Lead Engineer
Lead Engineer (VP) | Fixed Income Trading Platform Modernisation | London (Hybrid - 3 days onsite) | Up to £130,000 + strong benefits
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.
You'll work closely with traders, quants and senior stakeholders to design and deliver scalable systems across a modern event-driven architecture stack.
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
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
- 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