Backend Engineering Lead

My client is looking for a highly skilled and motivated engineer to lead our back-end engineering team. The back-end team is responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining the systems and services powering our rapidly growing, award-winning technology offering.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Back-end Tech Strategy and Leadership

• Develop and execute the back-end strategy for our financial and quantitative applications, working to break down and complement objectives from wider business and technology team strategies
• Provide leadership to the back-end team, acting as an expert for Rust & Python, fostering a culture of innovation and leading adoption of best-practices

2. AWS Cloud Solution and Backend Architect

• Design, architect and implement back-end services as part of cloud-native solutions on AWS, building Python-based APIs and Rust-based event-driven microservices utilising gRPC
• Create suitable design documentation and supply sufficient technical detail to tickets for more junior colleagues

3. Team Management

• Manage a team of back-end and financial software engineers, overseeing the team delivery using AGILE processes
• Provide mentoring/coaching to reports, improving team code quality through the pull request process, and conducting bi-annual performance reviews

4. Collaboration and Stakeholder Management

• Work closely with business stakeholders, including finance teams, traders, and risk management, to understand their needs and translate them into effective technology solutions.

5. Financial Market Knowledge

• Design data models for elegantly capturing the business domain of complex trades across multiple asset classes. Build a strong understanding of FX and interest rate products, the related financial markets, and market data sources

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, mathematics, finance or a related field.
• Work closely with business stakeholders, including finance teams, traders, and risk management, to understand their needs and translate them into effective technology solutions.
• Proficiency with both Rust and Python. In exceptional circumstances we may consider applicants with a bulk of experience in a low-level language other than Rust (such as C++ or Go), though a minimum of a demonstrable understanding of Rust concepts and best practices is required.
• Experience leading or mentoring a team of engineers.
• Experience developing cloud-based services in a microservices-led architecture.
• Curiosity to explore new technologies. We are constantly looking for potential technologies to improve our platform.
• Strong understanding of financial markets, quantitative modelling and related data models.
• Strategic thinking with the ability to plan and architect solutions in line with technology initiatives and wider business objectives.

Preferred Qualifications/Experience:

• Experience with financial or market risk modelling is a plus, but not required. The role is heavily finance focused, so a keen interest is expected.
• Knowledge of AWS computing platforms and services.