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Senior Java Developer - Barcelona

Adaptive Financial Consulting
Spainfull_timePosted 31 Jul 2026

About the role

<p><strong>WE ARE:&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>At Adaptive, we are a financial consulting firm that partners with capital, commodity, and digital market participants. We value differentiation through technology. Our experienced teams design and deliver complex front-office technology solutions using our proven accelerators to create long-term competitive advantage.</p> <p>Our clients include the world’s leading investment banks, investment managers, fintechs and capital market service providers. With a global reach with offices in London, New York, Barcelona and Montreal, we have a proven track record delivering powerful, elegant and intuitive trading technology solutions.</p> <p>We are expanding our product capability and looking for talented individuals to help build transformational capital markets products including:&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://aeron.io/">Aeron</a> - our flagship high-performance messaging infrastructure.</li> <li><a href="https://weareadaptive.com/hydra/">Hydra</a> - our developer framework for accelerating the development and delivery of trading systems.</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/real-logic/artio">Artio</a> - our market-leading open-source FIX engine.</li> </ul> <p><strong>YOU ARE:&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul> <li>A great team player who loves sharing knowledge and learning from others.</li> <li>A problem solver with strong analytical skills.</li> <li>Excited about learning new things and keeping up to date.</li> <li>Happy to work in a test-driven and Agile development fashion.<br><br></li> </ul> <p><strong>YOU HAVE:&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience in Java server-side software development.</li> <li>Expertise in Java technologies, including related Java and other technologies.</li> <ul> <li>Solid experience programming using Core Java. Minimum Java 17.</li> <li>General knowledge of data injection/inversion of control.</li> <li>Experience using messaging technologies.</li> <li>General familiarity with data structures such as sets, hashes, caches etc.</li> <li>Knowledge of concurrency, resiliency, caching, HTTP and REST.</li> </ul> <li>A good understanding of software development methodologies and best practices, including experience with Agile methodologies.</li> <li>Working with DevOps to deploy applications.</li> <li>Experience with software maintenance, bug fixing, and enhancements.</li> <li>Experience with Agile development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban).</li> <li>Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to communicate

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