Senior Software Development Engineer

Senior Software Development Engineer
Canary Wharf, London
12 month contract (great potential for extensions and to go perm)
Offering between £55 - £63 per day
Hybrid working (2 days in office)

About The Company

This company is a global leader across investment servicing, markets and financing, and investment management. Servicing nearly 10 percent* of the world's assets, they give asset managers and owners, insurance companies, official institutions and central banks access to an exclusive perspective on how markets are trending - helping them stay ahead of change - and a breadth of products and services to drive business performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for implementation and delivery of new server side components, micro services, web api, and enhancements to the BestX product
• Exhibit superior skills in modern Agile, Cloud-based, Server side, DB, Development.
• Develop understanding in the area of Transaction Cost Analysis and key benchmarks required for MiFID and MiFIR
• Responsible for maintaining and enhancing the application and influencing technology decisions
• Responsible for taking ownership of tasks and seeing them through completion
• Responsible for establishing best practices, clean-code and design patterns.
• Be passionate about driving change through an organization
• A proponent of Test Driven Development always striving to Shift Left so as to facilitate effective CI/CD

Requirements

• 10+ Years Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design, distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases such as PostGres, Oracle, Distributed Cache, messaging,
• Extensive experience in building low-level APIs for high-volume, latency sensitive applications, having experience in multi-threading, data structures, grid computing and message oriented middle-ware.
• Experience contributing to the architecture and design (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
• Hands-on experience working with AWS and/or other modern cloud based infrastructure.
• Knowledge/expertise in FX/Fixed Income/Equity/ Equity Derivatives products
• Exposure and understanding in one or more of the modern JavaScript build tool chain using things like node, npm, rush, yarn, webpack, babel, cyprus

In our company values we aim for equity at all stages of the recruitment process, please let us know if we can do anything to make the process more accessible to you.