Senior .NET Software Engineer

Get To Know Us

SS&C Technologies is a global leader in financial services software and outsourcing solutions, dedicated to delivering innovative technology to the world's leading financial institutions.

Calastone, part of SS&C Technologies, is the business unit offering this role.

It operates the largest global funds network. Through a single connection, participants securely connect, automate fund transactions and standardize data exchange across markets and investment structures.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior .NET Software Engineer to join our team of innovative and talented engineers. This is to join an exciting new division of SS&C technologies working in our engineering group to enhance and support new and existing products. As a senior software engineer you’ll promote good design and development practices, ensure code quality across the team, and participate in defining technology strategy occasionally leading innovation or software design initiatives.

What You Will Get To Do:

• Lead collaboration within your engineering team, QA, and Product, facilitating discussions and ensuring effective communication.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, providing guidance on technical approaches, design patterns, and best practices.
• Conduct peer reviews of code, promoting engineering excellence and maintaining high code quality standards across the team.
• Work closely with tech leads, engineers, testers, and auxiliary personnel to deliver cohesive solutions.
• Participate in daily Stand-Ups, change analysis sessions, and technical presentations.
• Collaborate across the organisation, seeking advice and gaining buy-in on proposals and designs.

Feature Design and Implementation

• Own feature design and implementation end-to-end, ensuring solutions are robust, scalable, and maintainable.
• Develop new features at a high level of quality, delivering thoroughly tested and production-ready code.
• Design, document, and communicate system solutions ensuring a good balance of time, quality, cost, and performance.
• Coordinate complex multi-part tasks, breaking down technical challenges into manageable components.
• Champion modern software development practices including Test Driven Development, continuous integration, and deployment.

Code Quality and Technical Excellence

• Ensure code quality across the team through effective code reviews, technical guidance, and setting standards.
• Understand and actively promote the reduction of technical debt within your product area.
• Take ownership of specific initiatives in innovation or technical debt reduction.
• Provide input as necessary to tool and environment adoption guidance.
• Promote good design and development practices within your team, establishing patterns for maintainability and scalability.

Service and Support

• Join the engineering out-of-hours on-call rota (typically once every 3-4 weeks) once suitably skilled and appropriately trained.
• Support incident investigation and resolution, contributing to root cause analysis and implementing long-term fixes.

Business and Domain Knowledge

• Continuously develop your business domain knowledge and understanding of the mutual funds industry.
• Contextualise your technical work for less technical members of the organisation, bridging the gap between engineering and business teams.
• Contribute to technical strategy discussions, bringing practical insights from hands-on development experience.

What You Will Bring:

Deep technical expertise in:

• C# .NET Core and related open source technologies
• Object Orientation, SOA, and related design patterns
• Modern database systems (Microsoft SQL Server, relational database design and SQL)
• Front-end technologies including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Web API design and implementation, concurrency, asynchrony, and parallelism
• Strong understanding of modern software development practices: agile methodologies, version control, code reviews, continuous integration.
• Proven experience with Test Driven Development - Unit Testing frameworks, mocking frameworks, and patterns for testability.
• Experience in the mutual funds industry or related financial services sectors.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and guide other engineers.

Desirable experience

• Experience with TypeScript in commercial environments
• SPAs and responsive web development using Angular
• Enterprise messaging systems (e.g. NServiceBus/Azure Service Bus)
• Cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure
• Containerisation (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Blockchain development and associated Cryptographic concepts
• Knowledge of mutual fund trading, settlement, reconciliation, lifecycle management and regulation within the context of the distributor/platform, Transfer Agent (TA), and fund/asset management industry.

Person Specification

• Mentor and Guide: Passionate about developing others, providing clear direction and support to junior and mid-level engineers.
• Quality-Focused: Committed to delivering high-quality, maintainable code and driving engineering excellence across the team.
• Excellent Communicator: Able to articulate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders across all levels of the organisation.
• Proactive and Ownership-Minded: Takes initiative in identifying and addressing technical challenges, owning features from conception to production.
• Passionate About Technology: Demonstrates genuine enthusiasm for software engineering, continuous learning, and staying current with industry developments.

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model
• Your Future: Professional Development Reimbursement including access to SS&C University
• Work/Life Balance: Competitive holiday scheme
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customised throughout your career

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.