Vice President, Principal Java Developer

The Company is seeking a hands-on Principal Java Developer at Vice President level to take technical ownership of a business-critical trading platform. Responsibilities include resolving complex issues, improving stability, reliability, performance, and latency, and designing and building services. The role will lead the migration of existing applications to cloud-native infrastructure, modernize legacy systems, and support changes to the distributed caching layer. The successful candidate will set technical direction, mentor experienced engineers, and remain actively involved in production coding. Candidates should have extensive enterprise Java experience, recent hands-on production coding, strong Spring Boot expertise, and practical cloud experience, ideally from a migration or modernization program. Knowledge of containerization, cloud-native design, functional programming, and software architecture is required, along with the ability to work independently in complex environments. Financial services experience, particularly with trading, front-office, or risk systems, is preferred. Experience with Scala, C++, Python, distributed caching, low-latency systems, or AI-assisted coding tools is an advantage.