Senior Software Engineer

Archer Recruitment; Dublin; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Archer Recruitment is recruiting for a senior engineer at a global investment management firm based in Dublin, Ireland. You will own end-to-end engineering challenges, shaping scalable, high-performance applications behind critical trading and operations platforms.

You'll work across backend services, UI components, desktop solutions and integrations, using C#, .NET, SQL and Python. Engage with senior stakeholders to translate business needs into robust technical solutions from day one.

Job description

Step into a senior engineering role at a global investment management firm, where your work will sit directly behind critical trading, investment and operational platforms.

Take ownership of complex engineering challenges, shape solutions across a broad enterprise technology landscape and work closely with senior technical and investment stakeholders to turn business requirements into scalable, high‑performance applications.

This is an opportunity to operate at genuine enterprise scale, influence technical direction and see the direct impact of the systems you build.

Why You’ll Love It

• Own High-Value Engineering – Take complex problems from initial design through to delivery, with genuine ownership over the solutions you build.
• Work Across the Technology Landscape – Develop backend services, UI applications, desktop solutions and integrations rather than being confined to a single area.
• Influence Technical Direction – Shape architecture, challenge existing approaches and make decisions that impact long-term engineering solutions.
• Get Close to the Business – Partner directly with investment, operations and technology teams, giving you visibility into how your work drives critical business processes.
• Solve Problems With Scale – Engineer against complex data, integrations and enterprise applications supporting a global investment environment.
• Keep Your Work Varied – Move across high-priority projects and business areas, tackling new technical challenges as priorities evolve.
• Use Your Full Technical Toolkit – Apply C#, .NET, SQL and Python across a diverse and technically demanding environment.
• Make an Immediate Impact – Join at senior level and contribute from day one across technology that the business relies on every day.

What You’ll Do

• Design and develop enterprise-scale applications supporting investment operations and trading workflows.
• Build backend services, desktop/UI applications and system integrations.
• Contribute to platforms including OMS, PaymentManager and other business‑critical applications.
• Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders to define requirements and shape solutions.
• Make technical decisions and deliver scalable, high‑quality applications.
• Adapt across projects as business and technology priorities evolve.

Contract Terms

• 6-month initial contract with strong long-term potential