Senior Kotlin & React Full-Stack Engineer (Equities)

Luxoft; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxoft is seeking an experienced software engineer to drive the Equity Accelerator programme, modernizing Prime Finance Equities platforms. You will deliver end-to-end solutions across frontend and backend, focusing on cloud-native, event-driven architectures and real-time client features.

You will contribute to architecture, own significant components, work closely with stakeholders, and mentor peers while delivering high-quality, production-grade software in a complex market environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Java development experience.
• 2+ years of commercial Kotlin development experience.
• 2+ years of frontend development experience with React and/or Angular.
• Strong JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS skills.
• Proven experience designing and developing event-driven distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with messaging patterns, event processing, resiliency, and failure handling.
• Strong TDD practices and end-to-end ownership of software quality.
• Experience in Agile environments with CI/CD, trunk-based development, and frequent production releases.
• Hands-on experience in capital markets, including trade lifecycle and position management.
• Experience building real-time applications using WebSockets or streaming technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and support full-stack solutions across frontend and backend components.
• Build and enhance event-driven trading and post-trade applications.
• Contribute to architecture and technical design decisions.
• Develop responsive and real-time user interfaces for equities platforms.
• Implement and maintain APIs, messaging integrations, and backend services.
• Ensure high code quality through Test-Driven Development (TDD).
• Participate in CI/CD practices, trunk-based development, and frequent production releases.
• Troubleshoot production issues and maintain data integrity in complex market environments.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, product teams, and engineering peers.
• Apply capital markets domain expertise to business and technical problem-solving.
• Mentor team members and contribute to engineering best practices.

Skills

Java development

Kotlin development

Frontend development

JavaScript/TypeScript

Event-driven systems

TDD practices

CI/CD

Capital markets

WebSockets

Architecture design

Tools

Kafka

Solace

Kubernetes

OpenShift

GitHub Copilot

ELK Stack

Grafana

Job description

Luxoft is seeking an experienced software engineer to drive the Equity Accelerator programme, modernizing Prime Finance Equities platforms. You will deliver end-to-end solutions across frontend and backend, focusing on cloud-native, event-driven architectures and real-time client features.

You will contribute to architecture, own significant components, work closely with stakeholders, and mentor peers while delivering high-quality, production-grade software in a complex market environment.