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My client is looking for a highly skilled and motivated engineer to lead our back-end engineering team. The back-end team is responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining the systems and services powering our rapidly growing, award-winning technology offering.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Back-end Tech Strategy and Leadership
- Develop and execute the back-end strategy for our financial and quantitative applications, working to break down and complement objectives from wider business and technology team strategies
- Provide leadership to the back-end team, acting as an expert for Rust & Python, fostering a culture of innovation and leading adoption of best-practices
2. AWS Cloud Solution and Backend Architect
- Design, architect and implement back-end services as part of cloud-native solutions on AWS, building Python-based APIs and Rust-based event-driven microservices utilising gRPC
- Create suitable design documentation and supply sufficient technical detail to tickets for more junior colleagues
3. Team Management
- Manage a team of back-end and financial software engineers, overseeing the team delivery using AGILE processes
- Provide mentoring/coaching to reports, improving team code quality through the pull request process, and conducting bi-annual performance reviews
4. Collaboration and Stakeholder Management
- Work closely with business stakeholders, including finance teams, traders, and risk management, to understand their needs and translate them into effective technology solutions.
5. Financial Market Knowledge
- Design data models for elegantly capturing the business domain of complex trades across multiple asset classes. Build a strong understanding of FX and interest rate products, the related financial markets, and market data sources
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, mathematics, finance or a related field.
- Work closely with business stakeholders, including finance teams, traders, and risk management, to understand their needs and translate them into effective technology solutions.
- Proficiency with both Rust and Python. In exceptional circumstances we may consider applicants with a bulk of experience in a low-level language other than Rust (such as C++ or Go), though a minimum of a demonstrable understanding of Rust concepts and best practices is required.
- Experience leading or mentoring a team of engineers.
- Experience developing cloud-based services in a microservices-led architecture.
- Curiosity to explore new technologies. We are constantly looking for potential technologies to improve our platform.
- Strong understanding of financial markets, quantitative modelling and related data models.
- Strategic thinking with the ability to plan and architect solutions in line with technology initiatives and wider business objectives.
Preferred Qualifications/Experience:
- Experience with financial or market risk modelling is a plus, but not required. The role is heavily finance focused, so a keen interest is expected.
- Knowledge of AWS computing platforms and services.
