Senior Software Engineer - TradingHub

ZipRecruiter; London; Hybrid; GBP 200,000 +; Full time

Job summary

A financial analytics firm in London seeks a Senior Software Engineer for its GUI team. Responsibilities include creating components for data visualization and developing a performant permissioning system. Candidates should have strong ASP.NET Core experience and familiarity with frontend frameworks. This role offers a hybrid working policy and various employee benefits, fostering a culture of innovation and personal growth.

Benefits

Annual discretionary performance bonus

Hybrid working policy

Office lunches twice a week

Private medical insurance

Enhanced company pension plan

25 days annual leave + bank holidays

Qualifications

• Comfortable tutoring new joiners about products' technical capabilities.
• Ability to prioritize, assign and manage escalations effectively.

Responsibilities

• Create a fast and seamless orderbook component.
• Display smooth graphs showing trades and financial data.
• Enhance the authorisation system for product access.
• Develop a permissioning system for business units.

Skills

Strong knowledge of ASP.NET Core

Experience with frontend frameworks like React, Vue or Microsoft Blazor

Knowledge of authentication and authorisation technologies e.g. JWT

Demonstrable experience of building software products from start to finish

Creative thinker

AWS experience

Job description

About TradingHub

Compensation: £Competitive (Financial Services)

Founded in 2010, we have grown from a united vision shared between two people to a team of over 140 across London, Toronto, New York and Singapore. We have achieved scale by building the best-in-class surveillance tooling, where our analytics bring the front office risk mindset to the compliance function. Though we have developed in the trade surveillance arena, we have always been more than that. At heart, we are a finance-focused big data firm. Our goal is to continue creating the world's leading financial markets analytics platform.

The Role

You will be working as a Senior Software engineer in the GUI team which is responsible for the underlying web frameworks which power our MAST and CaaS products and internal tools. Our goal is to allow financial institutions to create front to back controls that monitor regulatory risk. To do this, they need to be able to configure metrics that analyse their data and a dashboard that shows the results of this alert. The GUI team has the task of creating and maintaining the shared platform and components for all of TH's products, including an inbox and visual data exploration tools.

Responsibilities

• Creating a fast and seamless orderbook component to visualise instrument data
• Displaying smooth and fluid graphs which show trades, orders and other financial data
• Enhancing our authorisation system which allows customers to login to their product environments
• Developing a highly performant permissioning system that differentiates between business units and regions
• Improve our IDE to allow customers to configure their custom controls
• Contribute to wider system improvements that advance our self-service analytics offering

Requirements

Main Skills/Competencies:

• Strong knowledge of ASP.NET Core including creating and maintaining websites
• Experience with frontend frameworks such as React, Vue or Microsoft Blazor
• Knowledge of authentication and authorisation including token technologies e.g. JWT
• Demonstrable experience of building software products from start to finish
• Passionate about ensuring TH best development practices are upheld across the team
• Comfortable tutoring new joiners about the technical capabilities and demands of the products
• Able to prioritise, assign and manage escalations from customer facing teams and deliver projects to agreed deadlines
• A creative thinker, who strives to develop disruptive tools with a key focus on automation and efficiency where possible
• Previous experience building web-based products for financial markets or trading applications (desirable)
• AWS (desirable)

Benefits

Life at TradingHub is a rewarding journey within a fast-growing company that thrives on innovation and collaboration. By combining the best of both tech and finance, we're able to solve complex problems together and deliver meaningful results to our customers. Everybody has value to bring, and we welcome individuality as a key driving force behind our collective success.

Rooted in everything that we do are our core values: Accountability, Ambition, Partnership and Trust. These provide the foundation for a sustainable workplace culture and the platform for you to harness your unique experience and become the best version of yourself. We believe in our people and invest in their growth, and together, we can sit on the right side of history.

Employee Benefits:

• Annual discretionary performance bonus
• Hybrid working policy
• Office lunches twice a week
• Aviva private medical insurance + Unum dental cover
• Extended parental leave (up to 6 months of fully paid maternity leave)
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Enhanced company pension plan
• Salary sacrifice scheme
• 5 days study leave towards professional qualifications
• Cycle to Work & Techscheme
• Death in service coverage

Don’t tick every single requirement? Research shows that candidates from under-represented groups are less likely to apply unless they meet all the criteria. We are dedicated to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace, so if this role excites you, please don't let our specification hold you back. Get in touch!

TradingHub is an equal opportunities employer. We do not discriminate based on race, colour, or origins, including childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions. TradingHub selects candidates for interview based solely on their skills, experience and qualifications. We are committed to making our recruitment process accessible to all and we encourage candidates to inform us of any required adjustments. A full copy of our equality and policy will be made available to you upon request.