Front Office Technical Lead Developer

CMC Markets Plc; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company in London is seeking a Front Office Technical Team Lead to join their Pricing and Risk team. This on-site role requires strong Java and Spring expertise, along with a proven ability to mentor and guide team members. The ideal candidate will manage the development of infrastructure and microservices, driving projects efficiently across various trading asset classes. Competitive salary and benefits offered.

Qualifications

• Expertise in Java and Spring Framework/Spring Boot.
• Solid understanding of API design and microservices.
• Experience mentoring team members and enforcing coding standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of the infrastructure estate and microservices.
• Drive technical decisions balancing scalability and performance.
• Collaborate with teams to deliver products efficiently.

Skills

Java

Spring Framework/Spring Boot

API design

Microservices

Distributed messaging architectures

Mentoring team members

Low latency multi-threaded development techniques

Tools

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Front Office Technical Team Lead page is loaded## Front Office Technical Team Leadlocations: Londontime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Yesterdayjob requisition id: CMC4813We are looking for a Senior Developer to join our Pricing and Risk team. We work on a front office, internal pricing and trading platform utilising state of the art technologies. The role will focus on the development and support of the distributed backend systems driving the front office.*\*\*\* Please note that this is an onsite role that will require you to work within our London office (near Liverpool street) 5 days on site per week****. \*\*\******ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES*** Partner closely with your front-end counterpart to ensure alignment across the stack, to support the firm's market-making business across ranging Equities, FX, Crypto & Commodities asset classes* Lead the design, development, and maintenance of the infrastructure estate, microservices, web APIs, and the business logic delivery, keeping projects on track and within scope.* Drive technical decisions and trade-offs balancing scalability, maintainability, and performance.* Partner with quants, developers, front office users and other IT teams to ensure the efficient delivery of products ensuring strategic value utilising your UX and/or development lead experience to manage expectations across all stakeholders* Understand the nature of the trading floor business and the need to respond quickly and efficiently to issues that can or has caused business outage* Adhere to, develop and enforce the team’s coding review standards and release management processes* Ensure a positive approach to challenge, strong team work ethics and provide open and honest communication* Take all reasonable steps to ensure appropriate confidentiality* Maintain personal / professional training and development to meet the changing demands of the role, including all relevant regulatory and legislative training**KEY SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE*** Strong expertise in Java, Spring Framework/Spring Boot, or related backend frameworks* Solid understanding of API design, microservices, and distributed messaging architectures* Solid experience in advocating for and mentoring other team members, promoting coding reviews, enforcing team conventions* Track record in driving initiatives / projects amongst development teams and business stakeholders* An understanding of low latency multi-threaded development techniques and memory footprint managementPrevious experience of the following would be beneficial:* Understanding of authentication, authorization and endpoint security* Exposure to CEP Engines (Esper) or other live stream aggregation technologies* Exposure to C# / HTML / JavaScript* Exposure to AWS / Terraform, CI/CD pipelinesCMC Markets is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.CMC Markets is one of the world’s first ever fin-tech companies and was launched in 1989 to break down the barriers of financial trading and make trading accessible to everyone.Our mission is to use our award-winning, Next Generation trading platform and unparalleled client service to empower millions of people to have the best trading experience out there. Our clients can trade on thousands of instruments using the best technology, supported by sophisticated charting, competitive pricing and automated execution. We're trusted by investors globally, but also by banks, brokers, funds and trading desks though our top-tier liquidity institutional offering, enabling these businesses to expand into new markets and increase revenue potential. We were recently listed on the FTSE250, and our business continues to go from strength to strength as we continue to invest in our technology and our people.