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# Graduate Software Engineer

- **Company:** CityGrad
- **Location:** Leeds, UK
- **Experience:** Starter
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Architecture, Software Engineering, System Availability, Event Driven Architecture, Information Technology, Low Latency, Microservices
- **Published:** August 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2815096124-graduate-software-engineer

## About the Role

* You have experience in software development
 * Familiar with event driven design patterns and micro service architecture
 * You are a natural problem solver and enjoy challenging yourself
 * You are focused on quality, deployment and in-life support as well as the core engineering.
 * You enjoy operating in a fast paced environment where ambiguity exists and you can seek the clarity you need to succeed.
 * You enjoy talking to key stakeholders and show a desire for understanding how the business operates.

## Description

CityGrad - Director - Passionate about discovering the Future Leaders of Tomorrow.

We are currently looking for 2026 graduates to join a world leader in sports research and technology with a 12 year history of exceptional innovation. This company interpret vast amounts of data to provide world beating insight. Their dynamic market demands consistently push them and their systems beyond what was previously considered possible. The graduate programme starts in August 2026.

The business operates across global markets, and their systems need to deliver real-time decision making insights to their quant and strategy teams as well as provide reliable execution. As we grow, the challenges of latency, volume and stability exacerbate across their tech stack. The technology team is responsible for ensuring our business can run day-to-day but that it can also scale in line with the business's ambitions.

As a Graduate Developer, you will be working in an agile, cross-functional team to build resilient, scalable technology that powers the growth of the company. The team interact directly with the business and get significant exposure to stakeholders.

 * Interactions - Working at the interface of our business and the outside world, providing streams of low latency, reliable data, solving complex and interesting integration problems.
 * Opinion - Delivering the framework that enables the quant and strategy teams to utilise data to make trading decisions.
 * Data - Maintaining and evolving our data architecture to guarantee fast transport, reliable archival and high availability of all data across our estate.
 * Enablement - Designing and building services that help power the development, deployment, and monitoring of our world-leading trading platform.

Requirements:

 * You have experience in software development
 * Familiar with event driven design patterns and micro service architecture
 * You are a natural problem solver and enjoy challenging yourself
 * You are focused on quality, deployment and in-life support as well as the core engineering.
 * You enjoy operating in a fast paced environment where ambiguity exists and you can seek the clarity you need to succeed.
 * You enjoy talking to key stakeholders and show a desire for understanding how the business operates.

Seniority level

 * Entry level

Employment type

 * Full-time

Job function

 * Information Technology
 * Technology, Information and Media

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