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Forbes Technical Consulting LLC

Senior Software Engineer

chicago, IL

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Forbes Technical Consulting LLC lists this Senior Software Engineer opportunity in chicago, Illinois. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.

Job description

Special notes: This role is hybrid 3 days a week onsite in Downtown Chicago, IL.

Responsibilities:

The ideal candidate will help drive the development of our cloud based scalable architecture that powers our client’s instrument management, settlements engine and clearing systems. You will work closely with Staff Engineers on architectural decisions while taking full ownership of significant components and features. This role is designed for an experienced engineer who thrives on solving complex technical problems in financial markets, has strong expertise in micro services based distributed systems, and can deliver production-quality code that operates at scale with reliability and precision.

Required skills:

Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time building high-performance distributed systems.

Strong Java proficiency, including solid understanding of concurrency, memory management, JVM behavior, and performance optimization.

Understanding of network protocols and APIs, with experience implementing REST and WebSocket APIs. FIX protocol experience is a strong plus.

Experience building scalable and HA systems that handle high throughput and low latency in production environments (10k+ msgs/sec, low-millisecond latencies).

Experience building micro-services systems, Kafka and relational databases (PostgreSQL).

Experience with derivative contracts (futures, options) and financial markets is highly desirable.

Contact:

Forbes Technical Consulting LLC | 343 W Erie St. Suite 520 | Chicago, IL 60654

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Worksite address

chicago, IL, 60290, US

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