Lead Software & Platform Engineer Trading Systems

Role:

• We are looking for an experienced Lead Software & Platform Engineer to contribute to the modernisation of complex financial trading technology platforms.
• The role focuses on cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, microservices and the development of reliable, scalable services supporting front office trading operations.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and modernise backend applications and platform services.
• Contribute to software and cloud architecture decisions.
• Engineer distributed, high-volume systems and microservices.
• Develop scalable cloud-native solutions using AWS and/or Azure.
• Work with containers, Kubernetes and serverless technologies.
• Improve production reliability, performance, scalability and observability.
• Drive engineering best practices, automation and CI/CD improvements.
• Collaborate with architecture, development, DevOps and SRE teams.
• Contribute to technical documentation, knowledge transfer and continuous improvement.

Required Skills:

• 10+ years of relevant software and platform engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Node.js, C#/.NET and/or comparable backend technologies.
• Experience with AWS and/or MS Azure architecture.
• Strong expertise in distributed systems, microservices and high-volume applications.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, serverless technologies and production engineering.
• Understanding of application performance, scalability, resilience and observability.
• Hands-on engineering experience with front office trading platforms or systems.
• Relevant experience may include electronic trading platforms, order management, trade execution, pricing or market-data applications.
• Strong architecture, technical decision-making and cross-functional collaboration skills.