Solution Engineer - London - FINTECH - Contract outside IR35 up to £900/day depending on experience

WE ARE: 

At Adaptive, we are a financial consulting firm that partners with capital, commodity, and digital market participants. We value differentiation through technology. Our experienced teams design and deliver complex front-office technology solutions using our proven accelerators to create long-term competitive advantage.

Our clients include the world’s leading investment banks, investment managers, fintech and capital market service providers. With a global reach with offices in London, New York, Barcelona, Manila and Montreal, we have a proven track record of delivering powerful, elegant and intuitive trading technology solutions.

We are now looking for Solution Engineer services for an initial 6 month contract.

Skills Required: 

• Exceptional technical skills and able to solve complex problems as part of a team
• Experience building solutions in the capital markets domain
• Able to build strong relationships easily with Adaptive team and end clients
• Able to think strategically and communicate concepts clearly to others

Services Description:

• Ensure the success and technical excellence of solutions delivered to Adaptive's clients:
  • Through individual contribution to the codebase on the most challenging aspects of a Delivery
  • Ensuring the output quality of the team you work meets the standards within Adaptive
  • Through the application of best practices within design and development (e.g. separation of concerns)
  • Through the advocacy of testing approaches (e.g. behaviour driven testing)
  • By helping to define and facilitate the adoption of standards within teams
  • Through the definition of performant and resilient architecture, and detailed design informed by the domain and client need
• Be expected to advocate for technical decisions to the Adaptive team, end clients and other stakeholders
• Enable the team to properly adhere to software development lifecycle processes
• Be able to work with Adaptive leadership to ensure that delivered work meets time, budget and possible constraints
• Be comfortable escalating and articulating risks to Adaptive team members, management and clients

The Individual will need:

• Strong communication skills
• Significant, professional experience within capital markets, developing software solutions using Java in a highly performant, low latency manner
• Experience using Aeron in a high-performance scenario within capital markets or digital assets
• Familiarity with appropriate data structures and their usages (e.g. sets, maps and queues)
• Relevant experience in building solutions within these domains:
• Order Management Systems
• Execution Management Systems
• Smart Order Routing
• Trading Venues & Exchanges
• Matching Engines
• Algo Containers
• Risk Management
• FIX Gateways
• Experienced in working within an Agile environment and following a mature SDLC.
• Distributed Systems and Consensus Algorithms
• Event-driven architecture
• Replicated State Machines

WHAT DO PEOPLE THINK OF US 🗣

You can check our Glassdoor page 🎉

THE PROCESS:

Long interview processes are stressful and boring, and that is not us 😉

We want to make sure that everything runs smoothly.

There will be three stages to our selection process:

1- A chat with one of our great recruiters
2- An interview with our technology leadership team, involving questions and a design exercise focused on your technology knowledge and your experiences with designing and delivering capital markets solutions, as well as your approach to leadership.
3- A final meeting with our executive leadership team

But don’t worry; everything will be explained to you step by step by the Adaptive recruiter.

Background check: the employment/engagement is subject to an acceptable background check that will be run by Adaptive.