent understanding of concurrency, multithreading and Linux.
• Experience with messaging, networking and performance-critical applications.
• Ideally, a background in electronic trading, market data, OMS or exchange connectivity.

Why is this interesting?

This isn't a maintenance role. It's an opportunity to help build a new trading technology platform, influence architectural decisions and work on complex engineering challenges as the business expands its quantitative and algorithmic trading capabilities.

Engineers from hedge funds, investment banks, proprietary trading firms and other high-performance engineering environments would be particularly interesting.

• Outside IR35 contract
• Open to engineers based in the UK or Europe
• Hands-on engineering with significant technical ownership
• Opportunity to build trading infrastructure from the ground up

If you're a strong Java engineer with experience in low-latency or high-performance systems, drop me a message for a confidential conversation.

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