Senior Software Engineer

London

Senior Software Engineer - London

About Elwood

Elwood Technologies is a FCA regulated firm that provides end-to-end institutional-grade digital asset Execution, Liquidity Access and Portfolio Monitoring & Risk Management Software. Built with institutions for institutions, Elwood’s EMS offers best available price execution, smart order routing and algorithmic tooling alongside a traditional finance grade Portfolio Management System.

Built by industry experts with decades of combined experience in investment management and digital technology, we are now looking for a Senior Software Engineer to collaborate closely with our Engineering Team and help drive our products to the next level.

Job Description

Elwood is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Engineering Team where you will contribute to the design, development and analytical requirements of the Trading Platform whilst working closely with the Product Team.

• Develop and enhance our trading platform adding new features and capacities
• Working as a member of the Elwood Engineering team to ensure consistency across the instances and broader client build road map
• Implementing and optimising execution and algorithmic trading strategies
• Building new services to meet critical product and business needs using Golang
• Building features that help customers collaborate on asset management
• Working with engineers, designers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter
• Monitoring and support of all production system components (trading algorithms, exchange connectivity, analytics, market data)
• Enhancing our platform for low latency/high frequency trading
• Maintaining a strong foundation of testing to avoid regressions.

Qualifications / Knowledge

• 3+ years experience in a similar role
• Extensive knowledge working with data processing/Financial market data knowledge
• AI collaboration using Cursor, Copilot or equivalent
• Some familiarity with commonly used execution algorithms — such as VWAP, TWAP, POV
• Built systems in event-driven or streaming architectures using systems such as NATS/Aeron
• Experience of building systems around transaction cost analysis (TCA)
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance
• Understanding of order pricing and routing
• Strong experience developing large-scale concurrent, event-driven distributed systems
• FIX protocol
• Golang experience or other structured languages (C#, C++, Java)
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance
• POSIX-oriented, Serverless Architecture, Public cloud experience GCP/AWS
• PostgreSQL or other RDBMS
• Experience in development and supporting trading systems (Desirable)
• Understanding of financial markets, crypto markets and products (Desirable)

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and compensation packages
• Fully paid medical and discounted dental schemes for employees and their family
• Generous time off + bank holidays
• Enhanced parental leave for all employees who have been with the company for one (1) year
• Fully stocked kitchen and access to Ubereats
• Discounted gym scheme with Fitness First
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Paid study leave and personal leave

Why Elwood?

• Join a FinTech startup with tier 1 institutional backing and a strong market presence.
• Help shape the future of finance - our platform is enabling institutional access to digital assets.
• Work with a modern technology stack and help solve complex problems.
• Strong client focused team with a diverse background.
• We’re a Global company and have modern offices based centrally in London, New York and Singapore.