Software Engineer

Role Summary

This role sits within the IBOR engineering team at FINBOURNE. This team is responsible for building the industry-leading portfolio management technology of our LUSID platform, and your work would focus on our instrument modelling and valuations capabilities.

The role will give you the opportunity to learn about and contribute to a cutting-edge software development techniques and algorithms, and exposure to both buy-side and sell-side financial service models. You’ll be designing and implementing software solutions for a range of business problems for our clients, who range from small startup hedge funds to multi-national financial services providers.

Our applications are written in C# and deployed using Docker and Kubernetes on cloud technologies from AWS and Azure. We employ a CI/CD approach to the software development lifecycle and are big proponents of automated testing and deployments.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to the whole development lifecycle of our core system, LUSID
• Building out our support for modelling complex financial instruments for a wide range of client requirements
• Extending and optimising our powerful valuations engine, used to provide flexible and powerful reporting for our customer’s portfolios

Skills and Experience

• The ideal candidates will have had exposure working in financial services technology, or had a strong quantitative background in a STEM field.
• A good understanding of strongly typed languages and experience building commercial software Previous experience or a keen interest to leverage cloud services and open-source libraries to build resilient and reliable systems. Whilst remaining hands-on to maintain existing codebase, you would be taking on initiatives on designing, planning, and implementing new features.
• Our key technologies are C# (.NET Core), NUnit and a Postgres persistence layer, hosted in Kubernetes and Docker on As we work in an informal, agile environment we are also looking for candidates who are genuinely excited about what we are doing.
• As important as your technical skills, we need developers who display strong communication skills. A large part of the role is understanding an explaining, in detail, the functionality provided by LUSID to existing and potential clients and using their feedback to continuously enhance our offering.

Just some of our benefits

• Competitive salary plus performance based bonus.
• 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 pre-tax salary and spread the cost over 12 months, as well huge discounts off Hussle, KOBOX and Nuffield Health gyms.
• Flexible and hybrid working: We have a mature attitude towards flexible and hybrid 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.

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 on Github.

For more information about us please visit our website.