Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets.

Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 600 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Finland and beyond. 

PRINCIPLE 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

KEY INTERFACES

• Engineering Manager
• Software Engineers
• Test Engineers
• Business Analysts
• Digital Product Team
• Customer Success
• Site Reliability Engineers

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.

Key Experience / Skills

· .NET

• Hands-on experience with recent versions of .NET (version 6 or newer)
• Asynchronous and multithreaded programming
• Strong LINQ knowledge and understanding of querying IEnumerable collections
• Proficient knowledge of ASP.NET Core Web API and HTTP protocol
• Knowledge of .NET internals including request lifecycle, routing, middleware, filters, model binding, validation, dependency injection etc.
• Experience with Entity Framework Core 6 (or above) including understanding of code-first/database-first approaches and migrations

· Angular

• Hands-on experience with recent versions of Angular, version 14 and above
• Solid understanding of Angular framework including components, directives, pipes, routing, dependency injection, services, signals etc.
• Experience with state management (using Flux, Redux, NgRx etc.)
• Experience with Angular Material as UI library
• Proficient knowledge of writing stylesheets using SASS

· Databases

• Good knowledge of RDBMS databases and
• Solid SQL experience including writing view, store procedures etc.
• Profiling and optimizing queries
• Experience in normalizing data structures

· General

• Solid knowledge in OOP & SOLID principles
• Understanding of design patterns
• Solid Git and GitOps experience
• Hands-on experience in writing independent, loosely coupled and resilient services with Microservice architectures
• Experience writing BDD unit, functional or integration tests with test frameworks (such as xUnit, Shouldly, Playwright, Jasmine etc.)

Desirable Experience / Skills

• Understanding of latest C# language versions (version 10 or above)
• Build system experience (e.g. NUKE or Cake)
• Experience with containerizing .NET applications
• Experience with Azure cloud ecosystem
• NX Cloud knowledge
• Understanding of Azure PaaS/SaaS service resources (SQL database, Service Bus, App Configuration, etc.)
• Message based communications (using Azure Service Bus or similar)
• Integrating applications into observability stacks
• Experience in migrating data between database solutions
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD solutions using GitHub Actions
• Experience with project build systems such as NX or NUKE
• Docker or Podman experience advantageous
• Kubernetes knowledge

Personal Attributes

1. Ability to execute and deliver in a fast-paced environment.

2. Highly collaborative and able to work across multiple teams and geographies.

3. Results-driven, with a focus on providing the best customer outcomes.

4. Strong communicator in English: able to read and 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.