Senior Software Engineer
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Senior Software Engineer - London
About Elwood
Elwood Technologies is a FCA regulated firm that provides end-to-end institutional-grade digital asset Execution Liquidity Access and Portfolio Monitoring & Risk Management Software. Built with institutions for institutions Elwoods EMS offers best available price execution smart order routing and algorithmic tooling alongside a traditional finance grade Portfolio Management System.
Built by industry experts with decades of combined experience in investment management and digital technology we are now looking for a Head of Legal to contribute to the overall legal strategy and risk management of the organisation.
Job Description
Elwood is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Engineering Team where you will contribute to the design development and analytical requirements of the Trading Platform whilst working closely with the Product Team.
- Develop and enhance our trading platform adding new features and capacities
- Working as a member of the Elwood Engineering team to ensure consistency across the instances and broader client build road map
- Implementing and optimising execution and algorithmic trading strategies
- Building new services to meet critical product and business needs using Golang
- Building features that help customers collaborate on asset management
- Working with engineers designers product managers and senior leadership to turn our product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter
- Monitoring and support of all production system components (trading algorithms exchange connectivity analytics market data)
- Enhancing our platform for low latency/high frequency trading
- Maintaining a strong foundation of testing to avoid regressions.
Qualifications / Knowledge
- 3 years experience in a similar role
- Extensive knowledge working with data processing/Financial market data knowledge
- AI collaboration using Cursor Copilot or equivalent
- Some familiarity with commonly used execution algorithms such as VWAP TWAP POV
- Built systems in event-driven or streaming architectures using systems such as NATS/Aeron
- Experience of building systems around transaction cost analysis (TCA)
- Strong knowledge of data structures algorithms and designing for performance
- Understanding of order pricing and routing
- Strong experience developing large-scale concurrent event-driven distributed systems
- FIX protocol
- Golang experience or other structured languages (C# C Java)
- Strong knowledge of data structures algorithms and designing for performance
- POSIX-oriented Serverless Architecture Public cloud experience GCP/AWS
- PostgreSQL or other RDBMS
- Experience in development and supporting trading systems (Desirable)
- Understanding of financial markets crypto markets and products (Desirable)
What we offer:
Competitive salary and compensation packages
Fully paid medical and discounted dental schemes for employees and their family
Generous time off bank holidays
Enhanced parental leave for all employees who have been with the company for one (1) year
Fully stocked kitchen and access to Ubereats
Discounted gym scheme with Fitness First
Employee Assistance Programme
Paid study leave and personal leave
Why Elwood
- Join a FinTech startup with tier 1 institutional backing and a strong market presence.
- Help shape the future of finance - our platform is enabling institutional access to digital assets.
- Work with a modern technology stack and help solve complex problems.
- Strong client focused team with a diverse background.
- Were a Global company and have modern offices based centrally in London New York and Singapore.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
