Software Engineer - Backend (C#)

Trayport; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in London is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Joule Direct team. The role involves improving an energy trading platform with a focus on high-throughput and low-latency. You will work in a cross-functional team solving complex issues and contributing to product development using technologies like C#, SQL, and Azure DevOps. This position promises opportunities for professional growth through collaboration, tech talks, and training.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge in C# or any popular programming language.
• Ability to write efficient, concurrent code.
• Understanding of distributed systems is important.

Responsibilities

• Improve connection handling for exchanging data.
• Implement new features for trading.
• Engage in all stages of software development.

Skills

C#

Concurrency

Distributed Systems

Git

Financial Markets Knowledge

Tools

SQL Server

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Azure DevOps

Splunk

Grafana

Prometheus

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 6
• 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

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Media

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