Software Engineer (Hybrid)

Fastmarkets is an independent commodity pricing and information organisation with over 600 staff. We are fuelled by values that bring us all together and are united by a collective passion to make a difference. We are supported by a working model that is based on a hybrid approach that allows each of us to balance home and office working while encouraging effective collaboration and accountability.

Fastmarkets is the most trusted Price Reporting Agency (PRA) in the metals, mining, agriculture, forest products, and energy transition markets. Our price data, forecasts, and market analyses give our customers strategic advantage in complex, volatile, often opaque markets. Our events provide forums for market participants to come together, trade, and talk through the critical issues of our times.

We are making a difference. Fastmarkets works to create transparent commodity markets through our reliable and trusted price data and market intelligence. The markets we serve are central to how economies work and are essential for our lives. By doing this, Fastmarkets helps our customers build a more sustainable world. We are built on a 130-year foundation while bringing a digital platform to market, combining the currency of trust with the power of digital.

Most importantly, we are fuelled by our teams that, across the globe, make the amazing possible. With a deep sense of purpose and belonging, we are building an extraordinary future – together. If you would like to help build the future, we hope you will join us on our journey.

Fastmarkets is owned by global private equity firm Astorg, a specialist investor in healthcare, software, technology, business services and technology-based industrial companies.

The Role

This is a unique opportunity to join the Fastmarkets Technology Team to help continue grow our technology and build a highly skilled team that will enable us to accelerate our product delivery and scale our business. The Technology team at Fastmarkets develop, enhance and support our flagship digital platform, serving global customers with critical data, news and analytics in the commodities markets we serve. We make this data and intelligence easily accessible though multiple channels including web, desktop, API, Excel and mobile iOS and Android applications, enabling customers to integrate our digital offering into their business workflows.

The Software Engineer is a full-time position working within a Scrum team reporting to the Engineering Manager. In this technical role, the Engineer will be primarily responsible for developing Fastmarket’s Identity and Access Management solutions and will be working as part of a global a team of Software Engineers, Business Analysts and Product Managers to develop and deliver new features. This includes contributing to major projects that make a difference to Fastmarkets customers both in our existing markets such as metals, forest products and agricultural commodity sectors.

Working closely alongside the Digital Product team, the Engineer will be principally working with expert groups such as Market Data, Platform Services, News, Prices, and Analytics and from there develop knowledge across all dimensions of the Fastmarkets platform, enabling them to be equipped with both business and technical expertise to tackle Fastmarkets’ most exciting business challenges.

Our technical stack is .NET and cloud infrastructure is Azure and we seek to use the latest and greatest relevant technologies in our work.

Principal Accountabilities

Software Design and Development

• Implementation of technical solutions for new features and product enhancements
• Adhere to sound software engineering design principles; design patterns, SOLID code etc.
• Ensuring solutions are developed to be scalable, flexible, resilient and secure
• Support the ongoing maintenance of existing Fastmarkets software

Quality Management

• Ensure code is well structured, clean, readable, testable, and efficiently written
• Ensure code is reviewed, engineering standards are maintained and strive to continually drive standards up
• Ensure appropriate automated and manual tests for new features are designed and implemented
• Ensure appropriate documentation is maintained

 Leadership and Collaboration

• Participating in and contributing to team meetings and stand ups, bring in new ideas
• Working collaboratively with other engineers, product developers and business analysts
• Helping to resolve support issues where appropriate

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.

If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on...

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.

• Strong grasp of OOP, concurrency, distributed and cloud computing concepts
• Strong experience with .NET /C#
• Experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM) processes and technologies for authentication and authorization
• Familiarity with OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 standards, Duende Identity Server, as well as two-factor authentication, privileged access management, and securely storing identity profile data
• Microsoft Azure (Service Fabric, Blob Storage, Service Bus, Event Hubs, Key Vault)
• Databases including relational (SQL Server) and NoSQL (CosmosDB)
• UI Frameworks – Angular, TypeScript or JavaScript
• Experience with distributed programming protocols and infrastructure including: Web protocols – REST, WebSockets (SignalR), gRPC
• Messaging and caching - Service Bus, Redis
• Experience of unit testing, continuous integration/deployment and test automation
• Strong communicator in English: able to read/write documentation effectively and have good verbal communication skills

If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.

Our Values

Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values.

Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do. Our values are:

• METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance
   
• ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
   
• GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
   
• INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
   
• CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
   
• COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.

You’ve read a little about us – now it’s over to you!

If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day.

It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great.