Location: London

Role Type - Permanent

You’ll work as a software engineer within the Sales and Trading Lab who are responsible for all front office systems from real time pricing to electronic trading, real time risk management, data and analytics across a variety of asset classes. Within the Value Stream you will be attached to the eFX team where we are very excited to be starting the redevelopment of our FX trading platform! You will join Greenfield development project and will have a chance to contribute to architecture and design decisions as well as to develop new processes from scratch.

So what exactly would I be responsible for? 

You will work as a senior developer within the team and to develop low latency Java based software through the full software development lifecycle and post go-live support.

The role of our Senior Software Engineers is vital in ensuring the products we deliver are fit for purpose and meet the quality and standards that our customers expect. We are in the exciting position of having funding and approval to fully redevelop our FX Trading Platform which you would be heavily involved in. Here is a full list of the activities which you might be involved in during your role, but not all at the same time! 

• You’ll deliver the highest quality low latency, object orientated Java applications, driven on behalf of the customer, whist continually challenging, motivating, mentoring and supporting the teams. 

• Work in cross-disciplinary feature teams delivering exciting customer driven solutions and high quality software. • Work hands-on alongside engineering colleagues to understand and develop their own technical domain knowledge and takes responsibility for their actions. 

• Work in a highly collaborative way to complete assigned work, showcase progress and address problems that are well-defined, complex and often non-routine. • Adapt to new technologies being used within Lloyds and the wider industry whilst bringing those around them on the same journey. 

• Understand the importance of quality and hence create and implement approaches, guidelines, principles defined by themselves and their Engineering and Chapter Lead peers.

• You'll work with partners to advocate engineering excellence and deliver business value through sound and fully rounded engineering methods and principles. 

• You'll support the engineering community by providing deep domain and technical expertise and providing a voice to engineers to identify and support the resolution of issues. 

• You'll ensure technical debt and releases are prioritised accordingly. 

• You'll be able to continually develop yourself with industry standard methodology methods and tooling used across the engineering teams. 

What are we looking for from those who apply? 

This is a critical senior software engineer role working within our trading office, so we aim to recruit our strongest developers in this area who have excellent Java software engineering skills, knowledge of trading platforms (ideally FX) and are used to working within the world of trading. Those are the main skills and knowledge we will look for when considering those who apply and worth mentioning that we have a very diverse team in terms of our personalities and cultural backgrounds. So as a minimum to apply and success in this role, we would need to see; 

• Experience as a senior developer or someone ready to make the move into a senior development role. 

• Having previously focused on the development of Java based (including strong Object Orientated) low latency electronic trading applications. This is critical for us. 

• FX Trading products knowledge. • Familiarity with modern build pipelines and tools – experience with UrbanCode and Team City would be beneficial 

• Demonstrated experience in Multi-threading In terms of desirable skills, if you have any of the following that would be beneficial but please still apply if you have the minimum experience detailed above; 

• Kafka knowledge.is a big plus but not essential to apply

• One Tick Database knowledge is a big plus but not essential to apply

• Being well versed with modern technologies like cloud and containers, Microservices, distributed architecture and passionate about agile, lean development practices, Continuous Integration/Continuous Development, DevOps, SRE. 

• Experience of developing using modern UIs 

• Working experience in streaming, messaging and RESTful APIs • Demonstrated knowledge of common design patterns such as MVVM, IoC, etc