Post-Trade Platform Engineer (Java/Python)

Selby Jennings; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Selby Jennings partners with a world-leading hedge fund to hire a Software Engineer who will design and scale platforms supporting the full trade lifecycle across asset classes and markets.

You’ll work on trade matching, clearing, settlement, and reconciliation, evolving the post-trade ecosystem with data platforms and analytics, alongside exceptional engineers in London and New York.

Qualifications

• Experience building distributed, scalable systems at scale.
• Strong knowledge of Java or Python and modern engineering practices.
• Experience with data-intensive applications and analytics is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Designing and developing mission-critical software powering the end-to-end trade lifecycle.
• Building scalable post-trade platforms covering clearing, settlement, and reconciliation.
• Engineering cash and margin management, trading fees, and corporate actions tooling.
• Developing derivatives processing and global product lifecycle capabilities.
• Creating data-intensive analytics capabilities and engineering tooling.
• Leveraging AI and automation to improve efficiency and decisions.
• Collaborating with global teams to define architecture and delivery.
• Driving best practices in software engineering and platform scalability.

Skills

Java

Python

Distributed systems

Cloud

Data-intensive apps

Problem solving

AI/Analytics interest

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

SQL

Job description

Selby Jennings partners with a world-leading hedge fund to hire a Software Engineer who will design and scale platforms supporting the full trade lifecycle across asset classes and markets.

You’ll work on trade matching, clearing, settlement, and reconciliation, evolving the post-trade ecosystem with data platforms and analytics, alongside exceptional engineers in London and New York.