Senior Software Engineer

As Senior Software Engineer, you will be a technical specialist, working within a highly effective team. You will input into project and squad goals, prioritize and complete initiatives, and deliver results in a product-led environment. You will help create and maintain, a safe and collaborative culture, in which your software development and engineering experience will be important for success in this role.

What you will deliver

• Collaborate with the product leads and other technical leads to understand requirements, estimation and help refine roadmap.
• Help maintain a high technical bar for the team both in code quality as well as testing coverage, monitoring and observability.
• Deliver customer value iteratively, serve as a technical lead, and own projects end-to-end. Communicating status and changes to partners, designing test automation, and collaborating with internal and external teams to bring new platforms to market are key responsibilities.
• Maintain and enhance software frameworks and participate in code reviews, and resolve platform-related issues.
• Support and assist during production issues.
• Support audit teams for security, software licensing, and regulatory audits, and implement new controls and procedures to address compliance gaps or risks.

What you will need to be successful (experience and qualifications)

• Self-starter with excellent communication skills, adept at handling ambiguity, navigating uncertainty, and influencing peers through to senior leadership.
• Strong experience working on the backend of a technology product.
• Strong experience in Java, Spring Boot Microservices including: writing unit tests (JUnit/Mockito), working with JPA/Hibernate, and debugging distributed applications.
• Some experience with React or another modern frontend framework.
• Solid understanding of SQL and relational database design.
• Ideally experience with Kubernetes and AWS, including containerised deployment of JEE applications.
• Experience working within a full stack team using agile delivery practices.
• Skilled in troubleshooting large-scale distributed production systems.
• Product-centric mindset with the ability to understand business needs and design scalable, resilient systems and solutions.
• Strong empathy and curiosity to create exceptional user experiences.

Skills:

Core Technical Skills

• Java (8+) and JEE advanced proficiency including concurrency, design patterns, and performance tuning
• RESTful API design and development
• Microservices architecture and design
• PostgreSQL — query optimisation, indexing, schema design, and stored procedures
• Relational data modelling and database design
• Unit testing, integration testing, and TDD (JUnit, Mockito)
• Object-oriented design and SOLID principles

Cloud & Infrastructure

• AWS cloud services — EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda, IAM
• Kubernetes and container orchestration (Docker, Helm)
• CI/CD pipeline design and management (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or equivalent)
• Configuration management and release management
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation — desirable)

Software Engineering Practices

• Secure development and OWASP best practices
• Source control and code management (Git, branching strategies)
• Software design and development (clean code, code reviews)
• Service operations and resiliency (fault tolerance, circuit breakers, observability)
• Metrics definition, instrumentation, and monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent)
• Scripting (Bash, Python — for automation and tooling)

Architecture & Solution Design

• Distributed systems design and architecture
• Architectural awareness and contribution to solution design
• NoSQL data modelling (desirable — DynamoDB or similar AWS-native services)
• Risk identification and technical risk management
• Emerging technology awareness relevant to trading and data platforms

Collaboration & Leadership

• Mentoring and coaching junior and mid-level engineers
• Agile and Scrum delivery practices
• Documentation and knowledge sharing
• Communication and stakeholder engagement across business and technology
• Product-centric mindset — translating business needs into scalable technical solutions
• Self-starter, comfortable navigating ambiguity and influencing across seniority levels

Domain Knowledge (Desirable)

• Understanding of physical commodity trading, planning, or scheduling workflows
• Familiarity with trade lifecycle, contractual obligations, or supply chain operations
• Experience working in regulated or enterprise financial/energy trading environments