Principal Software Engineer

Job Description

Principal Software Engineer | Permanent | London

Cititec Talent is excited to partner with a global commodities firm seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join their team. The team is closely aligned with front-office operations and collaborates directly with trading desks, global research teams, and enterprise technology.

What you'll do:

• Lead the development of core frameworks and services that power advanced data and analytics platform on AWS.
• Spearhead the architectural design and engineering of innovative solutions that drive the evolution of the platform’s core capabilities.
• Implementation of shared libraries, frameworks, APIs, SDKs, and microservices.
• Collaboration with cloud platform engineers, data engineers, data scientists and other software engineers.

Requirements:

• Strong background in software engineering, with expertise in Python.
• Extensive experience in API design and development.
• Knowledgeable in enterprise architecture, including event-driven and serverless frameworks.
• Significant experience with cloud technologies, especially AWS, as well as containerisation and container orchestration.
• Familiarity with data engineering and distributed data processing engines, plus a working knowledge of DevOps practices and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering; prior experience within Investment Banking is advantageous.

This is a London-based role with 4 days in the office, and 1 day working from home.