Senior Java Engineer (FX Options Intraday Risk)

Grid Dynamics (NASDAQ: GDYN) is a leading provider of technology consulting, platform and product engineering, AI, and advanced analytics services. Founded in 2006, Grid Dynamics is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices across the Americas, Europe, and India.

• 6+ years of hands-on server-side Java development with deep expertise in multi-threading (concurrency primitives, safe shared state, reasoning about race conditions, deadlocks, and memory models under load).
• Proven track record of building, testing, and releasing resilient, low-latency server-side systems in demanding production environments.
• Experience operating comfortably across the entire delivery cycle, from requirements conversations with business stakeholders through design, unit/integration testing, and production release.
• Clear written and spoken English, with the ability to communicate technical concepts effectively with trading desks, architects, and partner system teams.

Nice to have:

• Strong understanding of Foreign Exchange (FX) or financial derivatives, specifically FX Options and their risk measures (Greeks, PnL, VaR).
• Prior experience building real-time event-driven architectures, low-latency market data/risk engines, or high-throughput trading platforms.
• Direct experience working in Tier 1 investment banks, capital markets institutions, or large regulated financial enterprises.

• Design, build, and optimize low-latency, real-time intraday risk computation and reporting modules for FX Options using core Java.
• Write clean, safe multi-threaded Java code, handling concurrency primitives, shared state, race conditions, and deadlocks in a high-throughput server-side environment.
• Own changes through the full delivery cycle—from initial requirements discovery and design to rigorous testing, review, and production deployment.
• Actively contribute to replacing legacy risk applications as their capabilities are seamlessly migrated to the new platform architecture.
• Engage directly with FX trading desks, partner system teams, and platform owners to refine technical specifications and deliver business-critical risk metrics.

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