Summary
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A senior full-stack engineering role within a newly established team building a modern cloud-native platform for a financial technology environment. You will own the design, development, testing, and deployment of services using TypeScript, React, and AWS, while collaborating with principal engineers, architects, and technical leads. The role offers strong exposure to cloud engineering best practices and significant technical ownership.
Highlights
Senior full-stack opportunity on a newly formed engineering team building a modern cloud-native platform. Provides direct exposure to AWS specialists, ownership across design through deployment, and the opportunity to influence engineering decisions while working with principal engineers, architects, and technical leads.
Description
Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) – TypeScript, React, AWS | Belfast (Hybrid)
Location: Belfast (Hybrid)
Type: Permanent
About the Opportunity
A well established financial markets technology business is partnering with AWS to build the next generation of its core trading platform from the ground up, using modern cloud native architecture.
This is a newly formed engineering team working directly alongside AWS specialists, giving you exposure to best practice cloud engineering while shaping a platform used across the business day to day.
As a Senior Engineer you will take ownership of design, development, testing and deployment across your area, working closely with a Principal Engineer, Architects and Leads to bring new services safely into production.
What You'll Be Doing
Own the design, build, testing and deployment of full stack services within the platformDrive engineering improvements and clearly communicate the reasoning behind technical decisionsLead conversations on estimation, drawing on prior experience to challenge requirements constructivelyShape wider system architecture through meaningful technical discussion with the engineering teamEvolve systems toward the target architecture through refactoring and delivery prioritisationMentor junior engineers and support their technical developmentSupport a well defined SDLC covering planning, prioritisation and deliveryCollaborate with BAs and POs to remove ambiguity and challenge requirements where needed
What You'll Bring
Essential:
5+ years professional experience as a Full Stack or Front/Back End Engineer in TypeScriptFront end: HTML5, CSS3, TypeScript, React, Redux, ReactQueryExperience with Tailwind or similar CSS pre-processorsBack end: proficiency in TypeScript and/or another OOP language such as C# or JavaStrong SQL and NoSQL database knowledgeREST and GraphQL APIs, and WebSocketsMicroservices architecture and containerisationAWS ecosystem including Lambda, Fargate, API Gateway and AppSyncTerraform and CI/CD within an enterprise environmentAutomated testing including unit, integration and end to endExperience with pub/sub messaging patterns (e.g.
Solace, AMQP)Git version control and Agile delivery using tools such as JIRAComfortable working within low latency, event driven production environments
Desirable / Nice to Have:
Demonstrable C# (.NET 8+) experience in a professional environmentContributions to open source projectsExperience of regulatory driven projects, or knowledge of financial markets and OTC products
Why Join
Competitive salaryHybrid working from BelfastWork directly alongside AWS on a greenfield platform buildGenuine autonomy over design and delivery decisionsClear route to mentor others and grow into a more senior technical trackJoin at the start of a new team building modern architecture from scratch
If this sounds like your next move, reach out to Eve Geddis directly on LinkedIn to find out more.
