Platform Engineer

Job Title: Platform Engineer Location: Edinburgh, UK (4 days on-site per week) Industry: Fintech Employment Type: Full-Time, Permanent Responsibilities include: Collaborate with team members in a multi-office, multi-country environment. Deliver high efficiency, high availability, concurrent and fault tolerant software and technology systems. Significantly contribute to the development of a global, multi-asset trading platform. Design and develop innovative solutions to complex problems, identifying issues and roadblocks. Apply validated quality software engineering practices through all phases of development. Be a leader with vision and a partner in brainstorming solutions for team productivity, efficiency, guiding and motivating others. Drive a strong culture by bringing principles of inclusion and diversity to the team and setting the tone through specific recruiting, management actions and employee engagement. Qualifications: B.S. / M.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject area 4 years of experience Skills and Experience: A proven foundation in core Java and related technologies, with OO skills and design patterns Track record building high quality software with design-focused and test-driven approaches Hands-on experience in Java/Spring Framework/Spring Boot Hands-on experience in modern front-end frameworks such as React, Vue.js or Angular. In depth understanding of concurrent programming and experience in designing high throughput, high availability, fault tolerant distributed applications. Prior experience in message brokers Understanding of relational databases is a must. Demonstrable experience building modern software using engineering tools such as git, maven, unit testing and integration testing tools, mocking frameworks. Strong analytical and software architecture design skills with an emphasis on test driven development Great analytical, problem-solving and communication skills Some experience or a real interest in finance, investment processes, and/or an ability to translate business problems into technical solutions. Nice to have and opportunities to learn: Experience in scripting languages such as Python, Golang, etc. Expertise in building distributed applications using SQL and/or NOSQL technologies like MS SQL, Sybase, Cassandra or Redis A real-world practitioner of applying cloud-native design patterns to event-driven microservice architectures. Exposure to high scale distributed technology like Kafka, Mongo, Ignite, Redis Exposure to building microservices and APIs ideally with REST, Kafka or gRPC Experience working in an agile development team or on open-source development projects. Experience with optimization, algorithms, or related quantitative processes. Experience with Cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Experience with cloud deployment technology (Docker, Ansible, Terraform, etc.) is also a plus. Experience with DevOps and tools like Azure DevOps Experience with AI-related projects/products or experience working in an AI research environment. Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud services is beneficial. A degree, certifications or opensource track record that shows you have a mastery of software engineering principles.