Software Engineer (Full Stack) in London

The TP ICAP Group is a world leading provider of market infrastructure. Our purpose is to provide clients with access to global financial and commodities markets, improving price discovery, liquidity, and distribution of data, through responsible and innovative solutions. Through our people and technology, we connect clients to superior liquidity and data solutions. The Group operates from more than 60 offices in 27 countries. We are 5,300 people strong. We work as one to achieve our vision of being the world’s most trusted, innovative, liquidity and data solutions specialist.

Role Overview: TP ICAP has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build the Next Generation of the Fusion Platform and make it Global Market Infrastructure. This role will be working in a new team to build out a new Platform based on the latest technology and architecture. You will be working alongside AWS and learning from the best. As a Software Engineer you will support the technical delivery abilities of the development teams across all disciplines from development, testing, dev-ops and business analysis, ultimately assisting in the delivery of production systems.

Role Responsibilities:

• Act as a technical contributor on a team, demonstrating good technical competencies and a desire to improve those competencies.
• Participate in the elicitation, design, development and testing of software changes or features and support their successful deployment into a production setting.
• Contribute to the elicitation and capturing of business requirements using techniques such as user stories and use cases.
• Contribute to the development and execution of test cases and associated tasks to assess completion and quality of delivered user stories and use cases.
• Be capable of contributing to the delivery of complex systems.
• Communicate the architecture and principles behind a system to other members of the team.
• Support the use of preferred planning and prioritisation tooling to capture and track deliveries, identify issues and help with iteration planning and prioritisation.
• Support the team through active participation in estimation of work to be done by discussing requirements and potential solutions with other team members.
• Learn to recognise patterns in the software systems for meaningful conversations about wider system architecture.
• Gain an appreciation of how to evolve systems towards target state architecture through directed refactoring and prioritisation of deliveries.

The Fusion Platform Team builds, owns and runs its own services all the way through to Production. The services are used 24/5 by several teams. As part of a global team, there may be times when you are asked to assist with production incidents or support outside regular hours to maintain operational stability.

Experience/Competencies:

• Demonstrable experience as a Full Stack or Front/Backend Engineer in Typescript in a professional environment.
• Front-end skills: HTML5, CSS3, and Typescript, React, Redux, ReactQuery.
• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks - React.
• Knowledge of version control systems (Git).
• Understanding of cross-browser compatibility.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs, GraphQL and Websockets.
• Experience with CSS pre-processors e.g. Tailwind.
• Back-end skills: Proficiency in backend programming languages (Typescript and/or other OOP language such as C#/Java).
• Strong database knowledge (SQL and NoSQL).
• Proficiency with RESTful APIs and GraphQL APIs and Websockets.
• Experience with microservices architecture.
• Experience with Terraform.
• Experience with automated testing.
• Experience with AWS (AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate, Amazon API Gateway, AWS AppSync).
• Worked within an Agile Cross-functional delivery team.
• Developing well tested software into low latency event driven production environments.
• Full software development lifecycle in a technical role.
• Pub/Sub patterns with Messaging technologies (such as SOLACE/AMQP).
• Worked within a technical platform team, delivering reusable services across multiple agile projects.
• Containerization.
• Maintaining code quality with Unit, Integration and e2e testing.
• AWS cloud ecosystem and the AWS CLI (or industry equivalent).
• Linux shell or Windows PowerShell.
• CI and CD flows within an enterprise environment.
• Agile tooling to support team delivery, such as JIRA and other project management systems.
• Open to innovative ideas/experiences and ability to create new ideas, approaches or insights.
• Seeks opportunities for improvements.
• Demonstrates high levels of energy in seeking out and achieving new goals.
• Can work with BA’s/PO’s to demystify ambiguity, handle challenge, and is comfortable to challenge team mates constructively.
• Adapts communication style to suit audience.
• Works ethically and shows respect for both professional and company values.
• Excellent attention to detail, highly organised with a proactive approach.
• Strong analytical ability and innovative problem solving skills.
• Software Design Patterns.
• OOP & SOLID Principles.
• Contribution to open-source projects.
• Experience of regulatory driven projects.
• Knowledge of Financial Markets, Systems and Over the Counter (OTC) products.

Not The Perfect Fit? Concerned that you may not meet the criteria precisely? At TP ICAP, we wholeheartedly believe in fostering inclusivity and cultivating a work environment where everyone can flourish, regardless of your personal or professional background. If you are enthusiastic about this role but find that your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every aspect of the job description, we strongly encourage you to apply. You may be the ideal candidate for this position or another opportunity within our organisation.

Company Statement: We know that the best innovation happens when diverse people with different perspectives and skills work together in an inclusive atmosphere. That’s why we’re building a culture where everyone plays a part in making people feel welcome, ready and willing to contribute.