Connecting clients to markets – and talent to opportunity

With 4,300 employees and over 400,000 retail and institutional clients from more than 80 offices spread across five continents, we’re a Fortune-100, Nasdaq-listed provider, connecting clients to the global markets – focusing on innovation, human connection, and providing world-class products and services to all types of investors.

At StoneX, we offer you the opportunity to be part of an institutional-grade financial services network that connects companies, organizations, and investors to the global markets ecosystem. As a team member, you'll benefit from our unique blend of digital platforms, comprehensive clearing and execution services, personalized high-touch support, and deep industry expertise. Elevate your career with us and make a significant impact in the world of global finance.

Corporate: Engage in a deep variety of business-critical activities that keep our company running efficiently. From strategic marketing and financial management to human resources and operational oversight, you’ll have the opportunity to optimize processes and implement game-changing policies.

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

To land this role you will need

• Experience within the Financial services, ideally knowledge of commodities and back-office functions
• Proven hands-on experience designing and developing enterprise applications using Java/Spring in real-time, low latency environments is a must.
• Proven hands-on 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)

What will make you stand out

• Experience with TDD/BDD, testing framework (Junit/Mockito/TestContainers/Jest/React-testing-library)
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases SQL and No-SQL databases
• Desirable to have experience building large scalable web-based applications using React (ideal)/Angular with Typescript

Education

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject

Working environment

• Hybrid