Senior Java Engineer

Senior Java Engineer

Salary: £60,000 - £65,000 DOE

Location: Belfast City Quays | Hybrid | Permanent

Enjoy solving complex engineering challenges and building applications where performance, reliability and scalability really matter?

VANRATH is recruiting for a Senior Java Engineer to join a leading global financial technology business in Belfast.

This is an excellent opportunity to work on high-performance Java applications supporting electronic trading platforms and financial markets worldwide.

You'll join an established, collaborative engineering team working with modern technologies, tackling interesting technical challenges and developing software used in a fast-moving global environment.

What's on offer?

• Salary of £60,000 - £65,000 depending on experience

• Hybrid working with 3 days per week in the Belfast office

• Opportunity to develop high-performance, business-critical applications

• Work alongside experienced engineers on complex technical projects

• Career development and progression within a global organisation

What you'll be doing

• Designing, developing and enhancing backend applications using Java and Spring

• Building reliable, scalable software supporting global trading platforms

• Working with multithreading, concurrency and messaging technologies

• Improving application performance, stability and maintainability

• Collaborating with developers, product teams and stakeholders to deliver new features

• Contributing to automated testing, code quality and continuous improvement

What we're looking for

• Strong commercial experience with Java and Spring Framework / Spring Boot

• Good understanding of multithreading, concurrency and object-oriented programming

• Experience with SQL, Oracle PL/SQL and Linux

• Knowledge of network programming and backend application development

• Experience with automated testing and writing clean, maintainable code

• Familiarity with messaging middleware or event-driven architectures

• Strong problem-solving skills and a collaborative approach to development

Nice to have, but not essential

• Experience within financial services, trading or fintech

• Knowledge of Solace or other messaging technologies

• Exposure to Angular, TypeScript or JavaScript

You don't need previous financial services experience to be considered. If you're a strong Java engineer who enjoys technically challenging backend development, we'd love to hear from you.