Senior full-stack Engineer

Senior Full Stack Engineer (TypeScript)

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  • Senior Full Stack role at a world leading financial markets infrastructure organisation - genuinely greenfield platform build in partnership with AWS
  • TypeScript across the full stack with React, Redux, GraphQL, Terraform and AWS serverless
  • Work directly alongside AWS engineers on a next generation global platform
  • Hybrid working, Belfast based
  • Salary up to £60,000

Why This Organisation

Our client is a world leading provider of financial markets infrastructure, operating at the heart of global financial and commodities markets from more than 60 offices across 27 countries. With over 5,300 people globally, their engineering teams build and maintain the technology that underpins price discovery, liquidity and data distribution at enormous scale. Self organising, cross functional Agile teams, a genuine focus on cloud native architecture and automation, and a culture built around continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.

This is a company that is genuinely investing in Belfast. They have hired 12 engineers here already this year and to support that growth they have moved into a brand new office in Belfast city centre, purpose built to house the expanding team and give engineers the environment they need to do their best work. The Belfast team is not a satellite office doing maintenance work. It is a core part of a global engineering organisation tackling complex, large scale problems with modern technology and real autonomy.

This particular role sits within a brand new team building a next generation platform in direct partnership with Amazon Web Services. You would be working alongside AWS engineers, learning from some of the best technical minds in the industry, on a greenfield build at global scale. If you are a senior engineer who wants to work at the intersection of world class technology and global financial markets, this is worth exploring.

The Role and What It Can Do For Your Career

This is a Senior Full Stack Engineer position within a newly formed team tasked with building the next generation of a flagship trading platform in partnership with Amazon Web Services. You will take full ownership of your work across design, development, testing and deployment, working closely with Principal Engineers, Architects and Leads to ensure successful delivery into production environments. Beyond delivery, you will drive engineering improvements, contribute to system architecture conversations and mentor junior members of the team.

The career value is clear. You will be working on a greenfield platform build at global scale, directly alongside AWS engineers, on systems that underpin global financial markets. That combination of technical depth, domain complexity and AWS partnership is genuinely rare and builds a CV that travels.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Drive engineering improvements while communicating the principles behind your work to the team and wider organisation
  • Take full ownership of design, development, testing and deployment of software across the team
  • Support the team's engagement in a well defined SDLC covering planning, prioritisation and delivery
  • Lead conversations around estimation, challenge requirements and foster potential solutions
  • Contribute to meaningful conversations about wider system architecture with engineers and leads
  • Evolve systems towards target state architecture through refactoring and prioritisation of deliveries
  • Work closely with Principal Engineers, Architects and Leads to ensure successful deployment into production
  • Mentor junior members of the team and demonstrate strong technical competencies

What you will need:

  • 5 or more years of demonstrable industry experience as a Full Stack or Front End and Back End Engineer in TypeScript

Frontend:

  • Proficiency in HTML5, CSS3 and TypeScript
  • Strong experience with React, Redux and React Query
  • Familiarity with RESTful APIs, GraphQL and WebSockets
  • Experience with CSS tooling such as Tailwind
  • Understanding of cross browser compatibility
  • Working knowledge of Git

Backend:

  • Proficiency in backend TypeScript and/or another OOP language such as C# or Java
  • Strong database knowledge across SQL and NoSQL
  • Experience with RESTful and GraphQL APIs and WebSockets
  • Experience with microservices architecture
  • Experience with Terraform and infrastructure as code
  • Exposure to automated testing
  • AWS experience including Lambda, Fargate, API Gateway and AppSync

Why You Should Apply Now

Senior Full Stack roles on a greenfield platform at this scale, in direct partnership with AWS, within a world leading financial markets organisation that is actively growing its Belfast engineering hub, do not come along often. The brand new Belfast city centre office, the 12 engineers hired already this year and the long term investment signal this is a place worth building a career.

Salary up to £60,000. Hybrid working from Belfast.

Please reach out to Nick Napier directly on LinkedIn or submit your CV via the link below.

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