Senior Software & Platform Engineer

Description

The company is a global provider of financial markets infrastructure and data, headquartered in the UK, with significant operations in 70 countries. Its 25,000 staff are spread across 65 countries, more than half of them in Asia Pacific, and it has supported financial stability and growth for more than 300 years.

This Senior Associate role sits in the Application Infrastructure team, which builds and runs cloud-native products for the company's flagship platform. You will work in a distributed team with Product Managers, Architects, Software Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers around the world.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build backend services in NodeJS and C on Azure and AWS.
• Help design and develop the backend systems behind the flagship platform.
• Work with cross-functional teams to ship new features and improvements.
• Keep code quality, security and performance high across the application framework.
• Take part in code reviews, design discussions and agile ceremonies.
• Apply a range of policies and standards.
• Find and fix technical and operational problems.
• Interpret data to inform decisions, plan your own work, and refine the methods and techniques you use.

Requirements

• A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, information technology or a related field.
• 4-5 years of professional software engineering experience, covering back-end development and infrastructure support.
• Hands-on experience with DevOps, system administration and automating software delivery, including CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code.
• Terraform experience (advantageous).
• Strong grounding in cloud architecture, serverless computing and container services, ideally across Azure and AWS.
• Solid understanding of modern web application development, web API standards and Linux.
• Experience with API gateways or web traffic management technologies (beneficial).
• Knowledge of designing and running critical, high-volume distributed systems, including synchronous and asynchronous service patterns, long-running processes, concurrency and multithreading.
• Experience designing complex systems and working in agile teams.
• Proficiency in one or more of.NET (C), Java, NodeJS/TypeScript, Python and shell scripting.
• Experience with both relational and non-relational databases.
• Experience running and analysing load tests and optimising performance.
• Ability to set priorities, meet timelines and manage your own time against short-term plans.
• Ability to resolve standard technical and operational problems.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, with a solution-first mindset.
• Self-driven learner who sees work through to completion and empowers others.
• Keeps up with industry standards and trends.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including working well with remote colleagues and across development teams.
• Able to work across regions, time zones and cultures.
• Able to juggle several tasks in a fast-paced setting.

Conditions

The company is an equal opportunities employer and will make reasonable accommodations for religious practice and for mental health or physical disability needs, as applicable law requires.

Benefits

• 25 days' holiday per year, plus one extra day off for your birthday.
• Competitive salary.
• Annual wellness allowance.
• Share Purchase Plan.
• Medical health insurance and a medical subscription covering preventive services.
• Life insurance.
• Pillar 3 private pension.
• Meal vouchers and flexible benefits.
• Bookster.
• Volunteering events, including paid volunteering days.
• Formal and informal learning and development opportunities.
• Parental leave: colleagues with at least one year's continuous service who become parents get at least 26 weeks' paid leave and can return on a phased basis, subject to company policy and guidelines.