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Front Office Developer - Technical Team Lead

CMC Markets
Full-time
On-site
London

We’re now looking for a talented team-oriented developer who thrives in a collaborative environment, enjoys solving complex technical challenges, and wants to make an impact in a fast-paced, global setting. Join our Pricing & Risk team, working on our front-office pricing and trading platform. This is a hands-on role focused on building and maintaining distributed backend systems that support our market-making business across multiple asset classes — including Equities, FX, Crypto, and Commodities. What You’ll Do: Design, develop, and maintain backend infrastructure, microservices, APIs, and business logic for our pricing and trading systems. Partner with front-end developers, quants, and front-office users to deliver efficient, scalable, and high-performance solutions. Drive technical decisions and architecture trade-offs with a focus on scalability, maintainability, and performance. Mentor and support junior team members, promoting best practices in coding standards, code reviews, and release management. Respond to real-time trading issues in a fast-paced environment, ensuring minimal business disruption. Key Skills & Experience: Strong expertise in Core Java, Spring Framework/Spring Boot, or similar backend frameworks. Proven experience designing and developing API-based, microservices-driven architectures. Solid understanding of multi-threaded systems and distributed messaging. Experience mentoring developers and promoting best practices in code quality and architecture. Collaborative mindset with experience working closely with business stakeholders and cross-functional teams. Desirable Experience: Exposure to CEP engines (Esper) or other live stream aggregation technologies. Familiarity with authentication, authorization, and endpoint security. Experience with C# / HTML / JavaScript and AWS / Terraform / CI-CD pipelines. Why Join CMC Markets? Work on high-performance trading systems that have global impact. Collaborate with a team of passionate technologists and market experts. Be part of a company that values innovation, integrity, and excellence. Enjoy a supportive culture with opportunities for career growth and development. *** Please note that this is an onsite role that will require you to work within our London office (near Liverpool street) 5 days on site per week. *** CMC Markets is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age. CMC Markets is one of the world’s first ever fin-tech companies and was launched in 1989 to break down the barriers of financial trading and make trading accessible to everyone. Our mission is to use our award-winning, Next Generation trading platform and unparalleled client service to empower millions of people to have the best trading experience out there. Our clients can trade on thousands of instruments using the best technology, supported by sophisticated charting, competitive pricing and automated execution. We're trusted by investors globally, but also by banks, brokers, funds and trading desks though our top-tier liquidity institutional offering, enabling these businesses to expand into new markets and increase revenue potential. We were recently listed on the FTSE250, and our business continues to go from strength to strength as we continue to invest in our technology and our people.

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