✦ Luna Orbit — Software Engineering

Lead Performance Engineer

at Intercontinental Exchange

Unknown Posted March 13, 2026
Type Not Specified
Experience mid
Exp. Years 5+ years
Education Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
Category Software Engineering

This role involves leading performance engineering efforts for critical Java-based platforms, focusing on scalability, throughput, and latency optimization in a financial exchange environment.

  • Define performance strategy
  • Lead deep-dive investigations
  • Profile and diagnose Java systems
  • Tune JVM and garbage collection
  • Build performance test harnesses

Technical scope includes Java development, JVM tuning, performance profiling, and building test harnesses for performance regressions, with experience in distributed, event-driven systems.

The ideal candidate is a senior Java developer with 5+ years of experience in building and optimizing multi-threaded, event-driven distributed systems, with strong knowledge of JVM tuning and performance analysis.

Core Javamulti-threadingJVMSpringRESTJPARabbitMQ
agentic AI toolsservice-oriented architecturefinancial services
JavaSpringRabbitMQJVMRESTJPA
Core Javamulti-threadingJVMGarbage collectionSpringRESTJPARabbitMQdistributed systemsevent-driven systems
Core JavaJavamulti-threadingcollectionsJVMGarbage collectionSpringRESTJPARabbitMQscriptingBashPERLevent-driven systemsdistributed systems
communicationproblem-solvingcollaborationself-motivation
Industry Financial Services / Fintech
Job Function Lead performance engineering and optimization for Java-based trading platforms
Core Javamulti-threadingJVMGarbage collectionSpringRESTJPARabbitMQdistributed systemsevent-driven systemsperformance engineeringJava performancemulti-threaded JavaJVM tuningperformance analysisperformance tuning

Lack of Java or multi-threading experience, No experience with JVM tuning, No background in performance analysis

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