X4 Technology
Contract Senior Software Engineer (Azure Microservices)
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Role: Contract Senior Software Engineer (.NET)
Industry: Commodities trading
Location: Central London (Hybrid, 1-2 days per week)
Contract: 6 month initial contract (multiyear scope)
Rate: £650-700/day (Outside IR35)
X4 Technology are partnered with a Commodities Trading company embarking on a major technology transformation, moving from a CTRM-centric architecture to a modern data-centric platform.
As part of this multi-year programme, the business is integrating a new event-driven, near real-time platform, decoupling from their ETRM to build a scalable data hub to support future trading systems and business services.
They are looking for an experienced.NET Software Engineer to develop event-driven services, distributed microservices and real-time integrations within this modern cloud-based trading architecture.
Responsibilities for the Contract Senior Software Engineer (Azure Microservices)
- Design, develop and deploy cloud-native.NET microservices within an Azure environment
- Build event-driven integrations using Azure Event Hubs, Azure Service Bus and real-time messaging patterns
- Develop scalable APIs, data processing services and integration components supporting critical trading and risk systems
- Work with Azure Kubernetes Service and Docker to deploy, manage and optimise containerised applications
- Contribute to solution architecture, ensuring highly scalable, resilient and maintainable microservice-based solutions
- Implement modern engineering practices including CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring and deployment automation using Azure DevOps
- Collaborate with Architecture, Infrastructure and Engineering teams to deliver secure, high-performance cloud solutions
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Requirements for the Contract Senior.NET Software Engineer
- Strong commercial experience developing enterprise applications using.NET/C#
- Proven experience building event-driven architectures using Event Hubs, Service Bus or Kafka
- Strong experience designing and developing microservices, REST APIs and distributed systems (gRPC desirable)
- Experience building cloud-native solutions on Microsoft Azure, including Azure Kubernetes Service and Docker
- Experience working with Cosmos DB, SQL Server or other NoSQL/relational database technologies
- Strong understanding of asynchronous messaging, event streaming and integration patterns
- Experience with Azure DevOps, Git, CI/CD pipelines and automated testing
- Excellent debugging, troubleshooting and performance optimisation skills within distributed systems
- Comfortable taking ownership of technical delivery within agile, multidisciplinary engineering teams
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An excellent opportunity to join a high-performing engineering team delivering a large-scale digital transformation within a fast-paced Commodities Trading environment. This is a long-term outside IR35 contract with significant scope across a multi-year programme. Please apply online for immediate consideration.
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