We’re now looking for a talented team-oriented developer who thrives in a collaborative environment, enjoys solving complex technical challenges, and wants to make an impact in a fast-paced, global setting.
Join our Pricing & Risk team, working on our front-office pricing and trading platform. This is a hands-on role focused on building and maintaining distributed backend systems that support our market-making business across multiple asset classes — including Equities, FX, Crypto, and Commodities.
What You’ll Do:
- Design, develop, and maintain backend infrastructure, microservices, APIs, and business logic for our pricing and trading systems.
- Partner with front-end developers, quants, and front-office users to deliver efficient, scalable, and high-performance solutions.
- Drive technical decisions and architecture trade-offs with a focus on scalability, maintainability, and performance.
- Mentor and support junior team members, promoting best practices in coding standards, code reviews, and release management.
- Respond to real-time trading issues in a fast-paced environment, ensuring minimal business disruption.
Key Skills & Experience:
- Strong expertise in Core Java, Spring Framework/Spring Boot, or similar backend frameworks.
- Proven experience designing and developing API-based, microservices-driven architectures.
- Solid understanding of multi-threaded systems and distributed messaging.
- Experience mentoring developers and promoting best practices in code quality and architecture.
- Collaborative mindset with experience working closely with business stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
Desirable Experience:
- Exposure to CEP engines (Esper) or other live stream aggregation technologies.
- Familiarity with authentication, authorization, and endpoint security.
- Experience with C# / HTML / JavaScript and AWS / Terraform / CI-CD pipelines.
Why Join CMC Markets?
- Work on high-performance trading systems that have global impact.
- Collaborate with a team of passionate technologists and market experts.
- Be part of a company that values innovation, integrity, and excellence.
- Enjoy a supportive culture with opportunities for career growth and development.
*** Please note that this is an onsite role that will require you to work within our London office (near Liverpool street) 5 days on site per week. ***
CMC Markets is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.
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What We Do
CMC Markets is a leading global provider of online trading and investing, with a comprehensive retail, professional and institutional offering. Established in 1989, headquartered in London and listed on the London Stock Exchange, we have offices in Australia, China, Singapore, and across Europe.
Over 1m traders and investors* worldwide have access to our proprietary platforms, native mobile trading apps, and MetaTrader 4. Our clients can trade on a huge range of financial instruments through our award-winning spread betting, CFD and share trading platforms**.
We provide transparent, competitive pricing, market insights, and dedicated, 24/5 customer service.
*1.388 million unique user logins for the CMC Markets invest and CFD platforms globally, as at August 2023.
**Awards include: No.1 Web Platform & No.1 Most Currency Pairs, ForexBrokers.com Awards 2023; Best Forex Broker, Good Money Guide Awards 2023; Best In-House Analysts, Professional Trader Awards 2023; CFD Provider of the Year, Investors' Chronicle/Financial Times Celebration of Investment Awards 2023; No.1 Platform Technology, ForexBrokers.com Awards 2022; Best Mobile Trading Platform, ADVFN International Financial Awards 2022.
Disclaimer: Spread bets and CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. 68% of retail investor accounts lose money when spread betting and/or trading CFDs with this provider. You should consider whether you understand how spread bets, CFDs, OTC options or any of our other products work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money.
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