Principal Software Engineer

7 days ago


Reading UK, Berkshire, United Kingdom Brio Digital Full time

Highly skilled in end-to-end software engineering and looking to work on global, multi-threaded, low latency systems? This Principal Software Engineer role is perfect for you.


The Job

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be tasked to lead the engineering within a senior-orientated team of a global trading platform handling and processing thousands of orders per day. Used by a multi-million customer base globally, the platform is a cloud-based solution on AWS where you will be working deeply across the architecture, backend development and deployment onto the cloud. There is a strong focus on multi-threaded, low-latency and security/compliance led engineering due to the platform.


About You

Holding over 15 years' of engineering experience, you will be expected to fully own and lead the engineering lifecycle with a strong understanding in Golang and Python. You will need to be able t understand and uplift legacy systems (C/Perl in this case) that can be re-engineered in Golang and Python whilst be able to actively participate in high-level technical architecture and technical roadmap decisions alongside the VP of Engineering and Engineering Directors.


Experience working on trading or high-transactional platforms is highly desired though not essential.


The Tech Environment

Golang, gRPC, REST, Python 3, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Perl/C (Legacy stack), AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Agile, DDD, TDD.

You don't need to know every piece of tech so please apply if you know the environment)


The Company

With over 20 years' of experience as a leading trading platform, they have a great reputation for engineering excellence and have won multiple awards for their culture. With international locations, they have a UK HQ in Reading which you'll be expected to travel to on a hybrid basis each month.


The Numbers

Offering a base salary of £115k - £130k GBP plus 10-20% annual bonus. Other benefits include full private healthcare, quarterly pay/performance reviews, 8% pension contribution, 28 days annual leave (plus UK bank holidays) and much more?


Interested?

If you're keen to apply to the Principal Software Engineer role, please click apply with your latest CV.



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