Senior Engineer

The TP ICAP Group is a world leading provider of market infrastructure.

Our purpose is to provide clients with access to global financial and commodities markets, improving price discovery, liquidity, and distribution of data, through responsible and innovative solutions.

Through our people and technology, we connect clients to superior liquidity and data solutions.

The Group is home to a stable of premium brands. Collectively, TP ICAP is the largest interdealer broker in the world by revenue, the number one Energy & Commodities broker in the world, the world’s leading provider of OTC data, and an award winning all-to-all trading platform.

The Group operates from more than 60 offices in 27 countries.  We are 5,300 people strong.  We work as one to achieve our vision of being the world’s most trusted, innovative, liquidity and data solutions specialist.

Role Overview:

As a Senior Engineer at TP ICAP you will be responsible for demonstrating excellent technical competencies with a desire to improve and mentor junior members of the team. You will take responsibility for your assigned work by taking ownership of the design, development testing and deployment of software across the team, and work closely with the Principal Engineer, Architects and Leads to ensure the successful deployment into production environments.

Role Responsibilities:

• Be able to drive engineering improvements whilst communicating principles behind your work to other team members and the wider organisation.

• Be proactive in supporting the team’s engagement in a well-defined SDLC that supports planning, prioritisation and delivery needs.

• Support the team in leading conversations around estimation by leveraging previous experience, challenging requirements and fostering potential solutions.

• Lead conversations around software systems to enable meaningful conversations about wider system architecture with Engineers.

• Evolve systems towards target state architecture by refactoring and prioritisation of deliveries.

Essential/Desired Criteria:

Essential:

• STEM Degree and 5+ years of industry experience.

• Demonstrable experience of C# (.Net 8+) in a professional environment.

• Worked within an Agile Cross-functional delivery team.

• Developing well tested software into low latency event driven production environments.

• Full software development lifecycle in a technical role.

• Pub/Sub patterns with Messaging technologies (such as RabbitMQ/SOLACE/AMQP)

• API Development using REST and GraphQL practices

• Worked within a technical platform team, delivering reusable services across multiple agile projects.

• Microservice Architecture.

• Containerization.

• Maintaining code quality with Unit, Integration and e2e testing.

• AWS cloud ecosystem and the AWS CLI (or industry equivalent).

• Linux shell or Windows PowerShell.

• CI and CD flows within an enterprise environment.

• Agile tooling to support team delivery, such as JIRA, Monday, and other project management systems.

• Contribution to open-source projects.

• Open to innovative ideas/ experiences and ability to create new ideas, approaches or insights.

• Seeks opportunities for improvements.

• Solves problems with general-purpose scripting language (such as Python, Perl, Ruby), to assist in automation of personal workflow.

• Demonstrates high levels of energy in seeking out and achieving new goals.

• Can work with BA’s/PO’s to demystify ambiguity, handle challenge, and is comfortable to challenge team mates constructively.

• Adapts communication style to suit audience.

• Works ethically and shows respect for both professional and company values.

• Excellent attention to detail, highly organised with a proactive approach.

• Strong analytical ability and innovative problem solving skills.

• SOLID Principles.

• Software Design Patterns.

• Source control (Git).

Desired:

• Experience of regulatory driven projects.

• Knowledge of Financial Markets, Systems and Over the Counter (OTC) products.