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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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