Senior Full Stack Engineer (Java + React)

Company: Luxoft
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

In this role you will contribute to a multi-year transformation to modernize Prime Finance Equities platforms. You’ll build full-stack, cloud-native, event-driven trading and post-trade systems, working in a production-focused environment. You will collaborate with stakeholders to deliver real-time, client-facing features and mentor peers while upholding engineering excellence. This is a hands-on opportunity to shape scalable architectures in capital markets and drive impactful, production-ready solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop and support full-stack solutions across frontend and backend
  • Build and enhance event-driven trading and post-trade applications
  • Contribute to architecture and technical design decisions
  • Develop responsive real-time user interfaces for equities platforms
  • Implement and maintain APIs, messaging integrations, and backend services
  • Ensure high code quality through Test-Driven Development (TDD)
  • Participate in CI/CD practices, trunk-based development, and frequent production releases
  • Troubleshoot production issues and maintain data integrity in complex market environments
  • Collaborate with business stakeholders, product teams, and engineering peers
  • Apply capital markets domain expertise to solve business and technical problems
  • Mentor team members and contribute to engineering best practices

Key requirements

  • 7+ years of Java development experience
  • 2+ years of frontend development experience with React and/or Angular
  • Hands-on experience in capital markets, including trade lifecycle and position management
  • Kotlin experience is preferable or willingness to learn Kotlin
  • Strong JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS skills
  • Proven experience designing and developing event-driven distributed systems
  • Hands-on experience with messaging patterns, event processing, resiliency, and failure handling
  • Strong TDD practices and end-to-end ownership of software quality
  • Experience with Agile environments, CI/CD, trunk-based development, and frequent production releases
  • Experience building real-time applications using WebSockets or streaming technologies
  • Ability to contribute to architectural discussions and operate independently in complex production environments
  • Collaborates closely with cross-functional teams
  • Mentors and shares engineering best practices
  • Strong problem-solving under pressure in production environments
  • Java
  • React
  • Angular

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Posted: October 4th, 2026