Custom trading platforms and low-latency cloud infrastructure for capital markets
Adaptive builds bespoke front-office trading systems for capital markets firms, with a stack anchored on Java, React, and Aeron (their own open-source low-latency messaging layer). The company is actively developing Hydra, a developer platform to simplify real-time trading infrastructure, while simultaneously scaling sales operations—signaling a shift from pure consulting toward productized offerings. Engineering dominates the hiring mix, consistent with their active projects spanning equities trading systems and architecture modernization.
Adaptive is a London-based trading technology firm founded in 2012, serving capital markets institutions with custom front-office platforms and cloud migration services. The company positions itself across four core service areas: bespoke trading technology delivery, trading-to-cloud transformation, architecture modernization, and capital markets consulting. Adaptive maintains its own open-source stack (Aeron for messaging, Hydra for developer acceleration) and integrates with cloud providers including AWS, Azure, and GCP. The company operates across multiple asset classes—equities, commodities, options—and employs approximately 201–500 people distributed across the UK, US, Philippines, Canada, and Spain.
Core: Java, React, TypeScript, Aeron, Kafka. Infrastructure: AWS, GCP, Azure. Testing: Cypress, Playwright, WebdriverIO. The company also uses Spring WebFlux, RxJS, Redis, and Python. Aeron and Hydra are proprietary platforms they actively develop.
Equities trading and brokerage systems, transformational capital markets products, Aeron and Hydra platform development, sales dashboard creation, and internal infrastructure (user authentication via OneLogin, Fortinet firewall management, and onboarding automation).
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