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Lead Engineer, Risk Technology

London💼 Full-time🗓 2026-05-14 → 2026-07-31

Core

Lead the development of high-performance risk systems that safeguard exchange operations by evaluating margin requirements, stress scenarios, and portfolio exposures in real-time.

Role type

Senior IC Java backend engineer (risk technology)

Builds

High-performance, low-latency JVM services and APIs for margin and risk calculations

Domain

Digital asset exchange infrastructure / Quantitative finance

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Java (expert, low-latency), JVM optimization, risk modeling (SPAN, VaR), system architecture, testing methodologies (TDD, stress testing), microservices design

Preferred skills

Event-sourced architectures, columnar storage, cloud technologies (GCP), Kotlin, mentoring

Technologies

Java, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, GCP, Chronicle Queue

Responsibilities

Design and build scalable, performant low/zero-GC JVM services; decompose complex business requirements into tested implementations; collaborate with quantitative analysts and product teams; optimize and refactor codebase for performance and maintainability

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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