Fastmarkets
About the Company
Who we are
Fastmarkets is the most trusted cross-commodity price reporting agency (PRA) in the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and energy transition markets. Our price data, forecasts and market analyses give our customers a strategic advantage in complex, volatile, often opaque markets. Our events provide immersive experiences to network, trade and discuss the critical issues of the day.
Fastmarkets combines the commodity intelligence of these familiar names:
Metal Bulletin • American Metal Market • Scrap Price Bulletin • Industrial Minerals • RISI • FOEX • The Jacobsen • Agricensus • Random Lengths • FastMarkets and more.
What we do
The commodity markets we serve are the beating heart of today’s economy and critical to the transition to a low-carbon economy. That reality guides our purpose: to create transparent commodity markets to help our customers build a more sustainable world. The creation of healthy commodity markets – markets that maintain supply-demand balances and create clear mechanisms for participants and investors – are essential to fuel today’s financial performance and make the key investments to build a more sustainable world.
How we do it
Fastmarkets is an extraordinary place to work. We marry a culture energized by a diversity of intellect, experiences, and perspective with a passion to make our customers successful.
We combine the authority of our expertise with a pragmatic view of how markets work to help our customers see clearly even in volatile and opaque markets.
We respect and trust each other as shown by our Working 3.0 model that allows each of us to bring our best selves to work each day and combine to make a difference for each other and for the world.
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- Company Name
- Fastmarkets
- Job Title
- Head of Engineering
- Job Description
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Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets.
Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 600 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Finland and beyond.
Job Description
The Head of Engineering will be responsible for shaping and executing the technical vision of the business while leading the engineering function. You will work closely with the CTIO, product teams, and senior leadership to drive innovation, improve development processes, and scale engineering operations to support the company’s aggressive growth targets.
This role is critical in delivering the product roadmap, ensuring technical excellence, and building a high-performance engineering culture that aligns with the company’s commercial objectives.
PRINCIPLE ACCOUNTABILITIES
Leadership & Strategy: Lead the engineering team and define the technical strategy to support the company’s vision and business growth. Translate business goals into engineering solutions.
Team Building: Scale and mentor a high-performing engineering team, creating an environment that fosters innovation, collaboration, and accountability.
Product Development: Oversee the end-to-end development process, from concept to delivery, ensuring projects are completed on time, within scope, and to the highest quality.
Technology Stack: Ensure that the technical architecture and technology stack are scalable, robust, and aligned with business requirements.
Collaboration: Partner with product, operations, and commercial teams to align engineering efforts with broader business objectives.
Process Improvement: Continuously enhance engineering processes, leveraging industry best practices such as Agile and DevOps methodologies.
Budget & Resources: Manage the engineering budget, including resourcing, tooling, and technology investment.
Risk Management: Identify and manage potential risks, ensuring business continuity and robust security practices are in place.
Stakeholder Engagement: Act as a key technical advisor to senior management and PE investors, providing insight into technological trends and the role of innovation in driving business success.
Vendor Management: Work with third-party vendors and external partners to integrate solutions and support business goals.
Qualifications
We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.
If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on.
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.
Proven experience (8+ years) in a senior engineering leadership role, ideally in a PE-backed or fast-growth environment.
Demonstrated success in scaling engineering teams and delivering complex technology products at pace.
Expertise in software engineering, cloud architecture, and modern development frameworks.
Strong track record in leading Agile and DevOps practices, with a focus on continuous improvement and innovation.
Experience in budget management and strategic decision-making in line with commercial goals.
Excellent leadership skills, with the ability to influence and inspire cross-functional teams.
Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, including investors.
Experience with [specific technology stack/languages relevant to the business] is a plus.
If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.
Additional Information
Our Values
Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values.
Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do. Our values are:
METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance
ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.
You’ve read a little about us – now it’s over to you!
If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day.
It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great.
London, United Kingdom
On site
05-03-2025
- Company Name
- Fastmarkets
- Job Title
- Principal Software Engineer (Hybrid)
- Job Description
-
Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets.
Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 600 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Finland and beyond.
Job Description
The Role
Our next generation of real-time market data platform operates around the globe, 24 x 7, connecting to over 6 financial exchanges, delivering real-time market data, benchmark prices, news content and research data to our customers around the world. This is an exciting and unique opportunity to join our team to help shape and build our financial data platform that will help power the business through the next phase of its digital growth.
The new platform is being engineered for the cloud as a set of scalable, fault-tolerant microservices with rich web and mobile UIs. Our technology stack is largely Microsoft, although we also leverage a number of open-source software adopting the right tool for the job approach.
In this hands-on development role, you will be a senior member of the development team reporting to an Engineering Manager. As a principal engineer you will also be expected to contribute to the overall strategic and technical direction of the Technology Team. You will be a highly productive developer who is passionate about writing clean, quality code, building high-scale distributed systems that are fault-tolerant, with deep operational insights. You will take an engineering approach to developing new services and systems, favouring metrics over personal opinion or bias. You will have good communication skills and be able to mentor and help grow more junior developers, coaching them on good design, coding and software engineering practices. This is an individual contributor role, where you will be providing technical leadership.
Principal Accountabilities
Responsible for guiding coding best practice
Deliver high quality, performant code to SOLID design principals
Provide mentorship and guidance for more junior engineers
Contribute to overall strategic technical direction
KEY INTERFACES
Engineering Manager
Software engineering team
SRE
Enterprise Architect
Product Owners / Product Management
Qualifications
We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.
If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on...
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.
A successful candidate will have:
C# /.NET Framework
Solid understanding of concurrent programming
Messaging technologies, e.g. Service Bus, Event Hubs etc
Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration
Distributed systems, REST, SOA
ASP.NET / Web development
SQL and NoSQL database experience
Good communication skills, collaborative attitude and strong team player with a strong desire to ship software to customers
Experience of developing real-time, low-latency systems
Ability to mentor and grow more junior developers
A successful candidate might also have:
A successful candidate will likely have some of the following:
.NET 8.0 or higher
Cloud computing – Ideally Azure.
FIX or SBE message processing or similar
Garbage free .NET development
Distributed caching technologies, e.g. Redis
Stress and performance testing / tuning
Code benchmarking
C++ experience (even if not current)
Experience developing microservices
An understanding of network reference models and networking protocols (UDP, TCP)
Continuous Delivery
Knowledge of market data, commodity exchanges and financial instruments
Personal Attributes
Deeply technical
Continuously looking for ways to improve (yourself, your team, the code the processes)
Strategic thinker with the ability to execute and deliver in a fast-paced environment
Highly collaborative and able to work across multiple teams and geographies
Results-driven, with a focus on long-term value creation
If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.
Additional Information
Our Values
Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values.
Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do. Our values are:
METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance
ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.
You’ve read a little about us – now it’s over to you!
If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day.
It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great.
London, United Kingdom
On site
06-03-2025