Principal Software Engineer (Hybrid)

JOB PURPOSE 

Our next generation of real-time market data platform operates around the globe, 24 x 7, connecting to over 6 financial exchanges, delivering real-time market data, benchmark prices, news content and research data to our customers around the world.  This is an exciting and unique opportunity to join our team to help shape and build our financial data platform that will help power the business through the next phase of its digital growth. 

The new platform is being engineered for the cloud as a set of scalable, fault-tolerant microservices with rich web and mobile UIs. Our technology stack is largely Microsoft, although we also leverage a number of open-source software adopting the right tool for the job approach. 

In this hands-on development role, you will be a senior member of the development team reporting to an Engineering Manager.  As a principal engineer you will also be expected to contribute to the overall strategic and technical direction of the Technology Team.  You will be a highly productive developer who is passionate about writing clean, quality code, building high-scale distributed systems that are fault-tolerant, with deep operational insights.  You will take an engineering approach to developing new services and systems, favouring metrics over personal opinion or bias. You will have good communication skills and be able to mentor and help grow more junior developers, coaching them on good design, coding and software engineering practices. This is an individual contributor role, where you will be providing technical leadership. 

PRINCIPLE ACCOUNTABILITIES 

1. Responsible for guiding coding best practice 

1. Deliver high quality, performant code to SOLID design principals 

1. Provide mentorship and guidance for more junior engineers  

1. Contribute to overall strategic technical direction 
    

KEY INTERFACES  

• Engineering Manager 

• Software engineering team 

• SRE 

• Enterprise Architect 

• Product Owners / Product Management