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Paritas Recruitment

Java Software Engineer

Hybrid

London, United kingdom

Full Time

06-11-2025

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Skills

DevOps Test Networking Architecture Linux Software Development Agile

Job Specifications

eFX Software Engineer - Permanent

Location: London, United Kingdom

Remote First working model - Minimum 2 Days a month in office

Salary: Highly competitive Market Rate on offer - DoE

Paritas is working with a Tier-1 Financial institution who are looking to add a senior hire to their Digital team in the shape of an eFX Software Engineer.

It is essential for candidates to poccess significant experience in Software Engineering, Software or Database Design & Architecture alongside exposure to software development within a DevOps & Agile Framework. This role will also require expert understanding of the latest market trends, technologies and tools with expert knowledge in FX products.

Within this position you will create great customer outcomes via engineering and innovative solutions to existing and new challenges, and technology designs which are innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust.

Alongside this, leading some significant, complex and technically challenging assignments, coordinating multiple feature teams, making sure that their technical journeys support realisation of the targets and deliver value to the wider business.

You will need to have the following skills for this opportunity:

An understanding of modern CPU architectures, cache optimisation techniques and Linux optimisation, and kernel knowledge
In-depth networking and messaging knowledge of networking and messaging protocols such as TCP, UDP, UPC, Multicast and FIX, along with the ability to understand and diagnose packet captures
Experience with quantitative financial instrument and algorithmic trading
Expertise in implementing controls within automated trading systems, working collaboratively with other teams
Significant and demonstrable experience of test-driven development and using automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools
A background in designing or implementing APIs
The ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate product and business requirements into technical solutions
A background of working with code repositories, bug tracking tools and wikis

Please reach out to discuss further

About the Company

Paritas Recruitment is a specialist Audit (Business & IT), Risk (Credit, Market, Operational, Quantitative, Regulatory), Compliance and Data Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning and Technology recruitment agency established to offer our clients and candidates a more personalised and effective service. Our skilled and experienced team of Directors and Consultants recruit across the whole financial services sector, e-commerce, consultancy, healthtech, oil & gas, retail, artificial intelligence, technology and more. ... Know more