Job
- Level
- Senior
- Job Field
- IT, DevOps, Back End
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Frankfurt
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will design and develop high-performance Java components for a low-latency trading platform, continuously optimizing system performance and reliability while delivering new features.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- You will contribute to a high-throughput, low-latency trading platform, with direct impact on business performance:
- Design and develop high-performance Java components for real-time trading systems
- Deliver new features while maintaining strict latency, throughput and resiliency constraints
- Analyse and optimise system performance (CPU, memory, threading, GC)
- Collaborate closely with traders, business analysts, and support teams.
- Participate in production support (L3) and ensure system reliability
- Contribute to architecture evolution and scalability improvements
- Support onboarding of new products and business expansions
- Continuously improve development practices, tooling and automation
- Leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery and code quality
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Our expectations of you
Education
- Master's degree in computer science or equivalent
Qualifications
- Deep expertise in:
- Concurrency, multi-threading, synchronization, executors
- Memory management, collections, streams, generics
- Solid knowledge of:
- Distributed systems, messaging (JMS), APIs (REST/gRPC)
- Unix/Linux environments and SQL
- Knowledge of derivatives/trading systems is a strong plus
- Agile mindset and familiarity with modern CI/CD tooling (Git, Jenkins)
- Fluent English required
- Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset in complex, performance-driven environments
- Ability to work autonomously and take ownership of critical components
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills in an international setup
- Pragmatic, results-driven, and passionate about engineering excellence
Experience
- Strong experience in Core Java (10+ years) in performance-critical environments
- Proven experience in low latency / high throughput systems
- Experience with performance tuning & profiling tools (JMH, JProfiler, VisualVM, etc.)
- Experience with testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito)
- Interest or experience in AI-augmented development (Copilot, LLMs, automation tooling) is a strong advantage
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What we offer
- Work on business-critical systems where milliseconds matter
- Profitieren Sie von einer KI-gestützten Entwicklungsumgebung
- Solve complex technical challenges at scale
- Exposure to global trading activities and stakeholders
- Direct impact on trading performance and revenue generation
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This is your employer
Société Générale
As one of Germany's leading full-service providers of securities services, Société Générale Securities Services GmbH (SGSS) offers fund administration and asset servicing to our institutional clients. We are dedicated to providing comprehensive, high-quality services that meet the needs of our clients. With over 20 years of experience in the industry, we have the knowledge and expertise to provide the best possible service. Contact us today to learn more about what we can do for you.
Description
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Banking, Finance, Insurance
Senior Java Engineer - Low Latency Trading Systems
- Location
- Frankfurt
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
