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Principal Engineer - Electronic Pricing - Financial Services - TWE47451
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Role
As a Principal Engineer, you will remain hands-on while helping shape the architecture and technical direction of highly available, distributed software platforms.
- Design and develop backend applications and services within a Java environment.
- Build and enhance distributed systems operating at high throughput and availability.
- Design event-driven architectures and integrations using Kafka.
- Shape technical approaches and contribute to architecture and engineering standards.
- Lead technical design discussions and drive complex initiatives from concept through to production.
- Build scalable APIs, microservices and integration patterns.
- Develop and operate applications across Kubernetes and containerised environments.
- Contribute to CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps and deployment automation.
- Work closely with engineering, product, architecture, security and operational teams.
- Investigate complex performance, resilience and production issues.
- Improve observability, maintainability and engineering practices across the platform.
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Key Skills
- Significant commercial software engineering experience within complex production environments.
- Deep hands-on Java development experience.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and scalable application design.
- Strong experience with Kafka and event-driven architectures.
- Experience designing microservices, APIs and integration patterns.
- Strong Kubernetes experience within production environments.
- Good understanding of software architecture, design patterns and modern engineering practices.
- Experience building highly available, resilient and performance-sensitive systems.
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps and automated software delivery.
- Experience with secure software development, including authentication and authorisation.
- Comfortable owning technical initiatives and making architecture and design decisions.
- Experience with observability and production monitoring tooling.
- Able to work independently while influencing technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience within financial services, trading or another high-throughput environment is advantageous.
- Exposure to Python, Scala, OpenShift, Docker or Helm would be beneficial.
- A degree in computer science, engineering or a related discipline is advantageous.
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Benefits
- Hybrid working environment.
- Opportunity to work on complex, business-critical engineering platforms.
- Opportunity to influence architecture and technical direction while remaining hands-on.
Next Steps
If you are interested, please apply below or reach out directly to isaac.salem@twentyai.com
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