We are seeking an entrepreneurial, enthusiastic, and motivated Software Developer to join our technology team based in London. This role is ideal for individuals who thrive on direct business engagement, prioritize delivery, and excel under pressure. We embrace a flat organizational structure, empowering our engineers to collaborate directly with user groups to tackle challenges from the ground up. This approach fosters an iterative problem-solving dynamic between the business and engineering teams, enabling efficient and effective solutions.

The team collaborates closely with Traders, Quants, Treasury, Finance, Operations, and other development units within Technology. The primary responsibilities of this role encompass:

Ownership: As our firm expands into new asset classes, you will lead the development of new in-house systems to support this growth. This entails managing crucial stakeholder relationships with revenue-generating teams.

Requirements Gathering and Collaboration: Engage with business users to capture new requirements and collaborate on change projects. You will play a key role in capturing requirements from vital business units and conveying them to the development team.

Execution: Whether supporting existing infrastructure, maintaining software, or delivering new systems, execution is paramount. This position requires a hands-on approach, including writing and maintaining high-quality, testable code across various platforms and contributing to systems architecture.

Qualifications:

• Proficiency in an object-oriented development environment (C#, .NET preferred).
• Demonstrated experience in building software to support multiple asset classes, with specific knowledge in areas such as IRS, Govt Bonds, Floating Rates, Repo, Yield Curves, Swap Cash Flows, and OTC Products.
• Proven track record of project ownership, from conception to production.
• Experience collaborating closely with business teams to formulate requirements.
• Strong performance tuning, query optimization, and database design skills.
• Proficiency in SQL and data analysis, with experience in ETL and data loading approaches.
• Knowledge of Python programming is advantageous.
• Familiarity with modern hardware architectures and cloud infrastructure platforms.

Additional Desirable Skills or Experience:

• Experience with stream processing technologies (Kafka, Flink).
• Proficiency in other programming languages such as Java, Scala, or F#.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes/OpenShift/Docker and helm templates.
• Experience with web technologies (HTML, JavaScript Frameworks like Vue, React, Angular, CSS, LESS).
• Exposure to big data processing and NoSQL technologies (e.g., Spark, Hadoop, Elasticsearch, Neo4j, Snowflake, AWS Redshift).