Principal Software Engineer / Developer London / WFH to £120k

Do you have expertise with backend development within a finance / trading environment?

You could be progressing your career in a hands-on Principal Software Engineer role at a growing, global, FinTech services company that has seen 30-40% year on year growth for the past 10 years and has ambitious growth plans, with £48 million investment growth recently.

You’ll be working on a relatively new code base with no technical debt (it’s true!).

As a Principal Software Engineer you will develop and execute the backend strategy for financial and quantitative applications, providing technical leadership and expertise on Rust and Python to a growing team (currently five).

You’ll work with business stakeholders to understand their needs and take a lead role in designing, architecting and implementing backend services, with around 80% of your time hands-on, building Python based APIs and Rust based event driven microservices whilst also overseeing Agile processes and mentoring the team.

Location / WFH:

You’ll join the team in Central London three days a week with flexibility to work from home the other two days.

About you:

• You are degree educated in a STEM discipline and have ideally studied to MSc / PhD level
• You have experience within a financial services / banking / trading environment with a strong understanding of financial systems and processes
• You have worked on large scale distributed microservices systems
• You have strong Rust and Python development experience
• You have advanced analysis and problem solving skills
• You’re collaborative with mentoring and technical project leadership experience

What’s in it for you:

As a Principal Software Engineer / Developer you will earn a package including:

• Salary to £120k
• Bonus
• Private Medical Healthcare including Dental and Vision cover
• Pension
• Share Option scheme
• Employee Wellness Programme
• Summer time hours
• £2k personalised training budget

Apply now to find out more about this Principal Software Engineer / Developer (Rust Python) opportunity.