Job Description

Overview: An opportunity has opened for a Lead Engineer (VP) to play a key role in transforming a Rates and Credit Fixed Income technology platform as part of a major multi-year front-office modernisation programme.

This is a hands-on engineering leadership role focused on building real-time, high-performance trading applications supporting business-critical workflows across the Fixed Income landscape.

What you’ll be doing:

- Building real-time, high-performance microservices supporting rates and credit trading workflows - Designing end-to-end full-stack solutions across distributed systems and trading UIs - Delivering low-latency event-driven interfaces handling large streaming datasets - Partnering directly with front-office stakeholders to shape platform evolution - Driving engineering best practices across architecture, CI/CD, testing and code quality - Influencing the long-term strategy of a major Fixed Income technology modernisation programme What we’re looking for:

- Strong experience building complex, high-performance Java applications in distributed environments, alongside: - Expertise with modern Java, concurrency and reactive programming - Experience building low-latency, real-time UIs - Strong understanding of event-driven architectures - Messaging technologies such as Kafka, Solace or RabbitMQ - Experience with WebSockets, SSE or reactive UI frameworks - REST + event-driven API design experience - Strong SQL and relational database knowledge - Experience deploying services using Kubernetes - A track record of promoting engineering excellence across teams Package:

- Salary up to £130,000 - Hybrid working (3 days per week onsite in London) - Large-scale platform transformation programme - Strong engineering culture with modern tooling - Opportunity to influence long-term architecture direction - Clear VP-level progression opportunities