Java Full Stack Engineer

Immediate need for a talented Java Full Stack Engineer. This is a 06+months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Jersey City, NJ(Onsite). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job ID:26-32563

Pay Range: $65 - $75/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect and develop distributed, event-driven trading systems optimized for low latency and high throughput.
• Design and implement asynchronous processing frameworks and resilient messaging services.
• Collaborate with internal and external teams to deliver robust, end-to-end trading workflows.
• Lead performance tuning and optimization efforts across the platform.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote engineering best practices.
• Support production and non-production environments, including participation in a weekly on-call rotation.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• 10+ years of hands-on software design and development experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent.
• Expertise in Java, Python, and Linux.
• Deep experience with low latency messaging systems (e.g., 29West, Kafka).
• Proficiency in KDB or other time-series databases.
• Strong background in building scalable, distributed, asynchronous, and event-driven applications.
• Advanced knowledge of low latency design patterns and performance optimization techniques.
• Experience with Client Markets or Brokerage systems, especially order management.
• Solid understanding of the FIX protocol and FIX engines.
• Worked with AI developer assist tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot).
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub, Maven, Jenkins, Artifactory, and uDeploy.
• Hands-on experience deploying applications to AWS or other cloud platforms.

Our client is a leading Financial Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.

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