Senior Software Engineer

About this Role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will apply experienced hands‑on technical knowledge, vision and an innovative mindset to help us expand, build and maintain the data infrastructure and software libraries needed to support the quantitative research of our economists.

You will have experience gathering requirements and contributing to sprint planning.

We make use of kanban and sprint cycles to plan and stay on top of output. Our target stack relies heavily on Python, containerisation, infrastructure as code, CI/CD and the Azure cloud. We work across the full spectrum of data sourcing and ETL to front‑end delivery. Project areas include the front office and internal tooling. Our short term goals include migrating on‑prem tooling to cloud‑native infrastructure, improving our API infrastructure and development platform tooling to enable fast, frictionless deployment of new projects.

This role will be permanent and based in our London office.

• Planning and execution. Breaking project work down and able to accurately estimate task effort.
• Work collaboratively with our economists to build and develop tools and systems to support our quantitative research.
• Developing and deploying API services.
• Designing and developing web scraping infrastructure.
• Code design and review feedback for economists and junior developers.
• Coach quantitative economists and junior developers, collecting user feedback, and suggesting features/updates.
• Contribute to growing engineering standards and practices.
• Contributing to technical, client‑facing projects, as an example by managing ETL process and/or optimizing algorithm performance for analysis.
• Contribute to the team ownership of production services, troubleshooting where necessary.
• Own technical direction, comfortable making architectural decisions, leading project delivery.

• A keen interest or background in financial markets and/or economics, and a strong belief in fair and transparent markets.
• A strong record of academic achievement with a relevant degree (computer science, economics or finance).
• Responsive to stakeholder needs. Has excellent problem‑solving and quantitative skills, including the ability to disaggregate issues, identify root causes and recommend solutions.
• Self‑motivated to perform in a demanding business environment and to assume a wide range of responsibilities.
• Takes ownership/accountability, is focused on delivery and committed to seeing projects through to their close.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain complex topics to non‑specialists.
• Has integrity, initiative, and is not afraid to express an opinion and offer new solutions.

• Python – the central language in our stack.
• Experience working with multiple databases, relational and document‑based.
• Comfort working with large data sets, 100+ terabytes.
• Experience designing, developing and deploying performant APIs.
• Experience with Dev Ops tooling:
  Git, CI/CD, package repositories, credentials stores.
• Knowledge of container technologies such as Docker.
• Exposure to complex financial data.
• Extraction of data from semi‑structured sources such as PDFs.
• Knowledge of web‑scraping frameworks and design patterns.

You will get to work in a highly innovative environment where training and development is put at the top of the agenda to ensure that our staff are at the leading edge of their academic knowledge, and where rapid career progression is available to proactive employees who reach out for opportunities.

We offer competitive salaries and bonuses, and competitive benefits.

We are proud of our values and our diverse and international workforce, and we are committed to building a working environment where employees feel safe, welcome and able to have an open and respectful dialogue on diversity issues.

We have a transparent and internally published pay structure by role, we do this as part of an equal pay initiative across our offices.

We offer all our employees a learning and development budget to spend flexibly on role relevant training needs. Support for further professional qualifications, apprenticeships and further education is also available. There is no risk of being pigeon‑hailed at Fideres as our employees are able to reach for opportunities as they see them without being restricted by corporate bureaucracy.

We offer all normal standard benefits such as a competitive holiday allowance with the opportunity to purchase 10 days additional holiday, monthly social events, private medical insurance, a gym subsidy, equal family leave for all employees, along with other benefits.