Software Engineering / Technology

Job Title: Software Engineer #### Location: London/Hybrid. Type: Full-time
#### Level: Mid Level Reports to: Rust Engineering Lead
About Elwood Elwood Technologies is a FCA regulated firm that provides end-to-end digital asset Execution Management, and Risk Management Software to institutional clients. We are now looking for a Software Engineer to work on our EMS platform within the Engineering Team .
Job Description We are seeking a highly skilled Software Engineer to join our team responsible for designing, building, and optimising a next-generation multi-region, multi-tenanted Execution Management System (EMS) platform.
The ideal candidate will have experience building concurrent, performance sensitive systems where correctness and high availability are maintained across multiple regions to meet the stringent demands of our global trading customers.
Platform Development: Design and implement low-latency, high-throughput systems for a multi-region, multi-tenanted EMS platform, ensuring compliance with industry standards.
Analyse and optimise critical paths in the system to reduce latency and improve performance.
Maintain distributed, fault-tolerant systems with high availability across multiple regions, ensuring data consistency and low-latency communication.
Monitoring & Observability: Implement real-time monitoring, telemetry and alerting systems for proactive issue detection and resolution.
Collaboration: Work closely with product, QA and infrastructure teams to align technical solutions with business requirements and ensure seamless deployments.
Review teammates' code with rigour and help raise the team's collective standard.
AI-Assisted Development: Use AI coding assistants heavily and critically - catching what they get wrong is part of the job.
3+ years professional backend engineering, including concurrent, performance sensitive systems.

• C++ or Go experience is a plus.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure) and tools for multi-region deployments .
• A working knowledge of databases and caches (PostgreSQL, SQLite, Redis, Zookeeper).
• Financial Services experience is desired along with a background in trading/EMS platforms.

Fully paid medical and discounted dental schemes for employees and their family
✈️ Generous time off + bank holidays
Paid study leave and personal leave
Join a series A FinTech company and help shape the future of finance
A startup with deep financial backing and a strong market presence
Our platform is enabling institutional access to the most exciting growth opportunity in Finance
Work with a modern technology stack and help solve high impact problems