Principal Software Engineer

6 months initial contract with planned extensions

We're seeking an experienced Senior / Lead Software Engineer to join a strategic xVA technology team supporting critical pricing, counterparty credit risk and regulatory capital calculations across global derivatives portfolios.

50% hands on coding , 50% managerial

Key Skills & Experience

• Strong Java development background within enterprise-scale environments
• Expertise in Spring, Hibernate, JPA and REST APIs
• Experience working across both monolithic and microservices architectures
• Advanced SQL and PostgreSQL skills
• Distributed systems design, performance optimisation and scalability
• Technical leadership, architecture design and mentoring responsibilities
• Experience partnering with Front Office, Risk, Finance or Trading stakeholders
• Cloud exposure, ideally Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• CI/CD, automation and platform modernisation experience

Highly Desirable

• xVA knowledge including CVA, FVA, KVA and MVA
• Regulatory capital and margin frameworks (SA-CVA, BA-CVA, SIMM)
• JMS, TIBCO EMS or event-driven architectures
• Drools rules engine experience