Front Office Technical Team Lead

CMC Markets; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services company is seeking a Senior Developer to join the Pricing and Risk team. This onsite role in London will focus on developing and supporting backend systems for a trading platform. The ideal candidate has strong expertise in Java and a solid understanding of microservices and API design. You'll collaborate with front-end teams, lead infrastructure projects, and contribute to technical decisions that support market-making across various asset classes.

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in Java and backend frameworks.
• Solid understanding of API design and microservices.
• Experience in mentoring team members and driving projects.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with front-end counterparts.
• Lead the design and maintenance of the infrastructure estate.
• Ensure efficient delivery of products with all stakeholders.

Skills

Java

Spring Framework/Spring Boot

API design

Microservices

Distributed messaging architectures

Tools

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

We are looking for a Senior Developer to join our Pricing and Risk team. We work on a front office, internal pricing and trading platform utilising state of the art technologies. The role will focus on the development and support of the distributed backend systems driving the front office.

*** Please note that this is an onsite role that will require you to work within our London office (near Liverpool street) 5 days on site per week . ***

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Partner closely with your front-end counterpart to ensure alignment across the stack, to support the firm's market-making business across ranging Equities, FX, Crypto & Commodities asset classes
• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of the infrastructure estate, microservices, web APIs, and the business logic delivery, keeping projects on track and within scope.
• Drive technical decisions and trade-offs balancing scalability, maintainability, and performance.
• Partner with quants, developers, front office users and other IT teams to ensure the efficient delivery of products ensuring strategic value utilising your UX and/or development lead experience to manage expectations across all stakeholders
• Understand the nature of the trading floor business and the need to respond quickly and efficiently to issues that can or has caused business outage
• Adhere to, develop and enforce the team’s coding review standards and release management processes
• Ensure a positive approach to challenge, strong team work ethics and provide open and honest communication
• Take all reasonable steps to ensure appropriate confidentiality
• Maintain personal / professional training and development to meet the changing demands of the role, including all relevant regulatory and legislative training

KEY SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Strong expertise in Java, Spring Framework/Spring Boot, or related backend frameworks
• Solid understanding of API design, microservices, and distributed messaging architectures
• Solid experience in advocating for and mentoring other team members, promoting coding reviews, enforcing team conventions
• Track record in driving initiatives / projects amongst development teams and business stakeholders
• An understanding of low latency multi-threaded development techniques and memory footprint management

Previous experience of the following would be beneficial:

• Understanding of authentication, authorization and endpoint security
• Exposure to CEP Engines (Esper) or other live stream aggregation technologies
• Exposure to C# / HTML / JavaScript
• Exposure to AWS / Terraform, CI/CD pipelines

CMC Markets is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.