Contract Senior Java Engineer- Outside IR35
Quant Capital
Senior Java Engineer – Hedge Fund
Contract Outside IR35
Jan Start
Hybrid
Quant Capital is urgently looking for a Senior Java Engineer to join our high profile client.
Our client is a well known Systematic Trading Hedge Fund. They like technology especially the opensource variety as well as scalability and robust performance (much like their track record). They currently run around 2 billion in liquid capital.
The business has expanded continuously and is building a new risk engine for their systematic fund clients. This role will be working with a large distributed system (Built in Java) automating a large volume of realtime data into a portfolio management system. I am looking for a proficient developer with good data knowledge and an understanding of latency.
I am looking for an engineer with strong core Java knowledge who is happy to learn risk. You should be happy to expand a data platform from scratch with some serious help on the financial side.
The Java Engineer Must have:
- 2:1 Computer Science degree
- 15+ years plus commercial development experience
- Strong and demonstrable low-level Java experience
- Strong Database skills
- AWS
- Code generation
- Currently using Java 8 +
- Object orientated programming, threading, concurrency and distributed systems
My client is based in Central London but does not require office work unless a core meeting is called.
Distributed Systems , Scale, Java, EC2, DevOps, Linux, AWS, Java, CLoudwatch
Reference: WJ-5641_4151 · Posted 02 Nov 2026, 08:17 PM