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Lead Engineer (VP) | Fixed Income Trading Platform Modernisation | London (Hybrid – 3 days onsite) | Up to £130,000 + strong benefits
Overview:
An opportunity has opened for a Lead Engineer (VP) to play a key role in transforming a Rates and Credit Fixed Income technology platform as part of a major multi-year front-office modernisation programme.
This is a hands-on engineering leadership role focused on building real-time, high-performance trading applications supporting business-critical workflows across the Fixed Income landscape.
You’ll work closely with traders, quants and senior stakeholders to design and deliver scalable systems across a modern event-driven architecture stack.
What you’ll be doing:
Building real-time, high-performance microservices supporting rates and credit trading workflows
Designing end-to-end full-stack solutions across distributed systems and trading UIs
Delivering low-latency event-driven interfaces handling large streaming datasets
Partnering directly with front-office stakeholders to shape platform evolution
Driving engineering best practices across architecture, CI/CD, testing and code quality
Influencing the long-term strategy of a major Fixed Income technology modernisation programmeWhat we’re looking for:
Strong experience building complex, high-performance Java applications in distributed environments, alongside:
Expertise with modern Java, concurrency and reactive programming
Experience building low-latency, real-time UIs
Strong understanding of event-driven architectures
Messaging technologies such as Kafka, Solace or RabbitMQ
Experience with WebSockets, SSE or reactive UI frameworks
REST + event-driven API design experience
Strong SQL and relational database knowledge
Experience deploying services using Kubernetes
A track record of promoting engineering excellence across teamsPackage:
Salary up to £130,000
Hybrid working (3 days per week onsite in London)
Large-scale platform transformation programme
Strong engineering culture with modern tooling
Opportunity to influence long-term architecture direction
Clear VP-level progression opportunities
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Location:
London
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
Engineer, Lead Engineer, Lead, Engineering

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