Full Stack Developer - FX/Trading

Korn Ferry Group; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Korn Ferry Group in London is seeking an experienced Senior Full Stack Developer to join our engineering team responsible for designing, building and scaling strategic software products that support the FX trading business.

You will own features end-to-end, translate complex requirements into practical deliverables, and contribute to architectural discussions while delivering scalable server-side and real-time APIs with React and TypeScript.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and building strategic applications for FX trading.
• Ability to own features from inception to production.
• Ability to break down complex requirements into deliverables.
• Experience building scalable server-side applications and real-time APIs.
• Frontend development with React and TypeScript.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and enhance strategic applications supporting FX trading.
• Take end-to-end ownership of features from inception through to production.
• Break complex product requirements into manageable technical deliverables.
• Build scalable Server Side applications and Real Time APIs.
• Develop high-quality, performant user interfaces using React and TypeScript.
• Identify opportunities to improve application architecture, code quality and performance.
• Contribute to architectural discussions and technical decision-making.

Skills

End-to-end ownership

Architectural thinking

Real-time systems

Frontend development

Tools

React

TypeScript

Java

Kotlin

Spring Boot

Kafka

Project Reactor

REST APIs

WebSocket APIs

Kubernetes

Azure

Grafana

Prometheus

Splunk

Playwright

AI-assisted development tools

Job description

We are looking for an experienced Senior Full Stack Developer to join a London-based engineering team responsible for designing, building and scaling strategic software products supporting a major Foreign Exchange (FX) trading business.,

• Design, develop and enhance strategic applications supporting FX trading.
• Take end-to-end ownership of features from inception through to production.
• Break complex product requirements into manageable technical deliverables.
• Build scalable Server Side applications and Real Time APIs.
• Develop high-quality, performant user interfaces using React and TypeScript.
• Identify opportunities to improve application architecture, code quality and performance.
• Contribute to architectural discussions and technical decision-making.
• Strong Java and/or Kotlin development experience
• Spring Boot, Kafka and Project Reactor
• Experience building REST and WebSocket/streaming APIs
• Strong React & TypeScript Front End development
• Kubernetes & Azure
• Experience with Grafana, Prometheus and/or Splunk
• Playwright or similar automated testing experience
• Strong experience using modern AI-assisted development tools