Senior Software Engineer

Elwood Technologies; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading FinTech firm is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Engineering Team in London. The role involves enhancing their trading platform, optimizing trading strategies, and collaborating with product and engineering teams on advanced financial tech solutions. Candidates should have over 3 years of relevant experience, and proficiency in Golang and financial market data is crucial. Competitive salary and benefits offered.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Fully paid medical and discounted dental schemes

Enhanced parental leave

Discounted gym scheme

Paid study leave

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in a similar role.
• Understanding of financial markets, crypto markets and products.
• Experience in development and supporting trading systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance our trading platform.
• Collaborate with the Engineering team.
• Implement and optimize trading strategies.
• Monitor and support production system components.

Skills

Data processing

Financial market data knowledge

Golang

Execution algorithms

Data structures

Designing for performance

Order pricing and routing

FIX protocol

Event-driven architectures

PostgreSQL

Job description

Elwood Technologies is a FCA regulated firm that provides end-to-end institutional-grade digital asset Execution, Liquidity Access and Portfolio Monitoring & Risk Management Software. Built with institutions for institutions, Elwood’s EMS offers best available price execution, smart order routing and algorithmic tooling alongside a traditional finance grade Portfolio Management System.

Built by industry experts with decades of combined experience in investment management and digital technology, we are now looking for a Senior Software Engineer to collaborate closely with our Engineering Team and help drive our products to the next level.

Job Description

Elwood is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Engineering Team where you will contribute to the design, development and analytical requirements of the Trading Platform whilst working closely with the Product Team.

• Develop and enhance our trading platform adding new features and capacities
• Working as a member of the Elwood Engineering team to ensure consistency across the instances and broader client build road map
• Implementing and optimising execution and algorithmic trading strategies
• Building new services to meet critical product and business needs using Golang
• Building features that help customers collaborate on asset management
• Working with engineers, designers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter
• Monitoring and support of all production system components (trading algorithms, exchange connectivity, analytics, market data)
• Enhancing our platform for low latency/high frequency trading
• Maintaining a strong foundation of testing to avoid regressions.

Qualifications / Knowledge

• 3+ years experience in a similar role
• Extensive knowledge working with data processing/Financial market data knowledge
• AI collaboration using Cursor, Copilot or equivalent
• Some familiarity with commonly used execution algorithms — such as VWAP, TWAP, POV
• Built systems in event-driven or streaming architectures using systems such as NATS/Aeron
• Experience of building systems around transaction cost analysis (TCA)
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance
• Understanding of order pricing and routing
• FIX protocol
• Golang experience or other structured languages (C#, C++, Java)
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance
• POSIX-oriented, Serverless Architecture, Public cloud experience GCP/AWS
• PostgreSQL or other RDBMS
• Experience in development and supporting trading systems (Desirable)
• Understanding of financial markets, crypto markets and products (Desirable)

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and compensation packages
• Fully paid medical and discounted dental schemes for employees and their family
• Enhanced parental leave for all employees who have been with the company for one (1) year
• Fully stocked kitchen and access to Ubereats
• Discounted gym scheme with Fitness First
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Paid study leave and personal leave

Why Elwood?

• Join a FinTech startup with tier 1 institutional backing and a strong market presence.
• Help shape the future of finance - our platform is enabling institutional access to digital assets.
• Work with a modern technology stack and help solve complex problems.
• Strong client focused team with a diverse background.
• We’re a Global company and have modern offices based centrally in London, New York and Singapore.