Senior Associate, Software Engineer

Team: Technology

Location: London

Commitment: Full Time

Workplace Type: hybrid

Key Accountabilities and Scope

Business Partnership & Requirements: Work with business stakeholders to understand workflows, clarify needs and translate them into clear technical requirements, scope and acceptance criteria.
End-to-End Delivery: Own assigned tasks and projects from discovery and solution design through development, testing, release, deployment and post-release support, managing risks and dependencies throughout.
Trading & Pricing Applications: Develop, enhance and maintain business-critical features across both applications, with a focus on reliable workflows and maintainable solutions.
Solution Design: Contribute to technical design with the Software Engineering team, ensuring alignment with application architecture and engineering standards.
Front-End Development: Build and enhance user-facing features using React and Django.
Back-End Development: Develop Python services and APIs and integrate with Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL.
Quality & Agile Delivery: Deliver secure, well-tested and high-performing solutions; participate in planning, estimation, demonstrations, code reviews and cross-functional collaboration.
Infrastructure & Deployment: Work with CI/CD pipelines, Azure and AWS services, Terraform and serverless functions to support reliable releases.

Essential Skills and Qualifications

Business Partnership & Delivery

• Experience working independently with business stakeholders to discover, analyse and document requirements.
• Experience owning tasks or small projects through the full software delivery lifecycle, from requirements through deployment and post-release validation.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to explain business and technical requirements to different audiences.
• Ability to manage priorities, dependencies and delivery risks while maintaining accountability for outcomes.

Front-End Expertise

• Strong proficiency in React and Django, with experience in component-driven development and modern UI libraries.

Back-End Experience

• Hands-on experience with Python and API development, including complex business logic and algorithms.
• Experience with ORM and database integrations using Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL.

Design Principles

• Good knowledge of software architecture, design principles and maintainable coding practices.
• Experience with automated testing, test-driven development and peer code review.
• Ability to collaborate on solution design while independently progressing implementation work.

DevOps & Tooling

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows and automated testing.

Desirable Skills and Qualifications

Financial services or investment-platform experience.
Experience working with trading, market data, valuation or pricing applications.
Knowledge of Azure App Service, serverless functions such as Azure Functions or AWS Lambda, and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.