Full Stack Engineer

City of London

Permanent, Full-time - Onsite

Who we are

We are an energy trading company generating liquidity across global commodities markets. We combine deep trading expertise with proprietary technology and the power of data science to be the best-in-class. Our understanding of volatile, data-intensive markets is a key part of our edge.

At Dare, you will be joining a team of ambitious individuals who challenge themselves and each other. We have a culture of empowering exceptional people to become the best version of themselves.

The Role

Working within the Software Engineering team at Dare, you will join a group responsible for building and evolving the firm’s proprietary trading and risk platforms. These systems sit at the core of business, supporting real-time pricing, risk management, analytics and execution across volatile markets.

We are looking for strong Full-Stack Engineers who are comfortable working across the entire product stack — from user-facing interfaces, through backend services, and data layers. You will be expected to take end-to-end ownership of features, contribute to system design to drive and deliver high-quality, real-time actionable insights to our trade floor. Working with our existing cross-functional teams, you will help transform our technical deliverables that support our activity on the trading floor, involving designing, implementing, and maintaining complex applications.

This is a role for engineers who want to be trusted with meaningful stack responsibility, rather than being confined to a single slice of the stack. At senior levels, the role naturally expands to include architectural influence, technical leadership, and raising the engineering bar.

As part of your role, you will:

1. Design, build, and own end-to-end features spanning frontend UI, backend services, and data/storage layers.
2. Develop and maintain user-facing applications using modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g. React or similar).
3. Build backend APIs and services using a modern backend stack (e.g. Python, Go, Java, or similar).
4. Contribute to system architecture and technical design discussions, with an emphasis on robustness, scalability, reliability and clarity.
5. Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code across multiple layers of the stack.
6. Collaborate with end users, senior management, and other engineers to deliver customer value.
7. Debug and resolve issues across the full system, from UI to infrastructure.
8. Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes as the team scales.
9. Participate in on-call rotations, including nights for ICE market opening hours, 2nd line support to front-office trading desk, incident management and triage.

What You’ll Bring

1. Strong experience as a Full Stack Engineer or in roles covering both frontend and backend responsibilities.
2. Solid frontend experience with React or a comparable modern JavaScript framework such as Angular.
3. Solid backend experience with at least one modern language/framework (Python, Go, Java, etc.).
4. Experience building and consuming APIs and Real-time data (REST, gRPC, NATS, AMPS, KAFKA or similar).
5. Good understanding of data models, persistence, and data access patterns.
6. Strong systems thinking and ability to reason about trade-offs across the stack.
7. Ability to independently deliver features from concept to production.
8. Drive and passion to deliver business value at a high velocity.
9. Trading or Financial Services experience.

Desirable

1. Experience in trading systems, data-heavy platforms, or real-time / low-latency environments. However, strong fundamentals, sound engineering judgment, and the ability to learn quickly are valued more highly than domain-specific experience.
2. Exposure to distributed systems, event-driven architectures, or streaming data.
3. Experience working in high-scale or high-reliability systems.

Benefits & perks

1. Competitive salary
2. Vitality health insurance and dental cover
3. 38 days of holiday (including bank holidays)
4. Pension scheme
5. Annual Bluecrest health checks
6. A personal learning & development budget of £5000
7. Free gym membership
8. Specsavers vouchers
9. Enhanced family leave
10. Cycle to Work scheme
11. Credited Deliveroo dinner account
12. Office massage therapy
13. Freshly served office breakfast twice a week
14. Fully stocked fridge and pantry
15. Social events and a games room

Diversity matters

We believe in a workplace where our people can fulfil their potential, whatever their background or whomever they are. We celebrate the breadth of experience and see this as critical to problem-solving and to Dare thriving as a business. Our culture rewards curiosity and drive, so the best ideas triumph and everyone here can make an impact.

Please let us know ahead of the interview and testing processes if you require any reasonable adjustments or assistance during the application process.