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Salary: $80-110k USD

Summary: 

This growing crypto trading firm has seen steady growth over the last 3-4 years – not being adversely affected by the wild swings in crypto success due to their robust and sensible strategies.

Hugely tech-driven, they have been developing and improving HFT algorithms for more than 10 years, with a tech team boasting engineers from some of the top market-makers and hedge funds globally.

They’re now looking for an experienced individual, where your primary focus will be transforming complex trading data into actionable insights, enhancing operational efficiency, and driving strategic decision-making. A pivotal position, you will also collaborate closely with the trading team to provide data patterns & trends, build dashboards with BI tools, and conduct A/B testing for strategies, algorithms & operational processes.

This role offers the opportunity to engage with cutting-edge technology and grow professionally, where your work will directly influence trading performance and business growth.

Skills and Experience Required:

• 3-5 years’ experience in data analysis, including SQL with large datasets
• Basic understanding of software development principles
• Experience with Python (pandas, numpy, etc.) for data manipulation & visualisation
• Strong knowledge of probability and statistics, including experimental design and inference
• Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Physics, Economics or Computer Science from a top-tier university
• Excellent analytical problem-solving skills, including quick thinking and decision making

Desirable:

• Familiarity with HFT
• Participation in math competitions (or similar academic challenges)

Benefits: 

• Competitive salaries + performance-based bonuses
• Flexible hours and a healthy work-life balance
• Work with the smartest people in one of the fastest-growing and most exciting industries
• Regular paid ‘workations’ to unique places all over the world to work, explore the local culture and get to know colleagues better
• Relocation package available if required

Our client is a leading tech-driven quant and systematic hedge fund trading with offices across the globe. They leverage deep knowledge in data, research, technology and trading to deliver high-quality returns in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, with excellent opportunities for career growth.

Looking for a motivated Python Quant Developer to work within a trading desk alongside Quant Researchers and Traders where you will have a direct & immediate impact on the desk’s success. Your primary focus will be building applications to provide market data & insights to inform trading decisions. This role offers exposure to many aspects of volatility trading, including derivatives pricing, data management and analytics structure (cloud computing and ML technologies).

The ideal candidate is tech-driven, with experience developing trading apps and/or setting up trading framework.

Requirements

• 1-3 years’ professional experience, likely at a bank or a fund
• Comfortable in Python, in particular Python libraries: numpy, pandas, matplotlib, etc.
• Proficient with AWS
• Good knowledge of SQL and relational databases
• Outstanding communication skills

Desirable

• Available to start immediately
• Knowledge of financial derivatives and options

Benefits

• Great opportunity to be part of a collaborative, creative environment where you can feel valued for your input
• Competitive salary + generous benefits
• Professional and personal development
• Relaxed, casual culture, with a healthy work-life balance

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

A tech-focused market-maker with groundbreaking success in the high frequency trading space, my client is seeking a creative problem-solver to be their next Software Engineer in the Developer Excellence team.

This is a critical, high-impact role, where your main focus is on developing tools, streamlining processes, enhancing automation and more, all aimed at boosting the productivity of developers within the firm.

As such, this will include working closely with development teams to identify bottlenecks/challenges in the current development processes and designing innovative solutions to address them. You will also build and implement tools & automation strategies designed to streamline workflows, enhance code quality, and reduce time to deployment.

You’ll be expected to demonstrate a blend of technical expertise, a passion for efficiency, and an entrepreneurial mindset. In return, you’ll enjoy a relaxed culture working alongside some of the best professionals in the industry from over 40 countries.

Requirements

• Strong engineering fundamentals, with a deep understanding of software development processes, and of the end-to-end development lifecycle
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining tools & systems that enhance developer workflows
• Proficiency in relevant automation technologies, e.g. Python, Jenkins, Git
• Solid programming skills in C#, C++, C and Python
• Proven ability to deliver scalable, reliable, high quality clean code
• Keen eye for identifying areas of improvement and championing changes to address them
• Enthusiastic to learn & apply new technologies and methodologies

Benefits

• Incredible salary + profit-sharing structure
• Truly flat structure and highly collaborative culture, within a fun, stimulating office environment
• Outstanding benefits package, including paid commuting expenses, 50% subsidised gym subscription, generous holiday allowance, etc.

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

World-leading hedge fund looking for experienced Python and C++ Quant Developers to join their new systematic arm in London.

Exciting opportunity to join an elite team working to build out and enhance their cutting-edge quantitative trading platform. You will work directly alongside senior PMs, quants and engineers gaining invaluable knowledge and experience across all major financial markets.

Requirements:

• 3+ years professional experience with modern Python or C++ (C++ 17 or later preferred)
• Bachelor’s in Mathematics, Computer Science or other quantitative field
• Deep-level knowledge of development on Linux
• Knowledge of SQL
• Experience developing back-testing, simulation, and trading systems is a plus
• Finance industry experience preferred

Rewards and Incentives

• Market-leading salary + lucrative bonus
• Opportunities to learn and develop new skills in a truly collaborative environment that thrives on innovation
• Emphasis on work/life balance

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

World-leading prop fund is looking for a strong Python engineer to join their rapidly expanding team in Amsterdam. This data and technology-driven firm specialise in developing automated trading systems that execute across global financial markets. You will be joining a truly international business, working alongside best-in-class professionals from more than 40 different countries.

The successful candidate will be joining a small, highly productive and fast-paced team – helping to manage more than 1500 servers in more than 15 locations around the world. Depending on your interests, you will situate into a more development or operational focus role, but no matter where you sit you, will have a direct impact on working to create a robust and reliable foundation for the core business.

Benefits:

• Market-leading compensation packages
• Visa support and generous relocation support if needed
• Fast-paced environment with new and exciting challenges
• Short feedback loops from idea to production in as little as ~1 day
• Smaller teams with more opportunities for high impact in roles

Requirements: 

• BSc in Computer Science or related field
• Minimum 3yrs’ professional experience using Python
• Solid experience with real-life infrastructure, automation, Linux server management
• Adaptable, willing to multitask and use the best tool for the job

Desirable: 

• Experience with configuration management (preferably using Ansible but experience with similar is considered)
• Experience with networking, virtualisation, bare metal server management
• Finance experience is not necessary but willingness to learn is important

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Salary: £150-500k

World-leading prop fund is looking for C++ developers to join their rapidly expanding team in London and Amsterdam. This data and technology-driven firm specialise in developing automated trading systems that execute across global financial markets.

The successful candidate will be joining a small, highly productive and fast-paced team – working on critical software in a real-time environment. You will be responsible for working across the entire trading infrastructure – developing ultra-low-latency exchange protocol encoders; fine-tuning fully automated trading strategies; collaborating with researchers, systems and ops teams will all be part of your daily routine.

 Benefits:

• Market-leading compensation packages
• Generous relocation support if needed
• Fast-paced environment with new and exciting challenges
• Short feedback loops from idea to production in as little as ~1 day
• Smaller teams with more opportunities for high impact in roles

Requirements:

• BSc in Computer Science or related field
• Minimum 3 yrs’ professional experience writing production quality code, preferably in C++
• Solid experience working on multithreaded applications, networks and operating systems
• Strong understanding of algorithms and data structures

Desirable:

• Experience with Python development is a strong plus
• Comfortable operating at various levels of abstraction, from individual machines to large scale distributed systems
• Finance experience is not necessary

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Our client is a leading tech-driven quant and systematic hedge fund trading with offices across the globe. They leverage deep knowledge in data, research, technology and trading to deliver high-quality returns. This opportunity offers a dynamic and fast-paced environment with excellent opportunities for career growth.

They are looking for a talented polyglot to be a key member of the development team, where your main focus will be managing the multiple and extensive datasets used in the research and trading platform. You will also contribute to the design and implementation of the data store and its API, monitoring fetching processes and data health, and supporting the many Quants and Traders who use the platform.

2025 is a big year of growth for this firm, making now the perfect time to apply!

Requirements

• 2+ years’ experience in a similar/related field
• Excellent Python knowledge is important; C# is a plus
• Strong communication skills, especially understanding user requirements
• Structured and unstructured data management expertise
• Comfortable working autonomously within a global team
• Experience with market data is highly desirable

Benefits

• Great opportunity to be part of a collaborative, creative environment where you can feel valued for your input
• Competitive salary + generous benefits
• Professional and personal development
• Relaxed, casual culture, with a healthy work-life balance

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Salary: Up to ~£200k base, 400-600k TC dependent on seniority for a new, growing team

Experience: 5+ years

Summary:

Great opportunity for an alpha-strategy-focussed Python Quant Researcher to join one of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds.

This is a new specialized team at the firm – Volatility Alpha Development – made up of engineers, quants and data scientists, and you’ll work closely with different Portfolio Managers and their trading pods. You will be building a Vol Alpha library for PMs; existing vol PMs on the discretionary side and being part of the build-out and expansion of new systematic vol PMs to help decrease their onboarding time.

The successful Quant Researcher will enjoy facing off to the business and have exceptional communication skills.

Skills and Experience Required:

• 5+ years’ Python programming experience; some KDB & SQL is useful
• Substantial experience with equity derivatives modelling, vol surface fitting and backtesting systems
• Experience with QIS Strategies, Equity Derivatives, Equity vol
• Some knowledge of developing classic volatility trading strategies, e.g. dispersion, relative value, VIX complex

Rewards and Incentives:

• Significant salary + bonus and growth
• Greenfield work / big impact
• Very collaborative culture, ideas are implemented
• Work-life balance is highly valued

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Salary: up to £140k base (subject to seniority)

Experience: 2+ years

Summary:

It’s a great time to join one of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds as they build a world-class systematic data platform which will power the next generation of systematic portfolio engines.

As a Data Operations Analyst in the systematic data group, you’ll identify, maintain and analyse alpha sources for Portfolio Managers. Working alongside content specialists, data scientists, analysts and engineers, you’ll monitor data flows across various systems, recommend & implement improvements to optimise data processing, and design, build & manage data ingestion and ETL pipelines.

The successful candidate will be able to communicate well with PMs,  traders and other stakeholders, whilst also being a strong enough technologist to implement ideas.

Skills and Experience Required:

• Top-notch academics in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or other field, with good coding skills
• 2+ years of financial industry experience is preferred
• Programming expertise in Python or similar language
• Experience working with SQL-type databases

Rewards and Incentives:

• Significant salary + bonus and growth
• Greenfield work / big impact
• Very collaborative culture, ideas are implemented
• Work-life balance is highly valued

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

My client is one of the world’s most successful hedge funds across Commodities, Credit, Equities and Fixed Income.

Technology underpins everything they do and their engineers benefit from unparalleled resources and a world class tech team to learn from, making this a place for extraordinary growth.

I’m hiring a front end / UI engineer to join a specialized team whose focus is to take on the firm’s toughest challenges. As such, they are looking for engineers who are driven to solve seemingly impossible problems and are willing to re-architect systems from the ground up to achieve this.

As this team collaborates with key areas of the business including trading, research, and data, you will gain exposure to the core revenue generating areas of one of the most successful financial institutions in the world.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of engineering experience.
• Experience developing cross-platform applications using TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Expert-level skills in JavaScript libraries such as React; specific experience in Node.js.
• Experience building Python services for both static and real-time data in a dynamic multi-user environment.
• Familiarity with gRPC, WebSockets, Tornado,  Flask and Pandas is desirable.
• Strong written and oral communication skills; team members should be comfortable interacting with and delivering findings to senior stakeholders.
• STEM education with >3.5 GPA.
• Experience working with systematic trading systems is a plus.

If you’re a front-end engineer looking to make a large impact at one of the world’s most profitable hedge funds, please send your resume to [email protected] for more information.

Compensation: base of $200,000-300,000 + annual bonus

My client is a legendary prop trading firm based across Chicago, Austin and NYC that’s committed to empowering exceptional engineering talent to push through scientific boundaries and apply cutting-edge technologies to trade across global financial markets.

They are seeking an outstanding Software Engineer with an expertise in C++ to join the Core Infrastructure team which is responsible for designing, developing and maintaining their algorithmic trading platform. This is a high-throughput, low-latency trading system that deploys millions of ML-based trading strategies daily at microsecond latencies.

You will gain exposure to all areas of the technical stack including order routing, market data, and risk systems and you will collaborate closely with traders and quants.

Requirements:

• Extensive experience developing high-availability systems in C++ and Python with tight latency constraints.
• Experience with multi-threaded programming and understanding of hardware/software interaction.
• Interest in low-level concepts and working “under the hood” – Linux, socket I/O, etc.
• Follower of modern C++ standards.
• Bonus points for experience working in the trading industry or other latency-sensitive businesses.
• Must be based in the US with valid visa (H1B / Greencard).

If you’d like to learn more about the role and company, please email your resume to [email protected]

Compensation – Competitive

My client is a one of the leading global hedge funds, and I am hiring on a trading desk in Singapore that deploys both fundamental and quantitative strategies across global commodity markets.

This team consists of traders, quantitative researchers, and software engineers, and they are seeking a talented senior Python Engineer to join the team to work on the team’s core trading infrastructure and analytics suite. In this role, you will become a technology stakeholder in the team’s advanced technology platform.

Requirements:

• BS degree or higher in Computer Science/Engineering.
• Fluent in Python and comparable languages.
• Min 3 years’ software engineering experience.
• Experience with complex, data-intensive systems.
• Commitment to excellence and strong attention to detail.
• Fluent Mandarin and English skills.

Compensation (depending on experience): £150-200K base + up to 100% bonus.

My client is a multi-billion-dollar global hedge fund, and I am hiring for one of their top trading pods in London. This is a small team that deploys systematic strategies across FX, Fixed Income and Commodities, with intra-day horizons.

The team is looking to add a quantitative developer to work on the research and development of systematic strategies, and also contribute to the desks’ Python-based infrastructure (execution platform, data infrastructure, modelling, and back testing frameworks, etc.).

This is a high-impact role where you will work closely with the Portfolio Manger, quant researchers and engineers, and they are looking for someone to come in and hit the ground running.

Requirements:

• Production-level Python experience is a must.
• Must have worked with or deployed systematic trading strategies.
• Experience working with FX, Fixed Income or Commodities is advantageous.
• Computer Science degree.
• >3 years of experience working on a trading team/desk.
• Fluent English.

Location: Chicago, NYC, or Greenwich (CT)

Compensation: $500-600k total compensation

My client is a leading proprietary trading firm based in Chicago that trades a variety of asset classes, including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy, across all major global markets. They are currently looking for a Research Engineer to join the FICC trading team. You will work with researchers and traders to implement research studies, simulate trading strategies, and develop algorithms to compete in financial markets.

The role:

• Design trading strategy simulation software optimized for distributed computation
• Develop software for large-scale data acquisition, storage, accessibility, and visualization
• Create user interfaces for data exploration and post-trade analysis
• Accelerate the research lifecycle from strategy prototype to production deployment

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
• Excellent software development skills in Python and modern C++
• 5+ years’ relevant experience working at a HFT or quantitative firm
• A strong understanding of object-oriented design, data structures and algorithms
• A strong understanding of quantitative finance mathematics
• An understanding of computer systems at every level of abstraction (hardware, OS, memory, network)
• Skills in multi‐threaded applications
• Demonstrated ability to produce algorithmic code in a fast-paced environment

Salary: Up to £200k + bonus

Summary

Fantastic opportunity for a Python engineer with tech leadership experience to join one of the largest global HFT funds. Unique in their field, they combine the lively, positive spirit of a start-up with the stability of a longer-established player.

Sitting centrally within the core development team and using a sophisticated, diverse technology stack, you’ll work on a variety of infrastructure and applications written in Python and Rust across multiple functional areas. You’ll also mentor junior talent, with a view to growing the team around you in the future.

Rust experience would be ideal, but if you have solid Python skills and a willingness to learn Rust on the job, you’re encouraged to apply.

This role would suit someone who enjoys co-ordinating critical projects, sharing knowledge and solving difficult technical problems.

Requirements

• Minimum 4+ years’ hands-on Python development experience
• Previous experience mentoring or in tech leadership
• Proponent of best coding practices, with solid understanding of data architecture & software design
• Strong unit-testing/test-driven coding style
• Relational or columnar database knowledge

Desirable

• Rust development experience
• Experience with messaging solutions, e.g. Kafka

NB: Please don’t apply if you’re a fresh graduate

Benefits

• Competitive base salary & bonus
• Enormous opportunity to grow, learn and have a significant business impact
• Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported
• Substantial benefits package, including private medical, paid parental leave, group life assurance & parking/cycle schemes

A tech-focused market-maker with groundbreaking success in the high frequency trading space, my client is seeking a creative problem-solver to be their next Software Engineer in Infrastructure.

In this role, your main focus will be solving the challenges of infrastructure operations with software. As such, this will include all aspects of Linux server management, working on automation projects, coding in Python together with other tools like Ansible, and contributing to the design and implementation of core infrastructure systems. You’ll split your time between operational tasks and development based on your particular skillset and experience.

You’ll need to have a very hands-on approach to problem-solving where you can adapt and choose the right tool based on each problem’s requirements. In return, you’ll enjoy a relaxed culture working alongside some of the best professionals in the industry from over 40 countries.

Requirements

• Solid engineering background, with good Python experience
• Sound understanding of Linux/Unix systems, plus experience with real-life infrastructure
• Self-starter, with the ability to drive multiple projects from inception through delivery
• Keen desire to automate your work to eliminate repetitive tasks
• Desire to learn more about trading; no experience required

Desirable

• Experience using Infrastructure-as-Code and Ansible (or similar config management tools)
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals and protocols

Rewards and Incentives 

• Incredible salary + profit-sharing structure
• Truly flat structure and highly collaborative culture, within a fun, stimulating office environment
• Outstanding benefits package
• Relocation assistance provided

My client is a legendary Chicago-based prop trading that’s committed to empowering exceptional talent to push through scientific boundaries and apply cutting-edge research to global financial markets.

They’re looking for Technical Lead to join the team and improve C++ developer productivity by designing, building, maintaining, and evangelizing a suite of core tools, frameworks, and build systems.

The culture at my client is unique – they believe in constant innovation, creativity, honesty, and a having competitive streak. As with any trading firm, they value winning, however this firm likes to achieve this by fostering collaboration and mutual respect.

Skills required:

• Experience designing and developing core build systems and tooling (e.g. Bazel, CMake, Conan, Jenkins, etc.)
• Passion for improving developer efficiency and productivity
• Knowledge of C++ and Linux
• Strong understanding of computer systems, operating systems, networks, and performance optimization, etc
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field

Base salary range of $200,000 – $300,000, along with discretionary bonus eligibility.

Applicants must be based in the US and have a valid working visa e.g. H1B / Green card.

If you want to push new boundaries within the developer productivity field, please send your resume to [email protected] and we can arrange an intro call about the role.

This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in a ‘trading pod’ at one of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds. A small, collaborative and highly skilled trading team, they apply cutting-edge machine learning techniques to systematic trading strategies in global futures and currency markets.

They’re looking for a talented developer to build out the critical trading infrastructure (with particular focus on futures markets); designing and maintaining tools, and performing data analysis for live and historical reports. Working within an entrepreneurial team with the culture of a startup, this opportunity offers a dynamic and fast-paced environment with excellent career growth.

To be successful in this role, you’ll need to have a passion for what you do and the collaborative mindset required for working within a small team.

Requirements

• Minimum bachelor’s degree in STEM field, e.g. Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Statistics
• Very strong modern C++ skills (C++11/14/17)
• 3-10 years’ industry experience programming in C++
• Fantastic communication and analytical abilities

Nice to have

• Experience in any of the following: Javascript/Typescript, Python plotting libraries, Linux network programming & multithreading
• Exposure to AWS/distributed computing environment

Benefits & Incentives

• Significant salary + a bonus tied to profits / trading strategy success
• Greenfield work / big impact
• Positive, friendly culture and rewarding place to work
• Work-from-home opportunities

Unique opportunity to join a standout global fund that prides itself on being truly tech-driven in order to deliver innovative trading solutions to clients. The UI development team is a talented group of versatile engineers who collaborate across the entire business to build the next generation of scalable web-based UIs and trading tools.

Seeking a highly skilled and passionate UI developer with experience around web technologies and javascript frameworks. You’ll partner with traders and other developers to understand requirements, implementing real-time trading, visualization, analysis and reporting tools.

The successful candidate will enjoy designing intuitive interfaces that users love, with an keen interest in using innovative technology in trading and financial markets.

Requirements

• Expertise with web client languages (HTML, CSS, Javascript, Typescript)
• Source code management experience (Git is a plus)
• Experience with databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or KDB

Nice to have

• Object-oriented design skills and familiarity with Java
• Python experience
• Familiarity with web client frameworks (React, Angular, Node), remote API design and architecture (REST, Websockets)

Benefits & Incentives

• Excellent salary and compensation package
• Relaxed, informal yet highly rewarding work culture
• Work with the latest cutting edge technologies on complex problems
• A community that values hard work as well as work-life balance

Systematic hedge fund with a focus on developing high quality financial strategies across a variety of asset classes and markets, utilising a proprietary research platform focused on exploring market inefficiencies.

They’re seeking an experienced Software Developer with great problem-solving and critical-thinking skills to join the Front Office Technology team. Your main focus is to build and enhance software which enables the large-scale quant research operations that drive the platform and the production of the portfolio. This is an exciting time to join as they undertake a multi-year project to build a powerful, scalable, efficient platform to drive growth for the next ten years.

This role would be perfect for someone who can take ownership of the unique technical challenges involved in such a large project and who can bring solid experience and perspective to the team.

Requirements

• 5+ years of strong programming skills with reliable, production-quality code, ideally in C++
• Strong development experience with large-scale, distributed systems
• Good knowledge of design patterns, data structures and algorithms

Nice to have

• Experience in one or more of the following:
  • systems development managing & performing computation on large-scale graph data
  • streaming / dataflow systems
  • programming language theory
  • Python development experience

Benefits and Incentives 

• Market leading salary + bonus
• Opportunities to learn and develop new skills
• Great work/life balance
• Freedom in work and dynamic culture; opportunity to bring new ideas and really have an impact

Location: NYC, Chicago or Austin

Summary

Unique opportunity for a talented programmer at one of the world’s top algorithmic trading firms in one of their offices in New York, Chicago or Austin.

This fully automated trading firm has a unique culture, renowned for a high caliber of engineering and an emphasis on knowledge sharing and learning which has attracted some of the smartest engineers in the industry.

They’re looking to hire talented software engineers to work on their core Algorithmic Trading Platform, where you will collaborate with traders and researchers to build and optimize trading systems that handle billions of dollars of trades daily.

This is a great opportunity for a software engineer with outstanding programming skills in Java, Python, or C++.

Requirements

• At least 1 year of experience required
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms, with demonstrable experience in large-scale systems
• Engineering experience in Java, Python, C or C++
• Superb programming and development skills
• Minimum BS/BA in a technical or quantitative field
• Candidates must have US citizenship/Greencard or a valid H1B/TN Visa

Benefits

• Up to $250k base salary + additional performance bonus
• Outstanding benefits package
• Truly collaborative culture and growth opportunities throughout the firm
• Flexible work environment
• Tuition reimbursement, conference and training sponsorshi

Salary: £100k base, £300k total comp

Summary:

This Cryptocurrency Exchange are building the world’s first performant cryptocurrency derivative exchange which is launching soon! Primarily using Rust and C++ your team will build history’s fastest and safest derivative exchange backend platform.

Users will include hedge funds, HFTs, retail traders and regular people who will be relying on this low-latency exchange. Going live soon – you’ll have a massive impact as part of a small team building an entire exchange.

Requirements:

• Degree in either Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Electrical Engineering (or similar)
• Exceptional programming skills
• Low-level system development experience, ideally in: Rust, C/C++/C#, Java, etc.
• Expertise in low-latency hardware is desirable

Benefits:

• Build the world’s first performant crypto exchange
• Substantial stock on top of strong salary
• Huge ownership

This fully automated trading firm has a unique culture that is relaxed, yet exciting and technically stimulating, where you’ll be working with some of the smartest engineers in the industry. This is a great opportunity for innovative, creative cyber security experts who love large amounts of autonomy and the chance to strategically impact global security systems.

Working closely with the Systems and Operations teams as well as colleagues across the business, your primary focus will be building, managing and monitoring the secure network. You will drive the network security strategy, manage vendor relationships, and oversee the full optimization lifecycle.

Technology is very highly regarded here, with core security engineering recognised as being critical to the success of trading. To be successful in this role, you’ll need to be excited about security, tackling big-picture problems, and contributing to both the project management and the technical nitty-gritty of global network security architecture.

Requirements

• Minimum bachelor’s degree in STEM field, e.g. Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, related IT field or equivalent experience
• Cyber security experience of 10+ years, including security engineering, architecture & project management
• Very strong troubleshooting skills on wide variety of issues, e.g. common Ethernet LAN problems, office Wi-Fi, routing, switching, and VPN remote access
• A background in keeping thorough records and effective technical documentation
• Fantastic communication skills, experienced in building strong cross-functional relationships

Benefits & Incentives

• Market-leading salary + bonuses + generous benefits package
• Truly flat management structure, with no red tape
• Friendly culture where everyone’s ideas are encouraged and celebrated
• Feel valued and be rewarded for your hard work where coding is front and centre

Industry-leading market maker using innovative and cutting-edge technology, with data at the core of the investment process, looking for an SRE with coding experience to work on trading analytics. Great opportunity for a creative problem-solver to work on delivering robust platforms and applications for research, trading and risk management.

Working in partnership with trading, quant research and engineering teams, you’ll be responsible for the full lifecycle of innovative platforms – building them from scratch in a variety of languages and technologies, backed by rigorous automated testing, release and deployment. You’ll own production services and be tasked with debugging live issues, as well as working with a wide variety of open source and proprietary tools to meet the challenges of this important role.

The successful candidate will enjoy working closely with the business to understand their practices and requirements in detail, and have the ability to automate, containerize, monitor and ensure the stability of their applications in a demanding environment.

Requirements

• Strong experience with public cloud deployments, management & automation, plus monitoring/logging platforms like Splunk, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, etc.
• Programming skills in high-level language, e.g. Python, Go
• In-depth experience with SDLC, e.g. tracking and scm (Git, JIRA), agile processes, CI/CD, etc.
• Sound experience working in a distributed/scalable environment
• Creative problem-solver, multitasking capability while under pressure
• Exposure to Kubernetes and Docker
• Experience of having built something from scratch would be ideal

Benefits & Incentives

• Significant salary + bonus + benefits
• Relaxed, informal yet highly rewarding work culture where great ideas are encouraged
• Tackle some of the toughest problems in the industry alongside the brightest minds
• A community that values hard work as well as work-life balance

One of the world’s largest hedge funds using innovative and cutting-edge technology, where data is central to the investment process. Great opportunity for hands-on software engineers with strong project delivery experience to be part of the team responsible for the development of risk applications across multiple business lines.

This is a great time to join as they embark on a re-engineering program, expanding their real-time risk capabilities, building new calculation & analysis interfaces and developing the data analysis architecture. Working closely with Senior Risk Managers, you will lead projects and/or small teams initially focused on fixed income and FX asset classes. You’ll develop primarily in Python to enhance and develop algorithms and models, use C++ for server-side infrastructure, and HTML5 (React, Node.js) for data visualization.

To be successful, you must be a very strong communicator, with a good understanding and previous use of software development life cycle best practices.

Requirements

• Minimum 7+ years’ experience in system analysis, design and programming
• Python skills are preferred; C++, KDB/Q and Unix also advantageous
• SQL and data manipulation experience essential
• A background in Finance is essential
• Experience of web application frameworks beneficial, e.g. HTML5, JavaScript (ES6+) & frameworks (React), Node.js
• Demonstrable analytical and problem-solving skills
• Desirable: major risk vendor products, e.g. RiskMetrics or Barra
• Master’s degree in a quant field, e.g. engineering, science, computer science, mathematics

Rewards and Incentives

• Significant salary + bonus + benefits
• Build complex software solutions to solve challenging problems in agile environment
• Positive, friendly culture

Industry-leading investment firm using innovative and cutting-edge technology, with data at the core of the investment process. They are seeking top-level software engineers – well-versed in C++ or Java – to join their Global Fixed Income team where you’ll focus on developing execution capabilities in the interest-rate and currency markets.

Within this high impact role, you’ll architect, build, deploy, and operate new and existing automated trading strategies for Futures, FX, IRS, and government bonds, as well as expanding the set of products supported on the platform. Partnering with quant researchers, you’ll optimize the execution costs through improving signals and order management workflow.

The successful candidate will have a proven track record of successfully managing multiple software design and development tasks in a demanding environment.

Requirements​

• Expert-level C++ or Java skills
• 3+ years’ experience deploying production-level code in a trading environment
• Strong computer science fundamentals
• Minimum BS degree in Computer Science (or related STEM subject)
• Excellent analytical problem-solving skills
• Experience building enterprise systems and low-latency applications is a plus
• FI and/or FX domain knowledge would be beneficial

Rewards and Incentives 

• Significant salary + bonus + benefits
• Work with the latest technologies on complex problems
• Positive, friendly culture

Quantitative Platform Developer wanted for systematic arm of globally recognised hedge fund to help build out and enhance their cutting-edge quantitative trading platform. This opportunity will give you the chance to work on a growing team with an experienced PM focused on mid-frequency strategies in futures and FX.

They are looking for a passionate developer with strong mathematical skills and knowledge of financial markets to create and maintain data pipelines seamlessly ingested by alpha models. You will be working directly with the researchers and technologists to automate all aspects of workflow in systematic trading. The initial focus will be purely engineering. Over time, the ideal candidate will have the opportunity to participate in the quantitative research process.

They are currently using Python in a Linux environment, and are looking for people with knowledge of both to come and contribute to building and enhancing the execution framework for live trading of futures and FX instruments.

Requirements

• 2-5+ years’ hands-on development experience (in quant finance would be ideal)
• Strong development experience in Python in a Linux environment
• Experience building pipelines for large amounts of financial data
• Ability to work effectively both independently as well as part of a team
• Bachelor’s, Masters or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering or Applied Mathematics

Desirable

• Experience with ML frameworks in Python and/or high performance computing
• Experience of execution algorithms and slippage models
• Java and/or C++ development experience

Benefits

• Work directly with all parts of the fund
• Market-leading salaries + bonus
• Entrepreneurial feel of a small firm with the infrastructure, technology and support that comes with a large company
• Inclusive, collaborative work culture

Quantitative Researcher wanted for systematic arm of globally recognised hedge fund to help build out and enhance their cutting-edge quantitative trading platform. This opportunity will give you the chance to work on a growing team with an experienced PM focused on mid-frequency strategies in futures and FX.

They are looking for a passionate developer with strong mathematical skills and knowledge of financial markets to research, develop and participate in all aspects of alpha modeling, including data scouting, hypothesis generation, back-testing and production monitoring. You will be working directly with the quants and technologists to automate all aspects of workflow in systematic trading. Over time, the ideal candidate will have the opportunity to become the team expert on either a particular kind of alpha strategies (ex: intraday short term) or a particular asset class.

They are currently using Python in a Linux environment, and are looking for people with knowledge of both to come and contribute to enhancing and building upon the existing portfolio construction and market impact modeling processes.

Requirements

• 1-5+ years’ hands-on quant researcher experience (in systematic strategy development would be ideal)
• Strong development experience in Python in a Linux environment
• Strong background in statistics and experience in modeling large amounts of data
• Ability to work effectively both independently as well as part of a team
• Masters or PhD in quant field, e.g. Physics, Applied Mathematics, Statistics or Computer Science

Desirable

• Experience with ML frameworks in Python and/or high performance computing
• Java and/or C++ development experience

Benefits

• Work directly with all parts of the fund
• Market-leading salaries + bonus
• Entrepreneurial feel of a small firm with the infrastructure, technology and support that comes with a large company
• Inclusive, collaborative work culture

My client is a global prop trading firm looking to grow their European team in Amsterdam. They employ the smartest minds to bring a scientific approach to trading strategies and are seeking a Quant Developer with exceptional C++ skills (and some Python) to help them continue to thrive.

You will draw on your low-latency, high frequency experience to identify areas for optimization & performance improvement, building components and new infrastructure for fresh trading strategies. Working closely with traders and developers you’ll optimize & evolve the current research pipeline, tuning the firm’s trading algorithms for nano-second performance.

Futures experience is very much preferred, but you are encouraged to apply if you have experience in cash equities, options or equities.

Requirements:

• 2+ years of commercial experience
• Bachelors/Masters/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics or similar field
• Strong coding experience in C++ required, plus Python would be beneficial
• Experience at a HFT firm is required
• Excellent software architecture skills, including strategy optimization and profiling
• Futures experience preferred

Benefits:

• Top of the market compensation package + performance-based bonuses
• Fantastic work-life balance
• Benefits include: premium health, casual dress, fully stocked pantries, company socials, relaxation room and generous learning allowance
• Plenty of scope to grow and have an impact on the business

High-frequency prop trading firm with offices worldwide is looking to expand one of its core engineering teams in London with a talented FPGA Developer.

Core engineering underpins the firm’s trading strategies providing access to a wide range of global financial markets, including access to new markets, cutting-edge new technical capabilities, and expert market intelligence. In this role, your main focus will be the design, development, testing and deploying some of the fastest, most sophisticated trading systems in the world. You will be expected to solve difficult technical problems in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

The successful candidate will be an incredibly smart self-starter, who thrives in a fast-paced environment working on exciting projects. They would love to see applicants from tech start-ups, FAANG or similar, who are keen to further their career at a successful global finance firm.

Requirements:

• A strong mix of traditional RTL design and software development skills
• Experience with FPGA vendor tools, e.g. Vivado, Quartus
• Development experience with a language such as C++ or Java
• Solid understanding of the Linux operating system
• Good knowledge of network protocols, e.g. TCP/IP and Ethernet

Desirable:

• Previous experience at a tech start-up, FAANG, or similar, is highly sought-after

Benefits:

• Market-leading salary + performance-based bonuses
• Generous benefits package, including medical insurance and gym membership
• Collaborative and friendly environment with smart, highly engaged colleagues
• Relaxed, dress-down office culture, with breakfast, lunch and snacks provided

Location: New York

A leading systematic hedge fund, investing across a variety of financial markets in multiple locations, my client is seeking a creative problem-solver to be the next Quant Developer in their growing Research Engineering team.

This team is comprised of technical and hands-on builders, each wearing multiple hats, and in this role you’ll be expected to do the same. Working very closely with Researchers and PMs on the team, your primary focus will be building from scratch performance attribution systems and portfolio analytics to monitor various live trading strategies. You’ll also build out data pipelines to collecting new alternative datasets, automate research workflows, and manage and scale core components of research infrastructure.

The successful Quant Developer will have a strong work ethic and a good sense of accountability.

Requirements

• Minimum 2+ years of Quant Developer experience (or similar position)
• Strong coding experience in Python and C++, with outstanding debugging and analytical skills
• Experience with Python data science stack, e.g. Pandas/Numpy/Scikit-learn
• Keen proponent of writing automated tests
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science (or equivalent)
• Must have US Citizenship or valid H1B Visa

Benefits

• Competitive base salaries and performance-based bonuses
• Very collaborative culture, ideas are implemented
• Work with passionate, forward-thinking, incredibly smart people

Location: London

Compensation: £300k – 500k

About:

Global algorithmic trading firm that actively trades tens of thousands of instruments on over eighty venues, with a daily volume of almost three hundred billion USD. They partner with counterparties, exchanges, and e-trading venues globally to provide consistent liquidity in the Equity, FX, Fixed Income, Commodity & Options markets, helping market participants throughout the world obtain the best prices in various assets classes.

Looking to hire into their top top team – ETD (Exchange Traded Development group) – this team builds out all of the systems & networks for their market-making activities.

Key Information:

Led by two of the most senior employees, they are looking for candidates who are:

• strong developers with an instinct for low-level engineering (C/C++)
• pushing CPUs and GPUs to the limit and who ideally have a lot of low-level concepts in their previous work, e.g. x86, compilers, operating systems, Assembler, Verilog, Linux and Kernel

NB: Prior financial knowledge is not required.

Benefits:

• On-site gym, sauna, and fitness classes at no charge
• Extensive medical benefits, including an on-site doctor and therapist at no charge
• Breakfast and lunch provided daily
• Various supports for caregivers, including emergency dependent care
• 25 days’ paid holiday per year + statutory holiday and paid sick days
• Generous pension contributions

Location: London

Compensation: £400k+

About:

They are the most successful Futures trading firm but cross-asset. Made up of smaller trading pods that have full autonomy over what they trade. They are an HFT, but not a major speed player; they use speed to maximise without being reliant on it, but can turn it up when needed. They have the best networking infrastructure globally to get data around the world.

Role:

In this role, you’ll sit within their most successful trading team of 45 people based in London (230 globally – trading everything, everywhere). This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment where your contributions directly impact trading success.

As a Quantitative Developer, you will work on a core team of technologists building and improving the platforms that drive the trading team. You’ll work closely with quantitative researchers on the team to create new research infrastructure.

Key Attributes:

• Experience working with Python on large distributed systems
• Experience working on a Linux platform
• Proven success working with large datasets
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Intellectual curiosity
• Self-directed and comfortable taking ownership of projects and responsibilities
• Minimum academic qualification: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent
• Reliable and predictable availability

Location: London

About:

This is one of the world’s largest market-makers, trading more than $17 trillion securities. An incredibly tech-focused company, they hire some of the best developers from around the world (open to any coding language background). Well-known users of OCaml and a large open-source presence means engineers here can see their code being utilised as part of these huge trades, as well as having a life beyond the company in the developer community – one of the main draws for the many engineers that have joined from both tech and other financial firms.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain high-performance systems which handle billions of dollars in transactions daily.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement innovative software solutions.
• Utilize and contribute to open-source software in daily work.
• Engage in projects that range from machine learning to systems administration and beyond.

What They’re Looking For:

• Programming Skills: Top-notch programming abilities in any object-oriented (OO) language. While they primarily use OCaml, experience with functional programming is not required.
• Passion for Technology: A deep love for and understanding of technology, with an interest in diverse areas like programming language design, systems engineering, and more.
• Collaboration: Strong interpersonal skills to work effectively within small teams.

About You:

Candidates from any OO programming background who are eager to learn new languages and technologies are welcome. No prior experience in finance is necessary; they are more interested in your problem-solving skills and your ability to learn.

Why Apply:

• Work in a high-impact role with a direct influence on business outcomes.
• Be part of a team that values autonomy and responsibility, offering a broad perspective on how the business operates.
• Engage with a company that values open-source contributions and innovative technology.

Salary: £90,000 – £130,000 base + bonus

Summary

This is a great chance to join one of the world’s most renowned financial firms as a Java Developer on their Credit eTrading Development team. If you love facing off to the business, being embedded with the traders and quants, this role would be perfect for you.

This team works closely with the algo business, designing and building software for price contribution and trade execution on the electronic trading platform used globally. You will be liaising with the traders, quants and core technology teams, rapidly translating requirements into robust technical design and implementation, with huge amounts of autonomy. Sprints are typically in 2-week cycles, but releases can occur several times a week.

Along with strong technical abilities, mentoring and reviewing the code of junior colleagues, you need to be able to hold your own in a fast-paced trader environment.

Skills and Experience Required

• Solid programming skills in multiple languages, especially Java
• Proven track record designing and delivering high-quality, performant software
• Broad range of technical experience, e.g. event-driven & concurrent programming
• Outstanding communication and the ability to build good relationships with traders and stakeholders

Benefits

• Significant salaries + bonuses + benefits
• High degree of ownership and impactful work
• Excellent career growth and professional development is encouraged
• Flexible working and working from home opportunities

Salary Range: £200k-400k TC

Fantastic opportunity at a leading multi-strategy alternative fund manager looking for an experienced developer strategist to head up a talented team of engineers.

In this role, your main focus will be building the next iteration of a Python object model they have created which adds calculated methods to data stored in an encrypted SQL relational database. You’ll lead a team responsible for the architecture, design and implementation.

Some examples of projects: automating risk reports and monthly letters that we send out to the funds’ investors, code to monitor levels of investments of certain classes of investors, and to create a model of the detailed side letter terms for specific investors.

Languages they use here are Python 3.7, C++ 17, SQL/MariaDB, Pandas, and HTML5, CSS and HTTP web technologies.

Requirements 

• Expert in Python coding and proficient with C++, HTML and relational databases
• A natural leader with strong interpersonal and communication skills and experience leading a team
• 8-15 years’ programming experience
• Previous experience developing financial markets software, ideally within investor relations or investment management
• Degree in Computer or Software Engineering or equivalent

Rewards and Incentives  

• Great base salaries and industry-leading bonus
• Demanding but rewarding work culture
• Work with some of the most talented people in the industry
• Personal and professional development opportunities

Global algorithmic hedge fund with a focus on developing high quality financial strategies across a variety of asset classes, utilising a proprietary research platform focused on market inefficiencies.

They’re seeking an experienced Quantitative Developer with great mathematical and critical-thinking skills to join a talented team. This role would be perfect for someone with a strong background and expertise with leading on system architecture and application development methodologies.

The successful candidate will be exposed to many different business areas, working directly with technologists, researchers and portfolio managers.

Requirements

• Significant core Python and C++ programming skills
• Deep-level familiarity with Linux development environment
• Exposure to portfolio optimization theory and modelling
• Knowledge of SQL and some knowledge of machine learning & statistical optimization techniques (e.g. convex optimization)
• Strong academic record, with degree in a technical subject from a leading university

Rewards and Incentives

• Market leading salary + lucrative bonus
• Opportunities to learn and develop new skills
• Great work/life balance
• Freedom in work and dynamic culture; opportunity to bring new ideas and really have an impact

Summary 

***This position can be based in Chicago / London / Singapore / New York / Austin, TX***

High-frequency prop trading firm with offices worldwide are looking to expand their in-house trading team with a talented software developer well-versed in C++.

Enjoying high levels of autonomy, the successful candidate will design, develop and implement a low-latency, high-frequency trading platform. You will also contribute to the development and optimization of large-scale parallel computation problems involving large amounts of shared data, and improve performance by optimizing the efficiency of machine learning-based algorithms.

The ideal candidate will be comfortable managing multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment and possess exceptional communication skills in English, both verbal and written.

***All interviews can be fully remote.***

Requirements

• 5+ years of practical experience in C++ and 3 years with Python
• Strong proficiency with data structures, algorithms, and OOP
• Sound experience using other programming languages, such as Java
• Solid working knowledge of Linux and SQL
• Self-starter, with a passion for innovation and building systems from scratch

Benefits

• Market-leading salary + bonuses; they will pay leading market rate / are flexible for the right candidate
• Benefits including medical insurance and gym membership
• Collaborative and friendly environment with smart, highly engaged colleagues
• Relaxed, dress-down office culture, with breakfast, lunch and snacks provided

About the Position

Exciting opportunity to work at a tech-centric prop trading fund where their numerous distributed systems are built on an agile, reliable, multi-vendor network infrastructure that supports all traffic profiles from trading to internet connectivity.

Looking for a Network Engineer who will help build and maintain the team’s highest level of service and scale the network ahead of business demands, while pushing for more standardisation through automation.

Strong communication and interpersonal skills will be needed as you collaborate with colleagues across the firm globally. You will find and resolve issues, plan and execute deployments, and improve systems where possible. Getting the details right and keeping good records will be critical in this role. Striving to improve the team through documentation and contributing to monitoring and automation systems will be a must.

A typical day in the Network Engineering team includes:

• Working on cross-team design efforts such as new data centers and colocations, WAN routing optimisation, and other initiatives
• Interacting with stakeholders to identify requirements and network features/capabilities that are required to enable the business
• Contributing to both active support efforts while also working to document, automate, and simplify the network design to limit outages and increase the ability to resolve issues in a timely fashion

About You

• 7+ years of experience operating and deploying network infrastructure
• 3+ years of experience in ground-up network design
• Experience with routing and network protocols (OSPF, BGP, PIM-SM)
• Experience troubleshooting transport protocols (TCP/UDP)
• Experience working with Linux and proficient in a programming language
• Ideally experience with overlay networks (EVPN, VxLAN)
• Eagerness to automate your workflow to increase efficiency
• High capacity to learn; they are more interested in how you think than what you already know
• High capacity for context switching and organising your workload
• Clear communication skills with the ability to maintain a high degree of customer service
• A flexible and reliable team player who enjoys working in a collaborative environment
• Fluency in English required

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

My client is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. A technology and data driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing. Combining data, research, technology, and trading expertise has shaped the collaborative mindset, enabling them to solve the most complex challenges. They have a culture of innovation which continuously drives their ambition to deliver high quality returns for investors.

About the Role:

Seeking an exceptional Quantitative Developer specializing in low-level C++ and metaprogramming to contribute to ultra-high-frequency trading strategies. This role requires extensive expertise in memory management, threading, CPU caching, and Linux systems, with an emphasis on high-performance and low-latency coding. The candidate will interact with FPGA systems and work closely on optimizing and developing trading strategies.

• Develop, optimize, and maintain high-performance C++ code for ultra-low-latency trading systems.
• Work on strategy interaction with FPGA to ensure seamless integration.
• Mentor junior developers, fostering technical growth and best practices.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and network teams to ensure optimal system performance.
• Demonstrate high autonomy in managing tasks and lead technical initiatives.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of C++ development experience, with a strong focus on low-level C++ and metaprogramming.
• In-depth knowledge of memory management, multithreading, CPU cache optimization, and Linux.
• Familiarity with high-frequency trading systems; finance experience is a plus but not mandatory.
• Solid understanding of infrastructure and network basics.
• Proven leadership and mentoring abilities with a self-directed approach to work.

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

The Company

My client is a technology-driven company, pushing on ultra-low-latency real-time systems at large scale globally. Challenges abound, and you should have a desire to learn new technologies, and demonstrate an ability to solve unstructured problems.

Working here has the feel of a small start-up with the benefits of being part of one of the leading quantitative trading firms in the world. They’re currently looking for talented engineers to join the global FPGA team.

This team works with technologists and traders to provide hardware solutions in areas such as fast networking, high performance compute, and real-time acceleration. This is a fast-paced area, where taking ideas through to deployment must be fast and accurate. Seeking FPGA development engineers who can help build the next generation of hardware solutions. You will have excellent knowledge of building reliable, high performance FPGA hardware systems. Ideally, you will have a combination of skills in traditional RTL development and complementary software skills. This will enable you to fully contribute to co-designing hybrid hardware/software applications.

As a resourceful individual you will make a difference to a growing company, with your contributions recognized, valued and rewarded. They will support your career progression in a well-resourced, fast-moving environment. Collaboratively, you can make a significant impact and help define the future of trading acceleration using FPGA technology.

What you’ll do:

• Work within the FPGA development team to roll out new hardware to the trading community
• Interact with development teams to coordinate technology introduction
• Develop high performance FPGA systems in SystemVerilog and/or HLS
• Contribute to the development of productivity tooling that supports hardware development efforts
• Stay informed of industry hardware (including the latest System-on-Chip and System-in-Package)
• Interpret high-level requirements to create exceptional solutions for the trading community
• Build your skills in the finance industry and FPGA development flows 

Skills you’ll need:

• Passion for development, strong work ethic, and drive to continually learn and improve
• Hands-on FPGA development successes, taking ownership of significant systems and subsystems
• Sound understanding of technology tradeoffs, and a pragmatic approach to problem solving
• At least 3+ years of experience working as a FPGA development engineer in a team environment
• At least 3+ years of RTL experience (SystemVerilog/Verilog/VHDL)
• At least 2+ years of software development experience
• Quantitative appreciation of low-level hardware/software interaction
• Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science (or related subject)

Bonus points for:

• Linux experience
• Scripting language proficiency (preferably Python)
• High-level Synthesis flows
• Familiarity with some of: Jenkins CI, Github, ctypes, SWIG
• Experience of automated testing
• Embedded processors
• Networking (Ethernet, TCP/IP, IB)
• Financial protocol and algorithmic experience
• High speed networking / serial protocols / transceivers / PCIe

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Incredible opportunity at a leading investment fund to join a small group of elite engineers who partner with different areas across the firm to address their most pressing challenges. Members of this team are the best of the best. They have a proven track record of exceeding the bar, they are driven by solving the seemingly unsolvable, and they aren’t afraid to tear down and rebuild applications from the ground up. In return, they get senior-level exposure, mentorship by some of the best engineers in the industry, and the opportunity to sign their name to massive accomplishments and wins across the firm’s Engineering organization.

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

This is a fantastic position on a commodities team that seeks to generate alpha through directional and relative value strategies across both physical and financial commodities markets. They evaluate opportunities in natural gas, power, crude, and refined products, and agriculture, primarily in North America and Europe.

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

My client, an AI software firm building a complete, AI-driven customer service platform, is looking to hire exceptional engineers to join their Machine Learning team in Dublin, Ireland.

This team is responsible for defining new ML features, researching appropriate algorithms and technologies, and rapidly getting first prototypes into customers’ hands.

An extremely product-focused team, they work in partnership with Product & Design functions of teams they support. The team’s dedicated ML product engineers enable them to move to production fast, often shipping to beta in weeks after a successful offline test.

They are very passionate about applying machine learning technology, and have productized everything from classic supervised models, to cutting-edge unsupervised clustering algorithms, to novel applications of transformer neural networks. They test and measure the real customer impact of each model deployed.

What will I be doing?

• Identify areas where ML can create value for customers
• Identify the right ML framing of product problems
  • Working with teammates and Product & Design stakeholders
• Conduct exploratory data analysis and research
  • Deeply understand the problem area
• Research and identify the right algorithms and tools
  • Being pragmatic, but innovating right to the cutting edge when needed
• Perform offline evaluation to gather evidence an algorithm will work
• Work with engineers to bring prototypes to production
• Plan, measure & socialize learnings to inform iteration
• Partner deeply with the rest of team, and others, to build excellent ML products

What skills might I need?

These are meant to be indicative, not hard requirements.

• Broad applied machine learning knowledge
• 7+ years’ applied ML experience
• Practical stats knowledge (experiment design, dealing with confounding, etc.)
• Intermediate programming skills
• Strong communication skills, both within engineering teams and across disciplines
• Comfort with ambiguity
• Typically have advanced education in ML or related field (e.g. MSc)
• Scientific thinking skills

Bonus skills & attributes

• Track record shipping ML products
• PhD or other experience in a research environment

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Our client is a global investment management firm that utilizes a diversified portfolio of systematic and quantitative strategies across financial markets that seeks to achieve high quality, uncorrelated returns for clients. They have deep expertise in trading, technology and operations and attribute their success to rigorous scientific research. As a technology and data–driven firm, they design and build their own cutting–edge systems, from high-performance trading platforms to large-scale data analysis and compute farms. With offices around the globe, they emphasize true, global collaboration by aligning investment, technology and operations teams’ functionally around the world.

Position Overview:

The Platform Specialist position requires a highly proficient individual with a strong technical background in delivering mission–critical infrastructure, utilizing DevOps methodology. The ideal candidate will be responsible for project delivery, escalation support, capacity management and documentation for the platform infrastructure. They will be required to architect, build, and maintain automated solutions for production support and user–facing services. Design, monitor, and scale private and public cloud infrastructure, and provide concise and professional documentation.

Additionally, the candidate will manage projects in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, automate BAU tasks with scripting and configuration management tools, and implement and/or coordinate changes following approved change control policies. The position requires the ability to provide escalation support to remediate performance and availability issues, identify areas of improvement, and adopt automated and innovative solutions. The candidate must be flexible, flourish in a high–paced and challenging environment, and have the capacity to grow and learn from peers.

Required Qualifications:

• 3+ years working with Linux (RHEL/CentOS/OEL preferred) in an enterprise environment with the following areas of focus: operations, systems engineering and containerization.
• Experience with configuration management, i.e. Chef, Puppet, and Ansible.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker/ Podman (or another containerization engine).
• Experience with developing and deploying containers via GitOps pipelines using tools such as Gitlab–ci and ArgoCD (Helm and Kustomize).
• Experience managing some of the following software or protocols: Gitlab, Consul, Kafka, Artifactory (Jfrog), AWX/Tower, Tableau, SSOs (OpenID, SAML, Kerberos), Crowd (Atlassian), HAProxy, Certificate Manager.
• Proficient in scripting or development in Python, Ruby (Chef), Go, or Bash.
• Well–organized, proactive, resourceful, able to handle a fast–paced environment, question the status quo, and accountable.
• Critical thinking and problem–solving skills to tackle troubleshooting the unknown, glitches and the obscure.
• Strong communication: verbal and written.
• Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related Information Technology experience.

Nice to have:

• Experience with
  • infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform, Helm, Ansible, Pulumi, Bicep).
  • designing highly available systems.
  • various cloud providers (AWS and GCP).
  • disaster recovery management leveraging cloud specific capabilities.
  • Cloud Storage concepts (Block storage/Blob storage).
  • job scheduling tools such as Airflow, Prefect Scheduler and Slurm (or other
    HPC scheduler).
  • designing and maintaining CICD pipelines to ensure fast delivery and integration of the platform services.

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

About the Position

My client is seeking an engineer with robust experience in machine learning and strong mathematical foundations to join their growing ML team and to help drive the direction of the ML platform.

Machine learning is a critical pillar of the fund’s global business. The ever-evolving trading environment serves as a unique, rapid-feedback platform for ML experimentation, allowing new ideas to be incorporated with relatively little friction. The ML team is full of people with a shared love for the craft of software engineering, and for designing APIs and systems that are delightful to use.

You’ll draw on your in-depth knowledge of the ML ecosystem and understanding of varying approaches — whether it’s neural networks, random forests, gradient-boosted trees, or sophisticated ensemble methods — to aid decision-making so that the right tool is applied for the problem at hand. Your work will also focus on enhancing research workflows to tighten feedback cycles. Successful ML engineers will be able to understand the mechanics behind various modeling techniques, while also being able to break down the mathematics behind them.

If you’ve never thought about a career in finance, you’re in good company. Many of the employees were in the same position before working at this firm. While there isn’t a fixed list of qualifications they’re looking for, if you have a curious mind and a passion for solving interesting problems, you’ll almost certainly fit right in.

Requirements:

• Experience building and maintaining training and inference infrastructure, with an understanding of what it takes to move from concept to production
• A strong mathematical background; good candidates will be excited about things like optimization theory, regularization techniques, linear algebra, and the like
• A passion for keeping up with the state of the art, whether that means diving into academic papers, experimenting with the latest hardware, or reading the source of a new machine learning package
• A proven ability to create and maintain an organized research codebase that produces robust, reproducible results while maintaining ease of use
• Expertise wrangling an ML framework – they’re fans of PyTorch, but they’d also love to learn what you know about Jax, TensorFlow, or others
• An inventive approach and the willingness to ask hard questions about whether the right approaches are being taken and the right tools being used

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Fantastic opportunity for a Quantitative Developer to join this proprietary trading firm in their Amsterdam office. They are committed to leveraging technology and math to implement competitive trading strategies. The team has extensive, global experience in a wide variety of asset classes, risk management, and leading trading technologies. They focus their efforts on hiring extremely talented and motivated individuals to collaborate with each other and compete in the world’s financial markets.

The Quantitative Developer will have the opportunity to work in our Chicago or New York office on strategy development and code optimization. Seeking a candidate that is searching for an opportunity to make a real impact, deliver value, and work within an experienced team.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with the team to build, optimize, and evolve the firms’ current research pipeline and strategy development
• Identify potential areas for optimization and performance enhancements through research; including, but not limited to suggestions for the ongoing maintenance and improvement of code quality
• Build components and new infrastructure to maintain new trading strategies and exhausting the testing and debugging skills as part of the development process
• Work directly with traders and developers to provide realistic project timelines and estimates, and ensure team accountability
• Stay current on industry developments and trends to maintain ongoing business awareness and a competitive edge

Qualifications:

• A Bachelors, Masters, or PhD degree with more than 2 years of experience with an emphasis in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics or a similar field
• Experience coding in C++ and Python
• Strong organizational and software architecture skills with a proven understanding of optimizing and profiling strategies
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize multiple projects at one time

Benefits:

This firm prides itself on offering highly competitive benefits for employees. They have an excellent work-life balance and are able to be most productive by working together. The firm offers competitive salary and performance-based bonuses, casual dress, fully stocked pantries with many healthy options (and a bit of chocolate, too!), catered breakfast and lunches weekly, company outings, and a Zen Room for moments of relaxation. Additionally, they offer productivity allowances, a generous learning and development reimbursement, retirement planning, and premium health benefits.

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Our client, a global alternative IM, is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Data Engineer to join their Data team. The successful candidate will be responsible for the development, testing, and maintenance of the data platform, ensuring the availability, reliability, and integrity of the data. You will interact and build relationships directly with the client’s front office and technology teams.

The role will entail exposure to a wide variety of data types with significant opportunities to master different practices, tools and skills and allow you to apply your experience and insight to solve interesting real-world data challenges across multiple asset classes.

Responsibilities:

• Regular interation with the front office to understand and scope data needs or capabilities
• Operation and build-out of the data platform using in-house and vendor data tools
• Analysis and implementation of data automation tasks and processes
• Creation of data pipelines from various data providers to populate the firm’s data platform
• Curation of external and internal datasets to meet the front office’s data needs
• Design and implementation of best-practice and pragmatic data design
• Develop and implement data standards and quality rules

What Makes a Great Candidate:

• Experience in a data specialist role, a passion for working with data and helping stakeholders
• Highly proficient in SQL, Python and Apache Spark, with demonstrable work experience using these tools in a production context
• A minimum 2.1 degree obtained in Computer Science, or a related field, ideally from a Russell Group university
• Databricks and Microsoft Azure experience is a plus
• Financial services experience a bonus, but is not essential
• Confident verbal and written communications
• Ability to communicate complex data concepts in a relatable way
• The ability to complete tasks independently to a high standard with minimal oversight
• Strong problem-solving skills with an emphasis on scalable, high quality solutions
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple tasks simultaneously
• Strong attention to detail and a keen eye for data discrepancies and inaccuracies
• A desire to understand & solve business problems, build domain knowledge & increase market understanding

About the Company

Our client is a global alternative investment fund manager combining relative value and directional trading across global macro asset classes to generate uncorrelated returns. The core portfolio structure of intersecting product verticals is designed to deliver for investors in all market conditions. Currently employing over 225 people between their London, New York, Hong Kong and Singapore offices.

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Salary: up to $250,000 USD base + discretionary bonus

Summary

Exciting opportunity to work at one of the world’s leading macro trading firms with offices across the globe. You will be working with a small team of top minds in quantitative research and portfolio management to develop new fully automated systematic futures signals with intraday to daily horizons.

Requirements

• Professional experience researching scalable short and medium-term alpha.
• An advanced degree (MSc or PhD) from a top institution is preferred.
• Strong preference for advanced degrees in Statistics and/or Computational Math.
• Excellent understanding of probabilities, statistics, and optimization.
• Proficiency in Python and R is a must, as is the ability to write efficient code.

NB: Please only apply if you meet the above criteria.

Benefits and Incentives

• Annual bonus.
• Health insurance and other benefits.
• Paid time off and parental leave.
• A retirement plan with a company match.
• And more!

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Salary: up to $300,000 USD base + annual bonus

Summary

Exciting opportunity to work at one of the world’s leading prop trading firms with offices across the globe. You will be working with a small team of top minds in machine learning and engineering to develop new ways to use LLM to generate valuable insights from financial data.

Seeking a machine learning expert with a proven track record of building impactful systems who can lead an open-ended research project from concept to production: finding compelling problems well-suited to current and projected LLM capabilities, collaborating extensively with trading teams to understand requirements and constraints, and continuously improving model design, tools, and infrastructure.

Requirements

• 5+ years building ML systems with real metrics & impact in industry and/or academia
• Strong general ML background with some exposure to language modeling architectures (e.g. transformers, SSMs)
• Solid development skills in Python and/or C++
• Familiarity with ML libraries/frameworks such as PyTorch (preferred), TensorFlow, and/or JAX
• Intellectual curiosity, versatility, and originality combined with a pragmatic outlook
• Ability to reason through quantitative problems and communicate effectively with trading researchers
• Reliable and predictable availability

NB: Please only apply if you meet the above criteria.

Benefits and Incentives

• Annual bonus.
• Health insurance and other benefits.
• Paid time off and parental leave.
• A retirement plan with a company match.
• And more!

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Salary: up to 250-275k SGD base

Summary

High-frequency prop trading firm with offices worldwide looking for a talented C++ Engineer to join the Markets team, providing the trading strategies access to a wide, growing range of global markets.

Enjoying a varied project portfolio, in this role you will use clean, efficient code to design and develop various components for the high frequency trading platform, collecting quotes and trades from exchanges around the world. You’ll also optimize the platform using network & systems programming, as well as developing systems to provide easy access to historical market data.

If you have creative, insightful problem-solving abilities and can manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced trading environment, then apply now!

Requirements

• 5+ years of practical experience in C++ development, preferably with some Python and shell scripts knowledge
• Strong proficiency with data structures, algorithms, and OOP
• Solid working understanding of Linux operating system and Networking (TCP/IP and UDP) is plus
• Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Trading environment experience is beneficial

NB: Please don’t apply if you are a fresh graduate.

Benefits

• Competitive salary + performance-based bonuses
• Generous benefits, including medical insurance and gym membership
• Collaborative and friendly environment with smart, highly engaged colleagues
• Relaxed, dress-down office culture, with breakfast, lunch and snacks provided

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Salary: up to 250-275k SGD base

Summary

High-frequency prop trading firm with offices worldwide is looking to expand its Trading Platforms teams with a talented FPGA Developer.

This team develops, improves, and governs the platforms via which trading teams access markets, as well as enabling Risk Technology to control market access and trading. In this role, your main focus will be working collaboratively with software developers across the business to architect low-latency connections to global financial exchanges. You’ll build advanced Ethernet-based comms stacks direct from chip to SFP, integrate network stacks to connect to various exchanges, and develop an optimal interface between FPGA hardware and user space software.

You will be expected to be a skilled communicator, able to clearly document specifications and solve difficult technical problems in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, or equivalent professional experience
• 5-10 years of FPGA development experience, including expert-level knowledge of FPGA products (Xilinx preferred), development tools, and related simulators
• Verilog or System Verilog programming (ASIC development via VHDL or Verilog experience will be considered)
• C or C++ programming
• Experience with Ethernet protocols, pci-e, and/or switching and routing in network equipment, parsing and traffic shaping
• Experience in FPGA design flow including synthesis, place & route, static timing analysis
• A strong understanding of network PHY interfacing

NB: Please don’t apply if you are a fresh graduate.

Benefits

• Competitive salary + performance-based bonuses
• Generous benefits, including medical insurance and gym membership
• Collaborative and friendly environment with smart, highly engaged colleagues
• Relaxed, dress-down office culture, with breakfast, lunch and snacks provided

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Salary: up to £100k base + bonus

Summary

Perfect opportunity for talented infrastructure engineers eager to propel their careers to the next level. Based onsite in Dubai, you will be working closely with the highly experienced founders of this digital assets prop shop as one of their first technology hires.

As Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll be responsible for enabling the software development required to build a world-class trading platform. From network architecture design to cloud infrastructure optimisation, to automated deployment and resource cluster management – no two days will be the same in this exciting role.

The founders are keen to see candidates with a track record of managing large-scale infrastructure from a variety of backgrounds, preferably with a demonstrable interest in trading and finance. They offer a highly attractive working environment, flat organizational structure and superb rewards for your hard work.

Requirements

• 5+ years’ experience in large-scale infrastructure management
• Excellent skills & experience in computer networks, cloud computing, py script automation
• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Maths, Physics (or similar quant field)
• Outstanding communication skills in English

NB Please don’t apply if you are a fresh graduate.

Benefits

• Competitive salary + performance-based bonus + equity partner opportunity
• Dedicated, focused, flat-structure working environment
• Autonomy to shape your role and grow your career
• Free kitchen
• Visa sponsorship in UAE if required

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Salary: up to 250-275k SGD base

Summary

High-frequency prop trading firm with offices worldwide looking for skilled Senior Site Reliability Engineer developer to join their High Performance Computing team, developing and supporting their large-scale compute and storage platform.

This platform is designed to solve demanding problems – both business and financial – through computer modelling, simulation and analysis. You will be responsible for the deployment, operation and support of HPC infrastructure (focusing on diverse and distributed on-prem & cloud storage), schedulers – e.g. HTCondor or SLURM, and the container orchestration platform (Kubernetes), as well as managing hardware and software vendor relationships.

The successful SRE will have excellent communication skills, and previous exposure to at least one cloud platform.

Requirements

• Solid Linux admin experience – in a large-scale research environment infrastructure would be ideal (scientific, financial, data analytics)
• Experience with managing a medium to large-scale platform environments, e.g. Kubernetes or Mesos
• Hands-on experience with at least one programming language (preferably Python)
• Degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or related field

NB: Please don’t apply if you are a fresh graduate.

Benefits

• Competitive salary + performance-based bonuses
• Generous benefits, including medical insurance and gym membership
• Collaborative and friendly environment with smart, highly engaged colleagues
• Relaxed, dress-down office culture, with breakfast, lunch and snacks provided

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Salary: up to 250-275k SGD base

Summary

High-frequency prop trading firm with offices worldwide looking for a talented Data Engineer to design, implement and maintain the infrastructure which underpins the firm’s data management processes.

Collaborating with other members of the Data Services team, Portfolio Management teams, and colleagues across IT, your primary focus will be the reliability, security and scalability of data systems. This will include automation, troubleshooting, understanding requirements & developing solutions, implementing ETL processes, monitoring, overseeing Airflow workflows, and staying across the latest trends in order to recommend improvements to data processes.

You’ll be expected to have outstanding communication and collaboration skills, and a real passion for meeting users’ needs.

Requirements

• Minimum 2 years’ experience using Python and ETL-related libraries, such as pyodbc, SQLAlchemy, and Django
• Strong proficiency with database systems, e.g. SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or MySQL
• Sound experience with ETL processes, data modeling, and database design principles
• Familiarity with database backup & recovery procedures, database security, and disaster recovery planning, plus exposure to Airflow DAG
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field

NB: Please don’t apply if you are a fresh graduate.

Benefits

• Competitive salary + performance-based bonuses
• Generous benefits, including medical insurance and gym membership
• Collaborative and friendly environment with smart, highly engaged colleagues
• Relaxed, dress-down office culture, with breakfast, lunch and snacks provided

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Salary: up to £150k + bonus

Summary

This is a superb opportunity for a proactive and pragmatic coder to join an award-winning, tech-savvy algorithmic trading firm in London. Specialists within electronic market-making in FX, equity, fixed income and commodity markets, they have one of the best names in the industry and attract the top talent.

As part of the team that oversees the infrastructure used by the rest of the firm, your main focus will be designing, developing and continually improving these platforms, using a combination of commercial products, open-source software and custom code. Some examples of recent products: in-house job scheduling system; custom Kerberos infrastructure and related tools; standardised open-source and in-house Linux distributions.

Fluent programming skills in any language are a must-have. (They use Go for their systems, but also Python, C and Bash – experience in these is not necessary, but you must be be willing and able to quickly adopt new languages as necessary.)

Requirements

• Demonstrable automation experience of how new tools you introduced impacted positively on users outside your immediate team
• Very strong coding abilities (Go, Python, C and/or Bash experience a plus)
• Good working knowledge of Linux, TCP/IP networking, and storage technologies
• Evidence of building excellent relationships with peers both inside a team and across an organisation
• Expert use of standard development tools, e.g. git, IDEs, CI/CD and test-driven development techniques

Nice to Have

• Related development experience in any of these fields: Docker, Prometheus/Grafana, Elasticsearch, Puppet/Terraform, hardware/networking/storage.
• Previous knowledge of trading systems

NB: Please don’t apply if you’re a fresh graduate.

Benefits

• Generous compensation package – you are making a direct impact on the PnL
• Flat hierarchy, focus on teamwork, where people are rewarded on merit and excellence
• Outstanding benefits, including onsite gym/sauna/fitness classes, extensive medical cover, and excellent professional development opportunities
• Cutting-edge, beautiful offices in central London

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Salary: up to $300k + bonus

Summary

Leading HFT fund looking for a talented C++ Software Engineer to join the Core Development team, a global group of technologists responsible for architecting, building and maintaining the algorithmic trading platform.

In this role, you’ll focus on C++ functionality and be tasked with creating and optimising scalable, multi-tiered applications and infrastructure.

Technology is prized by the traders as crucial to their continued success. Unique in their field, this global firm combines the lively, positive spirit of a start-up with the stability of a longer-established player.

This role would suit someone who is able to solve difficult technical problems in a fast-paced and energetic environment.

Requirements

• Minimum 2 years’ C++ programming experience in a Linux environment
• Solid understanding of computer systems – operating systems, networks, performance optimization, etc.
• Deep-level knowledge of object oriented design and multithreaded programming
• Experience in creating/supporting cross-platform multithreaded applications
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering (or related field)

NB: Please don’t apply if you are a fresh graduate.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary & bonus
• Enormous opportunity to grow and have an impact
• Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported
• Free breakfast, lunch and dinner

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

An elite prop trading firm is looking for exceptional C++ software developers to join their London team. This firm is scientific, tech-driven and they invest heavily in their engineering teams. Developers here are truly world-class.

You will sit on the trading floor, working alongside the very best traders and developers, producing low-latency exchange connectivity components for new markets. You will collaborate closely with other teams ensuring software is supported and runs smoothly.

This is a high impact role, seeing the results of your work immediately and having a direct outcome on the bottom line. You will also have the opportunity to be involved in software engineering processes, such as peer code reviews and daily stand-up meetings.

Requirements

• Exceptional C++ developer (with experience of C++11/14/17/20)
• Strong knowledge of multiple exchanges & performance analysis
• Experience in ultra-low-latency design, performance tuning & template programming
• Excellent communication skills and skilled problem-solver
• Keen desire to work in financial industry

Nice to have

• Experience in a similar role in finance
• Experience in Python, Typescript

Benefits

• Excellent bonus potential and compensation
• Friendly, collaborative working environment
• Catered offices and regular social events
• Work with the latest technologies on complex problems.

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

A leading systematic hedge fund, investing across a variety of financial markets in multiple locations, my client is seeking a creative problem-solver to be their next Quant Developer.

You will be working in a team comprised of technical and hands-on builders, each wearing multiple hats, and in this role you’ll be expected to do the same. Working very closely with Researchers and PMs on the team, your primary focus will be building out from scratch performance attribution systems and portfolio analytics to monitor various live trading strategies. You’ll also build out data pipelines to collecting new alternative datasets, automate research workflows, and manage and scale core components of research infrastructure.

The successful Quant Developer will have a strong work ethic and a sense of accountability.

Requirements

• Must have minimum 2+ years of Quant Developer experience
• Strong coding experience in Python and C++, with excellent debugging and analytical skills
• Experience with Python data science stack, e.g. Pandas/Numpy/Scikit-learn
• Keen proponent of writing automated tests
• Bachelors or Masters degree from a top-tier university in Computer Science, Maths, Engineering or related field

Benefits

• Competitive base salaries and performance-based bonuses
• Very collaborative culture, ideas are implemented
• Work with passionate, forward-thinking, incredibly smart people

Salary: up to $250k + bonus

Summary

Leading HFT fund looking for motivated research scientists with a demonstrated ability to apply machine learning to achieve cutting-edge capabilities in complex and challenging domains. You will join a growing AI team combining emerging techniques and models with original research to generate signals from unstructured data.

In this role, you’ll need to be capable of leading an open-ended research project from concept to production. This will include finding compelling problems well-suited to current and projected LLM capabilities, collaborating extensively with trading teams to understand requirements & constraints, and continuously improving model design, tools, and infrastructure. Projects may include any area of the quant research process with the potential from business-wide application.

Requirements

• Minimum 5+ years’ demonstrable experience creating ML systems with real metrics & impact in industry and/or academia
• Strong general ML background with some exposure to language modeling architectures, e.g. transformers, SSMs
• Solid development skills in Python and/or C++
• Familiarity with ML libraries/frameworks, e.g. PyTorch (preferred), TensorFlow, and/or JAX
• Ability to reason through quantitative problems and communicate effectively with trading researchers

Desirable

• Experience with: HPC and distributed large model training; GPU performance optimization; or end-to-end model development, particularly in LLMs

NB Please don’t apply if you’re a fresh graduate.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary & discretionary bonus
• Enormous opportunity to grow, learn and have an impact
• Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported
• Generous benefits package including medical & dental insurance, paid parental leave, and wellness programs

Salary: up to $250k + bonus

Summary

Leading HFT fund looking for a self-driven engineer skilled in Python. You will join a growing quant trading team to build and improve the platforms that underpin the trading team.

Developers here are highly valued and well-rewarded for hard work, attracting some of the brightest minds from across the trading, tech, academic and start-up industries. Collaborating extensively with researchers and technologists on your team, you can expect exposure to a wide range of exciting and challenging projects. These will include creating new research infrastructure and improving scalability of core production systems that power the group.

Unique in their field, this global firm combines the lively, positive spirit of a start-up with the stability of a longer-established player. The successful Python Engineer will be passionate about development, and able to solve difficult technical problems in a fast-paced and energetic environment.

Requirements

• Minimum 5+ years’ professional Python experience on large distributed systems
• Solid experience working on a Linux platform
• Intellectual curiosity, comfortable taking ownership of projects
• Minimum bachelor’s Computer Science/Engineering degree
• Proven success working with large datasets

NB Please don’t apply if you’re a fresh graduate.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary & bonus
• Enormous opportunity to grow, learn and have an impact
• Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported
• Free breakfast, lunch and dinner

Our client is a leading tech-driven quant and systematic hedge fund trading with offices across the globe. They leverage deep knowledge in data, research, technology and trading to deliver high-quality returns. This opportunity offers a dynamic and fast-paced environment with excellent prospects for career growth.

As a key member of the development team, you will be working closely with quant analysts/developers, traders and operations staff to build and enhance low-latency algorithmic trading strategies. You’ll collaborate over the design and implementation of cutting-edge systems, covering all aspects of the trading strategies: from exchange price feeds and financial indicators, to back testing & tick data management, through to production environment support.

The successful candidate will be a self-starter with excellent communication skills, good understanding of user requirements, with knowledge of market data feed handlers and execution gateways highly desirable.

Requirements

• 5+ years’ experience in low-latency Linux development using C/C++, STL, Boost
• Bachelors or Masters degree from a top-tier university in Computer Science, Maths, Engineering or related field
• Solid experience in design and implementation of multithreaded and distributed systems
• Strong knowledge of distributed network architecture

Note: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.

Desirable Skills/Experience

• Familiarity with low-level optimization techniques on x86/64 platform and/or Linux/GCC toolchain and Linux Red Hat
• Front office desk-aligned experience

Benefits

• Great opportunity to be part of a collaborative, creative environment where you can feel valued for your input
• Competitive salary + generous benefits
• Professional and personal development
• Relaxed, casual culture, with a healthy work-life balance

Our client is a leading tech-driven quant and systematic hedge fund trading with offices across the globe. They leverage deep knowledge in data, research, technology and trading to deliver high-quality returns. This opportunity offers a dynamic and fast-paced environment with excellent prospects for career growth.

They’re looking to hire an experienced FPGA Engineer to join the IT team based in London, which trades across all the major Asian, EMEA and US markets. You’ll be expected to provide technical project management and guidance and will be hands-on with infrastructure projects across the EMEA region as well as globally.

Requirements

• Bachelors or Masters degree from a top-tier university in Engineering, Computer Science, Maths, or related field
• Must have 3+ years’ experience in RTL design and verification for FPGAs using Verilog, SystemVerilog or VHDL
• Experience in FPGA toolchains using Xilinx Vivado or Intel Quartus
• Experience of using Python within verification frameworks
• Experience of simulation environments, Modelsim/Questa preferred
• Knowledge of C++ for writing hardware APIs

Nice-to-Have

• Knowledge of Market Data protocol
• Experience with strategy implementation

Benefits

• Great opportunity to be part of a collaborative, creative environment where you can feel valued for your input
• Competitive salary + generous benefits
• Professional and personal development
• Relaxed, casual culture, with a healthy work-life balance

Our client is a leading tech-driven quant and systematic hedge fund trading with offices across the globe. They leverage deep knowledge in data, research, technology and trading to deliver high-quality returns. This opportunity offers a dynamic and fast-paced environment with excellent prospects for career growth.

Seeking a talented Linux Production Engineer to join the global infrastructure support team, where you will be key in supporting the growing Linux on-prem estate to meet complex and evolving business requirements. This role would suit someone who enjoys working with end users, application teams and engineering teams, and you’ll also contribute to project-based activities, e.g. new deployments, general administration tasks and upgrades.

Requirements

• >2 years hands-on experience working with Linux-based platforms
• Great understanding of Linux administration
• Proficiency with automation tools, e.g. Ansible, etc.
• Experience of complete end-to-end server deployments
• Working knowledge of AMD / Intel server hardware and physical components

Nice-To-Have

• >2 years experience of Python, bash scripting

Benefits

• Great opportunity to be part of a collaborative, creative environment where you can feel valued for your input
• Competitive salary + generous benefits
• Professional and personal development
• Relaxed, casual culture, with a healthy work-life balance

Our client is a leading tech-driven quant and systematic hedge fund trading with offices across the globe. They leverage deep knowledge in data, research, technology and trading to deliver high-quality returns. This opportunity offers a dynamic and fast-paced environment with excellent prospects for career growth.

Seeking an enthusiastic Python software engineer to join their Risk team in London. Your primary focus will be building and delivering solutions in response to requirements from the Risk Management team and Trading desks.

The successful Python developer will be highly motivated and an exceptional communicator, with experience of facing off to the business and other stakeholders across the firm. You’ll also need to have knowledge of building large-scale applications.

Requirements

• Bachelors or Masters degree from a top-tier university in Computer Science, Maths, Engineering or related field
• 4+ years’ professional experience in software development, including Python 3 and Rest API use (Note: Please don’t apply if you’re a fresh graduate.)
• Strong understanding of modern software architecture and cloud platforms
• Previous experience in Risk within the financial domain
• Strong proficiency for writing high quality, testable code in an OO environment
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with Java or C++
• Experience with any of the following: query optimization and performance tuning; AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, or Helm

Benefits

• Great opportunity to be part of a collaborative, creative environment where you can feel valued for your input
• Competitive salary + generous benefits
• Professional and personal development
• Relaxed, casual culture, with a healthy work-life balance

Compensation: Highly competitive in this field

Summary

Unique opportunity for an experienced engineer in a fully remote position. My client, a leading crypto market-making firm, is looking to hire a dynamic individual with experience in technical leadership, in both a strategic and team management capacity.

With huge amounts of autonomy, you will make key contributions to the firm’s core software strategy, taking ownership of key infrastructure. You’ll be responsible for executing the roadmap, working with the infrastructure team to improve tooling with a view to improving productivity.

Alongside this, you’ll lead a team of talented engineers, setting software engineering best practices and drawing on your talent for coaching and mentoring other. You’ll also be involved in the hiring and deciding the direction of the team.

Requirements

• Substantial experience of software development – Python ideal, but any OO will be considered
• Very strong technical skills and ability to design and build complex systems.
• Experience working on and managing highly technical software development teams, with particular talent for mentoring others
• Highly knowledgeable with existing tooling and software engineering best practices
• Self-motivated, able to acclimatize quickly and work independently

Benefits

• Competitive base salary + bonus
• Enormous opportunity to grow, learn and have an impact
• Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported
• 3-4 company offsites per year, offering the opportunity to get to know and work with colleagues face-to-face

My client is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. A technology and data driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing. Combining data, research, technology, and trading expertise has shaped the collaborative mindset, enabling them to solve the most complex challenges. They have a culture of innovation which continuously drives their ambition to deliver high quality returns for investors.

The Role:

• Partner with traders to extend the functionality and stability of systematic trading tools and provide front-line support
• Working with other Quant Developers to ensure high reusability across different activities
• A role with the potential to be involved in high-profile projects

Requirements:

• Min 3 years’ professional experience in object-oriented development
• Excellent coding skills in C# is essential; Python experience would be beneficial
• Experience working with traders/ researchers
• High standards in code quality and development practices
• Experience in a front-office desk-aligned role highly desirable; any knowledge of Equities, Futures, Fixed Income, Forex would be a plus
• Prior experience in a front-office setting is not mandatory, but a desire and willingness to learn domain-specific knowledge is a must
• Excellent communication skills are essential
• Strong team-player

Unique opportunity to join one of the largest providers of financial services, trading products and market making services. The developer for this role will join a small group of technologists whose primary function is supporting the efforts of the fast-growing fixed income trading desk.

You will be responsible for the development, ownership and maintenance of the research platform for Fixed Income products. This is a critical role, building out the infrastructure for traders and quants to research their ideas and helping translate these ideas into impactful trading strategies.

The successful candidate will be a skilled problem-solver, with outstanding communication skills at all levels on both technical and non-technical subjects.

Requirements

• Minimum 5+ years’ software development experience
• Strong programming skills with fluency in C++ and Python
• Good academic record with excellent GPA (Computer Science, Engineering or other STEM major preferred)
• Knowledge of Linux/Unix environment & tools
• High level of technical agility, with an interest in innovative technologies

Desirable

• Knowledge of Rust
• Understanding of fixed income products, e.g. corporate credit, ETFs, treasury bonds

Please note this role is only available to US Citizens and existing US Visa holders.

Culture / Benefits

• Excellent salary and compensation package
• Relaxed, informal yet highly rewarding work culture
• Creative culture of a tech startup, with the stability of a more established fintech
• Work with the latest cutting-edge technologies on complex problems
• A community that values hard work as well as work-life balance

Systematic hedge fund with a focus on developing high quality financial strategies across a variety of asset classes and markets, utilising a proprietary research platform focused on exploring market inefficiencies.

Fantastic opportunity for a talented engineer with experience in systems engineering. Your primary responsibility will be to build, maintain and expand market data solutions by implementing low-latency systems, ensuring stability, and optimizing performance-critical code. You will also develop high quality historic market data pipelines.

To be successful, you must be confident working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. This role would be perfect for someone who is confident collaborating directly and building relationships with trading teams and researchers to develop requirements and implement solutions.

Requirements

• Strong academic record, with degree in a technical subject from a leading university
• Experience of systems engineering, particularly in a Linux environment
• Strong proficiency in coding (C, C++ or Rust) and scripting (Python and shell)
• Detail oriented, with a keen interest in applying technology to real situations
• Bonus points for previous exposure to network and hardware architecture
• No finance experience necessary

Benefits and Incentives 

• Market leading salary + bonus
• Opportunities to learn and develop new skills
• Great work/life balance
• Freedom in work and dynamic culture; opportunity to bring new ideas and really have an impact

Salary: Market-Leading

Summary

This is one of the world’s top algorithmic trading firms, looking for Database Site Reliability Engineers to join the Trading Systems Infrastructure team. A community of self-starters from multiple tech backgrounds – math, computer science, statistics, physics, engineering – they have built one of the world’s most sophisticated computing environments for research and development with data at its core.

This role offers the chance to be at the forefront of designing, building, and maintaining the diverse production database infrastructure, focusing on bare metal performance, scalability, and reliability. This will involve overseeing the PostgreSQL and MySQL infrastructure as you support globally distributed trading & large-scale research.

The successful candidate will be an experienced engineer, looking to make a real difference working with a small, focused team of like-minded database and systems engineers.

Requirements

• 5+ years’ experience in database management + infrastructure engineering
• Proven expertise designing & implementing production database infrastructure, from security and replication to observability (monitoring, alerting, logging)
• Substantial experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL
• Strong Linux knowledge/experience – with Debian in particular
• Excellent state-of-the-art DB technologies & tradeoffs knowledge, e.g. distributed DBs, time-series DBs, relaxed consistency models, columnar storage
• Proficiency writing Python scripts

Benefits 

• Market-leading salary + bonuses + generous benefits package
• Truly flat management structure, with no red tape
• Friendly, informal yet highly rewarding work culture
• Work with the latest technologies on complex problems with significant impact

My client is a leading tech-driven quant and systematic hedge fund trading with offices across the globe. They leverage deep knowledge in data, research, technology and trading to deliver high-quality returns. This opportunity offers a dynamic and fast-paced environment with excellent scope for career growth.

This is a brand-new, highly impactful role, responsible for the day-to-day management of the development team, building and enhancing critical low latency components across the business. You’ll collaborate over the design and implementation of cutting-edge systems, covering all aspects of algorithmic trading research, including the exchange price feeds, core trading systems, tick data management, back testing engine, and trading gateways.

2024 is a big year of growth for this firm, making now the perfect time to apply!

Requirements

• 10+ years’ experience in low-latency Linux development using C/C++, STL
• Management experience (both technical & people) is strongly preferred
• Proficiency with Linux / GCC development toolchain and Linux Red Hat
• Solid experience designing and implementing multithreaded and distributed systems
• Prior experience in a front office, trading desk-aligned role
• Comfortable working autonomously within a global team

Desirable skills/experience

• Experience working within a mature continuous development process
• Knowledge of market data feed handlers and execution gateways
• Basic knowledge of scripting languages like Python, Bash

Benefits

• Exceptional compensation + bonus scheme + generous benefits 
• Huge amount of autonomy and ownership 
• Truly collaborative between teams – not siloed like other firms 
• Relaxed, casual culture, with a healthy work-life balance

Summary

Leading HFT fund looking for an expert C++ Engineer to join their core platform team, designing, developing and maintaining the algorithmic trading platform. Leadership experience is welcomed but not essential.

Developers here are highly valued and well-rewarded for hard work, and as a result, are some of the brightest minds from across the trading, tech and start-up industries. Working closely with hands-on Quants and Traders your primary focus will be C++ functionality, responsible for creating and optimizing scalable multi-tiered applications and infrastructure.

The successful C++ Engineer will love solving difficult technical problems and be comfortable with owning multiple projects simultaneously. You’ll be expected to have a strong understanding of computer systems, e.g. operating systems, networks, performance optimization, etc. If this sounds like you, apply now!

Requirements

• Minimum 3+ years’ C++ programming skills on Linux
• Solid experience in OO design and creating/supporting cross-platform multithreaded applications
• Low latency systems development would be ideal
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering (or related field) – minimum 2.1 or 3.5 GPA
• Outstanding communication skills across the business
• Experience within the financial industry is advantageous but not essential

Benefits

• Competitive base salary & bonus
• Enormous opportunity to grow, learn and have an impact
• Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported
• Free breakfast, lunch and dinner

Summary

This leading quant firm is looking for motivated C++ Engineers to join its London office. Developers here are highly valued and well-rewarded for hard work, and as a result, are some of the brightest minds from across the trading, tech and start-up industries.

In this role, you will be tasked with learning all aspects of the existing prop infrastructure trading platform and related technology, and providing development support to the users. This will involve developing new exchange-specific algorithms and general infrastructure support. You will also be actively involved in troubleshooting production environment issues, defining and developing tools to enhance the platform.

The trading team sees technology as a key component of their continued success. The successful C++ Engineer will be passionate about development, a confident team player and will have the analytical and problem-solving skills necessary for a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Requirements

• Strong C++ programming skills in a Linux environment
• Solid experience working on multithreaded applications, networks and operating systems
• Top-notch academic record: bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering (or equivalent)
• Exceptional communication skills in English (both written and spoken)

Desirable

• Familiar with exchange protocols
• Background in statistical analysis

Benefits

• Competitive base salary & bonus
• Enormous opportunity to grow, learn and have an impact
• Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported
• Free breakfast, lunch and dinner

Summary

Fantastic opportunity for a talented engineer to join the London office of one of the largest global information firms.

In this role, you will be taking ownership of the full development lifecycle, working closely with stakeholders and other developers to design, build and implement complex, effective solutions that will impact thousands of global users. You will be a real team player, who enjoys working collaboratively in a fast-paced environment, with a keen enthusiasm for writing reusable, performant code.

Their tech stack is mostly C++, Python and Javascript, but they are keen to see smart engineers from any OO background. Your programming will make an immediate impact on global markets, so if you’re looking for an exciting new challenge, this is the role for you!

Requirements

• Programming experience in any OO language, and a willingness to learn others
• Sound knowledge of industry best practices for testing, automation and CI/CD
• Deep understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Solid experience of managing large-scale projects and/or working with multiple stakeholders to deliver business value
• A proponent of consistently using the right tool for the job

 Benefits

• Feel valued – develop impactful solutions to complex, real-world problems
• Truly collaborative culture across all engineering teams
• Strong base salaries + bonus
• Flexible work environment

Summary

This is one of the world’s top algorithmic trading firms, looking for a Data Engineer to join their London team – ideally with Python experience. A community of self-starters from multiple tech backgrounds – maths, computer science, statistics, physics, engineering – they have built one of the world’s most sophisticated computing environments for research and development with data at its core.

This role offers the opportunity to be a critical part of the trading process where you’ll work side by side with live trading teams to support one of the largest automated trading systems in the world. You’ll be tasked with writing automation, exploring data, collaborating with research and trading colleagues and liaising with a variety of external partners. You’ll also acquire, analyse and prepare data for quantitative research.

If you eat, sleep and breathe data, and can solve complex problems quickly, this role would be perfect for you!

Requirements

• Previous experience in financial markets or working for a financial institution
• 2+ years’ data engineering experience OR a Computer Science degree (or similar)
• Solid experience in at least one of: PostgreSQL, MSSQL, MYSQL, and comfortable using other SQL dialects as the job requires
• Experience with Python would be hugely advantageous
• Familiarity with the Linux command line
• Able to provide technical support in a production trading environment
• ETL pipelines experience is beneficial
• Track record of working successfully in a collaborative/cross-team environment

Benefits

Summary

This is a leading tech-driven prop trading firm, trading their own capital across a broad range of asset classes, instruments and strategies in markets worldwide. They are looking for an exceptional Python developer to join a brand-new team where you’ll design and build robust, scalable tools and infrastructure to enable Traders and Quant Researchers to do their best work.

Working on the automated trading platform of the global Delta One business, this role offers the opportunity to influence the design and architecture of a growing system, while also developing revenue-generating solutions and new tools. There is very little red tape, and a rapid feedback loop on the software you build.

The successful Senior Python Engineer will have a proven track record of independently driving projects to completion and enjoy facing off to the business.

Requirements:

• Minimum 3+ years’ experience of professional development
• Deep and demonstrable Python knowledge and understanding
• Experience of analyzing high performance business requirements and translating to technical specifications
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to teach others
• Front office experience is highly desirable
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering (or related field) – minimum 2.1 or 3.5 GPA

Benefits:

• Top of the market compensation package
• Culture has the lively spirit of a start-up, with stability of a longer-established firm
• Feel valued for your input and get rewarded for great ideas

Salary: Competitive / Market-Leading

Company:

Summary

A world-class hedge fund is looking for an experienced Quant Developer with exceptional comms to support commodity trading by building and supporting custom models, tools and analytics for Portfolio Managers and traders.

You’ll need to be comfortable delivering solutions in a fast-paced trading environment, and your main focus will be the day-to-day operation and monitoring of the prop commodity systems. A hands-on QD, you’ll collaborate with technology teams across the business to build interfaces with other systems, as well as providing support for the platform and developing written documentation of infrastructure.

This role would suit someone who works well autonomously and has experience of commodities and trading. The culture here is second-to-none: new ideas are always welcomed, career development is encouraged and the benefits offered are world-class.

Requirements

• 3+ years’ hands-on development experience (working directly with PMs and traders preferred)
• Strong knowledge of Python, including scientific libraries (pandas, numpy, scipy, etc.), plus experience of at least two other languages
• Strong knowledge of commodities, or alternative asset classes
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience with modern software development practices
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering (or related field) – minimum 2.1 or 3.5 GPA

Benefits

• Competitive base salary & bonus
• Enormous opportunity to grow, learn and have an impact
• Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported
• High-performance engineering culture with the change to work with industry leaders

Summary

Python Engineer wanted for systematic arm of globally recognised hedge fund to help build out their continuously evolving data platform in their London office. This opportunity will give you the chance to design, implement and evolve a diverse financial system, including pipeline, repository, data warehouse and data access APIs. You will be working closely with the quant PMs and researchers in a fast-paced environment as you automate and support the Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) processes from various market data vendors.

They are looking for a passionate engineer with strong financial data knowledge, including security master, financial time series (pricing data, etc.) across multiple asset classes. You’ll need to have solid coding skills (Python, Java/C++, SQL), and experience working with large, complex datasets.

If you’re self-motivated & proactive with fantastic interpersonal skills, this role is perfect for you!

Requirements

• 3+ years’ Python experience
• Broad knowledge & experience of database concepts with proficiency in SQL and stored procedures
• Knowledge of NoSQL databases and big data technologies
• Solid experience working with cloud or on-prem technologies and data infrastructure. e.g. workflow management engines, databases, storage & file systems, analytics platforms
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering (or related field) – minimum 2.1 or 3.5 GPA
• Experience with Kafka and/or KDB (or similar high performance time-series processing tech) is a plus

Benefits

• Work directly with all parts of the fund
• Market-leading salaries + bonus
• Entrepreneurial feel of a small firm with the infrastructure, technology and support that comes with a large company
• Inclusive, collaborative work culture

Salary: 200-600k GBP TC

Summary:

One of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds is looking for a Quant Developer to be a founding member of one of their high-frequency systematic equities pods. This is a high impact role, within a small, entrepreneurial team, where you will develop systematic backtesting, visualization/analyzing and a trading platform for global equity strategies.

To do this, you’ll collaborate with the senior PM and the team, implementing an efficient backtester tool for both simulation and live trading. You’ll also design and implement trading systems, ensuring reliability, scalability, and timely execution, as well as sharing knowledge and promoting best practices in mentorship to junior developers.

The successful Quant Developer will be a fantastic problem-solver with strong analytical skills, with the ability to quickly understand and apply complex concepts.

Skills and Experience Required:

• 3-5+ years’ experience in developing algorithmic trading systems, preferably in systematic equity trading markets
• Substantial KDB/Q and Python programming experience
• Good knowledge of modern data science tools stacks, e.g. Jupyter, pandas, numpy, sklearn, with ML experience
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or related STEM field from a top-tier university
• Good understanding of using Slurm or similar parallel computing tools

Benefits & Incentives:

• Significant salary + bonus + benefits
• Dynamic, fast-paced environment; excellent career growth opportunities
• Collaborative culture and an energetic, dynamic engineering atmosphere
• Build and share knowledge with the smartest engineers in the industry

Salary: $250-600k TC

Summary

One of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds is looking for a founding Quant Developer for one of their systematic investment teams. This is a high impact role, within a small, entrepreneurial team, where you will be building robust and scalable trading infrastructure.

Collaborating with the senior PM and researchers in a high-performing team, work will cover everything from data ingestion, model estimation, trade execution and monitoring trade/position/risk, etc., through to building out backtester for equity focused systematic strategies.

The successful Quant Developer will be an outstanding communicator, and a fantastic problem-solver with strong analytical skills.

Skills and Experience Required

• 2+ years of software engineering experience in a collaborative environment
• Proficiency in Python, and SQL in Linux environment
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Statistics or related STEM field from a top-tier university
• Real-time systems and operating systems experience
• Experience working in Linux and the cloud

Benefits & Incentives:

• Significant salary + bonus + benefits
• Dynamic, fast-paced environment; excellent career growth opportunities
• Collaborative culture and an energetic, dynamic engineering atmosphere
• Build and share knowledge with the smartest engineers in the industry

Salary: £150-350k TC

Summary

Superb opportunity to join one of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds as a Quant Developer within Systematic Equities. This is a high impact role, within a small, entrepreneurial investment team, where you will be building critical trading infrastructure in a highly collaborative environment.

Working directly with the senior PM and quant researchers, your primary focus will be designing, coding, and maintaining tools for the systematic trading infrastructure. You’ll develop data engineering and prediction tools for the systematic trading of equities, implement technology to enable large-scale computational efforts in quant research, and build and maintain robust data pipelines and databases.

To succeed in this role, you will have exceptional communication skills, comfortable facing off to the business, with a real drive for collaborative success.

Skills and Experience Required

• 5+ years’ experience with a strong computer science or engineering background
• Expert-level C++ programming experience, plus advanced Python
• Track record in Linux-based development
• Experience with DevOps functions (e.g. Google Cloud, Airflow, InfluxDB, Grafana)
• Degree (Masters or PhD preferred) in Computer Science, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, or related technical field, from a top-tier university

Desirable

• Knowledge of machine learning and statistical techniques and related libraries
• Experience as a quantitative developer supporting an intraday (or faster) system
• Experience with the development practices of large tech (Google/Meta, etc.) or finance firms

Benefits & Incentives:

• Significant salary + bonus + benefits
• Dynamic, fast-paced environment; excellent career growth opportunities
• Collaborative culture and an energetic, dynamic engineering atmosphere
• Build and share knowledge with the smartest engineers in the industry

Summary

High-frequency prop trading firm with offices worldwide is looking to expand one of its core engineering teams with a talented FPGA Developer with a keen interest in software engineering.

Core engineering underpins the firm’s trading strategies providing access to a wide range of global financial markets, including access to new markets, cutting-edge new technical capabilities, and expert market intelligence. In this role, your main focus will be the design, development, testing and deploying some of the fastest, most sophisticated trading systems in the world. You will be expected to solve difficult technical problems in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

The successful FPGA Developer will have a strong mix of traditional RTL design and software development skills. You enjoy using software engineering methodologies to improve the hardware development workflow, and integrating their designs into a larger software stack.

Requirements

• Strong FPGA design/development experience
• Software development experience with a language such as C++ or Java
• Solid understanding of the Linux operating system
• Experience with FPGA vendor tools, e.g. Vivado, Quartus
• Good knowledge of network protocols, e.g. TCP/IP and Ethernet
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field – minimum 2.1 or 3.5 GPA
• Minimum 2+ years’ professional experience.

Benefits

• Market-leading salary + performance-based bonuses
• Generous benefits package, including excellent holiday allowance, medical insurance and reimbursement for health & wellness costs
• Collaborative and friendly environment with smart, highly engaged colleagues
• Relaxed, dress-down office culture, with breakfast, lunch and snacks provided

Expected Salary: £180 – £200k TC

A world-leading fund is looking for a highly skilled C++ developer to join their greenfield Fixed Income platform for over 30 Portfolio Managers to use day in, day out. You will build all of the non-linear FI products, FX, Credit and Commodities analytics from scratch. Working closely with trading and researchers, you will ensure that your team provides continuous, uninterrupted, firm-wide real-time risk and PnL.  Candidates can apply from outside of finance if they are fluent in either C++ 14/17/20, however finance experience is desired.

Requirements:

• At least a BSc in Computer Science or related subject.
• Substantial experience using C++14 or later – at least 4 years’ experience using modern C++
• Strong analytical and mathematical skills, with interest in and exposure to quantitative finance
• Experience in multithreading, client-server and distributed computing
• Experience working in Linux environment.

Desired Requirements:

• Experience with Fixed Income pricing and risk analytics in Front Office trading Rates / Credit/ FX
• Experience developing Cross Asset Pricing and Risk Systems
• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes
• Experience with NoSQL such as MongoDB

Tech Stack: C++ 17, Python 3.8 , AWS, finance or non-finance

This leading UK-based discretionary trading fund, boasting AUM of over $16 billion, are looking for a highly skilled C# developer to join their technology team. This team works directly with the researchers and quantitative professionals to solve the toughest of technical challenges working throughout all areas of business including: Risk Management, Quant Analytics, Front Office and Middle Office. The successful candidate will have an impact from day one as they are encouraged to take ownership of technical projects, such as delivering massively scalable, high-performance computer operations which the whole firm will use.

Although this a C# role, candidates will be interviewed in their preferred language.

Requirements:

• Minimum 2:1 degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Excellent programming skills, with an in-depth understanding of C# desirable
• Experience with SQL databases
• Ability to own all aspects of development projects from start to finish
• Strong problem-solving ability and a desire to solve business problems

Tech Stack: C# 9.0, .Net, SQL, React

Summary

This is one of the world’s most renowned financial institutions, going through an exciting period of growth in their London office.

In this role, you will join a highly creative, innovative and passionate team of engineers combining the power of Data Science, AI, ML optimization algorithms and automation to enhance human intelligence and solve business problems at scale. A hands-on, highly critical role, you’ll take on a varied project portfolio: from leading efforts to architect and implement robust and modern cloud-based software solutions to building scalable frameworks to address common data challenges to mentoring junior engineers on the team.

The successful Senior Software/Data Engineering Lead will be an excellent creative problem solver, a data enthusiast and passionate about the potential of applied data analytics and intelligence to solve real-world problems.

Skills and Experience Required

• Practical experience of architecting and delivering cloud-based software engineering frameworks
• Experience with AWS services in relation to data analytics & AI/ML technologies
• Deep-level knowledge of cloud-native data technologies, modern data engineering practices, frameworks, etc.
• Excellent full-stack development skills in Python (or similar programming language)
• Strong SDLC mindset, plus API and microservice development
• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science or Engineering (or related)

Desirable Experience

• Interest in data science, AI and ML disciplines
• Cloud technologies including Kubernetes
• Data mesh framework and implementation

Benefits

• Significant salaries + bonuses + benefits
• Use the latest tools, languages and frameworks
• Excellent career growth and professional development is encouraged
• Flexible working and working from home opportunities (2-4 days WFH a week, role dependent)

Salary: €250k – 750k

Summary

This is a fantastic opportunity to work in the Amsterdam HQ of a tech-focused market maker with groundbreaking success in the high frequency trading space. With a company culture that’s competitive yet collaborative, they leverage the most advanced technology to ensure they have the fastest and most reliable trading systems in the world.

At this firm, they pride themselves on being real engineers – not just coders. Working closely with traders to understand business problems, you’ll then design & build hardware-based systems to solve them, owning the development process from end to end. This role would suit someone who stays up to date with the latest low-latency techniques and platforms and looks for ways to integrate them with the trading system.

The successful FPGA Engineer will be a very hands-on engineer, with a passion for solving challenging problems in a fast-paced environment.

Requirements

• Solid experience designing, coding, testing and verifying FPGAs and/or ASICs
• Strong coding skills using VHDL, Verilog or SystemVerilog, plus C or C++
• Background working with RTL synthesis, writing timing, area and other relevant constraints
• Degree from a top-tier university, in CE, EE, CS or related field

Nice to have

• Experience supporting post-silicon bring-up and debugging
• Experience with digital simulators and self-checking test benches

Benefits

• Incredible salary + profit-sharing structure
• Direct business impact with short feedback loop
• Work with the best people in the industry from over 40 countries in a fun, stimulating office environment
• Outstanding benefits package, including fully paid commuting expenses, breakfast and lunch facilities, regular social activities and more
• Relocation assistance & visa sponsorship provided where necessary

Summary

Application Engineer or Software Engineer, with deep proficiency in both C++ and Java, to work within the Equities Engineering team at one of the top hedge funds in the world. The specific team is called ‘Portfolio Management Risk Trading’ – the engineer will design the applications that enable hundreds of equities investment professionals to move from research to execution by submitting trades, managing their risk, and understanding their portfolios.

In this role, you will:

• Be responsible for developing trading and risk systems, integrating of models/analytics, scenarios, and trades/positions into the system.
• Directly engage with business, product, and engineering leads to deliver modern, high-quality, extensible software systems. Collaborate with infrastructure and network teams to ensure optimal system performance.
• Architect, design, and develop features to improve the overall performance of our portfolio management and risk trading systems.

Hard Requirements

• 3-10 years of C++ & Java programming experience (both required at highly proficient level)
• Strong understanding of application architecture and object-orientated design patterns
• BSc / MSc / ideally PhD Computer Science, Engineering, Physics or Mathematics

Desirable

• Commitment to excellence, strong attention to detail, and excellent communication skills
• Motivation to work hard in a collaborative team environment that closely partners with other technology teams, product managers, and the business

Benefits

• Top of the market salary package
• State-of-the-art technologies & opportunities to work on highly complex problems

Compensation: $300-600 Singapore

Industry-leading investment firm using innovative and cutting-edge technology, with data at the core of the investment process. They are seeking top-level software engineers – well-versed in Python – to join their Commodities team where you’ll focus on developing core analytics and delivering key initiatives for the business.

Within this hands-on role, you’ll collaborate with trading, research and data teams to understand business challenges and design technical/quantitative solutions. This will involve working with large datasets, building data analytics trading tools and improving model frameworks and performance.

The successful candidate will have fantastic technology skills, ideally in multiple programming languages.

Requirements​

• Minimum 3 – 7 years of software engineering experience
• Fluent in Python (or comparable language)
• Minimum BS degree in Computer Science/Engineering; or equivalent experience
• Experience with complex, multi-site systems architecures, strong Unix operating system
• Exposure to a variety of database technologies

Rewards and Incentives 

• Significant salary + bonus + benefits
• Work with the latest technologies on complex problems
• Positive, friendly culture

Salary: up to £200k base

Summary

Leading HFT fund looking for an experienced Production Reliability Developer to join their London office.

This is a high impact role where you will be responsible for the technical support of the direct trading environments during European hours, including daily start-up of the US trading environment. You’ll provide technical knowledge to the business development process for identifying new direct trading opportunities, work with developers to design and implement new features, and build new tools to scale and understand the trading system.

Technology is prized by the traders as crucial to their continued success. Unique in their field, this global firm combines the entrepreneurial spirit of a start-up with the stability of a longer-established player.

Requirements

• At least 5+ years’ experience supporting a production trading environment
• Experience supporting trading counterparties
• Strong skills in Python / Go as well as shell scripting
• Experience with devops/CICD tools, e.g. Jenkins, ansible, git
• Advanced Linux and network troubleshooting skills (TCP/IP and multicast)
• Bonus points for: some C++ experience; REST/gRPC familiarity; FIX protocol knowledge

NB: Please don’t apply if you’re a fresh graduate.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary & bonus
• Enormous opportunity to grow, learn and have a significant business impact
• Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported
• Substantial benefits package, including private medical, paid parental leave, group life assurance & parking/cycle schemes

Fabulous opportunity for a low latency C++ engineer to join one of the world’s most prestigious and successful hedge funds. Looking for a mid-level engineer with a solid programming background in modern C++ alongside outstanding communication skills, who is comfortable facing off to the business.

This role is focused primarily on the design, architecture and implementation of robust and super-fast low-latency C++ systems. Working directly with trading teams to understand their requirements, you’ll build robust high-performance infrastructure, as well as improving platform efficiency and reducing latency. You’ll also contribute to the team’s technical direction by driving new initiatives.

The successful candidate will have a background in financial markets technology, with experience managing real-time market data solutions for a global organisation.

Skills and Experience Required

• 5+ years’ experience as a senior contributor at financial services firm(s)
• Strong low-latency C++ programming skills, including C++17 & ideally C++20
• Must have hands-on experience working with Market Data Protocols
• Deep understanding of Linux system internals & networking
• Knowledge of Networks and Infrastructure
• Minimum bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related) from a top-tier university

Desirable

• Knowledge of any other development language, including Java, Python, or Perl and shell scripts
• Knowledge of AWS/GCP, Docker/Podman

Benefits & Incentives

• Strong salary + bonuses
• Collaborative culture and an exciting place to work
• Generous benefits package

This is one of the world’s top algorithmic trading firms, looking for systems engineers who are well-versed in Python programming.

This role offers motivated engineers varied responsibilities and the opportunity to have a significant impact on a critical part of existing and growing infrastructure. Your main focus will be tool development in Python, both improving and integrating existing tools and libraries across the platform, as well as designing and building new ones.

The successful Systems Engineer will be someone who loves to be challenged and thrives in fast-paced environments. You’re a big fan of open-source software, adept at effective multitasking and a keen proponent of automation: why do the same task twice manually?

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience, including strong Python programming skills
• Highly proficient in debugging and quickly analysing problems
• Minimum bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related field)
• Excellent understanding of CompSci fundamentals
• Top-notch communication skills

Desirable

• Knowledge of Debian operating system; systems conguration management; CI/CD tools & processes; networking protocols

Benefits and Incentives 

• Market-leading salary + bonuses + generous benefits package
• Friendly, informal yet highly rewarding work culture
• Work with the latest technologies on complex problems with significant impact
• Feel valued and be rewarded for your hard work where coding is front and centre

Summary

Senior Quant Developer / Low-Latency C++ Engineer at a leading quant & systematic fund. Looking for an exceptional low-level C++ programmer with deep metaprogramming experience and a minimum of 7+ years’ professional C++ experience (since university/graduation).

In this role, you will:

• Develop, optimize, and maintain high-performance C++ code for ultra-low-latency trading systems.
• Work on strategy interaction with FPGA to ensure seamless integration.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and network teams to ensure optimal system performance.

Skills and Experience Required

• Minimum 7+ years’ C++ experience
• In-depth knowledge of memory management, multithreading, CPU cache optimization, and Linux
• Solid understanding of infrastructure and network basics

Desirable

• Ideally BSc, MSc and/or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics or Physics
• Ideally HFT experience (client is open, however, to a non-finance background, especially if personal projects are finance-related)

Benefits

• Top of the market salary + bonuses + generous benefits package
• Latest technologies & opportunity to work on deeply complex problems with significant impact

Summary

Front End / UI Engineer role within a leading HFT firm in London.

In this role, you will:

• Build high-performance front ends within a trading environment.

Skills and Experience Required

• 3 – 15 years’ UI engineering experience
• A deep passion for Front End development
• Proficiency with React, and ideally other FE technologies (Typescript, Javascript, React Hooks, ES6/ES7)
• BSc / MSc required, Computer Science preferred
• Ideally embedded within the ReactJS community + up to date with the latest features

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• State-of-the-art technology

Location: London

Established HFT firm looking for an experienced C++ developer with a passion for high-performance, low-latency systems. The role is ‘Senior Quantitative Developer’, offering the opportunity to work with the best in the business, on a range of highly challenging technical work – low-latency C++ development, HFT algo development – as well as latency and hardware optimisation.

About the Role:

• As a Senior C++ Quantitative Developer, you will work with an elite group of developers and quantitative experts to design, develop, and optimize ultra-low-latency trading algorithms.
• This position requires a strong foundation in high-performance programming and systems architecture, focusing on CPU cache optimization, memory management, and threading.
• You will also collaborate closely with FPGA systems and lead initiatives to refine trading infrastructure, ultimately driving success for clients and investors.

Role Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 5+ years of C++ experience, focusing on low-level C++ and metaprogramming for high-performance applications
• Expertise in CPU architecture, memory management, multithreading, and Linux systems
• Prior experience with high-frequency trading or market order execution systems
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with an eye for precision and testing
• Strong interpersonal skills and a collaborative, team-oriented mindset

What’s On Offer:

• Market Leading Compensation: Bonus guarantee, sign on + extensive benefits
• Innovative Environment: Work in a team that values creativity, experimentation, and technical excellence
• Career Growth: Opportunities to lead technical initiatives and mentor emerging talent
• Work-Life Balance: Hybrid working and a range of flexibility initiatives to support your wellbeing

This is a technology-driven, diversified principal trading firm, trading their own capital at their own risk, across a broad range of asset classes, instruments and strategies, in financial markets around the world. As the markets have evolved over the past 25 years, so have they – maximizing opportunities to include real estate, cryptoassets and venture capital. With over 1,000 employees around the world, they work together to solve complex problems, challenge consensus and deliver meaningful results. It’s a place of high expectations, deep curiosity and thoughtful collaboration.

Now looking for outstanding Software Engineers with expertise in C++. In this role, you will be a part of the Core Infrastructure team, responsible for designing, developing and maintaining the low-latency trading platform deployed globally. You will be tasked with working on various areas of the technical stack including order routing, market data, and risk systems.

Requirements:

• Strong preference for candidates with experience in proprietary finance, high-frequency trading (HFT) and/or market-making
• Significant experience developing high-availability systems in C++ and Python with very tight resource/latency constraints
• Background in multi-threaded programming and a strong understanding of hardware/software interaction
• Comfortable working “under the hood” and you are quite skilled in performance tuning (applications, Linux, socket I/O, etc.) and troubleshooting
• Experience working with C++ libraries like STL and Boost
• Up to date on C++11/C++20 standards and have opinions about them
• You’ve worked on challenging projects that involved things like building a custom compiler, writing a matching engine, or working with large amounts of data in real time
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience working in the trading industry or another ultra-low latency sensitive business that involves solving remarkably complex problems
• Experience working with Research teams and Quants
• Full life-cycle software development utilizing exotic hardware/software architectures for ultra-low latency trading systems

Salary: Variable – they are market leaders in compensation & pay talent based on their technical ability and what they deserve. They do not base offers on your current earnings or average pay for years of experience.

My client is a leading global market maker across a broad array of fixed income and equity securities. Their world-class capabilities position them to meet the liquidity demands of a diverse group of institutional clients in all market conditions. In partnering with them, clients – including asset managers, banks, broker-dealers, hedge funds, government agencies and public pension programs – are able to gain a powerful trading advantage and are better positioned to meet their investment goals.

In their mission to be the most successful investment team in the world, they hire the brightest minds in technology, research, and finance to create innovative solutions that impact the financial markets and take data analysis to new levels. Software Engineers create next-generation software solutions to support business areas across the firm. Software Engineers work closely with business leaders to develop and deliver custom software solutions that optimize performance and efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and deploy elegant software solutions across the firm
• Partner with business leaders to define priorities and deliver custom technology solutions
• Analyze complex business and technical problems
• Make sound decisions proactively and in a self-directed manner
• Provide timely systems support for trading activities

Qualifications

• Strong preference for candidates with experience in proprietary finance, high-frequency trading (HFT) and/or market-making.
• In-depth experience working in Python
• The ambition to solve open-ended problems using analytical methods
• Knowledge of Linux systems
• Strong scripting experience with an ability to integrate various components and systems (in-house and third-party)
• Professional experience working with distributed systems
• Knowledge of SDLC methodologies
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills applicable to a dynamic trading environment
• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related field)
• A deep passion for technology and software development

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with proprietary trading and market making
• Experience with Kafka, KdB, SQL Server, Javascript, C++

Salary: Variable – they are market leaders in compensation and pay talent based on technical ability and what they deserve. They do not base offers on your current earnings or average pay for years of experience.

This is a fantastic position on a commodities team that seeks to generate alpha through directional and relative value strategies across both physical and financial commodities markets. They evaluate opportunities in natural gas, power, crude, and refined products, and agriculture, primarily in North America and Europe.

My client is a leading global market maker across a broad array of fixed income and equity securities. Their world-class capabilities position them to meet the liquidity demands of a diverse group of institutional clients in all market conditions. In partnering with them, clients – including asset managers, banks, broker-dealers, hedge funds, government agencies and public pension programs – are able to gain a powerful trading advantage and are better positioned to meet their investment goals.

In their mission to be the most successful investment team in the world, they hire the brightest minds in technology, research, and finance to create innovative solutions that impact the financial markets and take data analysis to new levels. Software Engineers create next-generation software solutions to support business areas across the firm. Software Engineers work closely with business leaders to develop and deliver custom software solutions that optimize performance and efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and support one of the world’s most powerful trading platforms while continuously improving performance, functionality and stability of the system
• Design, develop, test, and deploy elegant software solutions across the firm
• Partner with business leaders to define priorities and deliver custom solutions
• Analyze complex business and technical problems
• Make sound decisions proactively and in a self-directed manner
• Provide timely systems support for trading activities

Qualifications

• Strong preference for candidates with experience in proprietary finance, high-frequency trading (HFT) and/or market-making.
• In-depth experience working in C++
• The ambition to solve open-ended problems using analytical methods
• Sound understanding of multi-threaded application design and development
• Professional experience working with distributed systems
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills applicable to a dynamic trading environment
• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related field)
• A deep passion for technology and software development

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with proprietary trading

Salary: Variable – they are market leaders in compensation and pay talent based on technical ability and what they deserve. They do not base offers on your current earnings or average pay for years of experience.

This is a top-tier global hedge fund with a strong commitment to leveraging innovations in technology and data science to solve complex problems for the business.

Now looking for a Quantitative Developer to join the team who is passionate about designing, architecting, and implementing low-latency C++ systems that are not only robust, resilient, and accurate, but also exceptionally fast. You’ll work directly with the firm’s central trading teams. By constructing and maintaining this high-performance infrastructure used by these teams, you will enable new trading opportunities across businesses and regions, allowing the best possible execution performance.

Job Duties

• Development of execution algorithms, order management systems, strategy containers, connectivity, and messaging systems.
• Work directly with central trading teams to optimize the firm’s overall execution performance.
• Enhance the platform’s efficiency by utilizing network and systems programming, along with other advanced techniques to reduce latency.
• Create systems, interfaces, and tools for historical market data and trading simulations to boost research productivity and system testability.
• Assist in building and maintaining automated tests, performance benchmark framework, and other tools
• Collaborate closely with trading teams to gather requirements and develop solutions in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in a front-office, financial services environment as a senior contributor.
• 10+ years’ cumulative professional experience. Strong preference for candidates with experience in proprietary finance, high-frequency trading (HFT) and/or market-making.
• Strong background in data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented programming in C++, including:
  • Proficiency with new features of C++17 and C++20
  • Proficiency with multithreading and asynchronous environments
• Strong understanding of low-latency and real-time system design and implementation
• Strong understanding of Linux system internals and networking
• Strong financial experience across multiple asset classes, with a focus on real-time low-latency trading systems for equities and futures
• Familiarity with python for quantitative research and data-oriented processing
• Familiarity with analysis of execution algorithm performance

Salary: Variable – they are market leaders in compensation and pay talent based on technical ability and what they deserve. They do not base offers on your current earnings or average pay for years of experience.

The Company

My client is a technology-driven company, pushing on ultra-low-latency real-time systems at large scale globally. Challenges abound, and you should have a desire to learn new technologies, and demonstrate an ability to solve unstructured problems.

Working here has the feel of a small start-up with the benefits of being part of one of the leading quantitative trading firms in the world. They’re currently looking for talented engineers to join the global FPGA team.

This team works with technologists and traders to provide hardware solutions in areas such as fast networking, high performance compute, and real-time acceleration. This is a fast-paced area, where taking ideas through to deployment must be fast and accurate. Seeking FPGA development engineers who can help build the next generation of hardware solutions. You will have excellent knowledge of building reliable, high performance FPGA hardware systems. Ideally, you will have a combination of skills in traditional RTL development and complementary software skills. This will enable you to fully contribute to co-designing hybrid hardware/software applications.

As a resourceful individual you will make a difference to a growing company, with your contributions recognized, valued and rewarded. They will support your career progression in a well-resourced, fast-moving environment. Together you can make a significant impact and help define the future of trading acceleration using FPGA technology.

What you’ll do:

• Work within the FPGA development team to roll out new hardware to the trading community
• Interact with development teams to coordinate technology introduction
• Develop high performance FPGA systems in SystemVerilog and/or HLS
• Contribute to the development of productivity tooling that supports hardware development efforts
• Stay informed of industry hardware (including the latest System-on-Chip and System-in-Package)
• Interpret high-level requirements to create exceptional solutions for the trading community
• Build your skills in the finance industry and FPGA development flows 

Skills you’ll need:

• Strong preference for candidates with experience in proprietary finance, high-frequency trading (HFT) and/or market-making
• Hands-on FPGA development successes, taking ownership of significant systems and subsystems
• Sound understanding of technology tradeoffs, and a pragmatic approach to problem solving
• At least 3+ years of experience working as a FPGA development engineer in a team environment
• At least 3+ years of RTL experience (SystemVerilog/Verilog/VHDL)
• At least 2+ years of software development experience
• Quantitative appreciation of low-level hardware/software interaction
• Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science (or related subject)
• Passion for development, strong work ethic, and drive to continually learn and improve

Bonus points for:

• Linux experience
• Scripting language proficiency (preferably Python)
• High-level Synthesis flows
• Familiarity with some of: Jenkins CI, Github, ctypes, SWIG
• Experience of automated testing
• Embedded processors
• Networking (Ethernet, TCP/IP, IB)
• Financial protocol and algorithmic experience
• High speed networking / serial protocols / transceivers / PCIe