EquiLend
Website:
equilend.com
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About The Role
We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join us in Bengaluru as part of one of our core global engineering teams. Our teams build and evolve enterprise-grade platforms that power global financial markets, enabling clients to trade efficiently and manage post-trade workflows at scale. You will contribute to high-performance, low-latency systems that are central to our success, while working in an environment that values technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.
This role is ideal for an experienced backend engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges and wants to contribute to the evolution of systems that have real impact across global financial markets.
What You’ll Do
- Design, build, and enhance backend components across our trading, post-trade, data, and regulatory platforms.
- Deliver production-ready, high-quality code within a distributed, multi-tier architecture that supports real-time global operations.
- Collaborate with business analysts, QA engineers, and product stakeholders to translate functional requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Contribute to design discussions focusing on performance, scalability, and high availability.
- Participate in peer code reviews, knowledge-sharing sessions, and team-wide process improvements.
- Support production releases and troubleshoot issues, ensuring systems remain stable and performant.
- Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends, proactively suggesting improvements to our engineering practices and architecture.
What We’re Looking For
- 4+ years of commercial experience as a Java Developer working on large-scale or enterprise systems.
- Strong proficiency in Java 8+ and frameworks such as Spring, Spring Boot, or Jakarta EE.
- Experience designing and maintaining RESTful APIs, multi-threaded services, and distributed architectures.
- Solid knowledge of SQL and PL/SQL, including query optimization and performance tuning.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS and DevOps tools supporting CI/CD workflows.
- Exposure to messaging or event-driven systems such as Kafka, Redis, or RabbitMQ.
- Demonstrates strong debugging, problem-solving, and performance optimization skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, comfortable working with global teams.
- A continuous learner who takes pride in writing clean, maintainable, and scalable code.
Why EquiLend?
- Work flexibly with up to 100 remote working days per year.
- Take time to recharge with 30 days of paid leave per year, comprising paid, casual, and sick leave, plus public holidays.
- Be recognised for your contribution through a discretionary annual cash bonus, linked to individual and company performance.
- Access comprehensive health insurance for you and your dependents from your first day.
- Receive personal accident insurance from the start of your employment.
- Connect with colleagues at an annual company-sponsored team retreat, hosted at a new location each year.
- If relocating from more than 40 miles away, receive hotel accommodation and travel ticket reimbursement.
About EquiLend
EquiLend is a global financial technology firm at the center of the securities finance industry. Since 2001, we have built the infrastructure that financial institutions rely on to trade, manage, and report. This includes products such as our NGT trading platform, Post Trade Suite, DataLend market intelligence, RegTech solutions, and EquiLend Clearing Services.
We operate across North America, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific, working with banks, broker dealers, asset managers, and custodians to bring greater efficiency, transparency, and automation to the securities finance lifecycle. Our teams combine deep market expertise with a focus on building technology that works at scale, under real-world conditions, for some of the world's most demanding financial institutions.
EquiLend is Great Place to Work Certified™ in the U.S., UK, Ireland, and India, and has been recognized as Global Data Provider of the Year and Regulatory Solution of the Year at the Securities Finance Times Industry Excellence Awards 2025.
Diversity & Inclusion
We know that the best solutions come from teams that bring different perspectives, backgrounds, and ways of thinking to the table. At EquiLend, we are committed to building a workplace where everyone feels they belong and aim to reflect this in how we hire, develop, and support our people.
We are actively working to ensure our teams are as diverse as the global markets and clients we serve. That means creating an environment where different viewpoints are sought out and where people can do their best work regardless of background.
If you require any reasonable adjustments or accommodations at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know and we will work with you to make it happen.
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