Software Engineer

This role seeks to strengthen the Back End Trading/Transactions team in London, primarily contributing to Trade Nation’s proprietary codebase. The successful candidate will be working with proven, driven developers optimising and expanding the abilities and behaviours of money movements. Pushing code, working with Product, QA, Tech Lead; both in team and autonomously.

The team continues to deliver to an ambitious, pre-defined roadmap - and this role will form part of that success story, changing the direction of the business and optimising the experience for Trade Nation’s clients.

Who we are

Trade Nation is a global CFD and spread betting broker. We help traders make better decisions through clear market insights, transparent pricing and fairer approach to trading.

Since 2014, we’ve grown into a market-leading, low-cost broker with our headquarters in London and offices across Europe, South Africa, Asia-Pacific, and key offshore regions including the Caribbean and Indian Ocean. Our platform is available in 14 languages, making it accessible to traders worldwide.

Built on transparency and trust, and driven by our people, our focus is simple: helping customers trade more effectively. We do that by keeping costs low, cutting unnecessary complexity and using technology to put traders first.

Your team

Our London office is our headquarters, located in the heart of East London and surrounded by plenty of great places to eat and explore. The office offers a modern working environment with spacious communal areas, a bike shed, and showers. We also have a rooftop terrace that the team makes the most of during the summer - whenever we’re lucky enough for a bit of sun!

Our commitments to each other

We have each other’s backs

There when we need each other most

 We challenge each other

Be more creative, more curious, more bold

We thrive together

Taking our work to the next level

We form strong bonds

Through team building and social events

We don’t judge

Instead, we teach and are open to learning

We step up

Taking ownership and supporting each other to do the same

Responsibilities

• Clarifying requirements, contributing high-quality, robust code, reviewing peers’ code, taking ownership of tasks, escalating issues to the Tech Lead, and participating in estimation sessions.
• Commitment to delivering work within two-week sprints.
• Responding to bugs and technical debt when necessary.

Requirements

• Minimum 2 years’ experience developing in C# .NET (preferably .NET Core, though .NET Framework experience will also be considered).

• Experience working on commercial or financial/transactional systems.
• Proficiency using Git for version control.
• Experience contributing to end-to-end project delivery.
• Experience working in Agile development environments.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred requirements

• Experience with messaging platforms such as Kafka, Redis, or similar technologies.
• Exposure to AWS cloud services.
• Experience using Docker.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, and discretionary annual bonus.

• Private healthcare.
• Life Insurance, Critical Illness & Income Protection cover.
• Active Lifestyle allowance.
• Annual leave above minimum entitlement.
• Up to 3 weeks allowance to work in any location.
• Enhanced parental leave packages.