Overview
Platform Engineer – Electronic Trading in London. Hybrid (3 days in the office per week).
This role is to help build a new electronic trading platform from the ground up, running in a private cloud environment. It is a hands-on role sitting close to the trading desk, focused on performance, reliability, and scale in a fast-moving front-office setup.
Base pay range
This range is provided by Bourne Search Ltd. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.
What you’ll be working on
- Building and running a private-cloud platform for a greenfield electronic trading system
- Supporting low-latency on-premises environments, performance-critical workloads
- Working day-to-day with developers and the trading desk to keep systems fast, stable, and observable
Core skills
- Performance optimisation in production environments
- Terraform for infrastructure as code
- HashiCorp Vault (or similar secrets management)
- Private cloud infrastructure
Experience that matters
- Background in electronic trading systems (eFX, Equities, Fixed Income, etc.)
- Experience supporting front-office platforms and working closely with traders
- Comfortable in environments where performance and uptime are non-negotiable
Location & setup
- London
- Hybrid: 3 days per week in the office
Important
- No sponsorship available – candidates must already have the right to work in the UK
Seniority level
- Mid-Senior level
Employment type
- Full-time
Industries
- Capital Markets
- IT Services and IT Consulting
- Financial Services
