Senior Software Engineer (Back End)
ICAP Energy AS
Posted
Apr 22, 2026
Location
UK
Type
Full-time
Mission
What you will drive
Core responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain robust server-side applications and APIs that support high-volume, data-intensive environments
- Play a key role in shaping technical architecture, ensuring system reliability, and driving best practices in software engineering
- Lead by example as a hands-on engineer, working closely with Architects, Principal Engineers, and Trading SMEs to design, build, review, test, and deliver mission-critical, high-performance systems end-to-end
- Own engineering deliverables throughout the full lifecycle, ensuring performance, scalability, resilience, and alignment with engineering best practices
Impact
The difference you'll make
This role contributes to providing clients with access to global financial and commodities markets, improving price discovery, liquidity, and distribution of data through responsible and innovative solutions, though the posting does not explicitly describe positive social or environmental change.
Profile
What makes you a great fit
Required skills and experience:
- Significant years of hands-on experience building and supporting latency-sensitive front-office trading systems (OMS, Matching, Execution)
- Strong background in designing and maintaining distributed, event-driven, cloud-native applications
- Deep understanding of low-latency engineering, concurrency, multithreading, and performance optimization
- Strong relational database design and optimization skills (MSSQL, MySQL)
- Proven problem-solving capabilities and ability to validate ideas through POCs
Benefits
What's in it for you
No compensation, perks, or culture highlights mentioned in the posting.
About
Inside ICAP Energy AS
TP ICAP Group is a world leading provider of market infrastructure that provides clients with access to global financial and commodities markets, improving price discovery, liquidity, and distribution of data through responsible and innovative solutions.