A growing financial technology organization is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join a team responsible for mission-critical transaction and trading systems.
This role will focus on designing, developing, and enhancing highly available software platforms that support complex business processes in a fast-paced financial environment.
The ideal candidate is a proven engineer who enjoys solving difficult technical problems, building scalable systems, and supporting business-critical applications.
What’s the job?
- Design and develop backend services using Java
- Build and maintain REST and gRPC APIs
- Support high-performance transaction-processing systems
- Collaborate with product managers and engineering teams to design scalable solutions
- Contribute across the full software development lifecycle
- Participate in architecture, design, testing, deployment, and maintenance efforts
- Improve reliability, scalability, and performance of existing systems
- Support integration and data-processing workflows
What’s needed?
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Strong Java development experience
- Experience building backend APIs and distributed systems
- Strong SQL/database skills
- Experience delivering production-grade software
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills
- Ability to operate in business-critical environments
- Financial services or fintech experience preferred
- Asset management experience preferred
- Trading platform experience preferred
- Order management systems experience preferred
- TypeScript experience preferred
- OCI, AWS, or Azure experience preferred
- Experience supporting transaction-intensive applications preferred
Key Details
- Compensation: $140,000–$150,000 base salary
- Location: Oak Brook, IL
- Work Model: Hybrid (4 days per week onsite)
- Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Employment Type: Direct Hire
- Bonus: Eligible to earn a 5% bonus
- Collaborative engineering culture
- High-impact, business-critical technology environment
Ready to take the next step in your career? Apply today. We’re actively interviewing and excited to meet you.
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