Java Developer

Overview

Permanent, full-time, hybrid.

Please submit your CV in English

Connecting clients to markets – and talent to opportunity

With 5,400+ employees and over 80,000 institutional, commercial, and payments clients, we operate from more than 80 offices spread across six continents. As a Fortune 100, Nasdaq-listed provider, we connect clients to the global markets – focusing on innovation, human connection, and providing world-class products and services to all types of investors.

Whether you want to forge a career connecting our retail clients to potential trading opportunities, or ingrain yourself in the world of institutional investing, StoneX Group is made up of four business segments that offer endless potential for progression and growth.

Business segment: Engage in a deep variety of business-critical activities that keep our company running efficiently. From strategic marketing and financial management to human resources and operational oversight, you’ll have the opportunity to optimize processes and implement game-changing policies.

Responsibilities

Position Purpose: Design, build, and operate scalable, resilient, low-latency-tolerant systems that support StoneX's LATAM business lines. The role exists to raise the engineering bar on regional platforms, improving reliability, reducing manual operational load, and delivering the integrations and features required by local market structure and regulation, while aligning to StoneX global architecture standards.

Primary duties will include:

• Design and implement backend services and APIs supporting trading, clearing, settlement, and reporting workflows for LATAM markets.

• Own features end to end: requirements refinement with business stakeholders, technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.

• Build and maintain integrations with exchanges, clearinghouses, market data providers, and internal global platforms (FIX, REST, messaging, file-based protocols).

• Develop data pipelines and reconciliation processes feeding regulatory and internal reporting (CVM/B3, CNBV, and equivalents).

• Contribute to architecture decisions and technical documentation (ADRs, runbooks, integration specs); evaluate trade-offs on build vs. buy and global vs. regional solutions.

• Improve observability, automated testing, and CI/CD maturity across owned services; reduce toil through automation.

• Participate in code reviews and set standards for code quality, security, and performance within the team.

• Support incident response for production systems, including root-cause analysis and preventive follow-up.

• Mentor mid-level and junior engineers; act as technical reference for a domain or set of services.

• Coordinate with distributed teams across the US, UK, and Asia; including working across time zones and in English.

• This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and can be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities that management deems necessary.

Qualifications

To land this role you will need:

• Professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated senior-level ownership of production systems.

• Strong proficiency in at least one of: C#/.NET, Java, or Python; solid working knowledge of a second language.

• Solid grounding in SQL and relational databases (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or Oracle), including query tuning and data modeling.

• Experience designing and consuming APIs and integrating distributed systems; familiarity with messaging/streaming (Kafka, RabbitMQ, MQ) and event-driven patterns.

• Cloud experience (AWS or Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).

• Practical experience with CI/CD, version control (Git), automated testing, and monitoring/observability tooling.

• Professional working proficiency in English (written and spoken); fluent Portuguese and/or Spanish.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

What makes you stand out:

• Financial services or capital markets background, brokerage, clearing, asset management, exchange, or fintech.

• Domain knowledge of trading lifecycle, post-trade operations, market data, or risk; familiarity with FIX protocol.

• Exposure to LATAM market structure and regulation: B3, CVM, ANBIMA, SELIC/CETIP, CNBV, or local payments/settlement rails.

• Experience with regulatory or financial reporting pipelines and data reconciliation at scale.

• Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), and performance/latency-sensitive system design.

• Experience working in a global matrixed organization with offshore/nearshore delivery models.

Working environment:

• Full time (Monday to Friday), with an indefinite contract.

• Hybrid 4 days in office per week (Office location: Avenida Carrera 9A - Avenida Carrera 9A # 115-06/30 Edificio Torre Tierrafirme Bogotá, 110111 Colombia)

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