The candidate should meet the following requirements
Job Description
Role Description
The ideal candidate will have
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer (Java & Kotlin)
Salary: Up to £80k
Location: Cambridge (2-3 days on site)
Industry: Fintech - startup
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer with strong experience in Java and Kotlin to join our clients collaborative engineering team. In this role, you’ll contribute to the development and evolution of the CDM-based event processing engine and supporting platform components. This is a hands-on position focused on system design, implementation, and solving complex challenges within financial services infrastructure. You’ll work closely with platform architects, product partners, and subject matter experts.
Key Responsibilities
1. Design, develop, and maintain core components of our CDM engine using Java and Kotlin
2. Build modular, reusable services and libraries that handle trade ingestion, transformation, validation, and orchestration
3. Work with domain experts to translate financial logic into deterministic, model-driven software
4. Contribute to architectural discussions, promoting scalable and maintainable design choices
5. Write clean, testable, production-quality code with a strong focus on quality and automation
6. Deploy and manage services in cloud-native environments using Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS
7. Participate in code reviews, knowledge sharing, and the continuous improvement of our engineering practices
What You’ll Bring
Must-Haves
8. 5+ years of hands-on experience developing production systems using Java or Kotlin (ideally both)
9. Strong knowledge of object-oriented and functional programming principles
10. Experience building distributed systems and RESTful APIs
11. Familiarity with event-driven architectures and messaging tools (e.g., Kafka)
12. Proficiency in modern CI/CD workflows, containerization (Docker), and orchestration tools (Kubernetes)
13. Solid understanding of version control (Git) and established software engineering practices
14. Strong problem-solving skills and ability to communicate and collaborate effectively within a team
Nice-to-Haves
15. Exposure to financial services, trading systems, or financial data modeling
16. Experience with CDM (Common Domain Model), FpML, FIXML, or ISO 20022
17. Understanding of blockchain technologies or tokenization concepts
18. Background in financial mathematics, risk modeling, or trade lifecycle workflows