Software Developer - Shared Engineering

About the role

The Shared Engineering team is a platform group responsible for the foundations of the firm's engineering, including alerting, job scheduling, and developer tooling. This role focuses on building tools, services, and libraries that improve developer experience and platform reliability. You will work on initiatives such as CI/CD infrastructure, shared libraries, and the integration of AI coding-assistant tools.

Responsibilities

• Working primarily in Go, build and own platform services and internal tooling end-to-end, from design through to production.
• Improve developer experience by reducing friction in the build/CI/CD path, strengthen shared libraries.
• Help shape how the wider firm adopts AI/coding-assistant tooling safely and effectively, integrating it into workflows and building guardrails and tooling around it.
• Collaborate with the network and Linux engineers to understand what the infrastructure needs in order to scale and be managed, then expose it cleanly in software.
• Mentor and share knowledge, improving teammates' skills and making sure others can maintain and build on the systems you develop.
• Review and raise standards by thoughtful code review, sensible judgement on where to block versus where to let things flow, and a pragmatic sense of the right work to be doing right now.
• Take part in on-call once up-to-speed, troubleshooting problems that span several technical domains across current and legacy infrastructure.

Required skills

• Go
• Software engineering
• Linux
• Build systems
• CI/CD
• Release pipelines

Nice to have

• Developer experience
• AI tooling
• LLMs
• Infrastructure software
• Monitoring
• Alerting
• Container orchestration
• APIs
• Data pipelines
• Infrastructure-as-code

About the Company

XTX Markets is a leading algorithmic trading firm that uses machine learning technology to produce price forecasts for financial instruments worldwide. The firm trades over $250bn a day across 35 countries and maintains a non-hierarchical culture focused on teamwork and excellence.