Pricing Platform Software Engineer (C#/.NET)

About Eighteen Eight

Eighteen Eight (www.eighteeneight.co.uk) delivers comprehensive, innovative software solutions to the global financial services industry. With deep expertise in real-time systems integration and data quality, we empower organisations to unlock maximum value from their data through cloud-ready solutions.

We are proud to be recruiting on behalf of a leading client seeking a Software Engineer to drive the evolution of a business-critical pricing and distribution platform.

Position Overview

As a Software Engineer, you will play a key role in shaping the technical direction and future of a high-impact, production-grade platform serving the commodity markets. This is a hands-on role that blends technical expertise with architectural understanding. You will be responsible for stabilising and modernising a core system, setting technical strategy, and working within a talented engineering team.

Location: Remote - UK hours and UK holidays

Key Responsibilities

Platform Assessment & Modernisation

• Conduct comprehensive reviews of the existing pricing and distribution platform, analysing codebase, data flows, performance, reliability, and security.
• Identify and address technical debt, resilience risks, scalability challenges, and single points of failure.
• Develop and implement a pragmatic roadmap for platform remediation and modernisation.

Technical Leadership & Strategy

• Champion agile engineering practices to improve delivery predictability, quality, and transparency.
• Define and communicate the platform’s future technical direction, focusing on real-time pricing, event-driven architecture, and cloud-native solutions.
• Establish architecture governance, design standards, and long-term technical strategy.
• Provide technical oversight for all critical changes and initiatives.

Engineering Excellence & Delivery

• Lead the delivery of high-performance, production-grade, and operationally resilient services in a mission-critical environment.
• Drive improvements in code quality, testing strategy, release management, CI/CD, observability, and operational readiness.
• Foster a culture of engineering transparency, comprehensive documentation, and repeatable processes.

Team Development & Knowledge Sharing

• Rapidly acquire domain and platform knowledge to mitigate single-person dependency risks.
• Mentor and support team members, promoting continuous improvement and technical excellence.
• Strengthen team collaboration, decision-making, and technical maturity.

Architecture & System Evolution

• Lead the transition from batch/data-movement patterns to event-driven, near-real-time pricing and distribution.
• Advocate for design-led thinking, domain-driven design, and well-defined system boundaries.
• Guide the platform’s evolution across data, services, messaging, and cloud adoption.

Core Technology Stack

• C# / .NET: Extensive experience building and refactoring large-scale production systems.
• Microsoft SQL Server: Expertise in performance tuning, schema design, and transactional integrity.
• SSIS / Data Pipelines / ETL Patterns
• Azure (IaaS/PaaS), Azure DevOps: CI/CD, release pipelines, infrastructure as code.

Architectural & Engineering Expertise

• High-performance, low-latency distributed systems design and operation.
• Event-driven and messaging architectures (e.g., Service Bus, Kafka-style patterns).
• Real-time data processing and pricing pipelines.
• Resilience engineering: fault tolerance, high availability, disaster recovery.
• Observability: logging, metrics, tracing, and performance diagnostics.

Preferred Experience

• Financial services, trading, pricing, or market infrastructure systems.
• Commodity markets or similar time-critical pricing/distribution environments.
• Regulated, business-critical production platforms.