Java Developer, Short Term Trading Technology - PIMCO

About the role

We are looking to hire a Java Back-End Developer to join our Short-Term Desk Technology team. The candidate must be highly motivated to use agentic engineering patterns tools to aggressively advance our business, which manages over $2 trillion USD. This role focuses on building the next generation of trading and cash management systems used across our Short Term, Cash, and Collateral desks. You will work on modernizing existing platforms, developing new cloud native services, and contributing to our broader migration toward AWS. The role offers close collaboration with front office stakeholders and ownership across the full software lifecycle. Core Engineering Design, build, and maintain high quality, scalable microservices using the latest versions of Java and modern frameworks. Develop new functionality while evolving existing components with clean, maintainable, well tested code. Apply TDD, good CI/CD practices, and strong engineering standards. Cloud & Platform Modernization Contribute to our cloud migration initiatives by building containerized, cloud ready services. Work with AWS services (e.g., Lambda, EKS, RDS, S3, MSK) to help move workloads off legacy environments. Participate in improving observability through metrics, tracing, and logging. AI & Automation Use applied AI tooling (e.g., GitHub Copilot, MCP servers, and LLMs) to accelerate development, improve testing quality, and streamline operational automation. Identify and implement opportunities for intelligent automation within systems (e.g., anomaly detection, documentation generation, automated runbooks). Business Collaboration Work directly with portfolio managers, traders, and operations teams to deliver high impact solutions. Understand front office workflows and translate them into robust, performant technical designs Required Qualifications 3- 5 years of strong experience with Java and back-end development Familiarity with microservices, REST APIs, and event driven architectures. Some exposure to AWS or cloud native engineering concepts (containers, CI/CD, infrastructure as code). Interest or experience in using AI tools to boost productivity (code generation, test creation, documentation, etc.). A proactive mindset, eagerness to learn, and ability to work in a fast-moving front office environment. Strong communication skills and desire to partner closely with business users. Why Join us? Work on high visibility trading systems critical to PIMCO's Short Term Desk. Gain hands on experience with modern Java, cloud engineering, and applied AI. Collaborate with a talented global engineering team and front office partners. Opportunity to take real ownership - from design and implementation through to production. Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Statement PIMCO recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, national origin, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender (including gender identity and expression), age, military or veteran status, disability (physical or mental), any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in