Software Engineer

As a senior member of the Developer Experience function, you’ll focus on removing friction from the development process and enabling engineering teams to move faster with greater confidence.

You’ll be responsible for designing and building the tooling, infrastructure and workflows that support developers from local development environments through to production deployment.

This is a highly visible role where your work will directly influence engineering productivity across multiple teams, products and regions.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Designing and maintaining scalable build platforms and shared engineering tooling used across the organisation
• Building and improving CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows and release automation
• Creating developer tooling including CLI applications, IDE integrations and containerised development environments
• Driving improvements to build performance, test reliability and deployment speed
• Partnering closely with software engineering teams to identify bottlenecks and streamline developer workflows
• Defining and implementing meaningful engineering productivity metrics
• Exploring emerging AI-assisted development technologies and integrating them into daily engineering practices where appropriate
• Influencing engineering standards, tooling strategy and developer productivity initiatives across the wider business

The develop team are keen to speak with engineers who have a genuine passion for Developer Experience, Platform Engineering or Internal Developer Platforms.

You’ll likely bring:

• Strong software engineering fundamentals with experience building production-grade systems
• Experience designing and scaling developer tooling, build systems or engineering platforms
• Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle from development through to deployment and operations
• Expertise with CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins or similar platforms
• Experience working with containerised development environments using technologies such as Docker
• Exposure to modern build systems and tooling including Bazel, CMake, Ninja, Poetry or comparable technologies
• Strong programming ability across both scripting and compiled languages
• A track record of delivering measurable productivity improvements through tooling, automation and platform enhancements
• The ability to influence stakeholders and drive technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams

This organisation is widely recognised as one of the industry’s leading engineering environments, offering:

• Complex technical challenges at enormous scale
• Exceptional levels of engineering autonomy
• Access to some of the strongest engineering talent globally
• Significant investment in tooling, innovation and technical excellence
• A collaborative culture focused on continuous improvement
• Long-term career growth and internal mobility opportunities

Package

• Among the strongest packages currently available within the London trading market, with exceptional bonus potential and long-term earning opportunities.
• Market-leading benefits package
• Private healthcare
• Generous pension contributions
• Daily meals and commuting support
• Learning and development budget
• Conference and training opportunities
• Flexible hybrid working model

We’re partnering with one of the world’s most sophisticated technology-driven trading firms to hire a Software Engineer into a high-impact Developer Experience team that has doubled in size YoY and has no signs of slowing down.

This is an opportunity to work at exceptional scale, improving the productivity of hundreds of engineers globally by building the platforms, tooling and automation that power the entire software development lifecycle.

You’ll join a business where engineering excellence sits at the core of everything they do. From build systems and CI/CD platforms to AI-assisted development tooling, you’ll help shape the future of how software is built, tested and deployed across a globally distributed engineering organisation.