Sr. Backend Software Engineer

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Precompute team within our Core Product Engineering organization.

Our team is focused on building high-performance data and compute infrastructure that powers large-scale analytics, APIs, and downstream product experiences for our global customer base of Financial Advisors and Wealth Managers.

We partner closely with a world-class team of engineers, designers, and product managers, and put system performance, scalability, and reliability at the forefront of every initiative.

Our platform is rapidly evolving to support increasingly complex workloads, and as we modernize our architecture, we are enabling new capabilities through high-throughput data pipelines, efficient compute primitives, and flexible APIs. We pride ourselves on delivering robust, scalable, and highly performant systems.

The Precompute team builds and operates the foundational computation layer that accelerates financial analytics across the platform, with a strong emphasis on vectorisation, parallelism, and distributed processing. Our systems form the backbone of how data is processed and served at scale.

Applicants must have, and maintain, the right to work in the United Kingdom from the first day of employment. Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

What You’ll Do

• Develop and implement core computation and data processing capabilities that align with our product vision within a multi-functional team
• Enhance the performance and scalability of our computation platform, processing large volumes of financial data efficiently across distributed systems
• Design and build systems that leverage vectorised execution, parallelism, and elastic infrastructure to optimise throughput and latency
• Collaborate on architecture designs, performance strategies, and system-level optimisations
• Own software features from inception through delivery, with a focus on reliability and efficiency at scale

Who You Are

• Extensive experience as a Software Engineer
• Experience with server-side languages like Java, Python, or C++
• Experience working with data-intensive systems and relational databases (MySQL, Postgres, SQL Server)
• Ability to complete complex projects involving partners across multiple teams
• Strong understanding of performance, scalability, and distributed systems concepts
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Bonus: Experience working with large-scale distributed or data processing systems
• Bonus: Experience with high-performance computing concepts such as vectorisation, parallel execution, or batch/stream processing systems
• Bonus: Experience with DuckDB