Back End Developer

VirtueTech Recruitment Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 44,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

Energy Trading Firm in London is seeking a C# Software Engineer to join a high-performance team building data-intensive platforms for real-time market data. You will contribute to distributed, event-driven systems and scale applications to process large volumes of data in a cloud-first environment.

Hybrid role with three days in the office, collaborating with engineers, architects and business stakeholders to deliver robust solutions and maintain excellent performance.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with C#/.NET and Angular.
• Experience designing event-driven distributed systems.
• Proven ability to process real-time or high-volume data.
• Solid knowledge of SQL databases (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle).
• Experience with Docker, Kafka, Kubernetes or similar technologies.
• Strong engineering practices, testing and modern development approaches.
• Excellent communication with engineers, architects and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable data-intensive platforms for real-time market data.
• Enhance systems handling large volumes of data within a global trading environment.
• Collaborate with architects and business stakeholders across the lifecycle.

Skills

C#/.NET

Angular

Event-driven

Distributed systems

SQL databases

Docker

Kafka

Kubernetes

Testing

Communication

Tools

Docker

Kafka

Kubernetes

Job description

A leading Energy Trading Firm in London is seeking a C# Software Engineer for scalable data-intensive platforms.

You'll be responsible for developing and enhancing systems that handle large volumes of real-time market and trading data, supporting critical processes across a global trading environment.

The .NET role:

As a Software Developer (.NET / C#), you'll join a high-performing engineering team responsible for developing modern applications that support a fast-paced, data-rich environment. Working on distributed systems and real-time data platforms, you'll build scalable software capable of processing large volumes of data while maintaining exceptional performance, reliability and resilience.

Working closely with software engineers, solution architects and business stakeholders, you'll contribute throughout the full software development lifecycle, delivering high-quality solutions using modern engineering practices. This is an opportunity to work on technically challenging systems, influence platform improvements and help shape the future of a cloud-first engineering environment built around event-driven architecture and high-performance data processing.

Tech:

Package:

This Software Developer (.NET /C#) role is paying up to £73,000 + bonus + benefits

Role is based in Central London

Hybrid working. 3 days per week in the office

Skills:

• Strong commercial experience developing applications using C#/.NET and Angular.
• Experience designing and building event driven, distributed systems.
• Proven experience developing high-performance applications that process large volumes of real-time or business-critical data.
• Strong knowledge of SQL Server, PostgreSQL or Oracle, with experience optimising data-intensive applications.
• Experience with Docker, Kafka, Kubernetes, or similar modern distributed technologies.
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles, testing, and modern development practices.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work closely with engineers, architects and business stakeholders.