The Senior Software Developers at World First build a wide range of applications that include:

• Our online foreign exchange (FX) trading platform

• API powering our mobile apps

• Back office system for managing trades, making payments, handling compliance events

• Market automation platform.

World First runs a completely in-house IT team consisting of ~45 talented people and growing. We cover all areas of support, systems, websites, front and back end applications and we are passionate about producing great quality systems and software to drive our business forward.

How we do it…

Aside from building great software, we use several tools and methodologies to ensure that we empower the development teams and help them to achieve their best. Every line of code goes through reviews and we use continuous integration tools to run our tests, measure complexity, and make sure the code matches PSR-2 coding standards. We have separate development servers, staging environments and live environments. We also don’t just use LAMP, we have message queues, caches, round robin databases, proxy servers, and anything else that helps us build robust and elegant systems.

We use scrum to ensure developers know what they’re working on and are able to bring up ideas and get feedback quickly. We have a project management team dedicated to higher level prioritising, requirements gathering, and helping write the stories.