Principal Software Engineer

Join a UK-based tech-driven company at the forefront of financial data innovation. 

Our client is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer, who will be responsible for mentoring team members, providing local management support to engineers, designing and maintaining software, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring high-quality code. The successful candidate will be part of the Post Trade Technology team, building strategic cloud-hosted .NET services as part of a global transformation programme. This developer will work in an agile delivery team to drive engineering deliverables, with close engagement to the stakeholders and wider technology organisation to deliver the modern technology services

Role Responsibilities

• Mentor other engineers in the team, whilst ensuring alignment with project goals and timelines across the team.

• Work with the business analysts and users to elicit and understand functional and non-functional requirements in order to design and deliver software solutions.

• Design or assist with the design of cloud-based services to replace legacy applications.

• Coding of cloud-based microservices in C# using industry and TP ICAP best practices and coding standards.

• Development of unit and integration tests.

• Collaborate with internal and external teams where necessary, identify and solve complex problems and review related information to evaluate and develop solutions.

• Test and deploy applications and systems.

• Develop documentation throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC), using the team wiki and other methods, for example for development processes and tasks and new features.

• Work collaboratively as part of a team adhering to programming disciplines to deliver change effectively (e.g., CI, CD, etc.)

• Serve as an expert on the system and provide technical support.

• Offer and provide support and assistance to colleagues where appropriate and provide system knowledge sharing.

• Perform database modelling and solution design where required.

• Perform performance analysis and application tuning where required.

• Contribute to the definition of TP ICAP development standards and best practices.

• Build relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure continuity of service and implementation of global development standards.

Experience / Competences
Essential

• Strong development background (8+ years) coding in recent versions of C# and .Net Framework and REACT JS, SQL scripting. XML/BML/fpML

• Experience developing cloud architectures and cloud-based solutions such as services in AWS.

• Good understanding of invoice workflows, revenue recognition risks, and financial compliance.

• Good understanding of microservice architectures and patterns.

• Experience in decoupled service-orientated systems for internal system dependencies and code.

• Experience designing and writing robust software for large-scale applications in a fast-changing environment with rapid release cycles.

• Some knowledge of HTML and HTML-based UI frameworks.

• Ability to write clean readable code.

• Strong in Object Orientated Programming, Design Patterns, SOLID principles and other industry standards.

• Proficient with Test Driven Development including Unit and Integration testing.

• Proficient with the Git code versioning tool.

• Proficient with SQL Server database and Microsoft Entity Framework.

• Proficiency in working with relational databases (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, etc.).

• Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git).

• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS is preferred.

• Self-starter with ability to work independently to achieve results.

• Able to work well under pressure, flexible, positive & focused during times of change.

• Proven experience in software development, problem solving, documentation and working to tight deadlines.

• Ability to work on multiple tasks whilst managing multiple deadlines and priorities.

• Ability to self-start, identify tasks required independently to fulfil project deliverables and work as a team member.

• Understanding the full project lifecycle from requirements capture through to implementation and delivery.

• A proven track record of developing high quality software to business specification whilst understanding processes and requirements.

• Strong understanding of Agile/Waterfall development methodologies.

• Experience of using Agile for example Scrum, Safe, Kanban methodologies.

• Ability to produce design documentation in a clear, accurate and concise manner.

• Ability to use own initiative, with strong personal organisation skills.

• Ability to develop new skills and understand new technology as required.

• Personable and engaging.

• Communicates effectively and efficiently to internal and external stakeholders.

• Build relationships and networks with both internally and externally wherever possible.

• Demonstrates strong customer focus.

• Demonstrates ability to work effectively with others.

• Constructively handles disagreements to reach a resolution.

• Ability to work with diverse groups/ personalities.

• Open to innovative ideas/ experiences and ability to create new ideas, approaches or insights.

• Excellent attention to detail, highly organised with a proactive approach.

• Strong analytical ability and problem solving skills.

  Desired

  • Experience of refactoring monolithic applications to microservices.

  • Experience of messaging systems.

  • Experience of containerisation technologies.

  • Full-stack development experience.

  • Knowledge of React or Angular UI frameworks.

  • Knowledge of Typescript/JavaScript languages.

  • General cloud experience, ideally in AWS.

  • Experience working in invoicing or other financial applications.

  • Experience of working in a financial or trading organisation, with an understanding of financial instruments and transactional data modelling.