Location: NYC (Hybrid - at least 3 days onsite/week).
Visa Sponsorship: Talan does not sponsor U.S. work permits or employment visas.
We are seeking a
VP-level Senior Java Developer / Technical Lead to join a Market Data and Trading Technology team within a leading financial institution. This hands-on role combines
Java development, technical leadership, and architecture, working closely with Trading, Quantitative, Risk, and Technology teams to deliver scalable market data and trading solutions.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop enterprise-grade, server-side Java applications supporting market data and trading platforms.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance across architecture, solution design, development, and implementation.
- Mentor developers through code reviews, design discussions, and engineering best practices.
- Partner with traders, quantitative analysts, product teams, and other technology stakeholders.
- Develop system architecture, technical designs, and implementation concepts.
- Provide development estimates and support delivery planning.
- Drive software engineering standards across the SDLC, including testing, release readiness, production stability, and operational resilience.
- Maintain high code quality through automated testing, code coverage, static/dynamic analysis, security scans, and CI/CD controls.
- Participate across the full software delivery lifecycle, from requirements and architecture through deployment and production support.
- Support and continuously improve highly available, business-critical trading applications.
QualificationsRequired Skills
- 10-15 years of software development experience in Core Java skills, including multi-threading, concurrency, object-oriented design patterns, and asynchronous/event-driven programming
- Designed, built, and maintained high-performance, real-time data pipelines and pricing engines for fixed-income electronic trading
- Strong experience with Spring Boot and enterprise application development.
- Experience with Apache Flink for batch and stream processing.
- Experience building and integrating APIs, including REST, GraphQL, and RPC.
- Strong experience with messaging and streaming platforms, including Apache Kafka, JMS/ActiveMQ, and event-driven architectures.
- Experience building, deploying, and maintaining containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, or similar technologies.
- Strong experience with AWS cloud-native services and architectures, including ECS, EKS, S3, EC2, and Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as CloudFormation or Terraform.
- Strong database and data architecture experience, including PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, and/or Sybase.
- Experience with Apache Camel, enterprise authentication frameworks, application integration, and enterprise application design.
- Experience with enterprise monitoring, application state management, production observability, and production support.
- Experience integrating applications with Bloomberg and/or Murex.
- Experience with Ansible and related deployment/automation technologies.
- Proven experience leading technical delivery, mentoring developers, and communicating effectively with business and technology stakeholders.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Quantitative Finance, or a related field.
Company's BenefitsAt Talan, we invest in our employees' well-being and empower them with benefits, including:
- 💵 Salary between USD $155,000 - US $185,000
- 💸401(k) retirement plan with company matching
- 🌴15 days of paid vacation per year at hire and up to 27 according to seniority (annual untaken vacation days are cashed out)
- 📴8 paid holidays + 5 sick days + 2 personal days per year
- ❤🩹Company health, dental, and vision insurance plans + FSA
- 🦺Voluntary STD and LTD
- 🚍 Commuter/transit benefits
