Senior Software Developer

Marcus Donald are currently looking for a Senior Software Developer (C#) to join a popular Financial Trading company, to help our client improve their existing trading platform.

NOTE: Experience within the Financial services / Trading sector is NOT required.
This is NOT a Greenfield project. This is a bug fixing/improvements kind of a job. Mainly BAU.

*100% Remote Working - Work from anywhere in the UK, Poland, Czech Republic, Italy or Cyprus*

Senior Software Developer (C#) – Pros of the Job/Company:

• There is no pressure to deliver quickly
• You will learn how a trading system works (from the kitchen)
• You’ll be working on a distributed system
• You’ll be working on a system where low latency is important - analysing latency and improving it.
• Opportunity to learn the trading domain
• You’ll be working on a system that is handling 80,000 requests after throttling
• Working on a core system - means that this position is stable and safe
• Small, well-defined tasks

Senior Software Developer (C#) – Cons of the Job/Company:

• This is more a bug fixing/small improvements work
• Working on a system that is not well understood
• Working on a complex system
• Lack of documentation
• Often working on your own - you are the only person working on a given task

About the trading platform:
It is a complex distributed system comprised of over 100 separate components, exchanging asynchronous messages (and data) over web sockets and streams over web sockets. This system is not easy to understand for a majority of developers.

Senior Software Developer (C#) – Technical:

• At least 4 years of C# language
• Profound knowledge in .NET
• Hands-on experience with Entity Framework, ASP.NET
• Unit testing and mocking
• Agile development experience

Senior Software Developer (C#) – Desired:

• Experience with AWS
• Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Container Instances

We haven’t to date been very successful in identifying the right person for this role therefore, I thought a direct and detailed approach, by way of including pros and cons would be helpful.

Should you want to discuss further prior to applying please email (bcorbyn@marcusdonald.com) or connect on LinkedIn. FULL job description available to be digested further.