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Principal Software Engineer (Hybrid) - .NET
Sofia, SofiaCompany Description
Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets.
Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 600 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Finland and beyond.
Our next generation of real-time market data platform operates around the globe, 24 x 7, connecting to over 6 financial exchanges, delivering real-time market data, benchmark prices, news content and research data to our customers around the world. This is an exciting and unique opportunity to join our team to help shape and build our financial data platform that will help power the business through the next phase of its digital growth.
The new platform is being engineered for the cloud as a set of scalable, fault-tolerant microservices with rich web and mobile UIs. Our technology stack is largely Microsoft, although we also leverage a number of open-source software adopting the right tool for the job approach.
In this hands-on development role, you will be a senior member of the development team reporting to an Engineering Manager. As a principal engineer you will also be expected to contribute to the overall strategic and technical direction of the Technology Team. You will be a highly productive developer who is passionate about writing clean, quality code, building high-scale distributed systems that are fault-tolerant, with deep operational insights. You will take an engineering approach to developing new services and systems, favouring metrics over personal opinion or bias. You will have good communication skills and be able to mentor and help grow more junior developers, coaching them on good design, coding and software engineering practices. This is an individual contributor role, where you will be providing technical leadership.
PRINCIPLE ACCOUNTABILITIES
Responsible for guiding coding best practice
Deliver high quality, performant code to SOLID design principals
Provide mentorship and guidance for more junior engineers
Contribute to overall strategic technical direction
Qualifications
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.
Key Experience / Qualifications
A successful candidate will have:
C# /.NET Framework
Solid understanding of concurrent programming
Messaging technologies, e.g. Service Bus, Event Hubs etc
Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration
Distributed systems, REST, SOA
ASP.NET / Web development
SQL and NoSQL database experience
Good communication skills, collaborative attitude and strong team player with a strong desire to ship software to customers
Experience of developing real-time, low-latency systems
Ability to mentor and grow more junior developers
A successful candidate will likely have some of the following:
.NET 8.0 or higher
Cloud computing – Ideally Azure.
FIX or SBE message processing or similar
Garbage free .NET development
Distributed caching technologies, e.g. Redis
Stress and performance testing / tuning
Code benchmarking
C++ experience (even if not current)
Experience developing microservices
An understanding of network reference models and networking protocols (UDP, TCP)
Continuous Delivery
Knowledge of market data, commodity exchanges and financial instruments
Personal Attributes
Deeply technical
Continuously looking for ways to improve (yourself, your team, the code the processes)
Strategic thinker with the ability to execute and deliver in a fast-paced environment
Highly collaborative and able to work across multiple teams and geographies
Results-driven, with a focus on long-term value creation
Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets.
Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 600 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Finland and beyond.
Our next generation of real-time market data platform operates around the globe, 24 x 7, connecting to over 6 financial exchanges, delivering real-time market data, benchmark prices, news content and research data to our customers around the world. This is an exciting and unique opportunity to join our team to help shape and build our financial data platform that will help power the business through the next phase of its digital growth.
The new platform is being engineered for the cloud as a set of scalable, fault-tolerant microservices with rich web and mobile UIs. Our technology stack is largely Microsoft, although we also leverage a number of open-source software adopting the right tool for the job approach.
In this hands-on development role, you will be a senior member of the development team reporting to an Engineering Manager. As a principal engineer you will also be expected to contribute to the overall strategic and technical direction of the Technology Team. You will be a highly productive developer who is passionate about writing clean, quality code, building high-scale distributed systems that are fault-tolerant, with deep operational insights. You will take an engineering approach to developing new services and systems, favouring metrics over personal opinion or bias. You will have good communication skills and be able to mentor and help grow more junior developers, coaching them on good design, coding and software engineering practices. This is an individual contributor role, where you will be providing technical leadership.
PRINCIPLE ACCOUNTABILITIES
Responsible for guiding coding best practice
Deliver high quality, performant code to SOLID design principals
Provide mentorship and guidance for more junior engineers
Contribute to overall strategic technical direction
Qualifications
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.
Key Experience / Qualifications
A successful candidate will have:
C# /.NET Framework
Solid understanding of concurrent programming
Messaging technologies, e.g. Service Bus, Event Hubs etc
Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration
Distributed systems, REST, SOA
ASP.NET / Web development
SQL and NoSQL database experience
Good communication skills, collaborative attitude and strong team player with a strong desire to ship software to customers
Experience of developing real-time, low-latency systems
Ability to mentor and grow more junior developers
A successful candidate will likely have some of the following:
.NET 8.0 or higher
Cloud computing – Ideally Azure.
FIX or SBE message processing or similar
Garbage free .NET development
Distributed caching technologies, e.g. Redis
Stress and performance testing / tuning
Code benchmarking
C++ experience (even if not current)
Experience developing microservices
An understanding of network reference models and networking protocols (UDP, TCP)
Continuous Delivery
Knowledge of market data, commodity exchanges and financial instruments
Personal Attributes
Deeply technical
Continuously looking for ways to improve (yourself, your team, the code the processes)
Strategic thinker with the ability to execute and deliver in a fast-paced environment
Highly collaborative and able to work across multiple teams and geographies
Results-driven, with a focus on long-term value creation