Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer - LONDON (1 day per week; Fridays) Job role

• This is a challenging role that will see you be involved in enhancing and modernising a critical front office trading system as the primary objective.
• With your software development background, you'll be working with the application team to help define major components of the business-wide target architecture and roadmap.
• You'll gain valuable senior stakeholder exposure as well as the opportunity to hone your technical talents and leadership skills. What you'll do As a hands-on Senior Software Engineer, you'll be creating great customer outcomes via engineering and innovative solutions to existing and new challenges, and technology designs which are innovative, customer-centric, high-performance, secure and robust. You'll be collaborating with the team lead to deliver significant, complex, and technically challenging assignments. You'll also be:
• Defining, creating, and providing solutions with a focus on end-to-end automation, simplification, resilience, security, performance, scalability, and reusability
• Working within an application team along with software engineers to design and engineer complex software, scripts, and tools to enable the delivery of bank platforms, applications, and services.
• Influencing the development of strategies and architecture at domain and enterprise levels, identifying transformational opportunities for the businesses and technology areas Skills required:
• At least 10 years of commercial experience in software engineering in C# and .Net database design using either Oracle, SQL Server or Postgres databases AND architecture.
• Experience of developing software within a DevOps and Agile framework.
• An expert understanding of the latest market trends, technologies, and tools.
• Significant and demonstrable experience of implementing programming best practices, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability, and performance.
• Significant and demonstrable experience of test-driven development and using automated test frameworks, mocking, stubbing and unit testing tools.
• A background in designing or implementing APIs.
• The ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate product and business requirements into technical solutions.
• Experience in migrating legacy .NET Framework applications to modern .NET platforms is ESSENTIAL.
• Experience in Cloud platforms like GCP or AWS is ESSENTIAL. The salary INCLUDES 10% of basic salary as Benefits-as-cash!