About Marex
Marex Group plc is a diversified global financial services platform, providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients in the energy, commodities and financial markets. It listed on Nasdaq Global Select Market in April 2024. With more than 35 offices in Europe, US and APAC, it has unique access across markets with significant share globally both on and off exchange. The depth of knowledge amongst its teams and divisions provides its customers with clear advantage, and its technology-led service provides access to all major exchanges, order-flow management via screen, voice and DMA, plus award-winning data, insights and analytics.
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Marex has unique access across markets with significant share globally both on and off exchange. The depth of knowledge amongst its teams and divisions provides its customers with clear advantage, and its technology-led service provides access to all major exchanges, order-flow management via screen, voice and DMA, plus award-winning data, insights and analytics.
The Technology Department delivers differentiation, scalability and security for the business. Reporting to the COO, Technology provides digital tools, software services and infrastructure globally to all business groups. Software development and support teams work in agile ‘streams’ aligned to specific business areas. Our other teams work enterprise-wide to provide critical services including our global service desk, network and system infrastructure, IT operations, security, enterprise architecture and design.
The Software Development function creates and maintains applications, frameworks and other software components to deliver to business requirements. Developers conceive, specify, design, engineer, document, test, and deliver bug fixes as needed to provide high quality software solutions. Each Development team is aligned to one of Marex’s business divisions and works with a corresponding Business Technology and Application Support team.
As an experienced team lead and full-stack software engineer specializing in both front-end and back-end development, expert in React or C# .NET, you will lead our Capital Markets Software Development squad in our Belfast office, contributing to the creation and enhancement of secure, responsive web applications tailored for front-to-back trading technology.
Your coding expertise and your strong emphasis on quality will be instrumental in delivering robust and reliable applications. In this role, you will use your architectural and devOps experience to help build new solutions in support of strategic business initiatives, and mature our existing software and efficiently migrate and re-platform legacy systems to the cloud, using cloud native design patterns. Working closely with the enterprise architecture stream and platform engineering team to ensure alignment to organisational technology patterns and standards, and seamless integration and deployment.
You will take a leading role within the team, line managing team members, acting as scrum master, mentoring and upskilling more junior members of the team, and designing and implementing a developer ecosystem to support high throughput of change with no impact on quality. You will work in close collaboration with the Capital Markets development manager and business technology function to align with Marex’ agile ways of working; ensure the backlog is correctly prioritised, stories are aligned to our definition of ready, the team remains delivery focused, and impediments are closed out.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Belfast based Capital Markets development team, including line management of the developers
- Design and code across proprietary applications and services that constitute the Capital Markets / Marex Prime Services technology platform
- Take accountability for the quality of deliverables, and assist the wider scrum team in taking accountability for theirs
- Work with platform engineering to automate build and deploy of existing and new systems
- Support the strategic goals of Capital Markets development; greenfield initiatives, replatforming and consolidating legacy systems, and adopting an automation-first approach to delivery and quality control
- Act as Scrum Master, managing the backlog, scrum ceremonies and handling impediments
- Act as an automated testing champion within the scrum team, working with SDETs to upskill developers and exploiting opportunities to automate quality control
Essential
Skills and Experience:
- Engineering: C#, .Net, ASP.Net, React, JS/TS, HTML, CSS, SQL
- Tools / Technologies / Infra: NodeJS, cloud/AWS, RabbitMQ, Bitbucket (Git), SQL/Server, Jira
- Design: API, HTTP/REST, JSON, micro-services and distributed systems
- SDL: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, devOps, CI/CD, Automation First, BDD/TDD, DORA
Desirable
- Engineering: Java, Vue, Angular, .Net Core
- Tools / Technologies / Infra: Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Azure, GCP, NoSQL, DNS
- Design: Serverless, cloud-native/PaaS, event driven, pub/sub, real-time/websockets, architectural design records (ADRs)
- Experience working in a regulated environment and knowledge of the risk and compliance requirements associated with this.
Competencies
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- A collaborative team player, approachable, self-efficient and influences a positive work environment
- Demonstrates curiosity
- Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment
- Ability to take a high level of responsibility in a fast pace and high-volume environment
- Excels at building relationships, networking and influencing others
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Marex is fully committed to being an inclusive employer and providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all. We will provide reasonable adjustments to remove any disadvantage to you being considered for this role. We value the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the company. We welcome applications from candidates returning to the workforce. Also, Marex is committed to avoiding circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process.
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