Shape the Future of Equity Trading Technology We're looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join a major multi-year transformation programme modernising institutional equities and prime finance platforms.
This is an opportunity to work on business-critical trading and post-trade systems used by global institutional clients, helping to build the next generation of cloud-native, event-driven platforms that process high-volume, real-time financial flows. You'll be joining a highly collaborative engineering environment where technology is central to the business strategy, working across the full stack while contributing to architecture, platform design and engineering best practices.
What You'll Be Working On
Building and enhancing real-time equities trading and post-trade applications
Developing modern full stack solutions using Java and React
Designing event-driven distributed systems operating at scale
Creating responsive, data-rich user interfaces for front office users
Developing APIs, messaging integrations and backend services
Contributing to architecture and technical design decisions
Driving engineering excellence through TDD and automated testing
Supporting CI/CD pipelines and frequent production releases
Troubleshooting complex production issues in mission-critical environments
Partnering closely with product, business and technology stakeholders
Mentoring engineers and helping shape development standards across the team
What We're Looking For
Strong software engineering experience with Java
Commercial experience building modern frontend applications with React and/or Angular
Solid understanding of messaging architectures, resiliency patterns and fault tolerance
Strong Test-Driven Development (TDD) practices
Experience working within Agile engineering teams
Exposure to CI/CD, trunk-based development and regular production releases
Experience building real-time applications using WebSockets or streaming technologies
Ability to contribute to architecture discussions and technical decision-making
Capital Markets Experience You’ll bring hands-on experience within capital markets, including knowledge of:
Position management
Institutional trading environments
Experience with Prime Brokerage, Synthetic Swaps or Cash Equities is particularly valuable.
Bonus Points For
Kotlin experience, or a willingness to learn
Kafka, Solace or TIBCO EMS
Kubernetes and OpenShift
SQL Server, MongoDB and S3/Object Storage
OpenTelemetry, Grafana and ELK Stack
HashiCorp Vault or CyberArk
Regulatory reporting knowledge (EMIR, MiFID, 871(m))
Integration experience with risk, valuation or reporting platforms
Exposure to AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot or Devin
Why Join?
Strategic transformation programme with significant investment
Direct impact on front-office trading technology
Modern engineering practices, cloud-native architecture and event-driven systems
Complex technical challenges and large-scale distributed systems
Opportunity to influence architecture and technical direction
Work alongside experienced engineers, architects and capital markets specialists
If you're an experienced engineer who enjoys solving complex technical problems while working at the intersection of software engineering and capital markets, we'd love to hear from you.
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Senior Full Stack Engineer (Java / React) | Equities Trading Technology in London employer: Luxoft
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