Senior Backend Engineer; Investment Platform

Are you ready to chart your own career path? With our refreshed strategy, we’re building on our rich heritage and transforming our business to be more scalable and efficient, unlocking the capabilities needed for future success. This includes significantly investing in technology, streamlining the way we work and creating an environment where colleagues feel engaged, empowered and accountable; where they can show up, speak up and perform - because we believe in the difference our work makes.

Location: London - Lombard Street Office

Workplace type: On-Site

Employment type: Permanent

Seniority: Mid-Senior Level

The Investment Platforms team bridges the gap between Investments and Technology, partnering closely with the Investment Directorate and Investment Operations teams to deliver technology change and operate platform systems that underpin our Investment Proposition. They manage a diverse and specialist technology landscape, including discrete applications, platform technologies, underlying data stores, market data solutions, and 3rd party managed services. The team works with the broader technology community to ensure Investment systems are scalable, secure, and aligned with business priorities, enabling innovation and operational excellence across the investment lifecycle.

As a Senior Backend Engineer (Investment Platform), you will play a key role in designing, building and enhancing the technology that underpins our Investment Platform. You'll lead the development, ongoing maintenance and operations of scalable, secure and resilient backend systems, data repositories and integrations, working closely with Dev Ops and Full Stack engineers to ensure backend services support the needs of our investment teams and wider business.

Working closely with architects, engineers and business stakeholders, you will provide technical leadership across the platform, defining engineering standards & best practices, automation and continuous improvement. You'll help shape the future direction of the platform, delivering innovative solutions that enhance investment operations, support data-driven decision-making and maintain the highest standards of performance, stability and compliance.

• Leading the technical design, development, and evolution of Investment Platform services, integrations, data platforms, and cloud-native solutions.
• Defining, promoting and enforcing engineering standards, best practices, and architectural principles across the Investment Platform.
• Providing technical leadership throughout the software development lifecycle, from solution design through deployment and operational support.
• Designing scalable, resilient, and secure backend services, APIs, and data pipelines capable of supporting business growth and increasing platform complexity.
• Acting as the technical lead for significant platform initiatives, ensuring successful delivery of complex cross-functional projects.
• Mentoring and coaching engineers, providing guidance on software design, quality engineering, cloud engineering, and platform architecture.
• Partnering with Platform and Enterprise Architects to define future-state architectures and technology roadmaps.
• Driving adoption of modern engineering practices including Dev Sec Ops , Infrastructure as Code, observability, automated testing, and CI/CD.
• Leading investigation and resolution of critical production incidents, identifying root causes and implementing preventative improvements.
• Evaluating emerging technologies and provide recommendations on their adoption to improve platform capability, performance, scalability, and risk management.
• Ensuring platform solutions meet regulatory, security, governance, and operational resilience requirements.
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