Senior C#/.NET Trading Systems Engineer

VirtueTech Recruitment Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 104,000 - 127,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Benefits

Job summary

VirtueTech Recruitment Group is working with an established financial services organisation in London to hire a Senior C#/.NET Software Engineer. This hands-on role focuses on designing, developing and enhancing complex trading applications and business-critical systems within the Capital Markets Team.

The successful candidate will stay hands-on while taking on greater technical responsibility, influence engineering direction and own significant parts of the deployment pipeline.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience in a senior role.
• Strong C#/.NET expertise and backend development proficiency.
• Experience with SQL, APIs and system design.
• Background in financial services, ideally trading systems or capital markets.
• Understanding of trading workflows, financial products or order management systems.
• Delivering complex technical projects and taking ownership of solutions.
• Strong communication skills and a proactive, hands-on approach.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop high-performance trading applications.
• Build and enhance backend systems, APIs and business logic.
• Take ownership of technical projects from design through to delivery.
• Contribute to architecture, technical decisions and system improvements.
• Work closely with stakeholders and support other engineers.
• Explore opportunities to introduce AI and automation into engineering processes.

Skills

C#/.NET

Backend development

SQL

APIs

System design

Trading systems

Financial services

Communication skills

Job description

VirtueTech Recruitment Group is working with an established financial services organisation in London to hire a Senior C#/.NET Software Engineer. This hands-on role focuses on designing, developing and enhancing complex trading applications and business-critical systems within the Capital Markets Team.

The successful candidate will stay hands-on while taking on greater technical responsibility, influence engineering direction and own significant parts of the deployment pipeline.