Software Engineer

Location: London, England, United Kingdom

Salary: £75,000/yr - £90,000/yr

Permanent

Title – Software Engineer (Backend)

Base – up to £90,000 + bonus

Location – London

Flexibility – Hybrid

*Please note sponsorship is not on offer for this role.*

About the company

The company deploys systematic, computer-driven strategies across digital assets and cryptocurrencies, as well as delivering financial services to a range of clients across trading, securities, and investment management.

Founded over 10 years ago they are headquartered in Jersey with offices across Europe and the US.

Role Summary

As a Software Engineer, you will be joining their Trading Engineering team developing a next-generation trading platform and working closely with engineers, traders, and quantitative researchers.

You will be solving challenging problems within a crypto trading environment, working in a diverse team.

Key responsibilities

• Translating requirements from the trading team to the platform as well as helping to develop new tools to improve business performance.
• Designing, prototyping and developing new ideas and features.
• Maintaining and improving existing features and codebase.
• Optimising platform performance and ensuring scalability.
• Producing well-documented code.
• Implementing monitoring to detect unexpected failures or behaviour.

Experience required

• Proven experience with any object-oriented language (C++, Java, or Golang).
• Experience with Python and design patterns.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working within Linux and Shell environments.

Nice to have

• An understanding of data structures and SQL-based data.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
• Experience working with REST and Websockets.
• An interest in financial markets, digital assets, and cryptocurrency.