Vice President Lead Engineer – Front Office Trading

About the role

Our client is seeking a Vice President Lead Engineer to drive the transformation of Front Office technology in a high‑impact, multi‑year platform modernisation programme. You will work on real‑time, low‑latency, high‑performance systems that directly support trading workflows, influencing architecture across the full stack.

Key responsibilities

• Build and evolve a suite of real‑time, high‑performance microservices for trading workflows.
• Lead end‑to‑end solution design for both backend and frontend systems.
• Partner directly with traders and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Drive best practices in distributed systems, testing, CI/CD, and code quality.
• Influence the modernisation strategy of the fixed‑income technology stack.
• Act as a technical leader, raising engineering standards and guiding design decisions.

Required profile

• Strong technologist with a passion for building high‑performance systems in complex environments.
• Deep expertise in modern Java, including concurrency, memory management, and reactive programming.
• Advanced front‑end experience with modern tooling such as React, Vite and NX.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and micro‑services architecture.
• Experience designing and deploying RESTful and event‑driven APIs.
• Hands‑on experience with containerisation and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Proven track record of driving engineering excellence through best practices, CI/CD and code quality.

Required skills

• Java
• React
• Vite
• NX
• Kafka
• Solace
• RabbitMQ
• WebSockets
• SSE
• Rx
• Kubernetes
• SQL
• CI/CD
• Microservices
• RESTful APIs
• Containerisation

What we offer

• Hybrid working model.
• Competitive salary (£120k‑£130k) plus bonus.
• Non‑contributory pension.
• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to buy more.
• Private healthcare and life assurance.
• Flexible benefits such as retail discounts, gym membership and Bike4Work scheme.
• CSR programme with two days of volunteering leave.