Senior Software Engineer - Risk Valuation Platform

United States Digital Space LLC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC in Greater London seeks software engineers passionate about building robust financial risk solutions. You will join a dynamic team of C++ engineers in a challenging environment that focuses on high-scale systems and analytical solutions.

The role offers the opportunity to deepen your understanding of financial domains while working on a modernised C++ codebase and engaging with various stakeholders to drive innovation and delivery.

We're dedicated to creating a collaborative environment, and we welcome applicants who meet our requirements and share our vision.

Qualifications

• Professional experience with financial markets, derivatives pricing, or risk calculations.
• Commercial experience building products in an object-oriented programming language.
• A passion for software engineering and building robust systems that can evolve over time.
• A desire to own the software you build, managing stakeholders and driving work through development, release, and production.
• Excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Join an enthusiastic team of C++ engineers to build industry-leading risk solutions.
• Work in a high-impact team delivering billions of calculations across diverse workflows.
• Contribute to a large, modernised C++ codebase alongside experienced engineers.
• Work closely with product partners to design and deliver new solutions.

Skills

Financial markets knowledge

Object-oriented programming

Software engineering

Communication skills

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics

Tools

C++

CI/CD tools

Job description

the company's Risk & Performance Platform group delivers industry-leading analytical solutions for cross-asset valuation, financial risk modelling, and portfolio performance attribution. These solutions power the company's flagship enterprise products and serve a broad range of businesses across the financial industry.

The Risk Valuation Platform is the central component within the group. We own a cross-asset distributed calculations platform offering financial risk calculations for various the company Enterprise solutions. Our system runs billions of calculations a day with a guarantee of 24-hour availability, flexibly serving both batch and on-demand traffic across hundreds of machines. The team sits at the intersection of finance and high-scale infrastructure, working directly with product owners and engineering teams across departments, with exposure to derivatives pricing, market data, and financial risk calculations.

Our projects span a broad scope — from building new workflows and analytics delivered directly to end users, to longer-term strategic goals such as rearchitecting our market data management systems, building proactive batch monitoring, and collaborating across risk teams to deliver a single unified firmwide API.

We collaborate closely with other teams in the larger Risk & Performance Platform department and work daily with our product counterparts to move the platform forward and influence its direction. We are dedicated to sharing our knowledge regularly and to creating a collaborative environment.

We are looking for software engineers who share our team's passion for building robust, high-scale systems in a fast-paced, client-driven environment.

What's in it for you?

You will be joining an enthusiastic team of talented C++ engineers, passionate about our platform, and proud to build industry-leading risk solutions for our clients. Collaboration and teamwork are part of our DNA.

You will work in a high-impact team delivering billions of calculations across diverse workflows, gaining deep experience with a large distributed system deployed at true enterprise scale.

You will contribute to a large, modernised C++ codebase alongside experienced engineers. We follow developer experience best practices and actively invest in modernising our tooling and infrastructure.

You will work closely with our product partners, and take a leading role in designing and delivering new solutions — from initial stakeholder conversations through design, implementation, release, and production.

You will deepen your understanding of the financial domain, working alongside market data and derivative pricing teams and experts in our product department.

You'll need to have:

• Professional experience with financial markets, derivatives pricing, or risk calculations
• Commercial experience building products in an object oriented programming language
• A passion for software engineering and building robust systems that can be evolved over time
• A desire to own the software you build — managing stakeholders across engineering and product, and driving work through development, release, and production
• Excellent communication skills
• A Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, similar field of study or equivalent work experience

We'd love to see:

• Experience programming in C++
• Experience working with large-scale distributed systems
• Familiarity using Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment tools
• Familiarity with AI-assisted coding tools

Accommodations

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Equal Opportunity

the company is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination in employment. It is the company’s policy to provide equal opportunity and access for all persons, and the Company is committed to attracting, retaining, developing, and promoting the most qualified individuals without regard to age, ancestry, color, gender identity or expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, marital status, national or ethnic origin, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, self-identified or perceived sex, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, parental or caring status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, or parental leave, protected veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, or any other classification protected by applicable law (each, a “Protected Characteristic”). the company prohibits treating applicants or employees less favorably in connection with the terms and conditions of employment, in all phases of the employment process, because of one or more Protected Characteristics.