Senior Java Software Engineer - Quant Trading

Durlston Partners
London, UK
13 days ago
Apply on www.collegerecruiter.com
Prepare application

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Compensation
£130,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) Multithreading Concurrency Low Latency

Requirements

  • Strong academic background in CompSci or Engineering.
  • Proven experience in Financial Services (Tier 1 Investment Bank or Buy-Side).
  • Expert-level Java skills (concurrency, multithreading).
  • Experience with low-latency systems or electronic trading.

Benefits & conditions

  • Competitive compensation (up to £130k) with significant bonus potential.
  • Work with talented traders and technologists.
  • Fast-paced, meritocratic environment.
  • Direct impact: your work directly drives PnL and trading strategies.

About the company

Durlston Partners is working with a leading Quant Trading firm that is looking for a Senior Java Developer to join their team.

You’ll work closely with traders and quants to design and build low-latency trading platforms. This is a hands-on role where you’ll develop high-throughput systems, optimise performance, and solve complex engineering challenges in a fast-paced financial environment.

Apply for this position

This job is hosted externally. Click below to view the full posting and apply.

Apply on www.collegerecruiter.com
Prepare application

Good distractions

Talks and stories from around this role — technically off-topic, practically not.

5:59 min

Analyzing concurrency bottlenecks in standard serverless architectures

Marco Plaul Marco Plaul +1 · World Congress 2023

5:48 min

Balancing delivery latency with stream reliability and scale

Phil Cluff · LIVE

3:13 min

Multithreading basics and physical versus logical threads

Grzegorz Lang · World Congress 2022

1:45 min

Building IT systems for global finance markets

Anastasia Troitskaya Anastasia Troitskaya · World Congress 2024

2:37 min

Managing concurrent tasks with structured concurrency

Ron Veen Ron Veen · World Congress 2025

4:45 min

The impact of latency on modern Java applications

Markus Kett Markus Kett · World Congress 2022

Videos

See all

Related articles

See all