Java Engineer - Compliance Technology

About the role

The Role We are seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Compliance Software Engineer to join our dynamic team. You will be responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining innovative solutions that support our market participation and ensure effective management of trading operational risk. Your work will be integral in real-time monitoring of sales and pricing requests, compliance with trading venue regulations, and the generation of regulatory reports across multiple jurisdictions.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and continuously improve real-time, high-throughput systems that monitor orders and quotes across venues, process large data sets, and carry out market-making obligations.
• Automate end-to-end compliance: detect prohibited trading behaviors, generate/submit regulatory reports (SEC, FSA, FINRA, etc.), and adapt controls to evolving rules and guidelines.
• Quickly fix production issues to ensure uninterrupted market operations.
• Document architectures, processes, and changes to support audits and regulatory reviews.

Requirements

• Java developer with at least 5 years experience with real-time, low-latency trading or financial-services systems.
• Experience building scalable, high-performance data pipelines and market-monitoring tools.
• Strong grasp of market-making, trading operations, risk management, and the applicable regulatory landscape.
• Shown analytical and problem-solving capabilities; comfortable balancing multiple priorities in a highly regulated, fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Nice to have: Experience with compliance/surveillance platforms or financial-regulation frameworks.
• Knowledge of operational-risk management tools.
• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and big-data technologies.

Skills

• Real-time, low-latency trading or financial-services systems.
• Scalable, high-performance data pipelines and market-monitoring tools.
• Market-making, trading operations, risk management, and regulatory landscape.
• Compliance/surveillance platforms or financial-regulation frameworks.
• Operational-risk management tools.
• Cloud-native architectures and big-data technologies.

Benefits

We strongly believe in the well-being of our employees and their families so we offer outstanding benefits to support you both professionally and personally. These benefits include generous time off, insurance coverage, paid parental leave, free breakfast and lunch (plus healthy snacks, of course), wellness reimbursement, and a variety of other benefits focused on providing the best employee experience. (Disclaimer: interns and contractors are not eligible for benefits at CTC)

Pay

The salary range for this role is listed below. This role is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. The discretionary bonus will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, qualifications, and firm performance. Salary Range $175,000—$225,000 USD

Schedule

Most teams at CTC, with the exception of Trading, follow a hybrid workplace model, subject to change based on business need.

Disclaimer

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