Nicoll Curtin Hiring! Full Time Java Developer in - Ricebowl

We’re hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join a technology team building and supporting a mission-critical securities trade processing platform used to handle high volumes of financial transactions.

You’ll work on distributed Java systems where performance, reliability and low latency matter — from designing new services to troubleshooting complex production issues.

What you’ll do

• Build and enhance high-performance Java applications and distributed services
• Develop event-driven systems using Kafka, JMS or similar
• Work on concurrency, messaging, fault tolerance and high-throughput processing
• Profile and optimise applications across JVM, memory, CPU and threads
• Investigate production issues, perform RCA and deliver lasting fixes
• Use SQL to troubleshoot data discrepancies across distributed systems
• Build automated integration and end-to-end testing
• Work with product, architecture and platform teams on system improvements
• Support platform modernisation while maintaining production stability
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools to improve development and operational efficiency

What we’re looking for

• 5+ years of hands-on Java engineering experience
• Strong Core Java, multithreading/concurrency and JVM internals
• Experience with high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems
• Strong understanding of messaging concepts including ordering, idempotency, retries and failure recovery
• Hands-on performance profiling and optimisation experience
• Strong SQL skills
• Experience with automated integration/E2E testing
• Production support, incident management and RCA experience
• Familiarity with AI-assisted software engineering tools
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field

Nice to have

Experience in capital markets/securities trading, Snowflake, Prometheus/Grafana/Elasticsearch, Maven or Gradle, state-machine workflows, or modernising legacy enterprise platforms.

If you enjoy solving complex distributed systems problems and want to work on software where reliability and performance genuinely matter, we’d love to hear from you.