Software Engineer: Core Trading

IG Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading FinTech company in Greater London is seeking a Software Engineer to help build and maintain core trading systems. The role requires strong Java skills, experience with distributed systems, and a problem-solving mindset to deliver crucial trading functionalities. The ideal candidate will work in a hybrid environment, collaborating within a dynamic team, and contributing to innovative product delivery while ensuring the systems are robust and optimized for performance.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Flexible Benefits Package (12%)

Private medical cover

Life insurance

Contribution to gym memberships

28 days holiday including birthday leave and voluntary work days

Unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning

Employee-led diversity networks

Enhanced parental leave

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in Java development.
• Experience with performance testing and optimization.
• Experience engineering financial systems software, ideally trading systems.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate within a dynamic engineering team to maintain core trading systems.
• Deliver new trading products and features for all business lines.
• Develop low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems.

Skills

Core Java development skills

Analytical and problem-solving skills

Software design skills

Automation testing (TDD, BDD)

Experience with distributed systems

Experience with financial systems

Messaging technologies (AMQ, Kafka)

Job description

**Job Title**Software Engineer: Core Trading**Job Description**# Hello, we’re IG Group. We are an FTSE250 FinTech company who run mobile, web and desktop platforms that help our clients trade stocks & shares, leveraged products, Futures & Options and Crypto. We are ambitious. Over 340,000 people already use our platforms. We’re global with offices in 18 countries and products in 16 regions. We’re hungry to move faster, ship better product for our customers and grow our user base. We believe in high autonomy, and we want people who are looking to do things differently in order to create better experiences for our customers. We work in cross-functional teams and are laser-focused on increasing the number of active clients we serve to drive sustainable growth. # **Your team**You'll be working in IG's Core Trading team, building the low-latency, high-throughput systems at the heart of our business. We deliver critical trading functionality - from order booking and execution to real-time risk management and valuation.# **Your role in the Team’s Success**Using cutting-edge software engineering techniques and technology, you'll help provide a world-class trading experience for IG's clients.As an Engineer, you’ll be utilising strong core Java skills to build out backend trading systems, whilst developing the logic and mechanisms that form the basis of IGs financial products.Communicating with stakeholders and employing keen problem-solving skills to deliver products at pace. With strong attention to detail and focus on quality you will ensure great client outcomes.Your knowledge of performance testing and optimization will ensure systems are always low latency and high throughput and allow us to drive performance improvements to enable new business lines.# # **What you’ll do*** Collaborate within a dynamic engineering team to design, develop and maintain IG’s core trading systems* Deliver new trading products and features across all of IG’s business lines, including OTC trading, Share Dealing and high-frequency institutional trading* Develop low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems built on an asynchronous event-driven architecture* Ensure all systems and features are optimised, robust and resilient to provide performant 24/7 trading* Drive innovation and continuous improvement to ensure a best-in-class trading offering* Leverage modern engineering practices and tooling such as pair programming, TDD, BDD and CI/CD pipelines to rapidly deliver business value# **What you’ll need for this role*** Java: Very strong core Java development skills (4+ years of experience in Java development)* Problem-solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills* Design / Architecture: Software / systems / API design skills* Engineering Best Practices: Automation testing (unit, acceptance, performance), TDD, BDD, Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) and DevOps experience* Distributed Systems Performance: Experience with performance testing / optimisation of distributed systems* Finance Domain Experience: Experience engineering financial systems software (ideally trading systems)* Messaging: Experience with messaging technologies such as AMQ / Kafka# **How we work**We try to take a thoughtful approach to our ways of working as a company. We follow a hybrid working model with 3 days in the office – which we think balances the need to collaborate effectively and connect with each other. When it comes to how we deliver, there are 5 things we want everyone to do to drive high performance, better learning and career satisfaction:* Lead and Inspire: Drives trust, alignment, and enthusiasm* Think Big: Focus on the problems that most impact commercial outcomes* Champion the client: Understand and prioritise client's needs* Deliver at pace: Push for fast, sustainable growth;* Raise the bar: Take ownership, be accountable and share feedbackWe believe that diversity is vital to success, it fuels creativity, drives innovation and sets us up for global success. We’re committed to building teams with a variety of perspectives and skills to help us realise our vision and strategy, that’s why we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences to join us on this journey. Learn more about our D&I approach .# **The Perks**Your growth fuels our success!Thrive with tailored development programs, mentoring opportunities with leaders, and clear career progression. Expand your network through committees, sports and social clubs. Enjoy extra time off for volunteering and community work.* Competitive salary* Flexible Benefits Package on top of your salary (12%)* Private medical cover for you and your family* Life insurance* Contribution to gym memberships* 25 Days holiday, with 1 additional day off to celebrate your Birthday & 2 additional days off a year for voluntary work (28 in total* The option to buy or sell holiday days.* Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning Platform* A comprehensive global and local onboarding process* Employee-led LGBTQ+, Women’s, Black and Parents & Carers networks with an annual budget for organising events & projects that foster an open, diverse and inclusive culture* Option to participate and create ESG initiatives based on IG Brighter Future Fund* Enhanced primary (maternity), secondary (paternity), and shared parental pay and leave, as well as a range of support and benefits for parentsLearn more about the Perks !Join us for this exciting journey.# # **Apply now!****Number of openings**1