Production Software Engineer

We are hiring Software Engineers to join our Trade Technology function, where we design, build and maintain our globally distributed trading system.

You will design and implement the systems, tooling and workflows that ensure the distributed platform is robust, observable and engineered for speed and safety. This includes owning the engineering infrastructure that supports deployment automation, real-time diagnostics and fault-tolerant operations.

Engineering underpins our continued growth and success, and we are committed to hiring and developing the world’s best Software Engineers.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

Designing, building and evolving production-grade trading platforms and services end-to-end

Optimising software performance, throughput and efficiency at scale

Contributing to the reliability and operational excellence of critical systems, including participation in production support rotations

Applying strong software engineering practices across testing, code quality, automation and observability

Participating in a shared production support rotation, responding to incidents, troubleshooting runtime issues and driving improvements

The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:

Strong background in software engineering, ideally in distributed, real-time systems

Experience in at least one typed language, such as Java, Kotlin, C#, C++ or Rust

Experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies, such as Kubernetes, in production environments

A passion for developing robust, maintainable software, that's well monitored in production

Above all, we value clean, maintainable code, sound engineering judgement and a business-value mindset over specific toolkits.

Highly competitive compensation plus annual discretionary bonus

Lunch provided (via Just Eat for Business ) and dedicated barista bar

30 days’ annual leave

9% company pension contributions

Informal dress code and excellent work/life balance

Comprehensive healthcare and life assurance

Cycle-to-work scheme

Monthly company events

G-Research is committed to cultivating and preserving an inclusive work environment. We are an ideas-driven business and we place great value on diversity of experience and opinions.

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