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Senior Data Engineer - Java

The Cypress Group

Job Description

Job Description

Senior Software Engineer – Data Engineering

Role Overview

Our client, a leading global financial technology firm, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join its Data Engineering team.

This team designs, builds, and supports large-scale, fault-tolerant data platforms that power mission-critical electronic trading systems. The platform processes billions of events every day , capturing real-time trading activity for regulatory reporting, analytics, business intelligence, and market data products. Engineers on this team build highly available, high-performance systems that serve as a core competitive advantage for the business.

This is a hands-on engineering role in a fast-paced environment where you'll develop scalable software focused on big data, distributed systems, and real-time analytics while partnering closely with business and technology stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, test, and maintain highly available, fault-tolerant software processing billions of data events each day.
  • Drive architectural decisions that improve scalability, resiliency, maintainability, and performance.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver innovative technical solutions.
  • Identify opportunities to improve system performance, user experience, and operational efficiency.
  • Build and maintain APIs and tools for querying, summarizing, and analyzing large datasets.
  • Develop automated monitoring, alerting, and health-check capabilities for production systems.
  • Generate reporting solutions that provide actionable business insights.
  • Maintain technical documentation and promote engineering best practices.
  • Utilize AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor, etc.) to improve engineering productivity and software quality.

Required Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Strong Java development experience (3+ years)
  • Experience with PostgreSQL or another relational database
  • Linux/Unix development experience, including shell scripting
  • Experience with Git or other version control systems
  • Passion for building high-performance, data-intensive applications
  • Strong understanding of software design patterns, data structures, and algorithms
  • Experience using AI tools throughout the software development lifecycle
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills
  • Ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience building distributed systems or big data platforms
  • Financial services, capital markets, or electronic trading experience
  • Experience with market data, real-time analytics, or event-driven architectures
  • Knowledge of high-availability, low-latency system design

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