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Senior Full Stack Engineer, Trading Technology

Selby Jennings London, United Kingdom
Posted 14 hours ago In-Office Job Permanent bonus + benefits

Senior Full Stack Engineer, Trading Technology

Selby Jennings London, United Kingdom
Join a high-performing engineering team at a leading buy-side investment firm, building business-critical applications used across trading, risk and analytics workflows. We're looking for a strong full stack engineer with expertise in React/TypeScript and Python, who enjoys solving complex problems, partnering with stakeholders, and building scalable real-time systems.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop modern user-facing applications using React and TypeScript, with a strong focus on usability, performance and real-time data visualisation.
  • Build backend services, APIs and data-driven applications using Python and modern software engineering practices.
  • Partner directly with business stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver impactful technical solutions.
  • Drive improvements to application performance, scalability, reliability and maintainability.
  • Collaborate with engineers across frontend, backend and platform teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
  • Contribute to technical design discussions, code reviews and engineering best practices.


Key Requirements

  • Strong commercial experience as a Full Stack Software Engineer.
  • Expertise in React and TypeScript for building complex web applications.
  • Strong backend development experience using Python or C++
  • Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs and microservices.
  • Solid understanding of software architecture, design patterns and engineering best practices.
  • Experience working with SQL databases and distributed systems.
  • Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, cloud platforms and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Excellent communication skills and experience working closely with business stakeholders.


Preferred Experience

  • Experience within financial services, trading technology, capital markets or investment management.
  • Exposure to real-time applications, analytics platforms or data-intensive systems.
  • Experience building tools used by trading, risk, portfolio management or investment teams.
  • Knowledge of market data, trading workflows, pricing or risk management systems.

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