Skills

Leadership Python JavaScript Go TypeScript SQL PostgreSQL GitHub CI/CD DevOps AWS Lambda Architecture node.js AWS Team Leadership Agile C++ Analytics Vue.js GitHub Actions

Job Specifications

Senior Full Stack Engineer | Node.js & SQL | Data-Heavy FinTech Platform

You'll join a 50-person, London/US SaaS scale-up serving top-tier investment firms with a market-leading, data analytics platform for global credit investors (think Reuters and Bloomberg)

The engineering org is London-based (circa 13-14 people across DevOps, Frontend, AI/ML, Backend, and QA). Everything is the latest and greatest tech in the cloud, serverless etc.

The office is based in Victoria and the team go in twice a week (Mondays & Wednesdays) for collaboration meetings.

The Role

In this role, 80% of your time will be spent on development (Node.js) and 20% of your time leading projects. When you're developing, 90% of this time will be working on Node.js code with a light 10% frontend touch, designing and delivering features end-to-end while helping re-architect a platform that processes billions of rows of financial data. You'll drive architectural decisions, own services to production, and contribute to how massive datasets are modelled, partitioned, and served to customers.

Non-Negotiables:

8-10 years' software engineering experience across multiple environments
Node.js backend development
SQL mastery with experience of working with large-scale, data-heavy systems (our client has billions of rows)
Architectural design experience and comfort with frequent releases/peer review
Product mindset and ownership from build to deploy in an agile environment

What You'll Work With

Backend: Node.js (plus some Python, C++)
Frontend: JavaScript (Vue.js) & TypeScript
Data: PostgreSQL & DynamoDB
Cloud & CI/CD: AWS Lambda, GitHub Actions

Nice to Haves

Financial services or large-scale market data experience
Python & C++ Development experience
Database partitioning/re-architecture exposure
Mentoring/tech-lead experience (or appetite to step up)
Modern software engineering/development practices, including micro-services, agile, TDD, etc. and common system integration patterns
Knowledge of AWS services and IaC

Why Join / Projects

Re-architect and scale core services powering a must-have analytics product
Get the product ready for some serious scale & growth
Shape data models and access patterns for huge datasets and new product lines (beyond bonds & credit into new systems like loans, etc.)
High-trust engineering culture: own your code to production with you personally making 10-12 deploys per day
Direct impact on customers who analyse and ingest your data via APIs at a serious scale
Clear growth path with potential to move into team leadership

Employee Benefits

Salary: PS100,000-120,000 circa
Hybrid: 2 days in-office (Mondays & Wednesdays, non-negotiable) in Victoria area, London
Pension scheme; private medical; basic on-site gym access
25 days' holiday plus bank holidays; learning & development; team events; cycle to work; choice of quality hardware

A great role here and the chance to work with an awesome team. Apply ASAP!

Senior Full Stack Engineer | Node.js & SQL | Data-Heavy FinTech Platform

About the Company

We are Prism Digital, your DevOps and Cloud talent partner. Proud sponsors and co-organisers of the London DevOps meetup group. We are a niche consultancy with a tight focus on driving quality over quantity. We pride ourselves on our consultative approach, our extensive knowledge of the DevOps, Cloud and infrastructure sector and most importantly how important great talent is to help your company grow and succeed. We offer: • Expertise in Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), Linux, Windows, CI/CD, Configuration Management, IaC, Cont... Know more