Senior Software Engineer

Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets.

Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 700 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland and beyond.

The Role

This is a great opportunity to join the Fastmarkets Software Engineering Team to help continue grow our technology working alongside highly skilled colleagues enabling us to accelerate our product delivery and scale our business. This team develop, enhance and support our flagship digital platform, serving global customers with critical price data, news and analytics in the commodities markets we serve. We make this data and intelligence easily accessible through multiple channels including web, desktop, API, Excel and mobile applications, enabling customers to integrate our digital offering into their business workflows.

In this hands-on role, you will be a senior member of a globally distributed Agile team reporting to the Engineering Manager. In this technical role, the Engineer will be working as part of a global team of Software Engineers, Business Analysts and Product Managers to successfully develop and deliver new features. This includes contributing to major projects that make a difference to Fastmarkets customers both in our existing markets such as metals, forest products and agricultural commodity sectors.

Working closely alongside the Digital Product team, the Engineer will be principally working within an expert group with a focus on the search functionality across our digital platform. There will also be opportunities to develop a wider knowledge across all dimensions of the Fastmarkets platform, enabling them to be equipped with both business and technical expertise to tackle Fastmarkets’ most exciting business challenges.

Our technical stack is .NET, GraphDB and Elastic Search and our cloud infrastructure is Azure and we seek to use the latest and greatest relevant technologies in our work.

Fastmarkets is also widely adopting AI-assisted practices and tooling (Anthropic Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, CodeRabbit etc.) to aid our skilled engineering and product teams accelerate and enhance delivery throughout the product delivery lifecycle.

Principal Accountabilities

Software Design and Development

• Implementation of technical solutions for new features and product enhancements

• Adhere to sound software engineering design principles; design patterns, SOLID code etc.
• Ensuring solutions are developed to be scalable, flexible, resilient and secure
• Support the ongoing maintenance of existing Fastmarkets software
• Use of AI-assisted development tools as part of the standard workflow to accelerate implementation and testing, while retaining full ownership of design decisions and code quality

Quality Management

• Ensure code is well structured, clean, readable, testable, and efficiently written
• Ensure code is reviewed, engineering standards are maintained and strive to continually drive standards up
• Ensure appropriate automated and manual tests for new features are designed and implemented
• Ensure appropriate documentation is maintained

Leadership and Collaboration

• Showing initiative and drive for continuous improvement of systems and processes
• Participating in and contributing to team meetings and stand ups, bring in new ideas
• Working collaboratively with other engineers, product developers and business analysts
• Helping to resolve support issues where appropriate

KEY INTERFACES

• Engineering Manager
• Software Engineering Team
• Product Owners / Product Management
• Cloud Engineering and SRE
• Enterprise Architect

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.

If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on.

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.

Key Experience / Qualifications

A successful candidate will have:

• Strong experience with .NET /C#
• Solid understanding of concurrent programming
• Strong experience with GraphDB
• Strong experience with Elastic Search
• Strong grasp of OOP, concurrency, distributed and cloud computing concepts
• Experience of unit testing, continuous integration/deployment and test automation
• Strong communicator in English: able to read/write documentation effectively and has good verbal communication skills
• Familiarity with messaging technologies, e.g. Service Bus
• Experience with distributed systems, REST, and SOA
• Experience using AI coding tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Claude Code) to enhance and accelerate software development

Personal Attributes

• Deeply technical
• Continuously looking for ways to improve (yourself, your team, the code the processes)
• Strategic thinker with the ability to execute and deliver in a fast-paced environment
• Highly collaborative and able to work across multiple teams and geographies
• Results-driven, with a focus on long-term value creation

If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.

Our Values

Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common - and they form our Fastmarkets values.

Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do. Our values are:

• METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance
• ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
• GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
• INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
• CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
• COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.

We are committed to ensuring all candidates feel welcomed and supported. Should your application advance and you require accommodations for the interview process, please inform us so we can make the necessary arrangements.

Reward and benefits at Fastmarkets

We believe in fair pay and benefits that support you both inside and outside of work. Through Fastmarkets Rewards, you'll have access to a range of core benefits and a flexible allowance, giving you the freedom to tailor your package to suit your lifestyle, wellbeing and financial priorities. We know that everyone's needs are different, so we've designed our benefits to support our diverse global team wherever they're based.

Specific benefits may vary by country and role.

You’ve read a little about us - now it’s over to you!

If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day.

It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great.