Core Java Engineer

Genesis10•Jersey City, NJ

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Genesis10 is seeking a Core Java Engineer for a contract position with a Global Financial Institution in Jersey City, NJ. This 12+ month contract role is within the Equities Technology group, focusing on Electronic Trading Technologies and High Touch trading platforms. The engineer will be responsible for designing and implementing end-to-end solutions for low latency Order Management applications, analyzing market requirements, and developing low-latency, high-throughput Core Java applications. As a senior developer, this role involves contributing to architecture, driving engineering excellence, and utilizing GenAI and Copilot tools to enhance productivity.

Requirements

In-depth understanding of core Java APIs (collections, concurrency, nio, etc).
Extensive understanding and proven industrial experience with multithreaded systems.
Working knowledge of the Java garbage collector and familiarity with low latency IO.
AI First approach.
Automation first mindset across the software development lifecycle, particularly around shift-left testing.
Practical experience within an Electronic Trading environment in an investment bank or similar.
Experience with test-driven development, UML, and OO design.
Experience with Eclipse/IntelliJ, Jenkins, Git, TeamCity, Gradle and continuous build servers.
Knowledge of FIX (heart-beating, login, sequence numbers, message types etc).
In-depth experience of sockets and understanding of network connectivity.
Demonstrable experience of front office system design and architecture.
Experience with Order Management systems, including analytics.
Experience with Spring framework: Spring Boot, Java, Transactional backend development.
Knowledge in architecting applications for Cloud and/or Containerized Environments.
Practical, hands-on experience with Agile and test-driven development.

Nice To Haves

Understanding of Equities and FFO markets.
Strategic thinking: strategic vision, business knowledge, innovation & creativity.
Business results: client relationships, analytical ability, execution.
Personal effectiveness: communication, decisiveness, energy & drive, courage, character.

Responsibilities

Design and develop complex requirements to accomplish business goals.
Ensure software is developed to meet functional, non-functional, and compliance requirements.
Ensure solutions are well-designed with maintainability, ease of integration, and testing built-in from the outset.
Contribute to story refinement and defining requirements.
Participate and guide the team in estimating work necessary to realize a story/requirement through the delivery lifecycle.
Perform spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas.
Code solutions and unit tests to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements.
Design, develop, or modify architecture components, application interfaces, and solution enablers.
Design, develop, and maintain automated test suites (integration, regression, performance).
Set up and develop a continuous integration/continuous delivery pipeline.
Mentor other Software Engineers on CI-CD practices and automating tool stack.

Benefits

Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years.
The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.).
Behavioral Health Platform
Medical, Dental, Vision
Health Savings Account
Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
Voluntary Term Life Insurance
401K
Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)