Software Engineer (Fintech)

Location: London, United Kingdom

Company

A leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm founded in 1869.

What you will do

• Manage end-to-end systems development in an Agile environment from requirements analysis through maintenance.
• Produce technical designs, testing strategies, and implementation plans.
• Partner with Finance stakeholders to translate business needs into process workflows and technical specifications.
• Build reusable solutions and identify opportunities for cross-divisional collaboration.
• Contribute to data modelling and curation for large-scale datasets.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related discipline.
• 6+ years of software development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Java or Python.
• Expertise in RDBMS, data structures, algorithms, and performance-oriented design.
• Hands-on experience with Cloud Technologies (ideally AWS: S3, SQS, Lambda, Fargate) and microservices.
• Strong communication skills for collaborating with multiple global stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Knowledge or interest in investment banking or financial instruments.
• Experience with big data concepts such as Lakehouse and ETL pipelines (e.g., Spark, AWS Glue).
• Experience with near real-time and event-based systems like Kafka.
• Experience using Agentic AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Co-Pilot Agent Mode, Devin).

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive training and professional development opportunities.
• Commitment to diversity and inclusion with firmwide networks.
• Wellness, personal finance offerings, and mindfulness programs.
• Support for reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs.