Software Engineer
London, UK
This role supports our data virtualisation product and covers building, maintaining and scaling the
product as an independent product and also as part of Finbourne's industry-leading LUSID product.
Luminesce is a data virtualisation service that simplifies the connection to any source or shape of
data in your organisation and lets you join it together in a single virtual view in real time. The system
enables you to instantly respond to cross-business challenges as they appear without requiring an IT
solution.
We're looking to hire a developer with experience building scalable and performant software and
who is excited by the idea of writing, supporting and maintaining globally distributed systems for
the financial services industry. This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a fast-growing business and
contributing to the scaling of a system from thousands of users to millions!
Key responsibilities include:
- Optimising our current technology stack to improve performance and stability
- Develop internal systems and integrate with external systems to expand product capabilities
- Develop our performance monitoring and testing suites to help us detect and mitigate
performance issues
- Help design, inform and implement our product roadmap which includes improving user
experience, adding more enhanced functionality, adding more connection and DS/ML.
- Provide technical expertise to our growing client base
What skills, experience and qualifications we require:
- We're looking for C# (or any strongly-type language) developer with ideally some SQL skills
and experience writing, supporting, and maintaining globally distributed systems.
- Our key technologies are C# (.NET Core) applications hosted using Kubernetes on AWS.
- We also use a number of other key technologies including Python, RabbitMQ, Kafka,
Elasticsearch and Concourse for CI/CD.
- As we work in an informal, agile environment we are also looking for candidates who are
genuinely excited about what we do
Just some of our benefits:
- Competitive salary plus financial rewards which can include a direct route to a financial stake
in the company via our Stock Options scheme
- Health & Wellbeing: A competitive health insurance policy that disregards previous medical
history. This also includes dental, optical, mental health support and comprehensive cancer
cover.
- Cycle to work scheme and Gym discounts: Buy a bike and cycling accessories out of your pretax salary and spread the cost over 12 months, as well huge discounts off Hussle, KOBOX and
Nuffield Health gyms.
- Flexible and remote working: We have a mature attitude towards flexible and remote
working. Whether you’re a night owl, morning person, parent, carer or simply need flexibility
to work a different pattern to the norm, we’re committed to helping you be productive and
work in a way that is best for you.
- Professional learning and development: External training and accreditations are supported,
as well internal training and development programs.
- Maternity, paternity and adoption leave: Paid maternity, paternity and adoption leave, which
includes 13 weeks full pay for maternity and adoption leave and 6 weeks full pay for paternity
leave
- Holiday: 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
About FINBOURNE
We are a young, dynamic financial technology company aiming to re-engineer the world of
investing to make it clearer, faster and more cost effective for everyone.
We are looking for our future architects, engineers and ultimately leaders to join us on this journey.
At FINBOURNE, we offer a hugely supportive environment to build a career, with continuous
learning and development opportunities. We have a collaborative culture of testing and exploring
problems together to find the best evidence-based solutions. We respect your independent
thought, your intellectual curiosity and your opinion.
Our solution is open, API first and developer friendly – a true first for the asset management
industry. You can see what our team is busy building – we’ve published our Software Development
Kits in five languages on Github: (C#, Java, Javascript, Python, Angular).