Full-Time

Senior Java Developer

Fintech

Updated on 9/4/2026

Adaptive Financial Consulting

Adaptive Financial Consulting

201-500 employees

Technology-powered consulting for capital markets

No salary listed

London, UK

Hybrid

Hybrid working model.

Category
Software Engineering (1)
Required Skills
Agile
Distributed Systems
Java

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Requirements
  • Experience in Java server-side software development.
  • Experience designing, building, debugging, and operating distributed systems.
  • Experience designing and evolving messaging protocols.
  • Experience designing and evolving software libraries.
  • Experience applying various forms of testing to underpin software qualities such as correctness and performance.
  • Experience measuring, benchmarking, and profiling components and systems.
  • Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders in written and verbal communication.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Responsibilities
  • Design and develop Java applications and libraries.
  • Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code.
  • Troubleshoot and debug Java applications to ensure smooth performance.
  • Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality, maintainability, and reusability.
  • Keep up to date with emerging trends and technologies in Java development.
  • Pair with other team members to ensure high-quality outcomes.
Adaptive Financial Consulting

Adaptive Financial Consulting

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Adaptive Financial Consulting partners with capital and commodity market clients to solve business problems using technology, delivering custom solutions and delivery accelerators. Reactive Trader is a real-time FX e-trading platform built on reactive programming across the application stack. They differentiate through close collaboration, ownership of evolving value, and reusable accelerators that speed development, with a goal to help clients move faster and build durable competitive value.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

London, United Kingdom

Founded

2012

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • 2024 product revenue rose 69%, proving Aeron monetization is accelerating.
  • Rapid Addition partnership in February 2025 strengthened FIX onboarding and order routing.
  • Bullish and Google Cloud collaborations broaden Adaptive's footprint in cloud-native capital markets.

What critics are saying

  • Consulting-led revenue still dominates; productization must outrun services dependency by 2027.
  • Aeron faces hyperscaler compression as Google Cloud and AWS bundle adjacent capabilities.
  • If banks internalize cloud-native trading stacks, Adaptive's bespoke advantage collapses quickly.

What makes Adaptive Financial Consulting unique

  • Aeron gives Adaptive proprietary low-latency messaging and clustering for trading systems.
  • HSBC and Citi invested on March 5, 2026, validating Adaptive's niche.
  • Google Cloud Marketplace distribution extends Adaptive beyond custom consulting into productized infrastructure.

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Disability Insurance

Gym Membership

Mental Health Support

Company News

Adaptive
Mar 5th, 2026
Adaptive announces strategic investment from HSBC and Citi

Adaptive announces strategic investment from HSBC and Citi to accelerate Aeron-powered, cloud-native trading technology innovation in global capital markets.

The Trade News
Mar 5th, 2026
'Without data you're just another person with an opinion'

'Without data you're just another person with an opinion' The TRADE > News > Technology > Trading technology firm Adaptive receives capital injection from Citi and HSBC Technology March 5, 2026 1:00 PM GMT Trading technology firm Adaptive receives capital injection from Citi and HSBC. The move is set to drive the firm's product growth and aligns with an increasing shift towards liquidity and trading infrastructure migrating to the cloud. Trading technology provider Adaptive has received strategic investment from Citi and HSBC, as the firm looks to bolster its growth and product innovation. Specifically, the collaboration is focused on Adaptive's suite of Aeron products - delivering open-source messaging and clustering technology. The capital is expected to enable the firm to scale its delivery of cloud-native solutions and meet an increasing demand for client-owned, differentiated trading technology. Matt Barrett, chief executive and co-founder of Adaptive, said: "While our expansion has been self-funded until now, the trajectory of capital markets technology is rapidly shifting, fuelled by AI and cloud migration. This funding enables us to accelerate our product development and cement our leadership in the next wave of disruptive technology across the financial ecosystem." The investment also aligns with a market which is seeing increasing liquidity and trading infrastructure migrating to the cloud and is set to support the adoption of open-source, modular and platform-based technology across capital markets. Nikhil Joshi, global head of markets technology at Citi, said: "In the rapidly evolving landscape of capital markets, the shift towards modular and cloud-native architectures demands robust and scalable high-performance trading infrastructure. Our investment in Adaptive reflects their strategic direction and the importance of innovative technologies such as Aeron, in fostering a more resilient and efficient financial ecosystem." The investment is set to support Adaptive's growth and follows further significant developments for the firm in recent times. In February 2025, Adaptive partnered with financial messaging protocol provider Rapid Addition to integrate FIX capabilities into Adaptive's custom trading technology platforms, as revealed by The TRADE at the time. This collaboration aimed to enable firms to simplify counterparty FIX onboarding and order routing workflow, as the market continues to see increasing necessity for clients to stay on top of regulatory change and margin pressures.

FinanzNachrichten.de
Mar 5th, 2026
HSBC and Citi invest in Adaptive to accelerate cloud-native capital markets technology

Adaptive, a provider of custom trading technology solutions, has secured strategic investment from HSBC and Citi to accelerate product development and innovation. Financial terms were not disclosed. The funding will support Adaptive's development of cloud-native front office solutions, particularly its Aeron technology — open-source software used for building high-performance electronic trading systems. The investment comes as capital markets technology undergoes significant shifts driven by cloud migration, AI adoption and open-source platforms. Founded 13 years ago, Adaptive has been self-funded until now. The company operates offices in London, New York, Barcelona, Montréal and Manila, delivering bespoke trading platforms across asset classes for financial services firms. Both HSBC and Citi cited the importance of technological differentiation and resilient infrastructure in rapidly evolving capital markets as reasons for the investment.

Adaptive
Feb 28th, 2025
Adaptive wins Best Specialist Trading Technology Consultancy Award by TradingTech Awards 2025

Adaptive Financial Consulting Ltd is thrilled to announce that Adaptive has been honoured with the "Best Specialist Trading Technology Consultancy" award at the A-Team TradingTech Insight Awards Europe 2025.

FF News
Jan 22nd, 2025
Adaptive Unveils New Brand And Reports Strong Growth

Adaptive, the experts in custom trading technology solutions, today announces strong growth in 2024, with a 69% increase in product revenue, a 10% rise in overall revenue, and the acquisition of a diverse range of new clients. This growth is driven by industry demand globally for proprietary trading technology solutions as well as Adaptive’s Aeron technology. Adaptive additionally launched its new brand to reflect its evolving business and offering. Over the past year, as well as growing clients and revenue, Adaptive has bolstered its leadership team, expanded industry partnerships, delivered new technology offerings and embarked on a company-wide rebrand. The firm has also continued to invest in Aeron – the low-latency messaging and clustering technology used by firms globally to build resilient, performant trading systems. This investment includes the development of further open-source capabilities, Aeron tooling and multiple premium components as well as the Aeron developer community