Senior Engineer (Full-Stack)

tp; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

TP ICAP, a world-leading market infrastructure provider, partners with AWS to build the next generation Fusion Platform. As a Senior Engineer, you will own design, development, testing and deployment across the team, collaborating with AWS, Architects and Leads to ensure production-ready solutions.

Join a new platform team focused on modern tech, low-latency event-driven systems and scalable microservices. You will mentor juniors and uphold high standards in code quality and SDLC discipline.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable industry experience as a Full Stack or Front/Backend Engineer in Typescript in a professional environment.
• Strong knowledge of React, RESTful APIs, GraphQL and modern JS frameworks.
• Experience with AWS cloud services and microservices architectures.

Responsibilities

• Drive engineering improvements and communicate principles across the team.
• Support SDLC planning, prioritisation and delivery needs.
• Lead estimation discussions leveraging experience and requirements.
• Shape system architecture discussions with engineers.
• Refactor and prioritise deliveries towards target state.

Skills

Full Stack

Typescript

React

RESTful APIs

GraphQL

AWS

Terraform

Unit Testing

CI/CD

Git

Tools

Jira

AWS

Terraform

Git

Job description

The TP ICAP Group is a world leading provider of market infrastructure.

Our purpose is to provide clients with access to global financial and commodities markets, improving price discovery, liquidity, and distribution of data, through responsible and innovative solutions.

Through our people and technology, we connect clients to superior liquidity and data solutions.

The Group is home to a stable of premium brands. Collectively, TP ICAP is the largest interdealer broker in the world by revenue, the number one Energy & Commodities broker in the world, the world's leading provider of OTC data, and an award winning all-to-all trading platform.

The Group operates from more than 60 offices in 27 countries. We are 5,300 people strong. We work as one to achieve our vision of being the world's most trusted, innovative, liquidity and data solutions specialist.

Role Overview:

TP ICAP has Partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build the Next Generation of the Fusion Platform and make it Global Market Infrastructure. This role will be working in a new team to build out a new Platform based on the latest technology and architecture. You will be working alongside AWS and learning from the best. As a Senior Engineer you will be responsible for demonstrating excellent technical competencies with a desire to improve and mentor junior members of the team. You will take responsibility for your assigned work by taking ownership of the design, development testing and deployment of software across the team, and work closely with the Principal Engineer, Architects and Leads to ensure the successful deployment into production environments.

Role Responsibilities:

• Be able to drive engineering improvements whilst communicating principles behind your work to other team members and the wider organisation.
• Be proactive in supporting the team's engagement in a well-defined SDLC that supports planning, prioritisation and delivery needs.
• Support the team in leading conversations around estimation by leveraging previous experience, challenging requirements and fostering potential solutions.
• Lead conversations around software systems to enable meaningful conversations about wider system architecture with Engineers.
• Evolve systems towards target state architecture by refactoring and prioritisation of deliveries.

Experience/Competencies

Essential:

Demonstrable industry experience as a Full Stack or Front/Backend Engineer in Typescript in a professional environment.

Front-end skills

• Proficient in HTML5, CSS3, and Typescript
• Proficient in React, Redux, ReactQuery
• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks - React
• Knowledge of version control systems (Git)
• Understanding of cross-browser compatibility
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs, GraphQL and Websockets
• Experience with CSS pre-processors e.g. Tailwind

Back-end skills

• Proficiency in backend programming languages (Typescript and/or other OOP language such as c#/Java)
• Strong database knowledge (SQL and NoSQL)
• Proficiency with RESTful APIs and GraphQL APIs and Websockets
• Experience with microservices architecture
• Knowledge of version control systems (Git)
• Experience with Terraform
• Experience with automated testing
• Experience with AWS (AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate, Amazon API Gateway, AWS AppSync)
• Worked within an Agile Cross-functional delivery team.
• Developing well tested software into low latency event driven production environments.
• Full software development lifecycle in a technical role.
• Pub/Sub patterns with Messaging technologies (such as SOLACE/AMQP)
• Worked within a technical platform team, delivering reusable services across multiple agile projects.
• Microservice Architecture.
• Containerization.
• Maintaining code quality with Unit, Integration and e2e testing.
• AWS cloud ecosystem and the AWS CLI (or industry equivalent).
• Linux shell or Windows PowerShell.
• CI and CD flows within an enterprise environment. Continuous Delivery
• Agile tooling to support team delivery, such as JIRA and other project management systems.

Open to innovative ideas/ experiences and ability to create new ideas, approaches or insights.

Seeks opportunities for improvements.

Demonstrates high levels of energy in seeking out and achieving new goals.

Can work with BA's/PO's to demystify ambiguity, handle challenge, and is comfortable to challenge team mates constructively.

Adapts communication style to suit audience.

Works ethically and shows respect for both professional and company values.

Excellent attention to detail, highly organised with a proactive approach.

Strong analytical ability and innovative problem solving skills.

Software Design Patterns.

Source control (Git).

Desired:

• OOP \ SOLID Principles.
• Demonstrable experience of C# (.Net 8+) in a professional environment.
• Contribution to open-source projects.
• Experience of regulatory driven projects.
• Knowledge of Financial Markets, Systems and Over the Counter (OTC) products.

The Fusion Platform Team Builds, Owns and R