The Core Engineering - London - Vice President - Software Engineering

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or relevant experience in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related discipline.
  • 6+ years of software development experience.
  • Strong analysis and design skills, with knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and performance-oriented design.
  • Strong communication skills with both technical and business audiences, comfortable working with multiple global stakeholders.
  • Hands-on programming experience in Java or Python.
  • Significant solutions architecture and system design experience.
  • Experience using Agentic AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Co-Pilot Agent Mode, Devin).
  • Experience with Cloud Technologies, ideally AWS (S3, SQS, Lambda, Fargate).
  • Strong RDBMS knowledge.
  • Experience developing distributed, microservices-based applications.
  • Experience with data modelling and curation for large-scale datasets.

Nice to Haves

  • Knowledge or interest in investment banking or financial instruments.
  • Experience with big data concepts, such as Lakehouse and ETL data pipelines (e.g., Spark, AWS Glue).
  • Experience with near real-time and event-based systems like Kafka.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Manage end-to-end systems development in an Agile environment, including requirements analysis, coding, testing, UAT, implementation, and maintenance.
  • Produce technical designs, testing strategies, and implementation plans.
  • Partner with Finance stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into process workflows, data requirements, and specifications.
  • Build reusable solutions and identify opportunities for cross-divisional collaboration.
  • Contribute to data modelling and curation.

Perks and Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional and personal growth through training and development programs.
  • Access to firmwide networks, benefits, wellness, personal finance offerings, and mindfulness programs.
  • Commitment to diversity, inclusion, and reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities.
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