Overview

REMOTE Senior Software Engineer - FinTech Scale up

Fully Remote | Up to £120k Base + Bonus + Stock Options

We are partnered with a high-growth FinTech scale-up at the forefront of building next-generation market surveillance and risk monitoring technology. Backed by leading investors and trusted by global financial institutions, regulators, and crypto-native firms, they process trillions of market events daily to protect investors, detect manipulation, and ensure integrity across both traditional finance and digital asset markets.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimise algorithms for detecting manipulation, fraud, and compliance breaches in real-time and batch data.
• Build and scale high-volume data pipelines handling billions of daily events across distributed systems.
• Work with cutting-edge tech including Java, Kafka, Spark, Kubernetes, Clickhouse, Snowflake, Redis.
• Collaborate with quants, data scientists, and compliance experts to improve surveillance strategies.
• Contribute to system architecture for low-latency monitoring and high-throughput processing.
• Continuously improve data quality, reliability, and query optimisation at scale.

What we're looking for

• 5+ years' experience in software engineering, ideally in financial markets, market surveillance, or large-scale data systems.
• Strong skills in Java (or similar: Kotlin, C#, C++); Python is a plus.
• Proven experience with real-time, low-latency systems and distributed data pipelines.
• Hands-on with Kafka, Spark, Kubernetes, Clickhouse, Snowflake, and modern data architectures.
• Solid foundations in algorithms, system design, and optimisation.
• Curious, proactive, and comfortable working in a fast-moving, scaling environment.

Why apply?

• Fully remote role with global reach.
• Up to £120k base + bonus + stock options.
• Build mission-critical systems at the intersection of finance, crypto, and AI/ML-driven surveillance.
• Work alongside world-class engineers, quants, and technologists shaping the future of market integrity.

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on any grounds.

Additional

Location: London, England, United Kingdom