Senior Java Engineer – Hedge Fund £1000 per day Contract Outside IR35 Jan Start Hybrid Quant Capital is urgently looking for a Senior Java Engineer to join our high profile client. Our client is a well known Systematic Trading Hedge Fund. They like technology especially the opensource variety as well as scalability and robust performance (much like their track record). They currently run around £2 billion in liquid capital. The business has expanded continuously and is building a new risk engine for their systematic fund clients. This role will be working with a large distributed system (Built in Java) automating a large volume of realtime data into a portfolio management system. I am looking for a proficient developer with good data knowledge and an understanding of latency. I am looking for an engineer with strong core Java knowledge who is happy to learn risk. You should be happy to expand a data platform from scratch with some serious help on the financial side. The Java Engineer Must have: 2:1 Computer Science degree 15 years plus commercial development experience Strong and demonstrable low-level Java experience Strong Database skills AWS Code generation Currently using Java 8 Object orientated programming, threading, concurrency and distributed systems My client is based in Central London but does not require office work unless a core meeting is called. Distributed Systems, Scale, Java, EC2, DevOps, Linux, AWS, Java, CLoudwatch