Synthetics Lead Developer

London | Investment Banking | Front Office | Hybrid Working

Our leading Investment Banking client is looking for a Synthetics Lead Developer (VP level) to join a front office technology team supporting a global platform for synthetics and financing.

This is a hands‑on leadership role working directly with Trading and product teams to build high-performance systems across pricing, risk and trade lifecycle.

What you’ll be doing:

• Working closely with front office stakeholders to gather and deliver on business requirements
• Leading the design and development of low‑latency, event‑driven systems
• Building scalable microservices‑based applications for equity derivatives platforms
• Driving architecture, system design and performance optimisation
• Contributing across pricing, risk capture and trade lifecycle management
• Collaborating with global engineering teams to deliver end‑to‑end solutions
• Ensuring code quality through testing, reviews and engineering best practices

What we’re looking for:

• Experience with greenfield architecture/platform builds
• Experience building event‑driven/distributed systems (Kafka, Solace or similar)
• Proven track record working on low‑latency, high-performance platforms
• Experience working in front office or markets technology environments
• Exposure to equity derivatives, synthetics or prime services is highly beneficial
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and concurrency
• Experience with observability/distributed tracing
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and modern engineering practices
• Experience working in global teams and complex system environments

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