{"id":715567,"url":"https://alion.io/job/winton-senior-software-engineer-post-trade","title":"Senior Software Engineer, Post-Trade","company":{"id":690062,"name":"Winton","domain":"winton.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/winton-2","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":7,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":83000,"max_usd":165000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":87},"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":".NET","optional":false},{"name":"Angular","optional":false},{"name":"C#","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"MS SQL","optional":false},{"name":"PostgreSQL","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":true},{"name":"Docker","optional":true},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":true},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2025-12-08T12:40:02Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-07-21","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T09:18:00Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":289,"trust":{"level":"stale","repost_count":0,"flags":["stale"],"days_open":289},"description":"About Winton\nWinton is a research-based investment management company with a specialist focus on statistical and mathematical inference in financial markets. The firm researches and trades quantitative investment strategies, which are implemented systematically via thousands of securities, spanning the world's major liquid asset classes. Founded in 1997 by David Harding, Winton today manages assets for some of the world’s largest institutional investors.\nWe employ ambitious professionals who want to work collaboratively at the leading edge of investment management.\nWe are seeking a highly capable Senior Software Engineer to help design, build and evolve resilient, event-driven, cloud-distributed systems. This role is ideal for an engineer who combines deep technical expertise, strong computer science fundamentals, and commercial awareness - someone who not only understands how systems work, but what they are meant to do and why. The role requires a constructive, can-do approach and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced setting.\nYou will work across the full engineering lifecycle from system architecture and data modelling to implementation, testing and operational excellence. You will be encouraged to use modern AI-assisted tooling and continuously improve our platforms, while maintaining a pragmatic balance between innovation and delivery.\nYou will be part of a friendly and collaborative team responsible for post-trade and reporting software development. The role involves working closely with operations, fund accounting, and other teams across the business including senior management - there is no BA layer, you will gather requirements directly from the business, design solutions and own them end-to-end. In addition to project work, you will have regular opportunities to implement enhancements for both business and technology.\nYour responsibilities will include: \nDesign, evolve and maintain distributed, event-driven systems with high reliability, scalability and observability\nContribute to technical strategy and long-term platform direction\nWrite high-quality, efficient and maintainable code with accompanying automated tests and documentation across UI, services and data storage layers\nContinuously improve existing services, libraries and shared components\nEnsure systems are operable, measurable and resilient, including appropriate monitoring, alerting and failure-handling strategies\nWork closely with product and business stakeholders to translate high-level problems into thoughtful technical solutions\nCollaborate with team through active contribution in code reviews, knowledge-sharing and design discussions\nBuild domain knowledge in business and technology areas\nEvaluate new technologies pragmatically\nContribute to CI/CD pipelines, tooling and infrastructure-as-code\nWhat we are looking for:\nA bachelor's or master's degree in a STEM subject\n5+ years of full-time professional software development experience\nProven experience building and maintaining cloud-distributed, event-driven or microservices-based systems written in enterprise-grade backend technologies such as C#/.NET (preferred)\nStrong computer science fundamentals\nExcellent engineering discipline: clean code, meaningful abstractions, test automation, documentation and version control best practice\nNatural curiosity and enthusiastic about using AI-assisted development tools and integrating them into daily workflow\nKeen interest in keeping aware of latest technologies and a measured approach for adopting them\nComfortable problem solving across multiple technologies and business domains\nCollaborative nature and ability to work in a team e.g. partnering with business users and technologists\nAbility to have constructive technical discussions\nWhat would be useful:\nAn interest or experience with Angular and Typescript\nFamiliarity with performance-tuning PostgreSQL and/or MSSQL\nExperience in financial services\nTechnologies we use:\nWeb: Angular, TypeScript\nServer-side: C#\nData: MSSQL, PostgreSQL\nCloud: AWS\nDeployment: Docker, Kubernetes\nEqual Opportunity Workplace\nWe are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. 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