Java Software Engineer - Equities Risk (AVP)

Location: London (Hybrid)
Salary: Up to £95,000 + bonus + benefits
Permanent

A leading Tier 1 investment bank is hiring a Java Software Engineer to join a front-office aligned Equities Risk technology team in London.

This is a high-impact role focused on building low-latency, high-throughput systems that underpin real-time risk and P&L functions for trading desks. You'll work closely with traders, quants, and senior technologists to enhance platform performance, resilience, and scalability in a fast-moving market environment.

The Opportunity

You'll be part of a team driving the evolution of a critical risk platform, with a strong focus on:

• Improving latency, performance, and platform efficiency
• Building event-driven, distributed systems handling large volumes of market data
• Developing containerised Java services within a modern cloud-native stack
• Working in a front-office environment with direct business exposure

This is an ideal opportunity for an engineer who enjoys solving complex problems at scale and wants their work to have a direct impact on trading performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop high-performance Java applications supporting equities risk systems
• Build scalable, maintainable, and resilient services in a distributed architecture
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and deliver technical solutions
• Contribute to code quality, testing practices, and engineering standards
• Ensure systems are robust under stress (market spikes, failures, data issues)
• Support continuous improvement of platform performance and reliability

Required Experience

• Strong core Java development skills with solid computer science fundamentals
• Deep understanding of concurrency (threads, executors, immutability, etc.)
• Experience building event-driven or near real-time systems
• Familiarity with containerised environments (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Strong awareness of production systems (observability, resilience, failure handling)

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.