Senior Software Engineer, Client Solutions
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Job Summary
About Winton
Winton is a research-based investment management company with a specialist focus on statistical and mathematical inference in financial markets. The firm researches and trades quantitative investment strategies which are implemented systematically via thousands of securities spanning the worlds major liquid asset classes. Founded in 1997 by David Harding Winton today manages assets for some of the worlds largest institutional investors.
We employ ambitious professionals who want to work collaboratively at the leading edge of investment management.
We are seeking a highly capable Senior Software Engineer to help design build and evolve resilient event-driven cloud-distributed systems. This role is ideal for an engineer who combines deep technical expertise strong computer science fundamentals and commercial awareness - someone who not only understands how systems work but what they are meant to do and why. The role requires a constructive can-do approach and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced setting.
You will work across the full engineering lifecycle from system architecture and data modelling to implementation testing and operational excellence. You will be encouraged to use modern AI-assisted tooling and continuously improve our platforms while maintaining a pragmatic balance between innovation and delivery.
You will be part of a friendly and collaborative broader team responsible for post-trade and reporting software development. The role involves working primarily in the Client Solutions space but also directly with business functions across the firm to understand requirements design and implement solutions. As well as project work there are regular allocated windows of opportunity for small enhancements for both the business and technology.
Your responsibilities will include:
Design evolve and maintain distributed event-driven systems with high reliability scalability and observability
Contribute to technical strategy and long-term platform direction
Write high-quality efficient and maintainable code with accompanying automated tests and documentation across UI services and data storage layers
Continuously improve existing services libraries and shared components
Ensure systems are operable measurable and resilient including appropriate monitoring alerting and failure-handling strategies
Work closely with product and business stakeholders to translate high-level problems into thoughtful technical solutions
Collaborate with team through active contribution in code reviews knowledge-sharing and design discussions
Build domain knowledge in business and technology areas
Evaluate new technologies pragmatically
Contribute to CI/CD pipelines tooling and infrastructure-as-code
What we are looking for:
A bachelors or masters degree in a STEM subject
5 years of full-time professional software development experience
Proven experience building and maintaining cloud-distributed event-driven or microservices-based systems written in enterprise-grade backend technologies such as C#/.NET (preferred)
Strong computer science fundamentals
Excellent engineering discipline: clean code meaningful abstractions test automation documentation and version control best practice
Natural curiosity and enthusiastic about using AI-assisted development tools and integrating them into daily workflow
Keen interest in keeping aware of latest technologies and a measured approach for adopting them
Comfortable problem solving across multiple technologies and business domains
Collaborative nature and ability to work in a team e.g. partnering with business users and technologists
Ability to have constructive technical discussions
What would be useful:
An interest or experience with Angular and Typescript
Familiarity with performance-tuning PostgreSQL and/or MSSQL
Experience in financial services
Technologies we use:
Web: Angular TypeScript
Server-side: C#
Data: MSSQL PostgreSQL
Cloud: AWS
Deployment: Docker Kubernetes
Equal Opportunity Workplace
We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We do not discriminate based upon race religion color national origin sex sexual orientation gender identity/expression age status as a protected veteran status as an individual with a disability or any other applicable legally protected characteristics.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- AWS
- Data Structures
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Winton is a quantitative investment management firm. Our goal is to generate returns for our clients across a range of market environments.
