Department: Enterprise Application Development EMEA & Asia

The Company

Innovative, future-focused and collaborative, StoneX Group Inc. (NASDAQ: SNEX) is a global financial services firm with an entrepreneurial culture and a passion for providing world-class services to our clients. A Fortune-100 company with a nearly 100-year track record, with 3,300 employees and over 400,00 retail and institutional clients from more than 40 offices spread across five continents, we connect clients to the global markets – focusing on innovation, human connection, and providing world-class products and services to all types of investors.

Today's global financial markets offer a world of opportunities. To trade. To invest. To manage risk. And to grow. We believe in connecting every company, every organisation, every trader, and every investor to every advantage they need to succeed in today’s global markets ecosystem.

But that belief doesn’t stop at our clients. We also believe in connecting every single one of our employees to every opportunity they need to succeed in their own careers, too. From an entrepreneurial culture to a collaborative environment working alongside highly skilled specialists, a career at StoneX also offers a world of opportunities. To invest in yourself. To achieve. And to grow.

We Connect Clients to Markets.

Job purpose

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to work with our commodities team within Oils Trading to drive efficiency through technology modernisation.

You will be part of a talented engineer team that works on low-latency mission-critical applications. Roles and responsibilities include application architecture and development across full software development lifecycle from concept and design to testing, collaborating with like-minded engineers.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Contribute across all phases of the development lifecycle working within Agile methodology
• Write well designed, testable, efficient code
• Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications
• Prepare and produce releases of software components
• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review
• Mentor and supports engineers with technical direction and best practices

Skills and Experience

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
  • In-depth JavaScript and Typescript experience, asynchronous programming, closures, types, ES6
  • HTML/CSS experience, covering layout, specificity, cross browser compatibility, accessibility
  • Indepth experience in React and state management libraries like Mobx, redux etc 
  • Experience in Node.js or other isomorphic JavaScript libraries
  • Experience using tools, APIs, and best practices to measure and improve web performance 
  • Good understanding of Web Analytics and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
  • Creating components for Web UI that are reusable, cross-browser compatible, responsive and adhering to design system principals
  • Experience in bundlers like Webpack, Rollup, vite
  • Some experience designing and developing enterprise applications using Java/Spring (ideal) or C#/.Net Core
  • Experience developing distributed systems using Microservice architecture (event-based)
  • Experience with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Experience with cloud platforms (Azure)
  • Exposure with distributed messaging / streaming platforms (Apache Kafka)
  • Experience with TDD/BDD, testing framework (vitest/Jest/React-testing-library/JUnit) 
  • Experience within Financial services