Software Developer

Trayport Limited; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in energy trading is seeking Software Engineers for their Joule Direct team in London. Join a dynamic environment focused on improving a high-throughput trading platform, emphasizing teamwork and innovative solutions. Contribute to exciting projects involving C#, distributed systems, and automated trading features while collaborating with skilled professionals.

Benefits

Commitment to training and collaboration

Opportunities for tech talks and Hackathons

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of C# or popular programming language is mandatory.
• Ability to write efficient, concurrent code is essential.
• Knowledge of distributed systems is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Improve connection handling code to connect to exchanges.
• Implement new features and enhance existing codebases.
• Contribute to technical discussions and pair programming.

Skills

C#

Concurrent Code

Distributed Systems

Git

Financial Markets Knowledge

Tools

SQL Server

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Azure DevOps

TeamCity

Octopus Deploy

Job description

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We’re looking for Software Engineers to join our Joule Direct team, to help us build and improve our high-throughput, low-latency energy trading platform. You’ll be working with some amazing technologists to solve complex problems.

For us, teamwork is everything. We listen to each other, we adapt, we evolve and we strive to innovate. We are making significant investments in our business and we will invest in you.

Some of the work on any given day includes:

Improve our connection handling code to connect to an Exchange (eg. CME, ICE, EEX, etc)

Implement a new Connector for an Exchange we don’t yet support

Improve distributed tracing in some of the code hot paths

Implement a new Automated Trading feature

Benchmarking code to reduce latency

Do some design/planning with a colleague and raise an RFC

Our services are written with C# on .NET 8

We use a fair bit of SQL Server, Kafka and RabbitMQ

Azure DevOps. We are big fans of Azure Pipelines! Some of our services are migrating away from TeamCity and Octopus Deploy

Our observability stack is Splunk, Grafana and Prometheus

You

As a software engineer, you will be:

Part of a cross-functional team working with Product Managers, Testers and DevOps engineers

Writing well-tested and maintainable code

Getting involved in all stages of development including planning, implementation and delivery

Pairing with other engineers to share and expand your knowledge

Contributing to technical discussions

Skills & Experience

Strong knowledge of C# or any popular programming language

Can write efficient, concurrent code

Knowledge of how distributed systems work

Experience with Git, TeamCity and Octopus will be valued but is not required

Knowledge or experience with financial markets will be valued but is not required

If you are not an expert in these specific technologies but are familiar with an equivalent then we’re happy to train you.

The Team

Development driven by employees

Interesting and complex problems to solve

Work with amazing technologists

Learn about other parts of the business through our commitment to collaboration

Opportunities to learn through regular tech talks, training and Hackathons

Join a company with strong market presence

Trayport is committed to creating and sustaining a collegial work environment in which all individuals are treated with dignity and respect and one which reflects the diversity of the community in which we operate. We provide accommodations for applicants and employees who require it.