You will design, implement, and test backend components for the Data Platform and trading platform. The role includes building Golang services, implementing trading strategies, supporting production systems, improving low-latency infrastructure, and collaborating across engineering, product, design, and leadership teams.
Responsibilities
- Develop and enhance the trading platform with new features and capacities
- Ensure consistency across engineering instances and the broader client build roadmap
- Implement and optimise execution and algorithmic trading strategies
- Build new services using Golang to meet product and business needs
- Build features that help customers collaborate on asset management
- Translate product and technical vision into a quarterly roadmap
- Monitor and support trading algorithms, exchange connectivity, analytics, and market data
- Enhance the platform for low-latency and high-frequency trading
- Maintain strong testing practices to prevent regressions
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in a similar backend engineering role
- Golang experience or proficiency in C#, C++, or Java
- Object-oriented or functional analysis and design skills
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and high-performance code design
- Degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline
- Experience developing large-scale concurrent, event-driven distributed systems
- Experience with event-driven or streaming architectures using NATS or Aeron
- Experience with PostgreSQL or another relational database
- Public cloud experience with GCP or AWS, including serverless architecture and BigQuery
- Understanding of deployment technologies, CI/CD, code versioning, and issue management tools
- Familiarity with POSIX-oriented environments
- Knowledge of data processing and financial market data
- Understanding of order pricing, smart order routing, and execution algorithms such as VWAP, TWAP, and POV
- Experience building systems around Transaction Cost Analysis
- Hands-on experience with the FIX protocol
- Experience using AI assistants such as Claude to augment development capabilities
- Strong communication and team collaboration skills
- Desirable: direct experience developing and supporting trading systems
- Desirable: understanding of financial markets, crypto markets, and digital asset products
Benefits
- Fully paid medical and discounted dental schemes for employees and their family
- Generous time off and bank holidays
- Enhanced parental leave after one year
- Cycle to Work and Cycle Saver schemes
- Fully stocked kitchen and weekly Uber Eats allowance
- Discounted gym scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Paid study leave and personal leave
- Competitive salary and compensation packages