Lead Software & Platform Engineer

Description

The company is a global financial markets infrastructure and data business headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific.

The company has supported financial stability and economic growth for more than 300 years, offering financial market infrastructure services on an open-access model.

The company employs 25,000 people, more than half of them in Asia Pacific, and its workforce spans 65 countries.

This Senior Associate role sits in the Application Infrastructure team and works on the back end of the company's flagship platform.

The team is distributed across the globe and works in an agile way.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend services in NodeJS and C on both Azure and AWS.
• Develop cloud-native products that are scalable, reliable and high-performing.
• Work with product managers, architects, software engineers and site reliability engineers in different countries to deliver new features and improvements.
• Keep code secure, high quality and fast across the application framework.
• Take part in code reviews, design discussions and agile ceremonies.
• Apply a range of policies and standards.
• Find and resolve technical and operational problems.
• Use data to inform decisions, plan your own work and refine the methods you use.

Requirements

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, information technology or a related field, plus 7+ years of professional software engineering, including back-end development and infrastructure support.
• Hands-on experience with DevOps and system administration, automating software delivery through CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code. Terraform experience is advantageous.
• Strong grounding in cloud architecture, serverless computing and container services, ideally on both Azure and AWS.
• Proven knowledge of designing and running critical, high-volume distributed systems, including synchronous and asynchronous patterns, long-running processes, concurrency and multithreading.
• Proven ability to design and build complex systems and work in an agile setting.
• Proficient in one or more of.NET (C), Java, NodeJS/TypeScript, Python and shell scripting.
• Experience with both relational and non-relational databases.
• Clear reporting of changes, blockers and progress to stakeholders, keeping work aligned with priorities and managing dependencies.
• Strong written and verbal communication, with the ability to explain complex technical decisions and influence senior leaders, business stakeholders and partners.
• Strong leadership, organisation and interpersonal skills, with the emotional intelligence to build trust, develop people and lead through change.
• Set priorities to meet timelines, plan short-term goals and manage your own time and responsibilities.
• Self-motivated learner who drives work to completion and empowers others.
• Able to work effectively with remote colleagues and across development teams.
• Able to collaborate across regions, time zones and cultures.
• Able to handle several tasks at once in a fast-moving environment.
• Experience with FinOps and observability tooling.

Conditions

The role is linked to the company's Bucharest, Romania office.

The company is an equal opportunities employer that does not discriminate on any protected basis, and it will make reasonable accommodations for religious practices and for mental health or physical disability needs, in line with applicable law.

Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Formal and informal learning and development opportunities.
• 25 days of holiday per year plus 1 additional day off for your birthday.
• Annual wellness allowance.
• Share Purchase Plan.
• Medical health insurance and a preventive medical services subscription.
• Life insurance and a Pillar 3 private pension.
• Meal vouchers and flexible benefits.
• Bookster.
• Volunteering events.
• Colleagues with at least one year's continuous service who become parents get at least 26 weeks' paid leave, with the option to return in phases under company policy.