Java Developer

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Role Overview

As a Java Developer, you will play a pivotal role in developing and optimizing systems for institutional trading platforms. Your responsibilities include engineering scalable backend components, enhancing client-requested tools, and architecting data solutions to improve trading operations.

Responsibilities

• Understand backend technologies supporting institutional trading platforms.
• Create reusable backend components compatible across multiple trading front-ends.
• Architect solutions to optimize scalability between trading infrastructure and frontends.
• Optimize market data communication between web-based technology and on-premise trading systems.
• Build and enhance tools based on client-specific requests to improve user experience.
• Collaborate with the data team to enrich market data with insightful, correlated data events.
• Develop solutions utilizing Microservices architecture, Java Spring framework, REST/WebSocket APIs, and Docker.
• Execute other duties as assigned.
  
  
  

Qualifications & Skills

• 8+ years of experience in Core Java with proven expertise in:
• Multi-threaded development and synchronization patterns.
• Non-allocating development principles.
• Standard collections and advanced sorting/search algorithms.
• Solid understanding of Microservices architecture and performance-oriented system design principles.
• Proficient in Java Spring framework, REST APIs, WebSocket APIs, and Docker.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work effectively in trading and data-driven environments.
• Collaborative mindset with excellent communication skills.
  
  

At.Monks, we believe in fostering an environment where a diversity of perspectives can thrive. We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.

About Monks

Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.

Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.