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Hawksworth

Senior Algo Developer (Java, Low Latency, FX) 1-year Contract - Inside IR35 - £920per day - Hybrid working/ London

Hybrid

London, United kingdom

£ 920 /day

Senior

Freelance

21-11-2025

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Skills

Java Monitoring

Job Specifications

Hawksworth are now recruiting for a Senior Java Developer with extensive experience with Front Office Algo Trading projects.

The job:

IT Low Latency Java Developer
1 year contract with potential for extensions
Inside IR35 Rate £920 per day to the Umbrella Company
London Liverpool St location
Hybrid working (x3 days on site x2 days working from home pw)

This is a IT Low-Latency, Java Developer position working for the e-FX Desk where the team develops the pricing, hedging and low-latency order and price distribution team systems.

We need someone for this role role that has strong low latency , Java , Algo development experience. Someone who can show optimizing/low latency tuning and someone who has achieved low latency in the microseconds. EFX would be nice but we can accept other other asset classes experience.

What you will need:

Tenure as a Senior Java Developer
Significant Trading projects experience/ Front office experience
Algo trading
Worked with Connectivity, Market Data, Core Pricing and Hedging strategy.
Multithreading / FIX / Performance monitoring
Significant low latency (Optimizing & tuning )

If you are interested and have experience, please apply now for a quick response.

Thank you.

About the Company

Hawksworth is a global search firm specialising in Data, Tech & Product, with offices in the UK and Australia. We were established in 2010 and proudly partner some of the most progressive tech and financial services companies in the market, providing contract, permanent and retained searches. Here are some of our clients: Allianz insurance, Crédit Agricole, Suncorp insurance, Chubb insurance, Canada Life / Pensions, Marsh McLennan - Insurance, McLaren, FNZ (Wealth FinTech), GBST (Wealth FinTech), Roboyo, SS&C/Blue Prism, T... Know more