Software Engineer (Back End)

As a Back-End Engineer, you will design, develop, and maintain robust server-side applications and APIs that support high-volume, data-intensive environments. You will play a key role in shaping technical architecture, ensuring system reliability, and driving best practices in software engineering.

• Working 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.
• Contribute to engineering deliverables throughout the full lifecycle, ensuring performance, scalability, resilience, and alignment with engineering best practices.
• Drive innovation through POCs, technical evaluations, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Communicate progress proactively, highlighting risks and removing delivery impediments.

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.

• 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.
• Strong understanding of low‑latency engineering, concurrency, multithreading, and performance optimisation.
• Comprehensive SDLC experience across design, development, QA, deployment, and production support.
• Strong relational database design and optimisation skills (MSSQL, MySQL).
• Proven problem‑solving capabilities and ability to validate ideas through POCs.
• Experience building automated testing frameworks for complex distributed systems.
• Ability to engage effectively with traders, quants, and other business stakeholders.

No specific compensation, perks, or culture highlights mentioned in the job description.

The TP ICAP Group is a world leading provider of market infrastructure, providing clients with access to global financial and commodities markets through responsible and innovative solutions. The Group is the largest interdealer broker in the world by revenue and the number one Energy & Commodities broker in the world.