Senior Software Engineer
Hudson Manpower
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Hybrid
2026-06-20
Typical pay for this role in Chicago
$92K - $164K
Low
$92K
Median
$127K
High
$164K
Official salary benchmark · BLS OEWS 2025
Job description
Position Overview We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with strong expertise in low-latency, high-performance Core Java development to support and enhance electronic trading systems. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience building and maintaining high-throughput market applications, working with real-time streaming data, and optimizing systems for performance, concurrency, and scalability. Key Responsibilities Design, develop, and maintain low-latency trading and market data applications. Build and enhance microservices-based trading platforms. Process and manage thousands of market quotes per second from multiple sources. Support production trading systems and troubleshoot performance issues. Collaborate within a small engineering team on feature development and system enhancements. Optimize application performance through benchmarking, profiling, and tuning. Implement advanced Core Java techniques including concurrency, primitive specialization, and zero-allocation programming. Apply low-latency design patterns such as Disruptor and lock-free programming. Work with order book mechanics and electronic trading workflows. Deploy and support applications in GCP and on-premise environments. Utilize Docker for deployment and containerization. Work with PostgreSQL and MongoDB/Firebase environments. Explore and leverage AI-assisted development tools, including Gemini and Agentic AI solutions.
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