Software Developer - Equity Market Making Trading Platform

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[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Group plc (NASDAQ: MRX) is a diversified global financial services platform providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients across energy, commodities and financial markets. The group provides comprehensive breadth and depth of coverage across four core services: clearing, agency and execution, market making, and hedging and investment solutions. It has a leading franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, with access to 60 exchanges. The group provides access to the world’s major commodity markets, covering a broad range of clients that include some of the largest commodity producers, consumers and traders, banks, hedge funds and asset managers. With more than 40 offices worldwide, the group has over 2,300 employees across Europe, Asia and the Americas. For more information visit [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal].com/

Role Summary

We are seeking a senior Software Engineer to provide technical leadership, architectural authority, and hands-on delivery across our Equity Market Making Trading platform. This is a high-impact, regulated environment with distributed systems and DevOps practices. The role is designed for a senior engineer with leadership skills.

Languages & Frameworks: C#, .NET (Framework & Core), ASP.NET Core, RESTful APIs, Microservices, Messaging (AMQ, Kafka, RabbitMQ), SQL Server, JavaScript (desirable). WPF (desirable)
O/S, Cloud & DevOps: Windows and Linux experience, AWS (Lambda, ECS, RDS, SQS, S3, API Gateway, VPC, Terraform/CloudFormation), CI/CD (TeamCity/Octopus), Git workflows, Containers
AI & Developer Productivity: Experience using AI-assisted coding tools, including agentic AI platforms, for code generation, review, automation, and optimization.
Regulatory Experience: Highly desirable in financial services or other regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Architectural Leadership: Own and evolve platform architecture across on-premise and AWS cloud environments. Lead modernization initiatives: microservices, distributed systems, cloud-native practices. Ensure scalability, resilience, performance, and security-by-design. Guide technical governance and engineering standards.
• Software Engineering Excellence: Deliver high-quality, maintainable, and secure systems. Implement modern DevOps practices: CI/CD, automation, IaC. Promote coding standards, testing, code review discipline, and quality metrics. Lead technical delivery of complex initiatives, contributing hands-on where strategic. Leverage AI-assisted coding tools, including agentic AI, to accelerate development, enforce quality, and optimize software delivery.
• Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Act as the senior technical authority within engineering. Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, raising technical capability. Lead complex problem-solving and critical incident resolution. Support hiring, technical evaluation, and team development.
• Operational & Delivery Accountability: Maintain platform reliability, scalability, and operational stability. Own root cause analysis and remediation planning for incidents. Drive/engage in best practise project governance, e.g. Agile to deliver results and manage expectations. Embed observability, monitoring, and performance metrics. Collaborate with operations, compliance, and product teams to deliver business change safely.
• Strategic & Commercial Contribution: Contribute to the technology roadmap and long-term engineering strategy. Participate in governance forums, board reporting, and vendor selection. Communicate technical direction to senior stakeholders effectively.

Skills and Experience

Essential:
10+ years in software engineering
Proven track record designing and delivering scalable, distributed systems.
Architectural ownership of complex platforms.
Mentoring and leading engineering teams.
Experienced in AI-assisted development workflows.
Experience of Capital Markets, especially Equity trading, FIX experience, market data and Trading UIs, is beneficial.
Cloud-native and DevOps expertise.
Exposure to regulated environments preferred.
Leadership potential with ability to assume Head of Software Architecture responsibilities.

Desirable:
Influence enterprise-scale regulated platforms.
Hands-on and strategic leadership.
Exposure to roadmap planning, governance forums, and operational oversight.
Modern AI-assisted software engineering across the tech estate.

Company Values

Respect – Clients are at the heart of our business, with superior execution and superb client service the foundation of the firm. We respect our clients and always treat them fairly. Integrity – Doing business the right way is the only way. We hold ourselves to a high ethical standard in everything we do – our clients expect this and we demand it of ourselves. Collaborative – We work in teams – open and direct communication and the willingness to work hard and collaboratively are the basis for effective teamwork. Working well with others is necessary for us to succeed at what we do. Developing our People – Our people are the basis of our competitive advantage. We look to 'grow our own' and make [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] the place ambitious, hardworking, talented people choose to build their careers. Adaptable and Nimble – Our size and flexibility is an advantage. We are big enough to support our client's various needs, and adaptable and nimble enough to respond quickly to changing conditions or requirements. A non-bureaucratic, but well controlled environment fosters initiative as well as employee satisfaction.

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