Production Engineer - London- Global Prime Brokerage & Financing Platform

Exciting opportunity at one of the fastest growing financial services firms around the world. They offer prime brokerage, clearing and financing across traditional and digital assets, and are now looking to hire world-class engineers to help build on their success.

This is a unique role, blending Level-1 support responsibilities with advanced DevOps engineering tasks, ensuring robust operational efficiency and technical excellence.

The successful Production Engineer will have outstanding communication skills, a collaborative, customer-focused mindset and be passionate about continuous learning & enhancing team capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Provide production environment support, quickly diagnosing and resolving problems (offline & real-time) and keeping internal customers informed
• Design, develop & maintain advanced reconciliation applications, ensuring consistency across digital & traditional finance trade-capture processes
• Develop monitoring dashboards and alerts using DataDog, Grafana (or similar) to proactively identify and address production issues, including end-to-end system latency
• Build tooling & monitoring solutions to facilitate comprehensive post-release validation
• You will be the incident coordinator for operational incidents on the core engineering production platform (tech comms, uphold best practices, post-incident follow-up, etc.)

Skills & Experience Required

• 5+ years' experience in L1 Support, DevOps, SRE (or similar roles), ideally in fintech environments
• Proven experience designing and implementing monitoring and alerting tools (DataDog, Grafana)
• Strong understanding of and experience troubleshooting REST APIs and WebSockets
• Proven track record of handling multiple priorities effectively and ability to deal with ambiguity
• Experience with incident response protocols
• Strong technical expertise with Python, Unix, PostgreSQL
• Knowledge of Kafka, CockroachDB, FastAPI, GraphQL, Snowflake, Redis, and QuestDB (or equivalent)
• Strong experience with automation and reconciliation processes

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Contact
If you feel you are suitable for this role, drop me an email or give me a call:

Jack Peck
[e] [email protected]
[t] +44 20 3745 6537
linkedin.com/in/jack-peck-448a70131