Backend Developer

An innovative public software company has developed a world-leading online trading platform used by hundreds of thousands of active users worldwide, facilitating millions of trades each month. Their mission is to disrupt traditional trade markets by leveraging digital technologies to make trading more accessible and efficient across the globe.

Profitable and rapidly growing, the company boasts around 500 employees globally, with 220 based locally, and a dedicated team of 100 driving all development efforts.

Embracing a hybrid work model, they operate near the train line, incorporating two fixed remote workdays.

What you’ll do

• Own, lead, architect, and implement one of the domains e.g. trading, market data, online payments, etc.
• Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelize good engineering and organizational practices.
• Build out the C# services that power our platform, in a way that can simultaneously serve huge volumes of concurrent users and data streams.
• Tackle technical challenges - performance, fault-tolerance, security, and live production issues.
• You'll take operational responsibility for the services that are owned by your team.
• Work closely with large amounts of data and write efficient queries against it
• Design and build out our infrastructure for scalability, using distributed techniques and patterns.
• Collaborate with other engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to execute the company’s roadmap.

Requirements

• You are looking to make a significant business impact and measure it against quantifiable KPIs based on real-life data.
• Experience writing highly optimized SQL.
• Knowledgeable and passionate about modern software development and have a strong foundation in object-oriented programming, data structures, and design patterns.
• Fluent in C# or Java and have a deep understanding of REST.
• Proven experience in a distributed service-oriented environment - designing, analyzing, optimizing code, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.