City of London
Permanent, Full-time - Onsite
Who we are
We are an energy trading company generating liquidity across global commodities markets. We combine deep trading expertise with proprietary technology and the power of data science to be the best-in-class. Our understanding of volatile, data-intensive markets is a key part of our edge.
At Dare, you will be joining a team of ambitious individuals who challenge themselves and each other. We have a culture of empowering exceptional people to become the best version of themselves.
The Role
Working within the Software Engineering team at Dare, you will join a group responsible for building and evolving the firm’s proprietary trading and risk platforms. These systems sit at the core of business, supporting real-time pricing, risk management, analytics and execution across volatile markets.
We are looking for strong Full-Stack Engineers who are comfortable working across the entire product stack — from user-facing interfaces, through backend services, and data layers. You will be expected to take end-to-end ownership of features, contribute to system design to drive and deliver high-quality, real-time actionable insights to our trade floor. Working with our existing cross-functional teams, you will help transform our technical deliverables that support our activity on the trading floor, involving designing, implementing, and maintaining reliability and resiliency of complex applications.
This is a role for engineers who want to be trusted with meaningful stack responsibility, rather than being confined to a single slice of the stack with ownership of second line reliability support and incident management. At senior levels, the role naturally expands to include architectural influence, technical leadership, and raising the engineering bar.
As part of your role, you will:
Design, build, and own end-to-end features spanning frontend UI, backend services, and data/storage layers.
Develop and maintain user-facing applications using modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g. React or similar).
Build backend APIs and services using a modern backend stack (e.g. Python, Go, Java, or similar).
Contribute to system architecture and technical design discussions, with an emphasis on robustness, scalability, reliability and clarity.
Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code across multiple layers of the stack.
Collaborate with end users, senior management, and other engineers to deliver customer value.
Debug and resolve issues across the full system, from UI to infrastructure.
Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes as the team scales.
Participate in on-call rotations, including nights for ICE market opening hours, 2nd line support to front-office trading desk, improving application resiliency, reliability, incident management, and application improvement to meet SLOs and monitoring altering for SLIs.
Ability to leverage AI to develop and deliver solutions and rapid velocity.
What You’ll Bring
Strong experience as a Full Stack Engineer or in roles covering both frontend and backend responsibilities.
Solid frontend experience with React or a comparable modern JavaScript framework such as Angular.
Solid backend experience with at least one modern language/framework (Python, Go, Java, etc.).
Experience building and consuming APIs and Real-time data (REST, gRPC, NATS, AMPS, KAFKA or similar).
Good understanding of data models, persistence, and data access patterns.
Strong systems thinking and ability to reason about trade-offs across the stack.
Ability to independently deliver features from concept to production.
Drive and passion to deliver business value at a high velocity.
Trading or Financial Services experience.
Desirable
Experience in trading systems, data-heavy platforms, or real-time / low-latency environments. However, strong fundamentals, sound engineering judgment, and the ability to learn quickly are valued more highly than domain-specific experience.
Exposure to distributed systems, event-driven architectures, or streaming data.
Experience working in high-scale or high-reliability systems.
Benefits & perks
Competitive salary
Vitality health insurance and dental cover
38 days of holiday (including bank holidays)
Pension scheme
Annual Bluecrest health checks
A personal learning & development budget of £5000
Free gym membership
Specsavers vouchers
Enhanced family leave
Cycle to Work scheme
Credited Deliveroo dinner account
Office massage therapy
Freshly served office breakfast twice a week
Fully stocked fridge and pantry
Social events and a games room
Diversity matters
We believe in a workplace where our people can fulfil their potential, whatever their background or whomever they are. We celebrate the breadth of experience and see this as critical to problem-solving and to Dare thriving as a business. Our culture rewards curiosity and drive, so the best ideas triumph and everyone here can make an impact.
Please let us know ahead of the interview and testing processes if you require any reasonable adjustments or assistance during the application process.
We’re also proud to be certified a ‘Great Place to Work’.
