About the role
Responsibilities:
- Set the technical direction for core infrastructure, making architecture decisions that balance performance, compliance requirements, and scalability across multiple product lines.
- Define engineering standards, including service interoperability, data flow design, and how system-level controls are enforced technically.
- Lead evaluation and adoption of new technologies or vendor platforms, making credible decisions supported by technical and commercial analysis.
- Partner with product, compliance, and senior business stakeholders to shape the roadmap, translating regulatory and market requirements into engineering priorities.
- Serve as the technical authority on high-severity production incidents, owning post-incident reviews and systemic remediation plans.
- Mentor engineers and raise overall engineering capability across the organisation.
- Contribute to external technical credibility through architecture reviews and engagement with key vendor and institutional partners.
Requirements:
- 12-15 years of building production software with substantial full-stack work across backend services and frontend applications.
- Proven experience in distributed systems or high-throughput transactional platforms.
- Experience in fintech, trading, or other mission-critical domains is an advantage.
- Strong problem-solving skills, ability to debug complex systems, and comfort with production support responsibilities.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills in distributed, Agile team environments.
- Proficiency in C# and. NET Core (6/7/8+), including dependency injection, async/await patterns, TPL, and REST API design best practices.
- Strong React experience with hooks, functional components, state management (Redux/Context API), TypeScript, and modern build tooling (Webpack, Vite).
- Hands-on experience with relational databases (SQL Server: indexing, query optimisation, transactions) and at least one NoSQL store (Cosmos DB preferred: partitioning, consistency tuning).
- Experience with messaging systems (Azure Service Bus, Event Grid) and event-driven architecture patterns.
- Understanding of containerization (Docker) and Kubernetes/AKS basics: deployments, services, ConfigMaps, secrets, resource limits.
- Familiarity with CI/CD workflows (Azure Pipelines, GitHub Actions), Git-based development, feature toggles, and automated testing frameworks.
- Experience with API security (authentication, authorisation, JWT, OAuth2) and secure coding practices.
- Knowledge of observability practices: structured logging, distributed tracing (Application Insights, OpenTelemetry), and metric-driven debugging.