Senior Lead Engineer, Post Trade (Fintech)

TL;DR

Senior Lead Engineer, Post Trade (Fintech): Building a complex, ground-up cloud-based critical market infrastructure service with an accent on engineering excellence, microservices design, and blockchain integration. Focus on technical design, robust and scalable solutions, and driving high-quality outcomes across the product engineering life cycle.

Location: London, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider.

What you will do

• Engage deeply in technical design and implementation to ensure robust, scalable, and industry-aligned solutions.
• Actively contribute to all stages of the product engineering life cycle, including solutioning, design, coding, and testing.
• Promote collaboration and transparency within the team to drive high-quality outcomes.
• Demonstrate ownership and proactively take on new responsibilities aligned with product engineering needs.
• Embrace and apply hirify.global engineering principles, diving deep technically to build with purpose.
• Foster an environment of engagement, challenge, and constructive questioning to ensure trust and respect.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of event-driven microservices architecture, including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Advanced Java 17+ experience and practical knowledge of Spring Boot for enterprise-grade applications.
• Proficiency in developing RESTful services, data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and multi-threading.
• Strong SQL knowledge with relational databases (e.g., Postgres) and experience with AWS cloud platforms (e.g., Aurora, S3, IAM).
• Understanding of blockchain fundamentals, interoperability protocols, and integration with existing enterprise systems.
• Commitment to Agile ways of working, with experience in Scrum and Kanban frameworks.

Culture & Benefits

• Join a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Be part of a dynamic organization with 25,000 people across 65 countries.
• Access tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days, and wellbeing initiatives.
• Work in a collaborative and creative culture that encourages new ideas.
• Contribute to the company's commitment to sustainability across its global business.
• Opportunity to get involved with the hirify.global Foundation's charitable grants and volunteering.