Senior Software Engineer - 18 Month Maximum Term Contract

If you also believe that everyone should be able to achieve their financial potential, then you'll love contributing to CMC Markets' company vision of providing the ultimate trading experience. Seize the opportunity to progress your career in the fintech industry by joining a global leader in CFD trading and share investing. Grow yourself personally and professionally with a company that's growing with you, by global expansion and product offering. We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our Stockbroking Development Team on an 18 Month max-term contract, within the Account Management Squad. In this role, you will contribute to strategic initiatives and drive new feature development across our stockbroking platforms. This includes working on Account Management API integrations, enhancing backend account functionality, modernising application architecture, and building high quality customer facing frontends. As a senior member of the squad, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and delivering high quality code for new and existing features. The role is primarily backend focused, with some frontend development, using technologies such as C#, .NET (fullstack), React, and Angular, across both on premises systems and AWS cloud environments. You will play a key role in shaping technical solutions, maintaining system performance, and supporting ongoing platform advancement. Development in this role would be both technical and career focused, you will gain exposure to complex stockbroking and financial domain knowledge, which strengthens both technical and industry expertise. You will gain exposure in a large-scale, regulated trading environment. Why you'll like working here Just some of the reasons you'll love working here include: Leave benefits: Accrue 5 additional annual leave entitlements each year called My Days, as well as enjoying 5 extra annual leave days once you pass 12 months. Enjoy your birthday off to spend time with family and friends, on us! Utilise a free annual charity day to give back to your community. $0 Trades: Staff & family trading accounts with CMC Markets Invest have access to the best brokerage rates in the market - $0 trades for all domestic and international equity orders! Continuous learning: Our L&D offering covers both technical and performance training, ensuring you're always learning new skills. Unlimited access to a dedicated benefits & wellbeing hub where you can save money through various retailer discounts, and make use of a variety of resources that will enhance your physical and mental wellbeing Collaboration: We believe that great things happen when smart people work together, that's why we've made the decision to work five days in the office. Office perks: Help yourself to free breakfast cereals, condiments, and coffee to fuel your workday. Our culture club provides opportunities for everyone whether you're into fitness, pizza making classes, socialising or bringing out your competitive side in trivia or lawn bowls! What you'll be working on? You will work across a combination of cloud and on premises solutions, primarily using C#, TypeScript (React), and AWS services. This is a hands on engineering role where you will take ownership of your work, contribute to technical decision making, and help build robust, scalable systems that support our stockbroking platforms. The role is primarily focused on cloud-based (backend) development, with responsibility for maintaining the lifecycle of account management systems and supporting client due diligence processes, fraud global checks and compliance related requirements for treating accounts. You will engage with a range of stakeholders across the business, interpreting technical requirements and ensuring solutions are aligned with business objectives. In addition, you will contribute to strategic initiatives and deliver new features across our platforms, including Account Management API integrations, backend enhancements, and application modernisation. You will design, develop, and maintain scalable full stack applications, build and support API integrations (including third-party services), and optimise database performance. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, contribute to technical design discussions, and ensure high quality, well tested code is delivered. What will help you be successful? 7+ years' experience in C# / .NET development, with strong backend expertise Strong understanding of AWS cloud architectures (Azure also considered) Strong experience with ASP.NET, Web APIs, and API integrations Highly experience in designing and maintaining API integrations Solid experience with React or Angular, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS Extensive experience with Entity Framework and strong MSSQL / T-SQL skills, including performance tuning Experience working across the full software development lifecycle, from design through to deployment and support Strong understanding of software design principles and user experience best practices Ability to contribute to complex technical discussions and influence outcomes The things we live by CMC Markets is powered by our people. We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, where our people feel confident to be themselves, feel valued and are able to do their best work. We don't just value differences and unique perspectives, we seek them out and we invite them in, because we know it will lead to better outcomes for everyone Click on the link to find out more about the things we live by at CMC Markets CMC Markets - Culture Video We're always on the lookout for great people, so even if you don't feel you are a 100% fit, apply with your up-to-date CV and we'll consider you for this role and any other suitable opportunities across the business. We look forward to hearing from you! Please be vigilant when applying for jobs online. CMC Markets will never request personal identification details, such as Date of Birth or Tax File Number prior to an offer being made. If your initial application is successful, regardless of whether you've applied directly or through an approved recruiter, you will always liaise with a representative from CMC's Talent Acquisition team. We will only discuss a role you have formally applied for via phone or email (CMC Markets email address); and never via Facebook CMC Markets is one of the world's first ever fin-tech companies and was launched in 1989 to break down the barriers of financial trading and make trading accessible to everyone. Our mission is to use our award-winning, Next Generation trading platform and unparalleled client service to empower millions of people to have the best trading experience out there. Our clients can trade on thousands of instruments using the best technology, supported by sophisticated charting, competitive pricing and automated execution. We're trusted by investors globally, but also by banks, brokers, funds and trading desks though our top-tier liquidity institutional offering, enabling these businesses to expand into new markets and increase revenue potential. We were recently listed on the FTSE250, and our business continues to go from strength to strength as we continue to invest in our technology and our people.