Senior Back-end Software Engineer (Python and Rust) - London

Validus is looking for a financial software engineer to join our back-end team. The team is responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining the systems and services powering the rapidly growing, award-winning technology offering at Validus.

Requirements

• Engage with external stakeholders and clients to understand their needs and design solutions for capturing and integrating their data for it to be utilised on Horizon.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders, including Validus’s quant, risk advisory, and global capital market desks to understand their needs, gather requirements and propose new solutions.
• Build a strong understanding of FX and interest rate products, the related financial markets, and market data sources.
• Support ad hoc maintenance of our applications and scheduled processes.
• Implement cloud-native solutions on AWS, ranging from HTTP APIs to event-driven microservices utilising gRPC.
• Design data models for elegantly capturing the business domain of complex trades across multiple asset classes.
• Build out performance-critical systems written in Rust, and contribute efficient, testable and maintainable code to our Python codebase with performance and observability in mind.

Benefits

• Competitive remuneration package (salary + bonus)
• Health care
• Retirement plans
• Financial support towards professional qualifications