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# Feature Lead - Technology

- **Company:** The Alliance
- **Location:** UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Akka (Toolkit), Algorithmic Trading, C++ (Programming Language), Clojure, Profiling, Continuous Integration, CouchDB, Command-Query Responsibility Segregation (Software Development), Data Architecture, Data Stores, Software Debugging, Gradle, Apache HBase, Java Development Kit, Java Message Service (JMS), Apache Maven, MongoDB, Network Diagnostics, NoSQL, OpenShift, RabbitMQ, Rxjava, Prometheus, Mesos, SQL Databases, ZeroMQ (Concurrent Programming Libraries), RxJS, Grafana, Concurrency, Kotlin, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Apache Kafka, Graphql, Sbt (Software), Graphite, Splunk, Grpc, Docker, Elk Stack, Jenkins, Microservices
- **Published:** July 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/lead/alliance-leicester-credit-card-job107740995

## About the Role

* Experience as a Lead software engineer building eTrading solutions - software used in market connectivity, price distribution or RFQ engines.
 * Must understand and have experience building out D2D, D2C and bilateral eTrading connectivity.
 * Highly proficient in Java/Spring with expertise in developing FIX trading solutions.
 * Experience working with trading desks, strategists & quants for L3 support on production trading systems as well as requirements gathering/solution design for new build.
 * Experience growing eTrading engineering talent
 * In-depth knowledge of Credit or Rates eTrading workflows and market structure
 * Proficiency in debugging/profiling JDK based languages (Java/Scala/Kotlin/Clojure)
 * Advanced work with JDK CI/CD and build toolchains including Maven, Gradle, SBT, Jenkins
 * Experience with modern RPC microservices, specifically GraphQL and gRPC

 * Proficiency in developing for Unix/Linux based environments including shell basics as well as process and network diagnostics.

 * Exposure to monitoring, metrics and tracing tooling - ELK stack, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Graphite, OpenTSDB, OpenTrace, Jaeger
 * Exposure to message-oriented architecture - ZeroMQ, JMS, AMPS, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Google pub/sub
 * Exposure to process/container orchestration technologies - Mesos, Kubernetes, OpenShift, docker
 * Hi proficiency in data architecture in both SQL and NoSQL data stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchDB, HBase
 * Experience with reactive streams implementations and observables - ReactiveX (RXJava, RXJS, etc), Akka Streams, Monix, Spring Reactor

Skills that will help:

 * Understanding of machine architecture and natively compiled languages such as C++ and Rust
 * Experience with CQRS architecture.
 * Experience with Scala functional and/or concurrency libraries such as ZIO, C

## Description

This Lead Software Engineer role sits within the FICC Electronic Trading technology team, focused on Credit eTrading. Alongside supporting the continued existing Credit eTrading technology stack, you will lead the buildout of shared services for eTrading across FICC. You will have extensive experience overseeing the build of eTrading solutions - leading design discussions and build of eTrading software used in market connectivity, price distribution or RFQ engines, ideally with exposure across all three.


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