Senior Software Engineer (Java)
Hybrid
London, United Kingdom
Full Time
20-03-2025
Job Specifications
Job Title
Senior Software Engineer (Java)
Job Description
So, who are we?
Hello, we’re IG Group, an FTSE 250 Fintech that provides cutting-edge mobile, web and desktop platforms that help our clients trade Stocks & Shares, leveraged products, Futures & Options and Crypto.
We are ambitious. Over 340,000 people already use our platforms. We’re global with offices in 18 countries and products in 16 regions. We’re hungry to move faster, ship better products for our customers and grow our user base. We believe in high autonomy, and we want people who are looking to do things differently to create better experiences for our customers.
We work in cross-functional teams and are laser-focused on increasing the number of active clients we serve to drive sustainable growth.
Your team
You’ll be working as part of IG’s Core Dealing software engineering team.
The Core Dealing team is responsible for developing and maintaining applications that perform order booking, trade execution, position/money/risk management and account valuation.
Your role in the Team’s Success
In your role, you’ll be developing these low latency, high throughput, distributed systems that are at the heart of IG’s business. Ensuring systems are highly performant and resilient.
As a highly skilled Senior Engineer, you’ll play a leading role as part of an agile team of engineers combining hands-on development with utilizing your exemplary engineering skills and experience to help mentor and drive continuous improvement in the team.
What You’ll Do
Lead, analyse, define and implement complex software projects.
Drive continuous improvement in software delivery across the team and the organization. Providing mentoring and guidance to ensure the team has proficient skills and employees the right techniques to deliver quality software quickly.
Hands-on development working across the tech stack utilising skills to quickly get across new systems and technologies and deliver value.
Writing automated testing frameworks, adding comprehensive test coverage (including functional, security and performance testing) and ensuring these are run as part of a CI/CD pipeline to assert quality without manual intervention.
Continually innovate, assessing new technologies, architectures and engineering techniques and looking to apply these across both the team and the wider organization.
Develop performance testing frameworks and utilise these to measure systems performance and drive improvements.
Interact directly with business stakeholders to drive the development of new features to grow the business.
How We Work
We try to take a thoughtful approach to our ways of working as a company. We follow a hybrid working model with 3 days in the office – which we think balances the need to collaborate effectively and connect with each other.
When It Comes To How We Deliver, There Are 5 Things We Want Everyone To Do To Drive High Performance, Better Learning And Career Satisfaction
Lead and Inspire: Drives trust, alignment, and enthusiasm
Think Big: Focus on the problems that most impact commercial outcomes
Champion the client: Understand and prioritise the client's needs
Deliver at pace: Push for fast, sustainable growth;
Raise the bar: Take ownership, be accountable and share feedback
We believe that diversity is vital to success, it fuels creativity, drives innovation and sets us up for global success. We’re committed to building teams with a variety of perspectives and skills to help us realise our vision and strategy, that’s why we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences to join us on this journey.
Learn more about our D&I approach here.
What You’ll Need For This Role
10+ years of professional commercial software engineering experience
Ability to quickly learn new systems and technologies and a proven track record of continually improving and innovating throughout your career as a software engineer.
Experience providing technical leadership in a cross-functional team for complex projects. This should encompass analysis/requirements definition through architectural and low-level design to implementation and quality assurance.
Performance testing and optimisation skills utilised to measure and understand the capacity/latency of systems and how to scale them.
Experience mentoring other engineers and instilling in the team the required skills and working practices to deliver great software at pace including:
Test Driven Development
Pair Programming
Conducting concise, constructive and direct peer reviews
Continuous Delivery: CI/CD pipelines with all testing / verification performed automatically in the pipeline
DevSecOps
Excellent core Java skills as part of a wider set of software engineering skills that should span multiple languages and frameworks including but not limited to:
Distributed systems using in-memory data grids (Coherence, Ignite)
Spring Frameworks / SpringBoot
Messaging technologies: JMS (AMQ) / Kafka / HTTP (REST APIs)
Database technologies: Oracle DB, SQL, Hibernate, Flyway
Containerisation (Docker, Nomad)
DevOps tools: CI/CD pipelines, build tools (Maven, Gradle) etc.
Ownership of production systems and drive to continuously improve them alongside troubleshooting abilities to quickly diagnose and solve any production issues that arise.
Engaged with the latest technology trends and consistently looking to innovate techniques and technologies to provide the best possible software solutions. Ability to evaluate new technologies, assess fit for usage and define patterns to integrate and use these to add required functionality.
The Perks
Your growth fuels our success!
Thrive with tailored development programs, mentoring opportunities with leaders, and clear career progression. Expand your network through committees, sports and social clubs. Enjoy extra time off for volunteering and community work.
Competitive salary
Flexible Benefits Package on top of your salary (12%)
Private medical cover for you and your family
Life insurance
Contribution to gym memberships
25 Days holiday, with 1 additional day off to celebrate your Birthday & 2 additional days off a year for voluntary work (28 in total
The option to buy or sell holiday days.
Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning Platform
A comprehensive global and local onboarding process
Employee-led LGBTQ+, Women’s, Black and Parents & Carers networks with an annual budget for organising events & projects that foster an open, diverse and inclusive culture
Option to participate and create ESG initiatives based on IG Brighter Future Fund
Enhanced primary (maternity), secondary (paternity), and shared parental pay and leave, as well as a range of support and benefits for parents
Learn more about the Perks here!
Join us for this exciting journey.
Apply now!
Number of openings
1
About the Company
We’ve been at the forefront of trading innovation since 1974, taking on the challenge to deliver an unmatched experience for our clients and raise the bar for tomorrow’s opportunities. Today, we’re a global fintech company incorporating the IG, tasty, IG Prime, Spectrum and DailyFX brands, with a presence in 18 countries across five continents – Europe, North America, Africa, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. We’re an organisation of positive problem-solvers, united and inspired by our purpose, which is to power the pursu... Know more
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