Solution Engineer (Aeron and Capital Markets)

This job is with Adaptive Financial Consulting Ltd, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community.

WE ARE:

At Adaptive, we are a financial consulting firm that partners with capital, commodity, and digital market participants. We value differentiation through technology. Our experienced teams design and deliver complex front-office technology solutions using our proven accelerators to create long-term competitive advantage. Our clients include the world’s leading investment banks, investment managers, fintech and capital market service providers. With a global reach with offices in London, New York, Barcelona, Manila and Montreal, we have a proven track record of delivering powerful, elegant and intuitive trading technology solutions. We are now looking for a Solution Engineer to join our team in London.

YOU ARE:

• An exceptional technologist who loves to solve complex problems as part of a team
• An individual with experience building solutions in the capital markets domain
• Able to build strong relationships easily with your team and clients
• Can think strategically and communicate concepts clearly to others
• An individual who acts with authenticity and integrity through their work and interactions

YOU WILL:

• Be an ambassador to Adaptive's clients
• Build a strong, long term and trusting relationship with your team
• Help others to grow and evolve through coaching, mentorship and feedback
• Be accountable for the success and technical excellence of solutions delivered to clients at Adaptive:
• Through individual contribution to the codebase on the most challenging aspects of a Delivery
• Ensuring the output quality of the team you work meets the standards within Adaptive
• Through the application of best practices within design and development (e.g. separation of concerns)
• Through the advocacy of testing approaches (e.g. behaviour driven testing)
• By helping to define and facilitate the adoption of standards within teams
• Through the definition of performant and resilient architecture, and detailed design informed by the domain and client need
• Be expected to advocate for technical decisions to your Team, Clients and other Stakeholders
• Be able to lead a team in proper adherence to software development lifecycle processes
• Be able to work with leadership to ensure that delivered work meets time, budget and possible constraints
• Be comfortable escalating and articulating risks to team members, management and clients

YOU HAVE:

• Strong communication skills
• Experience in providing mentorship and support to team members
• Significant, professional experience within capital markets, developing software solutions using Java in a highly performant, low latency manner
• Experience using Aeron in a high-performance scenario within capital markets or digital assets
• Familiarity with appropriate data structures and their usages (e.g. sets, maps and queues)
• Relevant experience in building solutions within these domains:
• Order Management Systems
• Execution Management Systems
• Smart Order Routing
• Trading Venues & Exchanges
• Matching Engines
• Algo Containers
• Risk Management
• FIX Gateways
• Experienced in working within an Agile environment and following a mature SDLC.
• Distributed Systems and Consensus Algorithms
• Event-driven architecture
• Replicated State Machines

WHY US:

• To work on exciting and groundbreaking client projects where you have the opportunity to innovate and drive change at pace
• To be immersed in high-standard engineering culture
• To work amongst industry-leading experts in technology and capital markets
• To be part of the growth and development of a great company
• Our teams feel free to speak up, make suggestions and raise concerns
• Collaborative team environment: we all work together, respect each other, and pitch in
• Great work/life balance (flexible, hybrid working model when clients permit, well-being benefits…). The balance between professional and personal life is extremely important to us
• We work hard to provide a positive, collaborative and inclusive culture and to positively impact our staff and local communities through different well-being, diversity and inclusion programmes

WHAT DO PEOPLE THINK OF US:

You can check our Glassdoor page

BENEFITS:

• 25 days holiday
• Pension scheme
• Family medical and dental
• Life insurance and Long-term disability cover
• Cycle scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Gym subsidy
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders

THE PROCESS:

Long interview processes are stressful and boring, and that is not us