Senior Java Developer, Electronic Trading

Requirements:

• At least 7 years of professional Java development experience, including production-grade enterprise, market data, or electronic trading applications.
• Proven experience using Refinitiv/LSEG Futures and Options market data in electronic trading systems.
• Strong knowledge of market data concepts, exchange feeds, real-time processing, and electronic trading workflows.
• Experience developing, maintaining, or enhancing production electronic trading applications.
• Ability to understand, troubleshoot, and extend complex codebases and shared frameworks.
• Strong software engineering skills focused on performance, scalability, reliability, and algorithmic efficiency.
• Experience planning and delivering phased platform or API migrations while preserving backward compatibility.
• Hands-on experience with Test-Driven Development, automated testing, and regression testing.
• Experience in Agile environments and modern software engineering workflows.
• Familiarity with AI-powered development tools and agents for code analysis, development, testing, and productivity.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with capacity to work independently in a fast-paced client setting.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work effectively with technical and business stakeholders.
• Preferred: Experience migrating from Refinitiv/LSEG RFA to RTSDK or modernizing a comparable market data platform.
• Preferred: Experience with low-latency trading systems and real-time market data processing.
• Preferred: Exposure to framework or library design and shared platform development.
• Preferred: Knowledge of Futures market structure, exchange connectivity, market data normalization, and exchange-specific data behavior.

Responsibilities:

• Compare market data fields available through RFA and RTSDK across supported Futures and Options exchanges.
• Examine how the existing application consumes RFA data and identify equivalent RTSDK solutions.
• Document differences between RFA and RTSDK and evaluate their effects on application behavior, trading workflows, and downstream processing.
• Design and implement Java application and shared framework enhancements for RTSDK, including API integration, performance improvements, and production-ready changes.
• Plan phased migration approaches that preserve backward compatibility during the move from RFA to RTSDK.
• Verify that market data processing, volume counting, and trading functionality remain consistent after migration.
• Create and carry out testing plans, including test-driven development, automated tests, and regression tests.
• Evaluate and improve performance, scalability, and algorithmic efficiency across real-time market data workflows.
• Work with client development, QA, business, and trading stakeholders through analysis, implementation, testing, and rollout.
• Use AI-assisted development tools and agents where suitable to support code analysis, development, code quality, and testing.

Technologies:

• AI
• API
• Support
• Java
• TDD

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We are Business Integration Partners (BIP), a digital consulting company operating across business and technology. With 6,000 employees worldwide, we deliver consulting services across industries, including Financial Services, Capital Markets, Insurance, and Payments, alongside Data & AI, Cybersecurity, Risk & Compliance, Change Management, and Digital Transformation. We are growing our US presence, with locations including New York, Charlotte, Chicago, and Houston. This full-time consulting role supports modernization of a Futures algorithmic trading platform, transitioning market data integration from the deprecated RFA API to RTSDK while maintaining platform functionality and reliability. The base salary range is $130,000–$180,000, with flexibility for exceptional candidates. Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance; voluntary benefits; short- and long-term disability; HSA and FSA plans; a matching 401(k); discretionary performance and employee referral bonuses; an employee assistance program; 11 public holidays; 20 days of PTO; 7 sick days; a PTO buy-and-sell program; volunteer days; paid parental leave; and remote or hybrid work support. We provide equal employment opportunities based on job-related qualifications and ability, and compensation may vary based on factors such as skills, education, experience, and knowledge.

last updated 43 week of 2026