Senior Full-Stack Engineer — Real-Time Trading Platform

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Vitality health insurance and dental

Pension scheme

Annual health checks

Learning & development budget

Free gym membership

Spec­savers vouchers

Office amenities

Job summary

Dare, based in London, is seeking a senior Full-Stack Engineer to join the Software Engineering team. You will own features end-to-end across UI, services, and data layers, building with React on the frontend and a modern backend stack.

You’ll contribute to architecture, write robust code, and support real-time analytics for trading activities. You will work with cross-functional teams to deliver high-velocity business value on real-time systems, with on-call responsibilities including night

Qualifications

• Strong experience as a Full Stack Engineer or in roles covering both frontend and backend responsibilities.
• Solid frontend experience with React or Angular.
• Solid backend experience with Python, Go or Java.
• Experience building and consuming APIs and real-time data (REST, gRPC, NATS, AMPS, Kafka).
• Good understanding of data models, persistence, and data access patterns.
• Strong systems thinking and ability to reason about trade-offs across the stack.
• Ability to independently deliver features from concept to production.
• Drive and passion to deliver business value at a high velocity.
• Trading or Financial Services experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own end-to-end features spanning frontend UI, backend services, and data/storage layers.
• Develop and maintain user-facing applications using modern JavaScript frameworks (React or similar).
• Build backend APIs and services using a modern backend stack (Python, Go, Java or similar).
• Contribute to system architecture and technical design discussions with emphasis on robustness and scalability.
• Write clean, well-tested code across multiple layers of the stack.
• Collaborate with end users, senior management, and other engineers to deliver customer value.
• Debug and resolve issues across the full system, from UI to infrastructure.
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes as the team scales.
• Participate in on-call rotations, including nights for ICE market opening hours, 2nd line support to front-office trading desk, incident management and triage.

Skills

Full Stack

React

Angular

Python

Go

Java

REST

gRPC

Kafka

NATS

AMPS

Data modeling

Persistence

Systems thinking

End-to-end delivery

Finance experience

Job description

Dare, based in London, is seeking a senior Full-Stack Engineer to join the Software Engineering team. You will own features end-to-end across UI, services, and data layers, building with React on the frontend and a modern backend stack.

You’ll contribute to architecture, write robust code, and support real-time analytics for trading activities. You will work with cross-functional teams to deliver high-velocity business value on real-time systems, with on-call responsibilities including night