Senior Full Stack Developer, CMC Markets
5 days a week in office
Online trading platform
Open for applications
Online trading platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To use the latest tech and tools to give our customers the very best trading experience.
Role
Who you are
- If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact in the investment world and contributing to a fast-growing, innovative venture, then this is the place for you
- Fluency in the following technologies: TypeScript, Python, and AWS (including Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, etc.)
- Good to have: React, Next.js (with Vercel) as well
- Hands-on experience in installing, modifying, handling, and monitoring CI/CD pipeline tools
- Experience in mobile development, particularly with Flutter, is highly valuable
- Familiarity with setting up and working with AI models in AWS is a plus
- Experience within Financial Services, Capital Markets, Fintech or similar
- Familiarity with product and design lifecycles, and collaborating closely with designers, engineers, and product managers
- Experience working with frontend consumers and optimising performance
- Experience contributing and working with shared code libraries
- Passion for helping users succeed in their goals through the features you build
- Strong communication skills and an ability to take ownership of tasks and gather requirements
- Ability to solve complex coding challenges around performance and reusability while continuously improving code quality with a TDD approach
- An interest in learning new skills and collaborating on new technologies
What the job involves
- A excellent opportunity for someone with hands on experience coding in AWS Serverless, Python, TypeScript and ideally Flutter
- This role will be part of our Wealth Management team, and working on an exciting internal start-up wholly owned by CMC. Launched in the USA just six months ago, the platform stands out with its unique offering: 'Folios' — self-directed funds with automated rebalancing
- Lead the development of new features for our core product and AI offering, working across both frontend and backend, and collaborating closely with a product manager to deliver impactful solutions
- Design and deploy APIs in AWS that meet agreed interface contracts, ensuring seamless integration and performance
- Collaborate on system design by reviewing prototypes and working with frontend and downstream developers to define API contracts
- Evaluate new technologies to identify opportunities for improving customer value and user experience
- Monitor and optimize APIs, addressing issues quickly to maintain high performance
- Contribute to our build-and-run team, joining our on-call rota to help ensure the product performs at its best around the clock
- Create thorough documentation to support knowledge sharing and team collaboration
- Present your work to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, sharing progress and outcomes
- Refine customer journeys and contribute to defining requirements for new features
- Collaborate with product and design teams to create high-fidelity prototypes of potential new functionality
- Manage your own tasks, ensuring boards are up to date and participating in stand-ups to keep the team aligned
Salary benchmarks
Our take
CMC Markets is a global provider of online retail financial services. The company enables users to trade financial instruments through its award-winning next-generation trading platform, allowing them to access various tools such as technical analysis, price projection, and forums.
CMC Markets stands out through its business model - the company aims to focus on client service in order to attract new clients and maintain a high retention rate. The market confirms the success of its strategy, with a large percentage of its revenue generated by clients who have been with the company for more than 2 years. The company is also highly rated for its client satisfaction, and sets out to educate its audience on CFD, forex and share trading, frequently hosting webinars, events, and online courses.
CMC Markets' focus appears to be on continuing to invest in new technologies and customer service, in order to support its expanding client base. For example the launch of the “Plus Plan” account for its stock trading platform, CMC Invest, means investors can now open ISAs through CMC, adding more flexibility for users to make choices for their own investment journey.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
20% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Pension: 9% = 5% company contribution and 4% self-contribution -CMC Markets will match up to 7%
- Life Assurance: 4 x salary
- Health Insurance provided through Vitality
- Income Protection
- Holiday: 25 days - per calendar year + additional day off for your birthday
- Breakfast provided for office days
- Discretionary Bonus
Company values
- Put our clients first - Our business is built around our clients - we're proud to have long-lasting relationships by understanding and supporting them every step of the way.
- Lead with quality - Our commitment to quality is at the heart of our culture. Whatever we do, we do it properly. When faced with the choice, we always prioritise quality over quantity.
- Set the standards - We're clear, open and honest with our clients, and with each other. We don't wait for others, but set the standards for others to follow.
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Lord Peter Cruddas
(CEO)Previously worked in the foreign currency trading department of various banks, including the Bank of Iran and Marine Midland.
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