Software Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Software Engineer: Core Trading (Fintech): Building low-latency, high-throughput systems for core trading functionality, including order booking, execution, real-time risk management, and valuation with an accent on asynchronous event-driven architecture. Focus on optimizing systems for performant 24/7 trading and delivering new trading products and features across various business lines.

Location: Hybrid work model with 3 days in the office in London

Company

hirify.global is an FTSE250 FinTech company that runs mobile, web, and desktop platforms for clients to trade stocks & shares, leveraged products, Futures & Options, and Crypto.

What you will do

• Collaborate within a dynamic engineering team to design, develop, and maintain IG’s core trading systems.
• Deliver new trading products and features across all of IG’s business lines.
• Develop low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems built on an asynchronous event-driven architecture.
• Ensure all systems and features are optimized, robust, and resilient to provide performant 24/7 trading.
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement to ensure a best-in-class trading offering.
• Leverage modern engineering practices and tooling such as pair programming, TDD, BDD, and CI/CD pipelines to rapidly deliver business value.

Requirements

• Very strong core Java development skills (4+ years of experience in Java development)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Software / systems / API design skills.
• Automation testing (unit, acceptance, performance), TDD, BDD, Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) and DevOps experience.
• Experience with performance testing / optimization of distributed systems.
• Experience engineering financial systems software (ideally trading systems).
• Experience with messaging technologies such as AMQ / Kafka.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary and flexible benefits package (12%).
• Private medical cover and life insurance.
• Contribution to gym memberships.
• 25 days holiday, with 1 additional day off for your Birthday & 2 additional days off a year for voluntary work (28 in total).
• Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning Platform.