Principal Engineer - Electronic Pricing - Financial Services - TWE4745

Company

Join a well-established financial markets organisation investing in the development and modernisation of its core technology platforms. The engineering team builds and supports high-throughput, business-critical systems, with a strong emphasis on reliability, scalability, automation and engineering quality.

Role

As a Principal Engineer, you will remain hands-on while helping shape the architecture and technical direction of highly available, distributed software platforms.

• Design and develop backend applications and services within a Java environment.
• Build and enhance distributed systems operating at high throughput and availability.
• Design event-driven architectures and integrations using Kafka.
• Shape technical approaches and contribute to architecture and engineering standards.
• Lead technical design discussions and drive complex initiatives from concept through to production.
• Build scalable APIs, microservices and integration patterns.
• Develop and operate applications across Kubernetes and containerised environments.
• Contribute to CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps and deployment automation.
• Work closely with engineering, product, architecture, security and operational teams.
• Investigate complex performance, resilience and production issues.
• Improve observability, maintainability and engineering practices across the platform.

Key Skills

• Significant commercial software engineering experience within complex production environments.
• Deep hands-on Java development experience.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and scalable application design.
• Strong experience with Kafka and event-driven architectures.
• Experience designing microservices, APIs and integration patterns.
• Strong Kubernetes experience within production environments.
• Good understanding of software architecture, design patterns and modern engineering practices.
• Experience building highly available, resilient and performance-sensitive systems.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps and automated software delivery.
• Experience with secure software development, including authentication and authorisation.
• Comfortable owning technical initiatives and making architecture and design decisions.
• Experience with observability and production monitoring tooling.
• Able to work independently while influencing technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience within financial services, trading or another high-throughput environment is advantageous.
• Exposure to Python, Scala, OpenShift, Docker or Helm would be beneficial.
• A degree in computer science, engineering or a related discipline is advantageous.

Benefits

• Hybrid working environment.
• Opportunity to work on complex, business-critical engineering platforms.
• Opportunity to influence architecture and technical direction while remaining hands-on.