Senior Software Engineer (Java)

The TP ICAP Group is a world leading provider of market infrastructure. 

Our purpose is to provide clients with access to global financial and commodities markets, improving price discovery, liquidity, and distribution of data, through responsible and innovative solutions.  

Through our people and technology, we connect clients to superior liquidity and data solutions. 

The Group is home to a stable of premium brands. Collectively, TP ICAP is the largest interdealer broker in the world by revenue, the number one Energy & Commodities broker in the world, the world’s leading provider of OTC data, and an award winning all-to-all trading platform. 

The Group operates from more than 60 offices in 27 countries.  We are 5,300 people strong.  We work as one to achieve our vision of being the world’s most trusted, innovative, liquidity and data solutions specialist. 

Role Overview 

TP ICAP are looking for a Senior Java Developer delivering low‑latency, highly available trading system components with deep expertise in Java, FIX connectivity, and distributed real‑time messaging. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, building, and optimising mission‑critical trading services across multiple asset classes. 

Role Responsibilities 

• Design and implement distributed, fault‑tolerant Java services for electronic trading environments 

• Lead performance tuning, optimisation, and refactoring of low‑latency trading components 

• Investigate and resolve production issues, ensuring system stability and high availability 

• Collaborate with global teams, including Architecture, DevOps, and Product 

• Mentor and guide engineers to improve technical capability and engineering standards 

Experience / Competences 

Essential 

• Strong experience designing and building high‑performance, low‑latency Java services within electronic trading 

• Strong experience with distributed messaging technologies (Solace/Kafka) and real‑time systems 

• Strong experience designing and building event-driven systems deployed to cloud environments (AWS, EC2, EKS, Kubernetes) 

• Experience with memory architectures and network performance in low latency platforms 

• Experience with Maven or Gradle (Maven preferred), and JUnit 

• Experience in Git or other source control systems 

• Experience in CI/CD concepts 

• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across globally distributed engineering, product, and operations teams 

Desired 

• Experience with FX, Credit, or Commodities electronic trading flows 

• Knowledge of FIX engines and market connectivity workflows 

• Knowledge of Linux engineering, troubleshooting, and performance optimisation 

• Experience with Spring Boot or Google Guice dependency injection frameworks 

• Experience with observability stacks (Open Telemetry, Grafana) 

• Experience with distributed caching solutions such as Hazelcast 

• Experience with BDD and automation frameworks (Cucumber) 

 Job Band & Level  

• Manager / 6