Senior Java Developer – London – Fintech

WE ARE: 

At Adaptive, we are a financial consulting firm that partners with capital, commodity, and digital market participants. We value differentiation through technology. Our experienced teams design and deliver complex front-office technology solutions using our proven accelerators to create long-term competitive advantage.

Our clients include the world’s leading investment banks, investment managers, fintechs and capital market service providers. With a global reach with offices in London, New York, Barcelona, Montreal and Manila, we have a proven track record delivering powerful, elegant and intuitive trading technology solutions.

We are expanding our product capability and looking for talented individuals to help build transformational capital markets products including: 

• Aeron - our flagship high-performance messaging infrastructure.
• Hydra - our developer framework for accelerating the development and delivery of trading systems.
• Artio - our market-leading open-source FIX engine.
• Aeron Sequencer - replicated state machines at scale.

 

YOU ARE: 

• A JVM lover who really enjoys working with the latest technologies and design patterns
• Eager to solve complex technical challenges, especially in cloud-based environments and event driven architecture patterns
• Someone looking to work in a collaborative environment, sharing knowledge and helping each other
• Experienced within the Fintech industry

YOU HAVE:

• Significant, professional server-side software development experience
• Solid experience programming using Core Java. Exposure to Java 25+ is a plus
• General familiarity with data structures such as sets, hashes, caches etc
• Experience developing Front Office financial systems, E-Trading and FIX
• Experience in delivering OMS/EMS/Exchange systems
• Exposure to equities trading & brokerage
• General knowledge of data injection/inversion of control
• Experience working in an Agile environment (Scrum, Kanban)
• Exposure to WebSocket

 

WHY US: 

• To be immersed in high-standard engineering culture. Our fantastic team takes pride in crafting complex technical solutions but also loves sharing their knowledge and helping you grow professionally (we have extraordinary minds at Adaptive, you can learn from anyone here, which is the beauty of it)
• To take part in the growth and development of a great company
• Our teams feel free to speak up, make suggestions and raise concerns
• Collaborative team environment: we all work together, respect each other, and pitch in
• Great consideration for work/life balance (highly-flexible, hybrid working model, well-being benefits…). The balance between professional and personal life is massively important to us
• We work hard to provide a positive, collaborative and inclusive culture and to positively impact our staff and local communities through different well-being, diversity and inclusion programmes

WHAT PEOPLE THINK OF US
You can check our Glassdoor page  

BENEFITS  (What we offer in return // what you’ll get )

For permanent employees:

We create benefits with YOU in mind.

• 25 days holiday
• Family medical and dental
• Pension plan
• Season ticket loan
• Gym subsidy
• Life insurance
• Long-term disability insurance
• Employee Assistance Plan

For contractors:

All our contracts are outside IR35

 

THE PROCESS

Long interview processes are stressful and boring and that is not us 

We want to make sure that everything runs smoothly.

So here you will have three stage interviews:
1- A chat with one of our great recruiters.
2- A zoom chat with one of our Java colleagues where they will ask you detailed questions about your experience
3- A Face to Face interview (either in our office or via Zoom). ​​During this interview, we will dig even deeper and you will have a pair programming task to do. You will also have a chat with our local director. 

But don’t worry; everything will be explained to you step by step by your recruiter.

A little tip for you during those stages: 

Collaboration is massively important to us, so don't hesitate to share your thoughts, ask questions, ask for help if needed, etc  

 

DIVERSITY & INCLUSION: 

Diversity and inclusion are key to a great workplace, and Adaptive is better when it’s more representative of the world around us. We want everyone to feel comfortable bringing their whole selves to work without any fear of judgment or negativity. 

All we ask is that our colleagues are respectful, collaborative, passionate about what they do, and have the skills needed to be successful in their roles.

Background check: the employment/engagement is subject to an acceptable background check that will be run by Adaptive