Job Description

Sr Lead Software Engineer, Java, front-end framework, event-streaming platform - Equity Derivatives Sales & Trading Technology
Location: Greater London
Employment Type: Full-time
PCD290148

Role Overview
We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level.
As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at the organisation within the Global Technology division, you will serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Specifically, you will work on a global platform responsible for high, low, and zero-touch secondary quoting & trading for highly complex over-the-counter structured derivatives and securitised structured products.

Key Responsibilities
• Work with key stakeholders in Sales, Trading, QR, Operations and others globally to ensure the Secondary platform meets business requirements.
• Directly contribute towards the ongoing efforts to re-engineer & re-architect the existing Secondary platform to make it performant, truly highly available, stable, efficient, and scalable.
• Lead the effort & contribute towards the identification and implementation of opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues, with aim of improving overall operational stability of software applications and systems.
• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts, and proficient advanced experience.
• Ability to solve complex problems and a track record of high performance and delivery.
• Strong hands-on experience implementing globally distributed real-time systems using Java and front-end framework.
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages.
• Good overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies, CI/CD, Applicant Resiliency, and Security.
• Familiar with Microservices architecture concepts and cloud-based technology, preferably cloud platform.
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight.
• Practical cloud native experience.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
• Experience of working in a front office environment within financial services.
• Understanding of Equity Derivatives products.
• Experience of publish/subscribe messaging protocols e.g. AMQP, RabbitMQ.
• Exposure to Relational Database Management Systems (Sybase).
• Exposure to NoSQL systems (Cassandra, document database platform.etc.).
• Education to degree level, ideally in a computer science, mathematical or engineering discipline or equivalent.