Summary
Luxoft is seeking a Senior Full Stack Developer in Abu Dhabi to modernize a portfolio management system used by investment professionals. The role includes upgrading .NET and WPF applications, improving performance and architecture, developing REST APIs and integrations, and adding AI-enabled features. Candidates should have 10+ years of enterprise software engineering experience, strong C#/.NET and desktop development skills, and buy-side investment technology experience. Experience with Python, SQL Server, web and desktop applications, automated testing, and CI/CD is also required.
The posting
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Project description
We are seeking an experienced Software Developer to help modernize a mission-critical Portfolio Management System (PMS) used by investment professionals across front-office investment functions. The successful candidate will play a key role in transforming a mature WPF-based desktop platform into a modern, scalable, high-performance application ecosystem. The work includes UI modernization, platform upgrades, API development, performance optimization, architecture simplification, technical debt reduction, and AI-enabled user experiences. This role is well suited to an engineer with experience in buy-side portfolio, order, execution, risk, or investment analytics platforms who is comfortable working across desktop, web, service, integration, and data layers.
Responsibilities
- Key Responsibilities: Application Modernization
- Upgrade and modernize existing .NET, WPF, and DevExpress applications.
- Refactor legacy components, reduce technical debt, and improve maintainability.
- Improve the application user experience while preserving critical front-office workflows.
- Contribute to target architecture decisions and phased modernization plans. Performance Engineering
- Investigate and resolve application freezing, slow response times, memory leaks, and crashes.
- Profile and optimize desktop, server-side, database, and integration components.
- Improve data loading, caching, processing, and resource-management patterns.
- Implement appropriate diagnostics, logging, health monitoring, and performance measures. Architecture Simplification
- Reduce reliance on legacy SOA, middleware, and tightly coupled dependencies.
- Design simpler service-oriented and API-first components.
- Support migration toward modular, scalable, and supportable architecture patterns.
- Assess MongoDB dependencies and recommend pragmatic simplification or replacement approaches. API and Integration Development
- Design and build secure RESTful APIs for PMS data access.
- Develop integrations with trading, risk, reporting, analytics, and downstream systems.
- Implement authentication, authorization, validation, auditing, observability, and error handling.
- Produce clear API specifications and technical documentation. AI Enablement
- Build an AI-powered prompt/chat experience within the PMS.
- Integrate enterprise Large Language Models and approved AI services.
- Develop prompt orchestration, tool-calling, retrieval, guardrails, and workflow automation capabilities.
- Partner with investment users to identify and deliver high-value, controlled AI use cases. Web and Desktop Delivery
- Maintain and enhance rich desktop capabilities while introducing web-based applications where appropriate.
- Deliver across frontend, backend, service, integration, and data layers.
- Apply automated testing, code review, secure development, and CI/CD practices.
SKILLS
Must have
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering enterprise applications.
- Strong C# and .NET experience, including legacy .NET Framework and modern .NET versions.
- Deep experience with WPF, XAML, MVVM, desktop application architecture, and multithreading.
- Buy-side investment technology experience, particularly in one or more of the following areas: Portfolio Management Systems (PMS) , Order Management Systems (OMS), Execution Management Systems (EMS), Front-office trading applications, Fixed income, equities, FX, derivatives, swaps, options, TRS, or CDS workflows
- Hands-on DevExpress experience, including complex grids and performance-sensitive user interfaces.
- Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs using ASP.NET Core or equivalent technologies.
- Python development experience for services, automation, analytics, or AI-related components.
- Strong SQL Server development and performance-tuning skills.
- Experience creating both web-based applications and rich desktop/fat-client applications.
- Practical expertise in profiling, diagnostics, memory management, performance tuning, and production troubleshooting.
- Experience with Git, automated testing, CI/CD, and Azure DevOps or similar engineering platforms.
Nice to have
• React, Angular, or comparable modern web framework experience. • MongoDB and data-access modernization experience. • Microservices, modular monolith, event-driven, or message-based architecture experience. • Microsoft Azure, containerization, Kubernetes, and enterprise API management experience. • Experience integrating LLMs, AI assistants, retrieval-augmented generation, tool-calling, or enterprise AI gateways. • Familiarity with application security, data entitlements, auditability, and regulated environments.