Front Office Full Stack Engineer (Java / React) – Equity Derivatives

Front Office Full Stack Engineer (Java / React) – Equity Derivatives

London

Hybrid Model

£750 - £850

emagine is a high-end professional services consultancy and solutions firm Specialising in providing business and technology services to the financial services sector, we power progress, solve challenges and deliver real results through tailored high-end consulting services and solutions.

We have created a culture of openness and integrity by building genuine and strong relationships and partnerships, enabling us to be uncompromising in our dedication in delivering the optimal service for our clients. Our commitment is not just towards our clients but we aim to foster a positive and equitable working environment with our consultants and colleagues which stems from our core values: Confident, Dedicated, Responsible, Genuine.

We are seeking experienced Full Stack Engineers with a strong background in Java and React, and deep exposure to Equity Derivatives products, to build bespoke, business-critical trading and structuring solutions.

This is a front-office aligned role, with engineers embedded directly on the trading floor, working side-by-side with traders and quants to deliver low-latency, high-impact systems across both flow and structured/exotic derivatives.

This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy operating close to the business, taking ownership of features across the full technology stack, and contributing in a fast-paced, iterative front-office environment.

The role:

• Design and develop bespoke front-office applications supporting Equity Derivatives trading and structuring

• Deliver full-stack functionality, spanning:

  • Backend services and APIs

  • Event-driven components

  • Real-time user interfaces for traders

• Work closely with traders, quants, and fellow technologists to translate trading requirements into robust production solutions

• Contribute to the evolution of scalable, low-latency architectures supporting flow and structured/exotic derivatives

• Take ownership of features from design through to deployment and production support

• Operate effectively in a trading floor environment, responding quickly to feedback and change

Key Skills and Experience:

• Strong full-stack engineering background

• 5+ years’ experience in a strongly typed language such as Java or C#

• Commercial experience with React building complex, data-driven UIs

• Around 1+ year of professional Python experience (in addition to Java/C# background)

• Experience building and supporting production-grade systems in demanding environments

• Strong full-stack engineering background

• 5+ years’ experience in a strongly typed language such as Java or C#

• Commercial experience with React building complex, data-driven UIs

• Around 1+ year of professional Python experience (in addition to Java/C# background)

• Experience building and supporting production-grade systems in demanding environments

• Comfortable working as a polyglot engineer, owning features end to end

Note: This role favors engineers with a strong enterprise language foundation (Java/C#) combined with Python, rather than Python-only profiles.

Our people

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle.

We pride ourselves on;

• Providing our people with a supportive culture, rooted in our values and driven by our purpose.

• Promoting a culture of inclusion, collaboration, well-being, and learning and development.

• Providing increased agility and flexibility within our hybrid working model

• Investing in employees’ growth through ongoing training and development

• Autonomy to take ownership of projects, making decisions and demonstrating individual expertise

• Providing an transparent performance and career management experience.

Our consultants are integral to delivering successful consulting engagements, addressing our clients’ most pressing business challenges, and build lasting value in disciplines such as:

• Solve sophisticated, ambiguous business, change and technology problems, bringing structure and meticulous analysis and planning, acting, and taking decisions with little strategic direction

• Build, develop and sustain trusted senior client relationships in the C-suite by remaining highly attuned to client needs

• Drive, enable and support the business, partnering with our leaders, clients, and consultants across our practices to take the best of emagine to our clients through opportunity identification/qualification, solution development/presentation

Interested?

At emagine, we are committed to building an international and diverse team by embracing our different backgrounds.

If you are up to the challenge and would like to find out more, get in touch with us immediately, our internal recruitment team is always keen to hear from dynamic individuals that are looking to further their career and explore their full potential. 

“emagine is an equal opportunity employer, and employment practices are based strictly on merit. It is the policy of the Company to give equal opportunity in employment regardless of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, religion or ethnic origin”