Software Engineer - Polyglot - Hedge Fund - £90,000

Software Engineeer (Polyglot)

I'm working exclusively with an Asset Management client who are building out their technical division and need a talented Senior Software Engineer to join their London team.

High level Engineers from well-known companies who have all joined because this is not your typical "financial".

You'll have lots of freedom / room to make key decisions, able to work with new technologies and work with team who share the same passion for quality.

About the company

200 strong independent Hedge-Fund who have a very talented technical team. Offices in London, New York and now launching in Miami and Singapore.

Their financial traders are renowned within the industry and have strong track records. To put it bluntly, they make lots of money!

The company has 4.5billion in assets and this is growing.

The tech team operates as a separate identity as they do not want a "corporate" vibe.

The Engineering team attend meet-ups and are well known in the tech community.

They use state of the art real-time systems hosted entirely in the cloud and deployed to a wide variety of devices from the desktop to the mobile.

It strives to use the most modern technology without compromising business risk and has to date enjoyed this technology platform as an edge over its competitors. The firm is and will continue to be a strong investor in technology and has a desire to stay ahead of its rivals in this space.

The CTO is a great guy with a wealth of tech experience. He allows his tech team to explore new technologies and tools and pushes them to up-skill at all times. It's not your average financial and they plan to keep it this way.

The job requires a candidate of exceptional talent that values teamwork and strives for high quality in their work. An affinity to test driven methodologies, mentoring, patience and a drive to push projects to completion.

Their tech stack - (They do not require you to have knowledge of all of these areas)

Javascript, React, Node

Big Data / ML / AI

Build automation (Gradle, Jenkins, Artifactory)

REST services (Spring Cloud, Wildfly, Resteasy)

Infrastructure traceability (Terraform)

Agile, Scrum, BDD, TDD

Continuous code quality (SonarQube)

Testing (JUnit / PowerMock)

Databases & distributed caching / streaming

Git / Bitbucket

Persistence (Hibernate)

About you

• You will have knowledge of a wide range of technologies
• You love to push the boundaries
• You have the ability to work on a diverse team to deliver results in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• You have an open mind with the ability to adapt to different processes to get the job done
• Ability and willingness to help more junior developers and to share knowledge with them
• Experience in working with multiple stakeholders for the same product

Benefits

Market leading salary - ranges from £90,000 / £100,000

This also includes a very interesting bonus structure and a long list of benefits.

To summarise, if you are looking for a forward thinking, innovative company that allows their Engineers to promote new tech and gives them the freedom, then this could be the one for you!

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy or maternity or age.