Senior Market Connectivity Software Engineer – VP

Barclays • New York, NY

8d • $170,000 - $230,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Embark on a transformative journey as a Senior Market Connectivity Software Engineer – VP at Barclays. At Barclays, our vision is clear – to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. You will join a cross-asset engineering team responsible for developing Exchange Connectivity applications supporting multiple business areas. These applications are built on a distributed Java platform designed to deliver low-latency, high-throughput message processing. The role sits within a regionally distributed development team delivering both technical and business-driven solutions, with close collaboration across global teams including London and Prague.

Requirements

• Developing low-latency trading applications using Core Java and/or C++ in Linux environments
• Multithreading, memory management, caching, networking, distributed systems, and performance-oriented system design
• Financial systems supporting trading, risk, middle office, or related services, with exposure to client or market connectivity and order management preferred
• Mentoring and guiding junior engineers within a collaborative development environment
• Communicating effectively with technical and business stakeholders across region

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of financial messaging protocols such as FIX, OUCH, or Millennium
• Experience with network engineering or platform engineering concepts
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and container technologies
• Exposure to ML or AI tools within engineering environments

Responsibilities

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools.
• Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.
• Contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change.
• Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes.
• They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.
• For an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction.
• They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments.
• They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
• In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

Benefits

• The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed