Senior Java Developer, Trading Risk - Top-tier Investment Bank - J13273
A recruiter advertises a Java developer role for an unnamed investment bank’s trading-risk team. The work builds real-time financial calculations and risk-position services.
What you’d work on
Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.
- Implement real-time trading-risk calculations.
- Deliver features through testing and controlled release.
- Work with trading users to understand financial logic and exposures.
What they ask for
Required
- Core Java
- Concurrency and object-oriented design
- End-to-end application delivery
- English communication
Preferred
- Equities or equity-derivative knowledge
- Education
- University qualification; degree level not specified.
- Experience
- At least 7 years expected, with flexibility for directly relevant experience.
- Languages and tools
- Markets
- equities, options
How to prepare
- Build a real-time position and risk service.
- Test concurrent updates for numerical and state correctness.
- Explain a financial calculation and its production failure modes.
What to study
- Trading Systems and Low-Latency Infrastructure
- Quantitative Risk Management
- Quantitative Data Engineering
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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Pinpoint Asia Limited and doesn’t handle applications.