This is a high-impact Lead Engineer role driving the transformation of a Fixed Income technology landscape. You’ll play a key role in a multi-year platform modernisation programme, building real-time, high-performance applications that support critical trading workflows. This position offers the opportunity to shape architecture, influence platform direction, and deliver scalable systems designed for long-term growth.

Key Responsibilities
*Develop real-time, high-performance microservices supporting rates and credit trading workflows
*Drive full-stack solution design, partnering with front-end engineers to deliver end-to-end solutions
*Engage directly with business stakeholders to understand workflows and deliver impactful features
*Promote engineering best practices across distributed systems, testing, CI/CD and code quality
*Contribute to platform modernisation, influencing architecture and adoption of modern tooling
*Participate in code reviews and technical decision-making to maintain high engineering standards
Key Requirements*Proven experience building high-performance applications in modern Java - Java 11,21
*Experience building in low-latency and event-driven handling large, fast-moving datasets
*Strong understanding of distributed systems and event-driven architectures
*Experience with messaging technologies such as Kafka, Solace or RabbitMQ
*Solid experience building RESTful and event-driven APIs
*Strong knowledge of SQL and relational database design
*Experience deploying applications using containerisation and orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes)
*Track record of driving engineering excellence through testing, CI/CD and scalable design
*AWS, GCP
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