Full job description Senior Java / Python Engineer
London | Up to £775/day (Inside IR35) or £120,000 Base Salary
5 Days Onsite for the First 6 Months | 4 Days Thereafter

This investments client is investing heavily in a strategic platform build-out driven by T+1 settlement requirements and continued business growth.

We’re looking for engineers who enjoy building systems rather than maintaining them. This is an opportunity to join a growing team responsible for developing core Trade Lifecycle, Settlement, Finance Systems and Regulatory Reporting platforms supporting multiple asset classes.

The Opportunity You’ll be involved in designing and building a next-generation platform covering:

*Trade Lifecycle Management
*Settlement Processing
*Finance Systems
*Regulatory Reporting
*Market & Reference Data Integration
*Workflow Automation
*Real-Time Processing Architecture
The business is moving away from manual and batch-driven processes towards a modern, event-driven platform, giving engineers the opportunity to have genuine influence over architecture and design decisions.

Technology Stack *Java
*Python
*Spring Boot
*Kafka
*Linux
*PostgreSQL
*AWS
*Microservices
*REST APIs
What We’re Looking For We are interested in engineers with experience in some combination of:
*Capital Markets Technology
*Regulatory Reporting
*Finance Systems
*Trade Lifecycle Processing
*Market Data Platforms
*Post-Trade & Settlement Systems
*Data Integration & Transformation
*Event-Driven Architectures
Experience with asset classes such as Equities, Futures, Securities Lending or Structured Products would be beneficial but not essential.

Ideal Backgrounds You may currently be working as:
*Java Developer
*Python Developer
*Software Engineer
*Regulatory Reporting Developer
*Market Data Engineer
*Trade Lifecycle Developer
*Finance Systems Engineer
*Integration Engineer
Why Join? *Strategic greenfield-style platform development.
*Significant business investment and growth.
*Direct exposure to trading, operations, finance and regulatory functions.
*Opportunity to shape architecture and engineering direction.
*Mix of contract and permanent opportunities available.
*Growing team with multiple hires planned.