Company: Stanford Black Limited
Location: London
Job Description:
Overview
London (front-office, high-impact engineering environment)
Highly competitive day rate
Highlights
- Lead the design and build of scalable trading & portfolio management systems for the Credit desk
- Work directly with portfolio managers and traders to deliver real-time, business-critical technology
- Architect event-driven, distributed systems with strong focus on performance, resilience, and observability
- Drive technical direction across microservices, data streaming, and system design in a fast-moving environment
The Role
Join a high-calibre Investment Engineering team embedded on the trading floor, delivering core infrastructure that underpins complex credit investment strategies. This is a hands-on leadership role combining deep backend engineering with architectural ownership and close collaboration with senior investment stakeholders.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Own the full development lifecycle – from architecture and design through to production delivery
- Build and scale Java-based systems supporting trading, analytics, and execution workflows
- Design high-throughput, event-driven platforms using modern streaming technologies
- Partner with traders and PMs to translate complex investment processes into robust systems
- Lead best practices across performance optimisation, system reliability, and maintainability
What We’re Looking For
- Strong Java engineering background with experience in trading or market-facing systems
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and data streaming using Aeron
- Proven experience building production-grade, fault-tolerant systems in high-performance environments
- Expertise in event-driven architecture and handling real-time data pipelines
- Ability to influence architecture, mentor engineers, and operate at a senior technical level
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Posted: May 4th, 2026