Senior Java Engineer, IG Group
Site Reliability Engineer
£90-100k
12% Flexible Benefits on top of base pay and discretionary bonus.
3 days a week in office (Cannon Street, London)
The UK's No.1 trading provider
Open for applications
The UK's No.1 trading provider
1001+ employees
Open for applications
£90-100k
12% Flexible Benefits on top of base pay and discretionary bonus.
3 days a week in office (Cannon Street, London)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To power the pursuit of financial freedom for the ambitious.
Role
Who you are
- Strong Java development experience with a deep understanding of JVM internals and performance tuning
- Hands-on expertise with message brokers (ActiveMQ, Kafka or similar) in production environments
- Proven experience with containerization and orchestration (Nomad would be an advantage)
- Practical knowledge of OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing concepts
- Solid understanding of reliability patterns, circuit breakers, and fault tolerance
- Experience in high-throughput, low-latency production environments
- Track record of improving system reliability and performance at scale
- Experience with continuous delivery and DevOps practices
- Strong troubleshooting skills in distributed systems
- Background in financial services or similar mission-critical domains (preferred)
- Systems thinking approach to problem-solving
- Strong communication skills for cross-team collaboration
- Ability to balance development and operational responsibilities
- Passion for automation and eliminating toil
What the job involves
- The SRE Team comprises highly skilled software engineers dedicated to embedding performance and reliability into IG's trading platform
- You'll work with cutting-edge distributed systems handling high-throughput, low-latency trading operations that demand zero downtime
- As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you'll champion reliability patterns, performance optimisation, and operational excellence across our trading platform infrastructure
- As a Senior SRE, you'll balance your passion for both software development and reliability engineering, applying engineering discipline to solve operational challenges at scale
- You'll collaborate closely with development teams as a trusted advisor, influencing system design, establishing reliability standards, and driving quality improvements across the platform
- Your role dynamically shifts between hands-on coding—building tools, automation, and infrastructure—and incident response, performance optimisation, and operational excellence
- Implement comprehensive monitoring and observability using OpenTelemetry standards
- Identify single points of failure in distributed systems
- Analyse system performance across OS and network layers, identifying resource utilisation patterns and bottlenecks to optimise efficiency
- Define and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for critical trading services
- Partner with development teams on system design, capacity planning, and architectural reviews
- Provide technical guidance and hands-on support to help development teams transition their applications from traditional deployment models to containerised infrastructure
- Lead incident response efforts and conduct blameless postmortems
- Optimise message-driven systems by ensuring reliable event streaming and asynchronous communication patterns
- Scale systems through automation and infrastructure-as-code practices
- Write clean, maintainable code following industry best practices and design patterns
- Apply software engineering best practices, including version control, code reviews, and testing strategies
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Founded in 1974 by Stuart Wheeler as a UK-based spread betting company for gold, IG Group, abbreviated from Investors Gold Index, was initially set up to allow people to speculate and trade on the price change of gold without owning physical gold. And in the year 2000, it was listed on the London Stock Exchange and its gradual evolution into the world of fintech began.
By 2011, the company had played a part in numerous international buyouts before narrowing its focus down to financial wagers. During the latter half of that decade, IG shut down its binary options trading platform and focused instead on building an investment portfolio with partner BlackRock Investments, all whilst maintaining its Forex and CFD trading processes. Since then, it has become a fast-paced market leader in the investment space.
In recent years, IG Group has developed major platforms for various trading actions and has grown profit and revenue significantly. Alongside this it has acquired a number of companies, including tastytrade and Freetrade, and launched its own crypto product, making it the first UK-listed company to launch crypto trading to retail investors. This further proves how much of a staple IG Group is in the world of financial trading.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company values
- Think big
- Deliver at pace
- Raise the bar
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Breon Corcoran
(Group CEO)Joined IG Group as CEO in January 2024. Prior to this, they were the CEO of WorldRemit and a Non-Executive Director at Tilney Group.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at IG Group
- Employee-led LGBTQ+, Women’s, Black and Parents & Carers networks with an annual budget for organising events & projects that foster an open, diverse and inclusive culture.
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