Senior EMS Engineer

Reports to: Chief Architect/Head of Engineering

About Elwood

Elwood Technologies is a FCA regulated firm that provides end-to-end institutional-grade digital asset Execution, Liquidity Access and Portfolio Monitoring & Risk Management Software. Built with institutions for institutions, Elwood's EMS offers best available price execution, smart order routing and algorithmic tooling alongside a traditional finance grade Portfolio Management System.

Built by industry experts with decades of combined experience in investment management and digital technology, we are now looking for a Senior Engineer to work on our EMS platform within the Engineering Team.

Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior EMS Engineer to join our team responsible for designing, building, and optimising a next-generation multi-region, multi-tenanted Execution Management System (EMS) platform. The ideal candidate will have expertise in low-latency systems, high throughput environments, and a deep understanding of scalable, resilient architectures in a multi-tenant ecosystem.

You will play a critical role in ensuring our platform meets the stringent demands of our global trading customers, including sub-millisecond latency, high availability, and fault tolerance across regions.

Key Responsibilities

• Platform Development: Design and implement low-latency, high-throughput systems for a multi-region, multi-tenanted EMS platform, ensuring compliance with industry standards.
• Latency Optimisation: Analyse and optimise critical paths in the system to reduce latency and improve performance.
• Multi-Tenancy & Isolation: Develop scalable architectures to ensure strong tenant isolation, data security, and resource fairness in multi-tenant environments.
• Distributed Systems: Maintain distributed, fault-tolerant systems with high availability across multiple regions, ensuring data consistency and low-latency communication.
• Monitoring & Observability: Implement real-time monitoring, telemetry, and alerting systems for proactive issue detection and resolution.
• Collaboration: Work closely with product, QA, and infrastructure teams to align technical solutions with business requirements and ensure seamless deployments.
• R&D: Stay ahead of industry trends and incorporate emerging technologies, tools, and best practices to continuously enhance the platform.

Qualifications / Knowledge

• Proven experience in low-latency system design, development, and optimisation.
• Expert proficiency in programming languages such as C++ or Rust. Experience with Golang is a plus.
• Experience with distributed systems (e.g., Kafka/nats, Redis, Zookeeper) and event-driven architectures.
• Knowledge of multi-tenancy patterns and best practices.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and tools for multi-region deployments.
• Strong grasp of database performance tuning for low-latency access.
• Experience with observability tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).

Soft Skills:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of working in cross-functional teams.
• Attention to detail and ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
• Understanding of crypto markets and products (Desirable)
• Interested in the use of AI tools.
• Financial Services experience is essential along with a background in trading/EMS platforms.

What we offer:

Competitive salary and compensation packages.

Fully paid medical and discounted dental schemes for employees and their family.

Enhanced parental leave for all employees who have been with the company for one (1) year.

Fully stocked kitchen and access to Ubereats.

Discounted gym scheme with Fitness First.

Employee Assistance Programme.

Paid study leave and personal leave.

Why Elwood?

• Join one of the fastest growing FinTech companies and help shape the future of finance.
• A startup with deep financial backing and a strong market presence.
• Our platform is enabling institutional access to the most exciting growth opportunity in Finance.
• Work with a modern technology stack and help solve high impact problems.
• Strong client focused team with a diverse background.
• We're a Global company and have modern, centrally based offices in London, New York, Singapore & Jersey.