Marex Group plc (NASDAQ: MRX) is a diversified global financial services platform providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients across energy, commodities and financial markets.
The group provides comprehensive breadth and depth of coverage across four core services: clearing, agency and execution, market making, and hedging and investment solutions. It has a leading franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, with access to 60 exchanges. The group provides access to the world's major commodity markets, covering a broad range of clients that include some of the largest commodity producers, consumers and traders, banks, hedge funds and asset managers. With more than 40 offices worldwide, the group has over 3,000 employees across Europe, Asia and the Americas.
The Technology Department delivers differentiation, scalability and security for the business. Technology provides digital tools, software services and infrastructure globally to all business groups. Software development and support teams work in agile ‘streams' aligned to specific business areas. Our other teams work enterprise-wide to provide critical services including our global service desk, network and system infrastructure, IT operations, security, enterprise architecture and design.
The Software Development function creates and maintains applications, frameworks and other software components to deliver to business requirements. Developers conceive, specify, design, engineer, document, test, and deliver bug fixes as needed to provide high quality software solutions. Each Development team is aligned to one of Marex's business divisions and works with a corresponding Business Technology and Application Support team.
For more information visit www.marex.com (http://www.marex.com/)
Position Reference: VN2844
Role Summary
As a Senior Front End Developer with full stack capability, you will be a pivotal member of our Software Development team in Clearing Technology, driving an AI-first approach to the creation and enhancement of secure, responsive web-based platforms. Marex is a full clearing member of major financial exchanges – across energy, commodities, metals and financial markets.
You will leverage modern AI-assisted development tools and practices to accelerate delivery, improve code quality, and enhance developer productivity, while ensuring solutions meet the high standards of control, auditability, and reliability required within financial systems, including compliance with SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) requirements.
Your expertise in React, TypeScript and modern front-end engineering, combined with working knowledge of server-side technologies (C# .NET or Node.js), will be instrumental in delivering robust, scalable, and well-governed applications. You will maintain a strong emphasis on testing, traceability, and deterministic system behaviour.
Responsibilities:
Essential skills and experience,
- Strong experience in React, JavaScript and TypeScript, including component architecture, state management, and performance optimisation
- Experience building responsive, accessible web applications with modern front-end tooling
- Working experience with at least one server-side technology (C# .NET preferred, or Node.js)
- Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools (e.g. code generation, automated testing, developer productivity tooling) to improve delivery speed and quality
- Strong understanding of applying AI responsibly within the software development lifecycle, ensuring traceability, auditability, and control
- Experience of NoSQL or RDBMS databases
- Modern CI/CD and DevOps practices
- Cloud technology, ideally AWS (Amazon Web Services)
- Knowledge of BDD/TDD
- Agile and scrum development methodologies
- Methodical approach to software architecture and design and experience employing the right design choices for a given project
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Desirable,
- Deeper back-end experience in C# .NET (Web API, Entity Framework) or Node.js
- Infrastructure as Code, Terraform or equivalent
- Understanding of financial products across derivatives, FX, commodities, cash equities or fixed income
- Good knowledge of the post-trade lifecycle, including confirmation/affirmation, allocations, settlement, clearing, collateral and margin, lifecycle events, reconciliations, and exceptions management
- Exposure to embedding AI capabilities into end-user applications (e.g. intelligent workflows, automation, or decision support)
- Experience of SOLID
- Experience of Domain Driven Design
- Experience working in a regulated environment and knowledge of the financial markets
All staff:
- Ensuring compliance with the company's regulatory requirements under the FCA, NFA, AMF, AFM, MAS.
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Adhere to the operational risk framework for your role ensuring that all regulatory or company determined parameters are complied with.
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Role model for demonstrating highest level standards of integrity and conduct and reflecting Company Values.
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At all times complying with the FCA's Code of Conduct
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To ensure that you are fully aware of and adhere to internal policies that relate to you, your role or any other activities for which you have any level of responsibility
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To report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/ or your supervisor as required
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To escalate risk events immediately
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To provide input to risk management processes, as required
Skills, Experience and Competencies
Essential skills and experience:
- Experience in C# .NET, Node.js, React, JavaScript, Typescript
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Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools (e.g. code generation, automated testing, developer productivity tooling) to improve delivery speed and quality
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Strong understanding of applying AI responsibly within the software development lifecycle, ensuring traceability, auditability, and control
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Experience of NoSQL or RDMS databases
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Infrastructure as Code, Terraform or equivalent
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Modern CI/CD and DevOps practices
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Cloud technology, ideally AWS (Amazon Web Services)
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Knowledge of BDD/TDD
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Agile and scrum development methodologies
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Methodical approach to software architecture and design and experience employing the right design choices for a given project
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Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Desirable:
- Understanding of financial products across derivatives, FX, commodities, cash equities or fixed income.
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Good knowledge of the post-trade lifecycle, including confirmation/affirmation, allocations, settlement, clearing, collateral and margin, lifecycle events, reconciliations, and exceptions management.
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Exposure to embedding AI capabilities into end-user applications (e.g. intelligent workflows, automation, or decision support)
- Experience of SOLID
- Experience of Domain Driven Design
- Experience working in a regulated environment and knowledge of the financial markets
Competencies
- A collaborative team player, approachable, self-efficient, and able to foster a positive engineering culture, including adoption of AI-first practices
- Demonstrates curiosity, particularly in emerging technologies, AI capabilities, and continuous improvement of development practices
- Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced, and regulated environment
- Excels at building relationships, networking, and influencing others across both technical and business teams
- Strategic collaborator with insight and agility, able to anticipate future challenges, including those related to scale, regulation, and technology evolution, ensuring operational effectiveness
Conduct Rules, You must:
- Act with integrity
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Act with due skill, care and diligence
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Be open and cooperative with the FCA, the PRA and other regulators
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Pay due regard to the interests of customers and treat them fairly
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Observe proper standard of market conduct
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Act to deliver good outcomes for retail customers
Company Values
Be collaborative - by working together across the organisation, we foster teamwork, can better respond to challenges and successfully deliver for our clients
Act with integrity - we pride ourselves on our honesty and high ethical standards. We apply these values when working with all our clients, colleagues and other stakeholders
Be adaptable and entrepreneurial - we embrace change as markets evolve to constantly increase our efficiency and create innovative solutions for our clients. We are interested in the world around us and inquisitive about understanding the challenges and opportunities our clients face.
Be respectful – how we treat each other, and our clients says everything about who we are. We always act respectfully and treat people fairly in everything we do.
Nurture talent – we aim to grow our own talent and make Marex the place ambitious, hardworking and talented people choose to build their career. This means giving and taking stretch opportunities, taking risks, and committing to career development and support – for ourselves and our teams.
Adaptable and Nimble - Our size and flexibility is an advantage. We are big enough to support our client's various needs, and adaptable and nimble enough to respond quickly to changing conditions or requirements. A non-bureaucratic, but well controlled environment fosters initiative as well as employee satisfaction.
Marex is fully committed to being an inclusive employer and providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all. We will provide reasonable adjustments to remove any disadvantage to you being considered for this role. We value the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the company. We welcome applications from candidates returning to the workforce. Also, Marex is committed to avoiding circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process.
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