Software Engineer, Performance, Risk and Analytics

Join us as a Software Engineer, Performance, Risk \& Analytics

This is an opportunity for a technically minded individual to join us as a Software Engineer

You’ll be designing, producing, testing and implementing working software, working across the lifecycle of the system

Hone your existing software engineering skills and advance your career in this critical role

You’ll work from home some of the time, and you’ll also spend at least twice a week in our London office

This role is available as either full time or part time with a minimum 28 hours per week

What you'll do

Working in a permanent feature team, you’ll be developing knowledge of aspects of the associated platform across the disciplines of business, applications, data and infrastructure. You’ll also be liaising with principal engineers, architects in the domain and other key stakeholders to understand how the platform works and how it supports business objectives.

You’ll also be:

Applying Agile methods to the development of software on the backlog

Producing resilient and long-lived software and acting flexibly to cope with future needs

Delivering intentional architecture and formulating emergent design through innovative ideas, experimentation and prototyping

Designing and developing software with a focus on the automation of build, test and deployment activities, using executable patterns

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone with strong full stack experience in software design and implementation, including being able to exploit programming languages to solve complex problems. You’ll need to be capable of complex requirements analysis capture and validation against and with business and systems requirements.

You’ll also need experience of leading the implementation of programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance, as well as experience of information security policies and practices within the financial sector. With an inquisitive mindset and the ability to learn new topics quickly, you’ll also bring the ability to shape problems and facilitate groups front to back to solve them.

Additionally, you’ll demonstrate:

Experience in a trading or portfolio management team, supporting FX or derivatives trading or a Portfolio Manager looking at multi-asset portfolios

An understanding of a data management platform such as Data bricks or Snowflake

A good understanding of risk and analytics in either Fixed Income or Equities, and the performance of multi-asset portfolios

Experience of analysing large data sets and use of data analytics tools such as R, Python or JMP

Sound collaboration skills with the ability to work with business teams to produce pragmatic solutions that work for the business

Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts in a simple way