June 12, 2026

Lead Java Engineer (eTrading) – Fixed Income & FX

Senior • Remote

190 - 220 PLN

Warsaw, MZ, Poland

Lead Java Engineer (eTrading) – Fixed Income & FX, 1 year contract with extension via Harvey Nash, Remote

You will:

  • Build and own electronic trading systemsorder management, pricing engines, pre-trade workflows and execution systems

  • Work directly with traders, quants and Front Office stakeholders on Fixed Income and FX trading platforms

  • Design high-performance, low-latency, real-time backend components handling live market data and trade lifecycle

  • Lead a growing team of 2–4 engineers while staying 90% hands-on

  • Drive architecture decisions on distributed trading infrastructure migrating to Kubernetes-based microservices

  • Implement and optimize multithreaded, concurrent systems under real-world production constraints

You bring:

  • 10–15+ years of Java – with deep eTrading or Front Office technology experience

  • Hands-on background in OMS, pricing engines, pre-trade risk or execution systems

  • Strong domain knowledge in Fixed Income, FX, Swaps or Derivatives

  • Production experience with Kafka, JMS or Solace in a trading context

  • Deep Java internals – JVM, garbage collection, memory management, performance tuning

  • Multithreading and concurrency at enterprise scale

  • Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD – production-grade

  • English C1

Nice to have:

  • Solace, Redis, Apache Ignite

  • React or Angular

  • AWS / Azure

  • AI-assisted development (Copilot, Claude Code)

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