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Salary: £70,000 – 130,000 base

Job Description:

One of the world’s most renowned financial institutions is looking for front-end Javascript engineers with React (ES6) and Typescript experience. Based in London, you will be joining a talented team of exceptional developers building and supporting a client-side platform.

You will be part of the Core Development team, evolving and driving the platform forward; building libraries, frameworks and services for other development teams. The work you do will be used by thousands of developers who are working on different lines of business in different asset classes. Using React (ES6) and Typescript, you need to build libraries and frameworks from scratch and work closely with the design team to build robust and testable systems.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about solving complex business challenges and enjoy working on all aspects of the software development lifecycle. You will be highly efficient when dealing with clients’ needs and comfortable working in large, collaborative teams.

Skills and Experience Required

• 4+ years’ professional experience, proficient in one or more modern programming languages
• Minimum BS/BA degree (or equivalent) with strong computer science fundamentals
• Experience with: React, Redux, RXJS, TypeScript, ES6+ JavaScript
• Sound understanding of architecture and design
• Demonstrable experience in full software development lifecycle with agile methodologies
• Financial industry experience is NOT required

Benefits & Incentives

• 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

Founded in 2012, this crypto fintech company has raised over $93M in venture funding with c.100 employees split globally with offices in the UK, US and Asia. They are looking to hire senior software engineers to join and help expand the London team.

Role

They are rebuilding the infrastructure of finance and operate within established regulatory frameworks while creating innovative new products. This includes workstreams in the tokenization of securities, precious metals, and commodities.

Main tech stack is Kotlin and Go, but they are happy to look at senior developers from any OO background.

Ideally you will have experience in financial services and be an expert in at least one of the following:

• Functional domain, such as Securities or Precious Metals
• Technical domain, such as Distributed Systems, Cryptography, Databases, AWS

You will be responsible for building and improving the projects working on the full life cycle using your own design, coding and testing through each deployment when completing them.

Working in a diverse team and driven to learn new technologies.

You should be comfortable working in a tech-driven environment, with the ability to coordinate across several stakeholder groups.

Requirements

• Minimum 2:1 degree from leading university.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a commercial role.
• Strong understanding of core engineering concepts, data structure and algorithms.

Benefits

• Strong base salaries up to £110k and good stock

Crypto-Fintech based in London are looking for a Senior Devops to join their product and engineering team. You’ll be working on multiple technical tasks, including scaling their engineering team, cloud efficiencies and the development of their decentralised banking service.

You’ll be joining a high-performance firm of around 26 people, where they have a culture that encourages original thinking, freedom and responsibility, with big plans to grow.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Crafting tools to ensure the pipeline from the developers’ laptops to their production servers is as smooth as possible
• Building and deploying complex cloud projects
• Optimising cloud infrastructure for operational efficiency and security

Requirements: 

• Strong Computer Science degree from a Russell Group university (or equivalent).
• Experience setting up automated cloud-based deployment infrastructure on GCP or AWS.
• Demonstrable knowledge of highly concurrent, distributed architectures and systems, as well as the ability to architect scalable solutions in a high-paced environment.
• Experience with greenfield projects.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and strong GitHub experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Desired:

• Professional experience in GCP and Go
• Passion for continuous development and a history of teaching yourself new technologies
• An understanding of Ethereum blockchain and how it works

Benefits:

• Flexible hours
• Stock options
• Personal training and development budget
• Private healthcare
• Company pension scheme
• Top-of-the-range hardware

Summary:

A globally leading, systematic, quant trading firm are looking for a Data Engineer to join their technical team in London.

The successful Data Engineer will be utilising both analytical and technical skillsets, building data pipelines in the Python and PyData stack, and working closely with analysts and developers in London to process multiple terabytes of data from various structured and unstructured sources. This is a fast-moving technical team working with the latest data engineering stack, including Kafka, ElasticSearch, Scala/Spark.

Requirements:

• STEM degree
• Solid understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, data structures and algorithms
• Programming skills in any OO language, and data engineering experience with Python and SQL
• Desire to work in London

Benefits:

• Fast-moving, central London-based team
• Cutting-edge technical skillset
• Highly competitive salary and buy-side bonus structure

World-leading AIFM are looking for a software developer to join their team where their mission is to deliver reliable, scalable and accurate software that enables the business to reach its goals. Their company culture and values are ones of trust and excellence.

You’ll have ownership and responsibility to make a significant impact in the company, where the supreme quality of talent regularly supports, challenges and trusts one another to ensure companywide success. Technology is essential to every aspect of their business – most of their applications have been written in-house – and they are constantly looking for ways to improve automation.

Requirements

• Excellent programming skills in C#/.Net or any OO language such as Java/Python
• Excellent academic record – Computer Science or related STEM degree
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

Desirable

• Experience working with Quants, Risk Managers and/or Traders.
• Previous professional experience at a bank, hedge fund or asset management firm.
• Exposure to paired programming and test-driven environment.
• Full knowledge and experience of the project lifecycle.

Benefits

• Strong compensation
• Profit-sharing scheme
• Stunning central London office
• Standard employee benefits – insurance, pension, etc.

Job Summary:

Fantastic opportunity to join a leading multi-asset fund where you will draw on both your excellent academics and your strong programming skills.

Working closely with Quantitative Analysts and Software Developers, the Quantitative Development team is responsible for the tech infrastructure both inside and surrounding the core analytics library. You will identify technical challenges and opportunities, provide practical solutions to complex problems, and use your initiative when challenging current systems.

They primarily use C#, but are keen to see candidates from any OO background.

The ideal candidate will be technically strong, but will also have product/financial knowledge, maths skills, and the ability to talk to traders.

Requirements:

• Strong academic background with 2:1 (or higher) in a STEM subject from top-tier university
• Sound programming and technology skills in an OO language, e.g. C#, C++, Java, Python
• Experience working on risk engines, PnL attrition/PnL explain or time-series analysis is a big plus
• Knowledge of relational databases and maintaining SQL
• Experience in software testing
• Previous front office exposure in financial services would be advantageous

Benefits:

• Thrive in a collaborative working environment, driven by teamwork
• Strong compensation and bonus potential
• Generous benefits package – healthcare, dental, pension, etc.

One of the largest multi-strategy funds globally, using innovative and cutting-edge technology, with data at the core of the investment process. Great opportunity for an experienced SRE to join the Treasury team in their London office, initially to work on a major automation and re-architecture project.

The Role

• The key goal for this team is to migrate from semi-manual deployments and manual server allocation to a fully automated deployment system.
• Design and deploy a new generation of production infrastructure.
• Ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of applications, making changes to improve production quality where necessary.

The ideal candidate will have a background in CompSci fundamentals, data structures, algorithms and distributed systems, with a strong entrepreneurial mindset.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related subject.
• Strong proficiency in at least one modern structured programming language – Python skills a big plus.
• Familiarity with a range of development tools/practices (testing, source control, build systems, CI/CD etc).
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP networking, LAN/WAN and Linux networking.
• Web UI experience (e.g. Javascript, CSS & similar) a bonus.

Rewards and Incentives

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

Salary: £80,000 – 130,000 base + bonus

Job description:

Client

This is the core Fixed Income and Commodities Technology group at one of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds in their London office. This is the team that is the backbone of their cross-asset Risk and PnL system for all Fixed Income, Commodities, Credit and FX products. This system is running 24/7 for the past 10 years and is a real-time, highly distributed platform that is being rebuilt into a next-generation platform.

They’ve got a fantastic name in the industry with good reason; paying strong salaries on both base and bonus, and a good tech culture, which is both collegial and dynamic.

Role

You will be working on both the existing platform and the greenfield next-generation analytics library, using Java with elements of Python and C++, utilising Kubernetes, microservices, AWS and Docker on multithreaded systems. As time goes on, you’ll shift more and more onto the greenfield platform as you understand the workings and flaws of the current system. You will get a lot of product exposure whilst working closely with other teams (research, trading, middle office) within FI, Commodities, Credit and FX.

Skills and Experience Required

• Substantial Java skills on Linux, ideally with some C++ experience too
• Minimum bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related) from a top-tier university
• Strong financial knowledge – FI, Commodities, Credit, FX
• Bonus points for experience with cross-asset pricing and risk systems

Benefits & Incentives

• Strong salary + bonuses
• Work-from-home opportunities
• Collaborative culture and an exciting place to work
• Generous benefits package

Salary: £80,000 – 100,000 base + 40-70% bonus

Job description:

Client

Fantastic opportunity for a modern C++ engineer to join the core Fixed Income and Commodities Technology group at one of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds. This team is the backbone of their cross-asset Risk and PnL system for all Fixed Income, Commodities, Credit and FX products.  This system is running 24/7 for the past 10 years and is a real-time, highly distributed platform that is being rebuilt into a next-generation platform.

They’ve got a fantastic name in the industry with good reason; paying strong salaries on both base and bonus, and a good tech culture, which is both collegial and dynamic.

Role

You will be building the next-generation analytics library in C++, with elements of Java and Python. Greenfield work, you’ll be building the distributed pricing platform – utilising Kubernetes, microservices, AWS and Docker on multithreaded systems. You will get a lot of product exposure whilst working closely with other teams (research, trading, middle office) within FI, Commodities, Credit and FX.

Skills and Experience Required

• Substantial experience with modern C++ (C++11, ideally later) on Linux
• Python or Java experience is highly advantageous
• Minimum bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related) from a top-tier university
• Strong financial knowledge – FI pricing and Risk analytics, Commodities, Credit, FX
• Bonus points for experience with cross-asset pricing and risk systems

Benefits & Incentives

• Strong salary + bonuses
• Work-from-home opportunities
• Collaborative culture and an exciting place to work
• Generous benefits package

Salary: £75,000+

5-10 years’ experience

Job description:

Client

Perfect opportunity for a passionate C#-focused quant developer to join a central London-based fund, working directly on their Risk and P&L platform.

With recent new investment and market volatility creating new opportunities, this is a fantastic time to get onboard as they look to grow and expand.

Role

Reporting directly to the CTO, you’ll be developing complex software solutions at server and client level, and developing robust, large-scale greenfield systems across the whole company. You will work closely with the business and use the latest C# technologies.

The ideal candidate enjoys both working independently and sharing knowledge with other developers, and is particularly keen to work closely with end-users to best understand requirements.

Skills and Experience Required

• 5+ years’ software development experience, including recent C# (version 6.0>)
• Proficient knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server (2017>)
• Strong experience with event-driven architectures, multi-threading and asynchronous patterns
• Experience of implementing robust and fast real-time systems and code execution optimisation
• Bonus points for experience with any of these: RabbitMQ, Redis, Python, ReSharper, ComponentOne, FIX

Benefits & Incentives

• Competitive salary + bonus + benefits package
• Truly collaborative culture with impactful, greenfield work
• Smart, centrally located London office

Experienced Lead Engineer with great technical and analytical expertise is sought for a hands-on role at this global multi-strategy investment management firm in their London office.

You will lead a highly talented and ambitious team, spread across London and the US, building next-generation, cloud-enabled applications. This is a high impact role; you will be leading and building the team developing front-office risk solutions to the entire fund.

The team is currently using .Net, but is looking to move to a Java/Python environment, therefore this role requires a skilled polyglot, with experience in two of the above languages.

Requirements

• Experience building large-scale, real-time, and distributed applications
• Proven leadership capabilities, with the ability to innovate design
• Solid experience of multiple programming languages: C#, Java, Python
• Expert knowledge of microservices, RESTful API, WebAPI, distributed caching, etc.
• Strong academic record in STEM subject from a leading university – Maths, Computer Science, Engineering or Physics preferred

Rewards and Incentives

• Outstanding compensation – significant base + bonuses
• Truly collegial tech culture, within a dynamic, stimulating work environment
• Significant amount of autonomy and impact on company performance – your ideas matter!
• Generous benefits, including paid volunteer time, private healthcare and parental leave

Salary

up to £160k base

Salary – Market-leading, strong base + bonus potential.

Summary – My client is a leading tech-driven proprietary trading firm, trading across all major asset classes in dozens of financial exchanges across the world.

They’re looking to hire a talented DevOps/Trading Systems Engineer.

The Role:

• Take ownership of trading issues, operational issues, and the deployment process for the team’s production trading, with a focus on making the processes scalable and fault-tolerant.
• Write and maintain complex Python infrastructure.
• Ensure the production servers are properly configured, and that various sources of information for production processes are kept up to date.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science or related field.
• Significant Python/Linux experience. Some C++ preferable. coding skills.
• Familiarity with SQL, Redis, InfluxDB is a plus.

Perks:

• Relaxed atmosphere and culture of continuous learning and innovation – continuous opportunities for personal development
• Market-leading compensation with very strong bonus potential

Summary:

Unique opportunity to join a rapidly growing international crypto fintech at their London office in Shoreditch. They create a range of products in the crypto / blockchain space so that customers’ transactions are safer, faster and more efficient while also helping global financial institutions improve day-to-day transaction processing using the latest technology.

Role:

Reporting directly to the SVP for Engineering, this is a high-impact role with influence over the technical direction of the entire company. You will build and lead an agile, cross-functional team of junior and more experienced software engineers, engaging in code reviews to improve team members’ skillsets.

The successful Engineering Manager will come from a hands-on software engineering and technical background and enjoys a fast-paced working environment within a flat-structured organization.

Tech stack: current focus is Kotlin (and they’ve used GOLANG and many others in the past), but they take on engineers with any OO experience and from any background – the current team includes people from banking, start-ups, tech giants and consulting.

Requirements:

• Demonstrable experience in all aspects of people management – hiring, firing, developing and encouraging talent
• Hands-on code writing and development experience
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, agile environment and dealing with ambiguity whilst juggling multiple priorities and stakeholders
• Working knowledge of a variety of technical stacks, including full-stack exposure
• Exceptional communication skills – across all areas of the organisation

Benefits:

• Strong base salaries + stock
• Meaningful impact on profitability / your direct impact on the business is huge
• Generous benefits package, including healthcare, significant holiday allowance and free snacks, drinks and ping pong in the office
• Work for a young company that is changing the future of finance!
• Truly collaborative culture (your ideas matter!) with substantial career growth
• Visa assistance available

Salary:

Up to £120k

Salary – Market-leading, strong bonus potential.

Summary – My client is a leading asset management and market-making firm. Their asset management firm is one of the largest multi-strategy funds globally.

They’re looking to add a talented SRE to their Treasury team to work on a major automation project.

The Role:

• The key goal for this team is to migrate from semi-manual deployments and manual server allocation to a fully automated deployment system.
• Design and deploy a new generation of production infrastructure.
• Ensure the reliability, availability and performance of applications, making changes to improve production quality where necessary.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related subject.
• Strong Python coding skills.
• Familiarity with a range of development tools/practices (testing, source control, build systems, CI/CD, etc.).
• Basic understanding of TCP/IP networking, LAN/WAN and Linux networking.

Perks:

• Fully catered breakfast/lunch
• Regular socials
• Market-leading compensation with very strong bonus potential

Crypto fintech company are looking for a Senior Software Developer to join their rapidly expanding engineering team. You’ll be a key member of the team, using your commercial experience to help influence the product strategy: you’ll do this by refining the system architecture, helping to define product features, and using best practice to enable the best quality end product.

This organisation is fast-paced, transparent and flat, so if you want to see your work directly affect the business and the future of financial technology, then this is a great opportunity for you.

Responsibilities

• Contributing to more than just the product, as a senior engineer you’ll use technical leadership to mentor and improve more junior members of the team
• You’ll create sub-tasks, and use your own design, coding and testing all the way through each deployment when completing them
• You will use your experience to find the best solution, not only to fix problems, but also to find the source of the problem and take necessary steps to prevent it becoming a recurring issue

Requirements

• A strong Computer Science degree from an elite university (Russell Group or EU/international equivalent)
• 5+ years’ commercial experience
• A strong understanding of core engineering concepts, as well as data structure and algorithms
• An interest in working within an open and collaborative diverse team
• A drive and passion to learn new technologies

Benefits

• Free snacks and drinks in the office
• Healthcare coverage
• Strong PTO/family leave allowance
• Strong compensation packages
• Great London office

London-based investment manager and market-maker are looking for a Build and Release Engineer to be part of a new team to help develop an automated release and configuration tool for a build pipeline for their in-house Python, C# and C++ projects.

Additionally, you can expect to take ownership of further development of the tools to increase the quality of their development environment.

Requirements

• Strong Computer Science (or related) degree from a Russell Group (or equivalent) university
• Excellent Python skills with 3+ years’ commercial experience
• Experience integrating development and operational processes so they’re considered to be a value-add
• You must be a fan of automating the ‘path to production’ to multiple environments
• You take pride in solid, lean and effective solutions that others can utilise

What You Can Expect

• Fantastic engineering environment where technology is the key to success
• Quickly growing global firm with plenty of opportunities to make considerable impact across the business
• A friendly, rewarding, dress-down culture (with lots of company socials!)
• The benefits of a start-up, without the associated risks
• Exceptional compensation and other staff benefits

Health-tech start-up based in London are looking for a software engineer to help build their revolutionary product. Their mission is simple – to use technology to increase the productivity of health services.

In two years, rapid growth means their tech can be found in over 50% of GP practices in England and there are no signs of this slowing down. Your work will help solve real-life issues and have a genuine impact on millions of people’s lives.

Requirements

• 2+ years’ commercial experience as a software engineer/developer
• A passion for the healthcare industry or, even better, experience in the healthcare industry
• Excellent communication skills
• Fantastic problem-solving skills
• You’re mission-driven and not afraid of change
• Commercial experience with C# and Javascript

Benefits

• Stock options
• Flexible work hours
• Free breakfast and pescatarian/veggie lunches
• Great holiday allowance
• Annual company retreat
• Pension scheme

Fund in central London are looking for a C# Quantitative Developer to expand their team. Your primary role will be to develop solutions for all areas of the business, including risk, quant and trading.

Main Responsibilities Will Include:

• Programming and projects: reporting directly to the CTO to manage your workload and delivery dates
• Application support: you’ll support a range of internal applications to make sure the tech side of the business runs smoothly
• Documentation and development: ensuring software that you develop is automatically built and deployed
• Security: as you’ll have high levels of access and control to systems, it’s vital to keep security standards high

Requirements:

• A relevant degree from a top-tier university
• In-depth knowledge of C#
• Working experience of Microsoft SQL Server
• Experience in implementing robust and fast real-time systems and code execution optimisation
• Experience with event-driven architectures, multithreading and asynchronous programming

Good to have:

• Experience with Python (along with C#, it is a fully supported language)
• Existing experience with any of these technologies: RabbitMQ, Redis, ReSharper, ComponentOne, FIX
• A love of software development: clear structure and coding standards are highly important to you

Benefits:

• Central London office
• Strong compensation
• Good bonus
• Pension scheme

Elite London fund are looking for a software engineer to join their Market Data team. This technology team is responsible for sourcing market data, processing it and providing reliable feeds to downstream systems. This role is highly important as market data is critical to the success of the business. They are also undergoing an architectural restructure so the role will involve substantial engineering and ownership.

Your day will include (but is not restricted to):

• Working with Quant Analysts to help architect valuation and risk engines
• Delivering essential solutions to the highest design, testing and operational standards
• Using your technical excellence and innovation to challenge current systems, processes and delivery approach to achieve common goals
• Ensuring system performance, accuracy and stability

Requirements:

• A-levels at grade A*/A/B (or international equivalent) and a minimum 2.1 degree obtained in Computer Science (or a related field) from a Russell Group university
• Excellent understanding of and recent programming experience in C#/.NET or other object-oriented languages, such as Java or Python, as well as SQL
• Strong enthusiasm for programming and technology, and the ability to work in a dynamic and integrated team
• Experience of owning all aspects of development projects from start to finish; from establishing business requirements and design development, to testing and release management
• Experience working with Quants/Risk Managers/Traders
• Front office experience at a bank, asset management firm or hedge fund

Benefits:

• Highly competitive compensation packages + buy-side bonuses
• Profit sharing schemes
• Excellent onsite facilities
• Central London office
• Regular benefits, such as healthcare, dental, pension, etc.

Elite hedge fund based in London are looking for a Full Stack Engineer to build a web platform for their investors. They have been using data science and technology to forecast the future and discover valuable markets worldwide. Their work spans from insurance and securities to new ventures and investments. They already have an application that is used by investment allocators to understand the risks and returns of their investments.

They are seeking an experienced and enthusiastic full stack developer who will use front-end, back-end and public cloud to build a data-driven solution for the most significant investment objectives faced by their clients.

Responsibilities:

• You’ll rigorously and creatively collaborate with the team to plan and develop, using tech such as Java, Typescript, React.js and others.
• You’ll work with other parts of the business, such as engineering, marketing and business development, to plan and execute changes.
• You’ll test and analyse solutions to big data challenges, portfolio management and data analysis and visualisation.

Requirements:

• Exceptional academic record from a top-tier university with a focus on Computer Science (or related subject).
• Complete understanding of Java, Python or C++.
• Professional front-end programming experience with extensive use of Javascript/Typescript, React.js and Angular.js are preferred.
• Strong communication skills.
• Financial experience is not essential.

Benefits:

• Central London office
• Highly competitive compensation
• Strong bonuses
• Strong pension scheme

Exciting AI company are looking to bring in a Front-End Engineer to join their software engineering team to create conversational AI products. You’ll collaborate with both the product and engineering teams; responsible for building multiple platform front-ends, dashboards for clients, as well as creating visualisation tools for their virtual assistants.

Responsibilities – your first year will consist of:

• Designing and developing front-ends of the virtual assistants, iOS applications and web interfaces.
• Prototyping and developing visualisation tools for the AI products.
• Building client-facing dashboards to display business intelligence.

Requirements:

• A strong degree in Computer Science from a top tier university
• Experience with web technologies – Javascript, HTML, CSS
• Experience with either React or VueJS
• 2+ years’ experience as a front-end developer

Preferable:

• Experience with iOS development, such as Objective C or Swift
• Excellent problem-solving, troubleshooting and analytical skills
• Having a user-centric mindset and caring about UX/UI design

Benefits

• 25 holiday days
• Flexible working from home
• Pension
• Health and dental insurance

A London-based elite fund are looking for a top-tier candidate to join their team which already includes some of the most talented traders, developers and engineers on the market. The company executes a diverse range of strategies across global equities and derivatives.

They have a culture like no other company in their field: relaxed and informal, yet very highly rewarding of strong performance. There’s no dress code, plenty of free food in the office and regular social events.

Their vision is to specialise in connectivity to trading exchanges. You will need to have latency at the front of your mind and be adroit in ensuring connections are stable. You’ll need to be a C++ expert and understand the importance of following a framework in the context of multiple global exchanges. You’ll be the crucial link between teams and you’ll both own and improve the capacity and latency of existing and new links.

Requirements:

• Degree in Computer Science (or related subject) from an elite university
• 4+ years’ commercial experience
• Expert C++ knowledge
• Knowledge of multiple exchanges
• Experience in ultra-low-latency design
• Experience in template programming
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills

Benefits:

• Great compensation package
• Dress-down office
• Cooperative culture
• Unique work/life balance

Y Combinator-graduated company are looking for an experienced full stack senior engineer to head up a new team  which will be responsible for taking their platform to the next level. You’ll need a proven track record of designing and executing technical product roadmaps. You’ll also need a deep insight into how to design, build and ship software that impacts the bottom line. Experience leading a small engineering team before would be a bonus.

Experience building large-scale Java/Kotlin/Javascript applications and a deep understanding of the APIs that power them Their UI is powered from their public APIs, so attention to detail and caring deeply about the customer experience is a must. A significant part of the role will be customer-facing; leading product demos and helping potential customers evaluate the product. They deploy often (several times a day).

Requirements:

• 5+ years’ commercial experience with Java
• Expert knowledge in HTML, CSS and Javascript
• Experience building great applications with UX in mind
• Experience with restful APIs
• Skilled at debugging and optimization
• Bachelor’s (or higher) degree in Computer Science

Bonus:

• Experience with JS frameworks such as React, Angular or Vue
• Interested in visualizing complex and time-series data

Benefits:

• Dog-friendly office
• Remote working / WFH options
• Stock options
• Central London office near the South Bank

Salary – Competitive, strong bonus potential.

Summary – My client is a leading proprietary trading firm, implementing both fundamental and quantitative trading & market-making strategies across global financial markets.

They’re looking to hire a talented Build and Release Engineer.

The Role:

• Work on automated release and configuration management tools for a build pipeline for in-house development projects.
• Take ownership of the further development of the tools to increase the quality and maturity of the development environment.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related subject.
• Strong Python development skills.
• Experience automating production processes.

Perks:

• Friendly culture with regular socials.
• Relaxed environment, with dress-down policy and fully stocked kitchen.
• Medical/Dental Insurance.
• Market-leading compensation with very strong bonus potential.

Salary – Competitive, strong bonus potential.

Summary – My client is a leading proprietary trading firm, implementing both fundamental and quantitative trading & market-making strategies across global financial markets.

They’re looking to hire a talented Python Desk Developer.

The Role:

• Work on handling large volumes of complex data and to help devise an innovative, efficient means of processing and reporting it.
• Implement automated reporting solutions.
• Collaborate with teams to analyse and compile data from multiple data sources into meaningful summaries.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related subject.
• Significant experience with Python (pandas, numpy), and SQL
• Understanding of Excel VBA.

Perks:

• Friendly culture with regular socials.
• Relaxed environment, with dress-down policy and fully stocked kitchen.
• Medical/Dental Insurance.
• Market-leading compensation with very strong bonus potential.

Salary – Competitive, strong bonus potential.

Summary – My client is a leading proprietary trading firm, implementing both fundamental and quantitative trading & market-making strategies across global financial markets.

They’re looking to add a Senior C# Developer to their Core Systems team.

The Role:

• Development of both new and existing GUIs for their in-house systems, as well as expansion of reference data systems.
• As this is a senior role, you’ll have the opportunity to combine mentoring/leadership with your own hands-on contribution.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related subject.
• Significant C# and Linux experience.
• Experience developing easy-to-use front-ends using React/Typescript.

Perks:

• Friendly culture with regular socials.
• Relaxed environment, with dress-down policy and fully stocked kitchen.
• Medical/Dental Insurance.
• Market-leading compensation with very strong bonus potential.

This algorithmic trading firm brings a scientific approach to trading financial products. Their researchers are at the forefront of innovation and the start-up feel of the company creates a very relaxed but technically challenged environment.

They have built one of the world’s most sophisticated computing environments for research and development and their distributed system is on the Pareto frontier of latency and throughput. You’ll do machine learning over huge datasets in a massive compute cluster. You’ll develop deep knowledge of C++, OS internals, CPU architecture, and networking hardware and protocol.

Salary: Up to £150k base + strong bonuses

Requirements:

• Excellent design, debugging and problem-solving skills
• Strong experience in either C or C++ and a brilliant grasp of computer science fundamentals (algorithms, data structures, etc.)
• Knowledge of UNIX operating systems (they use Linux), system/processor performance, and network communication

Benefits:

• Competitive base salary
• Annual discretionary bonus
• Competitive pension contribution

This role is within an investment management firm specialising in quantitative and systematic trading. Small, agile firm with 60 members in their HQ in London. This asset manager provides quantitative investment strategies to external investors.

Salary: Up to £100k base + strong bonuses

Requirements:

• Strong developers with good Java, Linux command line and SQL database skills. Proven ability to deliver well tested, quality software
• Willingness and ability to quickly learn new languages and technologies
• Interest in trading and execution, a capacity to take on a variety of work
• Strong communication skills, attention to detail, and the ability to adapt to a constantly changing financial environment
• Experience in one other OO language (C++, C# or Python)
• Knowledge of trading systems and/or FIX protocol also an advantage, but not a requirement

Benefits:

• Competitive base salary
• Annual discretionary bonus
• Competitive pension contribution

Summary:

• Do you want to work for a venture capitalist where technology is a key part of how companies are found, funded and helped to succeed?
• Are you a software engineer interested in understanding how a VC works?
• Are you keen to gain a deep insight into the things that turn a start-up into a successful business?

If so, this is a fantastic software engineer role at a leading, London-based venture capital firm, managing over $1.5 billion and one of the first to use mostly technology to source and invest. The successful software engineer will likely come from a tech background, and be a well-rounded, pragmatic engineer with a genuine passion for technology.

Launched in 2006, they focus on global, game-changing companies with ambitious founders and big visions. They’re data-driven and transparent, with a good number of them being computer scientists.

Responsibilities:

• Ownership of projects: figure out what needs building and build it
• Use data & data science methods to discover great companies, investors and people across the European start-up community

Requirements:

• Candidates from any technical background will be considered, but ideally you will have worked in some of the following: Python, Javascript, sklearn, asyncio, SQL, Pandas, Docker, Kubernetes
• Strong sense of what makes a good product and user experience
• Excited to experience a modern VC, with genuine interest and early insight into the space
• Appreciation for, and advocate of a multidisciplinary, diverse team

Benefits:

• Generous health and benefits package, including unlimited holiday
• Market-leading salaries
• Small, dynamic engineering team that speaks openly

Summary:

An esports gaming start-up are looking for a Senior Python Developer to join their London-based team.

The successful Python developer will be building a bleeding-edge trading exchange, in a fast-paced, agile environment, shipping to production multiple times a day and taking ownership of the backend development, written in Python, hosted on AWS.

Requirements:

• STEM degree or relevant experience
• 3 yrs+ of commercial engineering experience with Python
• Experience with AWS/ cloud engineering a plus

Benefits:

• Competitive salary, health insurance, pension, equity
• Highly agile team, fast-paced start-up environment, multiple deployments / day
• Office pets welcome

Salary: £40-60k (flexible)

Location: London

Summary: 

A Conversational AI Start-Up are looking for a Junior (1-4 years) DevOps Engineer to support their innovative conversational AI products for customer service.

The successful candidate will work on the configuration of the AWS cloud infrastructure for the start-up’s products, so that they work securely and reliably and can communicate with client’s systems. This will involve building from scratch, configuring and maintaining cloud infrastructure for new and existing clients.

Requirements:

• Minimum 6 months of previous commercial DevOps experience.
• Hands on AWS experience.
• Bash and/or Python scripting experience.
• Familiarity with Docker technology.
• Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field (e.g. Mathematics, Physics…)

Nice to have:

• Comfortability with DevOps tools such as Terraform and/or Ansible.
• Experience with Kubernetes and/or Serverless technology.

Benefits and Incentives:

• Generous holiday allowance, pension contribution, and other financial and health incentives
• Flexible WFH policy
• Regular team socials, quarterly company parties, monthly company talks
• Work with, and learn from, an outstanding team drawn from world-class technical backgrounds

Salary – Competitive, strong bonus potential.

Summary – My client is a leading global investment management firm that utilizes a diversified portfolio of systematic and quantitative strategies across financial markets.

They’re looking to add strong Data Engineers to their Data Science and Engineering team, which is responsible for the acquisition, pre-processing, and distribution of multiple data sources for investment research.

The Role:

• Gather and process raw data at scale (including writing scripts, web scraping, calling APIs, write SQL queries, etc).
• Process unstructured data into a form suitable for analysis.
• Cooperate with colleagues to ensure consistency and maximum reuse of software components.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related subject.
• Experience with data mining applications, preferably in finance.
• Strong Python/C++ skills, as well as experience with SQL and noSQL technologies.

Perks:

• Friendly culture with regular socials.
• Relaxed, tech-driven environment with close collaboration between desks.
• Market-leading compensation with very strong bonus potential.

A new Esports betting firm are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to take ownership of their backend development. You’ll be part of a close-knit team with experts in design, frontend development and quants.

The tech stack is Python and Javascript, and it is hosted on AWS. The stack also includes Socketio, Postgresql, Redis, Flask, Elasticsearch, SQS and Ansible. The iPhone app is written in Swift.

What you can expect to do:

• Write robust, maintainable and testable code.
• Uphold the highest level of engineering standards to the processes and codebases you encounter.
• Ensure technical architecture is consistent with their roadmap.
• You’ll also be involved in building out the new team and hiring great software engineers.
• Use your experience to mentor colleagues.

Knowledge of the whole tech stack is preferred but isn’t totally necessary. Willingness to learn, get up to speed and use your ability as a problem solver to uphold high engineering standards is important to the role.

Requirements:

• Computer Science (or related) degree from a Russell Group university (or equivalent)
• 5+ years’ professional experience with Python and web-based applications
• Experience within start-up
• Proven success and experience with scalable products.
• Ideally be an Esports fan!

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Pension scheme
• Competitive options
• Activity perks – the more active you are, the more rewards you get
• Pet friendly office in Farringdon

Overview:

Unique opportunity to join a standout global fund in their European HQ in Dublin, Ireland.

This is a small but fast-paced team functioning in a high-level Linux environment. They solve complex technical problems across the whole business, from counter party support to risk management and optimization of a sophisticated electronic trading system.

Seeking a talented engineer with some development experience in Python for their Dublin office (Europe). The ideal candidate has a keen interest in the markets and technology and can react decisively and quickly in time-sensitive, high-stress situations.

Requirements:

• Linux/Unix expertise is essential
• 2+ years’ commercial experience
• Proficient in one or more programming language, e.g. Python / Bash / Perl / Go or similar
• Strong academic record
• High level of technical agility, with an interest in innovative technologies
• Experience with SQL and configuration management is a plus (e.g. Puppet, Ansible, Salt)

Culture / Benefits:

• 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 good work-life balance

Salary – Competitive

Summary – My client is an exciting fintech start-up, developing data-driven automated working capital finance programmes and analytics.

They’re looking to hire a Senior Python Engineer to lead their development team through a variety of projects from building complex data pipelines to developing end-to-end trading and risk systems.

The Role:

• This is a widely varied role, where you’ll be exposed to a range of tasks, including working with data, building trading or trade processing systems and full-stack development.
• As this is a senior role, you’ll have the opportunity to combine mentoring/leadership with your own hands-on contributions.
• In addition to coding, you’ll take part in system design and architecture.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related subject.
• 2+ years’ commercial Python experience.
• AWS experience is highly desirable.

Summary:

Fantastic opportunity for a highly motivated C# GUI developer to join the Hong Kong team of this leading global market maker. You’ll design, build and enhance their business-critical application suite, to deliver stable and performant GUI.  This will include standalone components and framework libraries.

A front-end focused role, you’ll collaborate directly with the business, trading desk and development teams to optimize users’ workflow and improve traders’ productivity, while also providing application support.

The ideal candidate will be self-driven, intellectually curious, and have a passion for developing innovative interactive applications.

Requirements​:

• Proficient experience in design and development of front-end enterprise-wide GUIs and/or framework libraries
• Extensive experience in C#, Winforms, Microsoft Visual Studio
• Strong programming skills in multithreading, Reactive Extension, C#/.NET
• Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle
• Experience with any of the following is considered a plus: C#8; SQL, Python; WPF/XAML, MVVM pattern, PRISM, MVVM Light or Caliburn framework; Web GUI such as React, Javascript, Typescript, HTML, CSS

Benefits:

• Hugely collaborative environment between teams, not siloed like other firms
• Competitive compensation: truly flat structure; feel valued for your input and be rewarded for great ideas
• Work with the latest technologies on complex problems
• Flexible working encouraged and regular socials

Summary:

Quant Developer wanted for leading investment firm to join their fast-paced, dynamic engineering team. This role will give you the opportunity to design, build and optimize a diverse trading platform. You will be working closely with the researchers and live traders to develop the core-trading infrastructure.

They are looking for a strong, analytical problem-solver, with deep knowledge of low-level optimization, an interest in algorithmic trading, data analysis/design, risk management and application development. The successful Quant Developer is expected to take real ownership of projects – from inception through to deployment; designing and developing high-performance C++ components used by trading applications.

Requirements:

• 4 years programming experience with strong OOP, scientific programming skills and fluency in C, C++
• Scientific and scripting languages (e.g. Python, R // Linux, shell)
• Knowledge in statistics, probability and linear algebra
• Experience with numerical analysis (e.g. regression, optimization) and ML is a big plus
• BS in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related Computer Engineering or Science subject. MS degree would be ideal.

Benefits:

• Hugely collaborative environment between teams, not siloed like other firms
• Competitive compensation: truly flat structure; feel valued for your input and be rewarded for great ideas
• Work with the latest technologies on complex problems
• Flexible working encouraged and regular socials

Summary:

An industry-leading quant / systematic trading asset manager are looking for a C# focussed software developer to join an agile, London-based engineering team. The successful C# developer will be working very close to the business, alongside traders, risk analysts and quants in London. Their tech stack includes C#, .NET, Azure and Kubernetes.

Requirements:

• STEM degree or relevant industry experience
• Commercial experience working with C# and SQL in a software engineering role
• Current stack includes: C# / .NET, MSSQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, Winforms, Azure, Kubernetes, Python

Benefits:

• Highly competitive salary and hedge fund-style bonus structure in London
• Cutting-edge software and data focussed technologies
• Agile engineering team in central London

Summary:

A London-based leading trading firm are looking for a Quant Analyst to join a small, flat team of software engineers and researchers. As a Quant Analyst, you will be developing predictive financial models by deploying cutting edge data science tools and analytics.

Working with the Python data stack, you will be working with very large data sets and taking ownership of the full lifecycle from design to production of predictive models. This trading firm are based in the City of London.

Requirements:

• STEM degree
• Programming experience with Python
• Predictive modelling and data handling experience
• Knowledge of markets and finance is not required
• London-based

 Benefits:

• Competitive salary and bonus structure in London
• Non-corporate company culture and flat hierarchy
• Long-term employee investment and progression opportunities

Summary:

Industry-leading investment firm using innovative and cutting-edge technology, with data at the core of the investment process. Great opportunity for a data engineer to join their London office where you’ll architect and build platforms integral to the sourcing, enriching and storing of the data that enables the investment process.

Partnering with investment professionals and data scientists, you will focus on data ingestion (web scrapes, S3/FTP sync, sensor collection), transforming it into actionable insights (Spark, SQL, Kafka, Python/C++/R) and designing their interfaces (API, schema design, events).

The successful Data Engineer will have a passion for working with data and developing software to solve data-processing challenges.

Requirements:

• Experience building and managing large web scrapes
• Experience working with Google Cloud and navigating Big Data
• Experience with any of the following systems: Apache Airflow, AWS/GCE/Azure, Jupyter, Kafka, Docker, Nomad/Kubernetes, or Snowflake
• Proficiency in Python is a plus
• Proficiency with RDBMS, NoSQL, distributed compute platforms, such as Spark, Dask or Hadoop
• Master’s or PhD degree in Computer Science would be ideal

Benefits:

• Hugely collaborative environment between teams, not siloed like other firms
• Competitive compensation: truly flat structure; feel valued for your input and be rewarded for great ideas
• Work with the latest technologies on complex problems
• Flexible working encouraged and regular socials

Are you a C++ specialist? Do you love creating beautiful code and developing elegant algorithms? Would you like to work in the heart of historic Berlin? Then this could be the perfect next role for you.

This is a small, fast-paced and profitable software company, providing more than three quarters of a million users worldwide with data visualisation software for business presentations. They are looking to hire exceptional, creative C++ developers at all levels.

The Role:

With regular input from the CTO, the successful candidate will be confident working independently, able to assess problems and architect solutions. With no scheduled meetings and no deadlines, you will be in control of your own workload: developers here enjoy the responsibilities of design, implementation, gathering customer feedback and bug fixing.

They have a relaxed and friendly working environment, where ideas and suggestions from anyone in the company are taken seriously and acted upon.

What is on offer:

• Competitive salaries + generous benefits package (including flexible working, company nanny, and fresh bakery, fruit, drinks and snacks in the office)
• Fantastic work-life balance
• High degree of autonomy over code you write
• Relocation / work permit support

Requirements:

• BSc (ideally MSc) in Computer Science or other relevant STEM subject from top university
• Solid, demonstrable C++ experience
• Fluency in both written and spoken English is essential. Knowledge of German is a bonus.

A confident and enthusiastic full stack Java developer is required to join a technology-driven trading firm. They have a relaxed non-bureaucratic environment and manage several billion in assets, balancing both systematic and discretionary methods. You will be joining this global fund in their London office.

Responsibilities include:

Working on every aspect of re-engineering the Risk system, directly with risk managers to develop automation tools to streamline and improve functionality. You will be required to source market data and develop systems to assist several assets classes (not siloed) to create results and have an impact!

You will be joining a results-driven team where traders and developers work side by side. Responsible for building out real-time complex trading systems.

Requirements:

• Minimum bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or similar from top-tier university
• Commercial core Java experience, minimum 1 year
• React, Javascript, Angular or similar
• SQL/RDMBS
• Scripting languages, Python & Big Data experience
• Financial experience not required

Benefits:

• Up to £110k base
• Great culture, sociable office
• Amazing views over central London
• Learn from world-class developers

Unable to sponsor visas.

Summary:

C++ software engineer wanted for this leading global market maker to join their fast-paced, dynamic team. They utilise technology to trade on all markets around the globe and are looking to expand the development team at their APAC hub in Sydney.

You will be creating next-generation software solutions for one of the world’s most powerful trading platforms, collaborating with business leaders to optimize performance and efficiency.

The role would suit someone who is passionate about technology and software development, with an enthusiasm for solving open-ended, challenging problems. The successful candidate will also have strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

Requirements​:

• Strong, comprehensive C++ experience
• Solid understanding of multi-threaded application design
• Proficiency working with distributed systems
• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or a related field)
• Experience with prop trading preferred, but not essential

Benefits:

• Hugely collaborative environment between teams, not siloed like other firms
• Competitive compensation: truly flat structure; feel valued for your input and be rewarded for great ideas
• Work with the latest technologies on complex problems
• Flexible working encouraged and regular socials

Overview:

Leading prop trading firm with a global presence (US, UK, Asia).  They are very tech-driven and invest heavily in their engineering teams. Developers here are truly world-class. The culture here is unique in that it is relaxed and informal, yet highly rewarding of strong performance.

They are seeking exceptional C++ software developers to join their London team. 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)
• Strong knowledge of multiple exchanges & performance analysis
• Experience in ultra-low-latency design and template programming
• Excellent communication skills and skilled problem-solver

Rewards & Incentives:

• Excellent bonus potential and compensation
• Friendly, collaborative working environment
• No dress code, catered offices and regular social events
• Work with the latest technologies on complex problems.

Overview:

Highly enthusiastic engineer with great communication skills wanted for a unique opportunity in one of London’s most exciting hedge funds. Working closely with and supporting a small team of talented quant developers, you will play a crucial role in solving complex and interesting problems.

Offering the chance to make a real impact, no two days in this role are the same. You could be closely monitoring business-critical Linux systems and multi-petabyte storage solutions, troubleshooting network issues in real time or improving efficiency through better understanding users and automating routine tasks.

The ideal candidate will have expert-level Linux skills and enjoy sharing their knowledge with others. Now is the perfect time to join as they look to scale out their infrastructure – you could help to make this happen.

** NB: This position is open to university students graduating this year **

Requirements:

• Strong academic background with a STEM degree from a top-tier university
• Solid Linux experience – ideally beyond user level
• Willingness to learn, with a curious attitude and mindset
• Passionate about what you do and enjoy using your skills to solve real-world problems

Rewards & Incentives:

• Great pay and bonus scheme
• Huge amount of autonomy and ownership
• Professional development strongly encouraged (funded training, coaching, postgrad study, etc.)
• Amazing offices with views of the London skyline
• Open-plan office with free breakfast, snacks, music room, games room, yoga sessions, gym

London-based systematic trading fund are looking for their next generation of software engineers to join their ranks. They build critical solutions, from pre-trade research platforms to post-trade clearing, as well as settlement services. These include high-throughput systems that scale millions of transactions per second.

You will develop under the sponsorship of the CTO. Designing, developing and deploying elegant software solutions to be used across the whole firm. You will also be partnered with business leaders to find out their priorities, in turn developing and delivering customized solutions.

Requirements

• Proficiency with multiple object-oriented languages – Java, Python, C++, etc.
• Strong knowledge of machine learning/deep learning, relational databases and distributed service oriented architecture
• Experience building high performance, highly available and scalable systems, as well as complex software systems that have been successfully adopted by customers over extended time periods
• Ability to deliver short-term results whilst being able to focus on long-term strategic solutions
• Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD degree in Computer Science from a top-tier university

Benefits

• London office
• Incredibly strong workforce
• Strong salary and bonus with huge earning potential
• Lots of company perks

Systematic hedge fund based in central London are looking for a junior software developer specializing in C# and .NET. This hedge fund’s core strengths are research and technology, so you’ll be making a direct impact. You will be in a challenging working environment alongside a strong team of investment professionals, so you’ll need excellent communication skills.

Many of the projects you will be working on are in a greenfield environment, so you’ll be able to make your mark in the development world early on as you’ll be creating and maintaining your own applications.

Requirements:

• At least 1 year’s commercial experience with C#, .NET and SQL
• Fluency in English – excellent communication skills are vital
• At least a BSc in Computer Science or relevant equivalent degree
• This is a non-smoking company – you must not be a smoker in order to apply

Desired:

• Web technology experience – HTML, CSS, ASP.NET, etc.
• Experience in developing multi-threaded applications
• Network programming experience
• The ability and willingness to work occasional weekends

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Lucrative bonus structure
• Great office with London skyline views

Leading market-makers looking to hire talented quant developers to join their London office. You will be amongst the brightest and best technologists in London, working closely with quant researchers and traders to design, build and optimize cutting-edge high-throughput trading systems and core infrastructure for research and real-time alpha generation.

You will be responsible for integrating analytics into real-time electronic trading infrastructure. You will design and develop low-level high-performance trading software.

Requirements

• Minimum 2:1 in Computer Science or Maths (or related subject) from world-leading university.
• 3 years’ commercial C++ experience
• Scientific scripting language, e.g. Python, R
• Familiarity with Linux systems
• Regression, optimization and machine learning desirable
• Strong communication skills
• Strong analytical skills and an enthusiasm for problem-solving
• Understanding of object-oriented programming, design patterns and data structures

Perks

Tier 2 visa transfer available

Market-leading salaries and bonus structure

Fully catered breakfast/lunch/dinner

Social events and company holidays, competitive compensation: generous holiday allowance, health services and other flexible benefits

Outstanding C++ programmer with great communication skills wanted for a unique opportunity in one of Amsterdam’s leading high frequency trading firms. Working in small, exceptionally talented teams, building cutting-edge innovative technology solutions for their ultra-low-latency trading system.

Work may involve handling huge amounts of market data, building complex, high-performant trading systems, shooting huge amounts of orders into global exchanges, etc.

My client places the company’s culture at the heart of business decisions. Employees enjoy a competitive atmosphere surrounded by industry-leading experts, all in a relaxed setting conducive to personal development, with an office space akin to that of social networks.

Responsibilities 

• Build high performance trading systems in C++
• Write clean and tested code
• Work on complex computational and data-related problems
• Follow the latest agile practices

Requirements

• Significant programming experience in C++ (5+ years)
• Worked on multi-thousand line coding projects
• Strong degree in Computer Science (or similar) from a top-tier university
• Knowledge of data structures and algorithms
• Ability to write incredibly high-quality code, highly performant code
• Fluency in English

Rewards & Incentives 

• Great base salaries and industry-leading PnL-aligned bonuses
• Enjoy the latest technology advancements
• Working in a small team of highly talented engineers
• Direct business impact with short feedback loop
• On-site gym, bar, restaurant, as well as nutritionists and personal trainers
• Annual trip abroad, socials on the company boat

Large trading firm is looking for a Big Data Engineer for their London office. At this firm you’ll ‘own’ your part of the stack. You’ll be a hands-on lead over major projects involving a mix of technologies. You will also have to develop automation in order to minimize operational toil, in accordance with SRE principles. Additionally, you’ll be part of a schedule where you’ll be ‘on-call’ for certain database technologies.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in engineering – primarily using an open-source database to solve complex business problems with cutting-edge tech
• Comfort using automation languages, i.e Python and Go, as well as being proficient with SQL
• Comfort using Linux shell in order to troubleshoot systems

Desirable Skills

• ETL pipeline experience
• Kafka, Python, pandas
• Experience in the trading industry – more so if it was within post-trade processing systems
• Distributed database systems and petabyte-scale data-warehouse experience

Summary

Join a collaborative and dynamic environment with no red tape or rigid structure. With offices in Hong Kong, London and New York, and assets-under-management of over $7bn, this diverse fund is looking for a Java developer to expand its London team.

Currently a friendly team of ~13 developers, this is a superb opportunity for someone interested in buy-side finance to learn about all aspects of how a hedge fund operates, with a specific focus on the Risk function. The Risk team will be your principal customers and you’ll sit right in amongst them.

The successful candidate will be happy developing and supporting all levels of the tech stack, including front-ends, middleware, servers and databases. They are constantly developing new tools and are looking for people who are confident to suggest new technologies / methodologies where appropriate, bringing experience and new ideas to the work.

Requirements

• 4+ years’ commercial core Java experience
• Intermediate SQL/RDBMS experience
• Exposure to the full SDLC (gathering requirements, designing, developing, testing, deploying, supporting, monitoring)
• Degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Maths or similar
• Excellent team-working skills – they’re a small team so working closely together is vital
• Knowledge of Risk Metric / Risk Systems would be highly beneficial

Culture / Benefits

• Recently renovated, amazing open-plan office with roof terrace overlooking Green Park
• Hugely collaborative across all teams; no red tape or endless meetings
• Competitive compensation: flat structure, feel valued for your input and be rewarded for great ideas

Unable to sponsor visas.

Salary:  

Up to £130k (base) + lucrative hedge fund bonuses (100%+)

Salary: Market-leading – strong base + bonus potential.

Summary:

My client is a leading investment management firm, active across multiple asset classes including equities and fixed income. They’re looking to add a talented Senior Engineer to their Fixed Income Front Office Technology Team.

The Role:

• You’ll be joining the team in building a suite of next-generation, cloud-enabled applications.
• This is a hands-on role, and you’ll be exposed to the full software development lifecycle.
• Design and develop software for the portfolio management space.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related field).
• At least 5 years’ commercial development experience, and knowledge of Java and Python programming.
• Knowledge of AWS/Cloud.
• Previous experience in a financial services firm.

Perks:

• Healthcare benefits for you and your family.
• Life insurance + generous retirement plan.
• Significant opportunities for personal development/learning.

Summary: 

A world-leading hedge fund is looking for a Quantitative Developer as part of their elite execution engineering team.

The successful engineer will be responsible for the development of automated hedging systems, algorithmic trading platforms and market data simulations, as part of the fund’s Execution Engineering team. They will contribute directly to the business, building best execution practices and systems across Equities, Fixed Income and Commodities.

Requirements:

• Strong C++ and Python programming skillset
• Data analysis skills (Python // KDB)
• Strong communication skills to be able to work closely with various businesses and teams as well as the ability to solve open-ended questions
• Bachelor’s/master’s in highly analytical or technical field: CS, EE, MechEng, Math, Statistics, Physics, etc.
• Demonstrated strong CS fundamentals/experience

Benefits and Incentives:

• Work in challenging, performance-driven environment
• Market-leading compensation
• Potential for substantial business impact
• Work alongside the best talent in the industry

Summary:

An e-commerce start-up for female fashion are seeking a hands-on Tech Lead to transform users’ online shopping experience.

The successful candidate will provide technical and architectural leadership and be part of the founding team of a rapidly growing fashion technology start-up. They will establish and implement the technical vision for the start-up’s product roadmap.

Requirements:

• 5+ years working in software development, ideally in e-commerce
• 2+ years in a role providing leadership within software development or technical architecture
• Strong experience of engineering practices, such as TDD, pair programming, CI/CD
• Experience of designing applications to run in a cloud environment
• Experience building responsive web applications using React.

Nice to have:

• Heroku with Heroku CI
• Experience working with headless CMSs, specifically Contentful

Benefits and Incentives:

• Chance to provide impactful tech leadership and take product ownership
• Equity within fast-growing start-up
• Work within an industry-leading founding team
• Chance to build an engineering team in your image

The Client

My client is a boutique multi-asset management firm with a talented team of ~25 who specialise in technology, deep research and quantitative analysis. With their incredibly bright team and tech-driven approach, they combine the best elements of tech start-ups and those of larger successful buy-side firms.

The Role

This is a Senior Quant Developer position in the Quant Research Strategies team. You will be working directly with the firm’s quant researchers to build early-stage software, offering a huge amount of input and project ownership. Day-to-day work is likely to include: historical data collection, aggregation and storage; development of strategy research and back testing; and real-time feed handling and trading.

There is also the opportunity to become a team lead in ~18 months as the team grows.

Requirements

• 5+ years’ commercial experience
• STEM education from a top-tier university (combined Computer Science/Maths would be ideal)
• Solid coding abilities in Python or any other OO language
• Experience with Equities trading technology is a bonus

Benefits

• Working with an extremely talented team of software developers and quant researchers
• Up to £120k base salary + target 50% bonus
• Relaxed, dress-down office
• Good work-life balance, standard hours (9-6), WFH, etc.

The Client

One of the world’s largest hedge funds, this is an excellent opportunity to join one of the most prestigious technology teams in systematic trading in a hands-on role.

The engineering team works exceptionally closely with the trading and research teams, building the tools, platforms and algorithms that drive the centralised global trading operation.

The Role

You can expect a range of work, from building new execution algorithms and platforms, to tools for manual traders and monitoring capability, through to post-trade performance analysis and optimising software for all aspects of the trading lifecycle.

The majority of the company’s systems run on Linux and most code is written in Java, with some Python and Typescript.

You will ideally have an understanding of the financial markets with electronic trading experience, and will need to rapidly understand business requirements to build robust solutions.

Key Skills

• Expert software developer in Java, with Python skills a significant advantage
• Excellent database / SQL skills – ideally Oracle
• Exceptional communication skills are essential
• Proponent of strong software engineering techniques and agile methods: continuous integration, code review, unit testing, refactoring and related approaches
• Degree with high mathematical and computing content – Computer Science,  Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, etc. – from a top-tier university
• Experience with FIX is a significant advantage

Benefits

• Competitive salary + generous bonuses
• Extra perks including a personal development allowance and daily lunch
• Central London office with a very smart, friendly tech team
• Regular social events and trips abroad

The Client

My client is one of the world’s largest hedge funds, and an industry leader in high-alpha liquid investment strategies. This is an excellent opportunity to join one of the most prestigious technology teams in systematic trading.

The Role

As a quant developer you will work alongside traders, quant analysts and operations officers. All code is written in Python, although any OO background is sufficient to be considered for the role.

The role includes a range of work, including implementing advanced trading models, pricing functions, high performance data acquisition and numerical algorithms. The role is ideal for anyone looking to combine mathematical ability with computer science.

Key Skills

• Any OO
• 2+ years’ experience
• Degree from a top-tier university in Maths or Computer Science (or similar subject)
• Experience working in a financial domain is a bonus
• Passion for technology, evidenced by personal projects, GitHub account, etc.

Benefits

• Very competitive salary
• Generous bonuses
• Google-like office in central London

The Client

My client is a fast-growing fintech in the sports betting space. They analyse huge data sets and write statistical models to predict the outcome of sporting events – both pre-match, and live in-play.

Currently a team of 25, they have achieved great success in making accurate predictions and building their client base, and now is a great time to join their bright, creative team.

Their office has a relaxed yet slick feel, and the team is flat-structured with a real sense that everyone is pushing in the same direction – with a lot of collaboration between departments.

The Role

They are now looking for an experienced QA Engineer to define and implement a robust testing strategy for their market-leading risk management system. This will encompass all aspects of their multi-tenant cloud platform, and you will play a crucial role in the growth of the company over the coming months and years.

You will be the standalone QA Engineer at first, offering the chance to really leave your mark on the company. Despite being the only QA you will spend time collaborating with your peers – including Quant Analysts, Data Scientists and Software Engineers.

Day-to-day tasks will include:

• Creating automated test scripts from scratch for functional, integration, performance and security testing
• Ensuring high quality throughout the entire software delivery cycle
• Prepare, maintain and execute test plans, in collaboration with the tech team

Requirements

• 5+ years’ commercial experience working on Quality Assurance
• 2.1 (or equivalent) in a STEM subject
• Experience with automation testing tools on a high volume of transactions – Cucumber, Gherkin, Selenium, Postman
• Experience defining QA strategies using both automation and manual techniques
• Coding experience with at least one OO programming or scripting language

 Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Intelligent, collaborative team
• Flexible hours and WFH opportunities
• Free onsite gym
• Fruit and snacks provided
• Modern, open plan office
• Slick interview process

The Client

My client is a VC-backed, award-winning fintech in the Collateral Management sector. Founded in 2014, they have an impressive client list and are changing the way institutions manage risk associated with derivatives trading, offering affordable, scalable solutions.

The Role

They have a strong agile team and are now looking for a Platform/DevOps Engineer to join their London office. The team provides tools and infrastructure for the other tech teams. You will be building new features and products, and improving existing ones, reducing complexity in infrastructure. Your role will include:

• Taking operational responsibility
• Writing high quality, maintainable, testable infrastructure-as-code
• Giving high level updates to stakeholders

Requirements

• 4+ years’ professional experience in DevOps or similar
• Expert-level AWS – deep understanding of how it works and is implemented
• 2+ years’ experience with Ansible and Terraform
• Strong team player with advanced communication abilities

 Benefits

• Strong base salary: around £50 – 80k + bonus + benefits
• Flat org structure, open and transparent culture where you can have a big impact
• Good work life balance; flexible hours, most employees work 9-5
• Bespoke office in central London

The Client

My client is a market-leader in machine learning and predictive technology. What sets them apart from their competitors is that their predictive machine focuses on causality, and is capable of applying time-series data from a vast range of industries, rather than just one. In turn they are capable of providing accurate predictions for a variety of clients.

Their clients include tier 1 investment banks, leading hedge funds and one of Europe’s biggest logistics companies – predicting outputs such as oil prices, mortgage rates, energy consumption, and even the spread of disease.

The Role

Data Scientists are split into two paths, depending on your experience and career aspirations: Commercial where you will be working with clients to tailor the predictive machine to their specific needs; and Research where you will work purely in-house to develop new models.

Both teams provide the opportunity to work with an incredibly smart team of individuals who simply love to solve tough problems.

If you would like to take a look at both job specs just let me know!

Requirements

• Strong academic record – PhD or Master’s in ML/Maths/Stats etc. – from a leading university
• Creative mind and ability to come up with new ideas to solve complex problems
• Experience publishing journals is also highly sought-after
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Benefits

• Competitive salary + share options
• Budget for personal development to attend conferences, courses, buy books, etc.
• Choice of laptop
• Flexible hours and WFH opportunities
• Regular team socials and trips away

Highly proficient Python engineer with NumPy and Pandas libraries experience wanted for a fantastic opportunity at this growing FinTech. They reduce risk in financial markets, and counterparty risk between market participants using sophisticated technology, improving market liquidity and clients’ returns. Clients include the G15 top tier global banks, regional banks and other large institutions.

The successful candidate will be comfortable working both individually and as part of a larger team to deliver high quality software solutions in an agile environment. You’ll be building APIs and unit tests, striving for continuous improvement at every stage of development. You’ll need to be able to work with end users without detailed formal specifications so communication skills are important.

If you are tech savvy, intellectually curious, and passionate about achieving in a very progressive company, this role is for you.

Requirements

• 3 – 5 years’ professional experience with Python specifically, including NumPy and Pandas libraries
• Excellent communication skills – both technical and non-technical
• Strong numerate degree with practical experience in numerical methods, statistics and calculus (ideally in Finance)
• Working knowledge of different programming paradigms (OO, Functional, Imperative)
• Experience with any of the following is desirable: C++, AWS, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, SQL/RDBMS

Rewards and Incentives

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

Talented quant developer with in-depth technical knowledge of Python wanted for a fantastic opportunity at this growing FinTech. They reduce risk in financial markets, and counterparty risk between market participants using sophisticated technology, improving market liquidity and clients’ returns. Clients include the G15 top tier global banks, regional banks and other large institutions.

The ideal candidate will have experience of building quantitative systems/libraries in Python – NumPy & Pandas experience is essential. You will also be familiar with a code base of 20k-200k lines of code and ideally have an understanding of fixed income products.

If you are innovative, intellectually curious, and enjoy responding rapidly to client demands in a progressive company, this role is for you.

Requirements

• Deep technical knowledge of Python in particular – but also other programming languages, e.g. C++
• Understanding of full SDLC and complex project delivery
• Experience running and maintaining production valuation systems
• Understanding of constrained linear & quadratic programming (optimisation)
• Experience with AMPL and/or gurobi is a plus
• An understanding of fixed income products and/or CVA/counterparty credit risk, e.g. swap pricing, yield curve calibration

Rewards and Incentives

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

Salary: Competitive, strong bonus potential.

Summary:

My client is a top-tier global hedge fund, active across Equities, Fixed Income/Commodities, FX and Stat Arb. They’re looking to add strong Python Developers to their Fixed Income and Commodities Technology team which is responsible for providing real-time risk and P&L for Fixed Income, Commodities, Credit and FX products.

The Role:

• Contribute to development and enhancements of their distributed pricing platform.
• Ensure the team provides uninterrupted, firm-wide risk and P&L.
• Help build a new analytics library and integrate it into the existing system.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related subject.
• 5 – 10 years’ commercial Python experience in finance (preferably within Fixed Income).
• Knowledge of C++ is highly desirable.
• Kubernetes/AWS/Docker experience is a plus.

Salary: Competitive, strong bonus potential.

Summary:

My client is a top-tier global hedge fund, active across Equities, Fixed Income/Commodities, FX and Stat Arb. They’re looking to add strong Java Developers to their Fixed Income and Commodities Technology team which is responsible for providing real-time risk and P&L for Fixed Income, Commodities, Credit and FX products.

The Role:

• Contribute to development and enhancements of their distributed pricing platform.
• Ensure the team provides uninterrupted, firm-wide risk and P&L.
• Help build a new analytics library and integrate it into the existing system.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related subject.
• 5 – 10 years’ commercial Java experience in finance (preferably within Fixed Income).
• Knowledge of C++ is highly desirable.
• Kubernetes/AWS/Docker experience is a plus.

Summary:

A world-leading quantitative trading fund / HFT are seeking an elite C++ engineer at any experience level to join one of their key teams in Singapore.

The successful engineer will play a key role in establishing and expanding the fund’s influence in the APAC region, working directly with algo and operations teams to ensure continued successful trading. You will be exposed to both technical and business elements of the fund’s trading operations, whilst directly contributing to profitability.

Requirements:

• Extensive C++ programming skills
• Proficiency working with UNIX operating systems
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
• Ability to describe software design at high and low levels (anywhere between the abstract interface and step-by-step algorithms)
• Fluent English (fluent Mandarin a bonus)
• Experience working on the development of market data and order entry systems a bonus

Benefits and Incentives:

• Exposure to one of the world’s most sophisticated scientific computing environments
• A culture that encourages and celebrates ideas from contributors of all experience levels, and embraces a togetherness that goes beyond the office
• Market-leading compensation

Summary:

My client is a leading systematic quant trading fund with a diverse Equities, FX and Fixed Income portfolio. They are a technology and data-driven firm and have designed and built their own cutting-edge systems, from low-latency trading platforms to large-scale data analysis and compute farms. They have offices in New York, London and Singapore and are looking to build out their Paris hub.

Role:

• End-to-end development of low-latency algorithmic trading software in C++
• Order management
• Exchange connectivity / market data feeds
• Risk management
• Trade reporting / surveillance systems
• Close collaboration with quant researchers

Required Qualifications:

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 3+ years’ C/C++ development experience on Linux
• Experience with code optimization and high performance/high capacity systems
• Python, SQL and/or scripting experience considered a plus

Culture / Benefits:

• Competitive compensation
• Great culture with good work-life balance
• Totally flat org structure

Do you love being challenged through work? Are you keen to directly impact customers through meticulous, systematic testing? Would you like to work in the heart of historic Berlin? Then this could be the perfect next role for you.

This is a small, fast-paced and profitable software company, providing more than three quarters of a million users worldwide with data visualisation software for business presentations. They are looking to hire a talented software tester to join their technical support team.

The Role:

Highly driven and pragmatic, the successful candidate will be improving software through constant feedback to the developer team, reproducing errors in order to find solutions, and ensuring correct functionality of all new features. You will also be responsible for designing and looking after automated tests and testing the software on new hardware.

They have a relaxed and friendly working environment, where ideas and suggestions from anyone in the company are taken seriously and acted upon.

What is on offer:

• Competitive salaries + generous benefits package (including flexible working, company nanny, and fresh bakery, fruit, drinks and snacks in the office)
• Fantastic work-life balance
• Great time to join while team is still growing, have an impact and influence decisions
• Relocation / work permit support

Requirements:

• Experience with VBA and C++-based testing
• Experience with Microsoft Office, especially PowerPoint and Excel, is a plus.
• Fluency in both written and spoken English is essential. Knowledge of German is a bonus.
• Hugely enthusiastic and self-motivated, with the ability to work independently

Ever wondered how skyscrapers like The Shard or The Gherkin get built? This exciting tech start-up uses AI and computer vision to revolutionise the construction of iconic buildings around the world. Their engineering team is growing rapidly – help shape its future by joining now as one of the first engineers in the London office.

The successful candidate will be working with computer vision scientists to turn research algorithms into production-quality software that can be deployed on billion-pound construction projects.

No two days in this role will be the same: you might be designing distributed computing pipelines in Python, deploying and configuring the AWS-based stack, or developing web applications using Node.js and Vue.js.

Core Requirements:

• Strong engineering background, with a degree in Computer Science / Maths / Software Engineering / Physics or similar
• 5+ years’ experience using Python (especially TensorFlow or PyTorch), Javascript (familiarity with modern front-end frameworks) or AWS
• Enthusiastic to take computer vision out of the lab and use it on real-life problems
• Keen product mindset and desire to build pragmatic solutions that provide genuine user value
• Experience of small start-up environments is a bonus

Benefits include:

• Competitive salary (< £120k) + generous benefits package (laptop, flexible working, health insurance)
• Wide range of career progression paths and online nanodegree sponsorship
• Be part of their bi-annual, company-wide Hack Week

Would you like to be one of the first software engineers to join a small team of only 20 at a brand new start-up quant trading fund launching next month?

This fund was founded in 2018 by multiple ex-QuantLab quants and traders in New York. Their new boutique quant trading fund launches next month and is focussed on Credit Risk & Prime Brokerage next month, with initial assets in the region of $300 million.

They are looking to hire two senior full-stack Java / AWS engineers for their new London office to work on low-latency trading & clearing systems alongside engineers in New York.

They want engineers with a proven track record of working on multiple projects in a successful quant trading / market-making fund and who are not afraid to get their hands dirty on a variety of challenges a small team would face.

What is on offer:

• The opportunity to be the 3rd or 4th engineering hire in a boutique start-up fund
• Strong base salary <£140k
• Huge bonus potential
• Equity in the fund

Requirements:

• MSc / BSc in Computer Science (or other related STEM subject) from a top university
• 7+ years’ commercial software engineering experience
• 2+ years’ experience working in a buy-side trading fund
• Strong Java experience – low-latency, high-performance work
• AWS or Google Cloud experience

This is your opportunity to join a young start-up and really make a direct difference through your work. My client is the German subsidiary of a Silicon Valley start-up, launched in 2015 and already partnering with some of the world’s biggest tech players.

As a Backend Developer, you’ll be working on the core features and services of the Kubernetes Security Platform, and be directly exposed to the latest and hottest cloud technologies.

The successful developer will be working in a small team of software engineers, as well as with product managers or UX designers, taking full responsibility for features and subsystems, from design to long-term operation.

Requirements:

• Strong programming skills in C++/C#/Java/Go and a keen interest to learn new languages
• Experience with the latest cloud technologies, e.g. Kubernetes and Istio
• Experience developing stable, scalable and maintainable software in high quality
• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science/ Computer Engineering/ IT Security
• Exceptional English communication skills are essential and you should be willing to visit California HQ at least once a year

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation; €50,000 – €100,000
• Truly collaborative culture, right across departments
• Have a real impact; see your own ideas implemented
• Flexible hours

No visa sponsorship

This is an exceptional opportunity for a talented quant developer to join a global multi-strategy hedge fund – with offices in UK, USA & China – in their Front Office Quant Strategies team based here in London.

This team develops and manages systematic trading strategies, working side by side with quants & data scientists in their modern, state-of-the-art office in central London.

This role will involve contributing to the development of critical infrastructure components and models over a wide set of application domains. You will work with the team’s senior strategists and developers to drive innovation in connection to the fund’s electronic execution platform, risk analysis tools and the ongoing development of the research platform.

Core Requirements:

• BSc / MSc in Computer Science, Maths (or other relevant STEM subjects) from a top-tier university.
• 2+ years’ experience in a quant / software development role in a leading financial firm.
• Strong programming experience in Python, Java or C++ on a Linux / AWS System.

**Tier 2 visa sponsorship is available**

Salary: Competitive, strong bonus potential.

Summary:

My client is a leading global investment management firm that utilizes a diversified portfolio of systematic and quantitative strategies across financial markets. They’re looking to add strong C++ developers to their High Performance Market Data team.

The Role:

• Develop and maintain real-time software for a cutting-edge low-latency algorithmic trading system, covering real-time risk management, market connectivity, trade reporting and trade surveillance.
• A front-office role, allowing close collaboration with traders and quant researchers in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related subject.
• 3+ years’ experience with C++ on Linux.
• Python/SQL/financial experience is a plus!

Perks:

• Friendly culture with regular socials.
• Relaxed, tech-driven environment with close collaboration between desks.
• Market-leading compensation with very strong bonus potential.

Salary – Market-leading: strong base + bonus potential

Summary – My client is a leading tech-driven proprietary trading firm, trading across a broad range of asset classes, instruments and strategies in financial markets around the world. They’re looking to add a talented Network Engineer to their Network Services and Operations team.

The Role: 

• Opportunity to work on one of the most advanced networks in the world, experiment with the latest technologies and be a pioneer in the networking industry.
• Use proprietary and industry standard monitoring and analysis tools to identify, diagnose and solve network related issues throughout their global infrastructure.
• Design and deploy new point-of-presence infrastructure for their low-latency network.

Requirements: 

• At least 3 years of experience supporting large-scale enterprise or low-latency networks.
• Strong knowledge of switching, routing (BGP, OSPF, MPLS, VPLS, IPSEC) and multicast (IGMP, PIM) protocols.
• Experience with wireless networks/RF principles a plus!

Perks: 

• Fully catered breakfast/lunch
• Regular socials/events
• Regular opportunities for mentoring/development
• Market-leading compensation with very strong bonus potential

Salary: Competitive compensation with very strong bonus potential

Summary:

A leading London hedge fund is looking for talented Data Engineers to join their highly skilled and growing team. Responsibilities will include building out their cutting-edge hybrid-cloud data platform for large-scale data processing and working with investment teams across the business to process large, varied data streams from multiple sources.

Successful candidates will have:

• 2:1 (or higher) in STEM from a top tier university
• Data storage/processing technologies experience – Kafka/Spark/Hadoop
• Proficiency with Java/Python/C#/Scala
• Great communication skills
• Finance experience a plus but not essential

Perks:

• Strong compensation and bonus potential
• Scope for internal progression
• Modern offices with catered breakfast and lunch
• Friendly, collaborative culture – only 2% attrition last year

Salary – Market-leading: strong base + bonus potential.

Summary – My client is a leading, tech-driven proprietary trading firm, trading across all major asset classes in dozens of financial exchanges across the world.

They’re looking to hire a Big Data Engineer to support their global, highly distributed trading infrastructure.

The Role:

• Work on and lead major projects involving a mix of database technology.
• Projects include database engineering (deploying/scaling/managing database infra), data architecture planning and technology selection.
• Example of a recent project: A many hundred-TB data warehouse project based on Clickhouse, a migration from a legacy Sybase environment onto MySQL 8, and scaling a small MySQL cluster that at peak times returns >100GiB/sec of data to thousands of clients.

Requirements:

• Significant experience using open source database.
• Programming experience in Python.
• Knowledge of Kafka, MySQL, ETL pipelines a plus.

Perks: 

• Relaxed atmosphere and culture of continuous learning and innovation – Continuous opportunities for personal development
• Market-leading compensation with very strong bonus potential

Salary – Market-leading: strong base + bonus potential.

Summary – My client is a leading, tech-driven proprietary trading firm, trading across a broad range of asset classes, instruments and strategies, in financial markets around the world.

They’re looking to add a talented Trading Systems Engineer to their Singapore office.

The Role:

• Work closely with internal trading and technology teams, with responsibilities ranging from addressing time-sensitive critical issues to managing long-term projects (e.g: new system rollouts and major platform changes).
• Provide best-in-class support processes to ensure efficient operation of production trading technologies and flawless software deployment/configuration.
• Ensure maximum availability of trading systems so no opportunities are missed.

Requirements:

• 3+ years’ experience with Linux (CentOS and/or Ubuntu a plus).
• Previous experience supporting electronic trading systems.
• Strong trading system troubleshooting skills.
• Python/Perl scripting experience.

Perks: 

• Fully catered breakfast/lunch
• Regular socials/events
• Regular opportunities for mentoring/development
• Market-leading compensation with very strong bonus potential

Job Summary:

Reliability Engineer at market-leading quantitative trading firm in London. The team exists in the space between traditional systems administration and development, and seeks to merge the capabilities from both disciplines. Supporting large, business-critical distributed systems and monitoring software reliability in a high performance environment.

Role:

1. Acting as a conduit between both infrastructure and development teams
2. Primary support for multiple, large distributed software applications
3. Improving all aspects of software reliability, including better monitoring, alerting and documentation
4. Engaging with software engineering teams on support issues and improvements to tools, processes, and software
5. Gathering and analyzing metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding

Technical Skills Required:

1. Experience with one of: Java, C, C++, with one or more ‘scripting’ languages – such as Python, Ruby, and/or Javascript.
2. At least one of the following: i. host-based networking, ii. Linux/Unix administration, iii. systems programming, iv. distributed systems, v. databases, and a desire to learn more.
3. The ability to quickly leverage off-the-shelf and open-source systems and utilities to rapidly provision production systems in a variety of domains, especially for multi-tenant use.
4. A proven track record of automation and an algorithmic approach to solving problems.
5. A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, performance bottlenecks, etc.
6. An understanding of the operational concerns in a demanding environment; ideally, but not necessarily, finance.

Salary:

up to £130k base + bonus

As a Quantitative Researcher, you will have an opportunity to solve challenging problems arising in a trading environment while utilizing statistical scientific algorithms and mathematical modelling techniques. You will work closely with traders and researchers to build and refine trading tools and strategies.

How you will make an impact:

1. Create practical solutions to problems presented in the trading environment
2. Implement Natural Language Processing / ML / Deep Learning
3. Time series analysis
4. Algo design
5. Create long/short-term alphas
6. Conduct statistical analysis of market data, historical trends, and relationships across multiple asset classes
7. Formulate and apply mathematical modelling and quantitative methods to identify and capture trading opportunities

Requirements:

1. A master’s or PhD in a technical discipline, with a focus on Statistics, Optimization, Quantitative Finance or related fields
2. Proficient Python programming skills with experience exploring large datasets
3. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including a solid foundation of statistics knowledge
4. Working knowledge of probability theory, stochastic calculus and numerical algorithms, such as finite differences, Monte Carlo simulation, etc.
5. Some exposure to Natural Language Processing and/or high-performance computing is a plus
6. Excellent written and verbal communication skills to report research results as well as methodologies

Visa sponsorship available.

Salary: up to £140k + strong bonuses

The ideal candidate will come from the big-tech, start-up or hedge fund space. Although previous financial experience is not necessary, the candidate must possess a keen interest in financial markets / trading. Must have at least two years’ experience and a computer science / engineering degree from a top-tier university.

Summary:

• Leading proprietary trading firm with offices in USA, UK and Asia
• Tight-knit team of 4 portfolio managers, 2 quants and 4 software engineers, trading ETFs on EU, APAC and US markets

Role:

• Collaborate closely with traders and researchers to build and maintain a high-performance trading system
• Exchange Handlers, Connectivity Strategies, UI, Risk Systems
• Make continuous performance improvements for lower latency / higher throughput
• Greenfield projects to capture new trading opportunities

Requirements:

• Performance Java development skills
• Strong experience with concurrency / multithreading / distributed systems
• Linux development experience
• Strong maths/statistics background
• Problem-solving and debugging ability

Perks:

• Market-leading salary
• Tier 2 transfer available for candidates located in UK
• Good work-life balance
• Incredibly strong tech team that puts technology first and makes use of all things open source
• Flat org structure – feel rewarded for your efforts
• In-house library / gym

Salary:

up to £140k base salary + annual bonus

My client is a leading prop trading shop who are experts in building low-latency software for high frequency trading.

The Role:

You will build and enhance the trading platforms through the full SDLC – requirement gathering, building, testing, and deployment. This is a small, 10-person desk looking for a strong and effective communicator to work directly with the traders and researchers.  Work spans from building low-latency/high throughput back-end systems, to time-saving tools and apps. The team also leverage cutting-edge data analysis / machine learning techniques to find patterns and anomalies which will give you exposure to the strategy development side.

Skills and Experience Required:

• 3+ years’ experience in C++ development, especially C++11/14 onwards
• Python (for tool/frameworks)
• Good knowledge of Unix/Linux
• Experience in multi-threaded, low-latency software
• Solid data structures / algorithms
• Understanding of what goes on inside a computer / experience with CPU

Benefits and Incentives:

• Visa sponsorship and relocation package to London provided (if required)
• Start-up feel / collaborative environment
• Free gym membership / meals

Compensation:

Up to £150k base salary + bonus

My client is a leading prop shop with a global presence (US, UK, Asia). They are extremely tech-driven and invest very heavily in their engineering teams. Developers here are truly world-class.

They are seeking a senior C++ software engineer for their Singapore office. You will design, develop and maintain the entire stack of the high-throughput, low-latency trading system and mentor junior members of the team. Here, there is very little red tape, and a rapid feedback loop on the software you build. They are firm believers in automated testing and lightly-coupled architectures.

Work includes:

• Network communication
• Exchange connectivity / market data feeds
• Risk management
• Trade reporting / surveillance systems
• Trading strategy APIs
• Real time GUIs

Requirements:

• 7 – 10 years’ experience using modern C++ on Linux platform
• Expert ability in high-performance, low-latency design (either from a trading or gaming background)
• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent from a top university
• Strong data structures, algorithms, and computer science fundamentals

Culture / Benefits:

• They encourage personal development and learning: regular new-tech talks in their lecture room; libraries stocked with everything tech-based
• Hugely collaborative between teams, not siloed like other firms
• Competitive compensation: truly flat structure; feel valued for your input and be rewarded for great ideas
• Work with the latest technologies on complex problems

Summary:

This global market-leading, tech-driven firm trade their own capital across global markets, and have an exciting new role on their Delta 1 trading desk. This exciting opportunity to work in this area allows developers to join an extremely high calibre of employees, and work closely with traders whilst building the trading platform. This role offers junior developers the chance to gain valuable industry knowledge through the position they have near the trading desk.

The firm has a US headquarters and has experienced phenomenal growth in terms of revenue and number of markets in which it trades.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and test proprietary trading software
• Autonomy in complex algorithmic trading systems
• Build real-time trade management and risk analysis
• Learn exciting new tech

Qualifications:

• 2+ years of development experience with Java; willing to learn new technologies
• Comp Sci degree or other STEM discipline

Benefits:

• Tech hub location with global offices
• Performance-driven collaborative culture
• High compensation

Summary:

This multi-strategy firm have an exciting role in their front office fixed income team, which focuses on developing the in-house quantitative portfolio, risk/pricing analytics suite. The exciting opportunity to work in this division is a key benefit to this role as the division is within a globally renowned hedge fund. This position allows the fund to perform in unique trading areas.

The fixed income unit focuses on liquid products and involves macroeconomic analysis with quantitative modelling to gain global market opportunities. The division has multiple portfolio managers, each with renowned skills in their specific area. Hence, cross collaboration allows quantitative developers the opportunity to improve their skills across each business area.

Responsibilities:

• Engineer core analytics for linear rates products
• Work with portfolio managers to build relative-value trading tools
• Improve processes to support process-driven trading
• Be a key link between PMs and quantitative researchers during projects

Qualifications:

• Solid mathematical foundations with interest in finance
• STEM degree
• Python/C++ programming experience in Windows or Linux
• Desirable: Knowledge on interest rates, bonds, inflation swaps

Benefits:

• Tech hub location
• Greenfield exposure
• Performance-driven collaborative culture
• High total compensation

Ethical health-tech start-up are seeking a back-end engineer to help produce a world-leading healthcare communication platform. Their technology is bringing together healthcare professionals and patients and revolutionizing the industry all at the same time. They’re one of the fastest-growing start-ups in the UK, with over 20% of the market using their product by the end of their first year.

Role

You’ll work closely with the CTO and VP of Engineering and shoulder the responsibility of being one of the greatest technical minds in the company. You will be tasked with scaling and innovating their product like never before and also build brand new solutions to any problem they may face. You’ll lead all technical projects, but also mentor others in your team; and you will be a key stakeholder in the hiring of new team members. You’ll drive your team in order to fulfil their mission to change lives by fixing the worldwide problem that is communication in healthcare.

Requirements

• Success in a lead or principal role, with the experience of mentoring and managing a team
• C#, .Net or back-end language, e.g. Java
• Passionate about helping others through your tech and have the drive to build a product that could potentially change the landscape of healthcare
• Enjoy constant challenges and a fast-paced environment

Benefits

• Share options
• Free breakfast and snacks
• Annual wellness bonus
• Weekly team lunches, and dinners in a brand new office cooked by a MasterChef contestant

Summary

Using a combination of science, machine learning and large-scale data this well funded start-up, backed by a team which has already built a billion-dollar revenue business from the ground up, is looking for a back-end software engineer. The team includes some of the most-cited scientists in the world and has beaten Google on machine learning for advertising.

They plan to design and build systems primarily to collect, analyse and predict the data. They are building their data analysis and processing pipeline from scratch using Python data science and machine learning tools running on top of AWS. Agile development with Jira, daily stand-ups and git.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the scalable back-end for mass market products
• Design and build the database’s analysis pipelines that support the clients’ models
• Be responsible for the underlying compute and storage infrastructure on AWS
• Manage and process trial and customer data
• Design and build simple web applications to support the data collected from clinical trials

Requirements

• Degree (or PhD) in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics or Physics
• 5+ years’ experience building strong, reliable data management and processing systems
• Ability to quickly approach and complete tasks within a tightly-knit team, including Bioinformaticians, Data Science and Machine Learning experts
• Experience with Python – both on the data science/machine learning toolkit end, e.g. Pandas. NumPy, SciPy, and on the server-side frameworks, e.g. Django, Flask
• Experience with Linux data infrastructure, e.g. AWS, SQL, Docker, Ansible

Benefits

• To be part of a revolutionary movement in health technology with the opportunity to learn cutting-edge science across biology and genomics
• Being part of an exciting start-up in London which has no funding worries and is part of a commercial team that has built a billion-dollar revenue business
• Being one of the first 10 colleagues in a world-class, trailblazing, multi-disciplinary team
• Competitive salary and share options

Salary – Competitive, strong bonus potential.

Summary – My client is an investment management firm specializing in quantitative and systematic trading. They provide liquidity to a wide range of clients across a variety of asset classes, including FX and index swaps.

They’re looking to add a Junior Java Developer to their team.

The Role:

• They’re looking to add strong developers to work on the first live release for a brand new project.
• This role is on the trading side, so you’ll gain lots of front office exposure.
• You will get involved in a mixture of development work and operational support.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related subject.
• 2 – 5 years’ commercial Java experience.
• Interest/experience in trading and execution.
• Knowledge of other languages (C++/Python/C#) preferred.

Salary – Competitive, strong bonus potential.

Summary – My client is a very lucrative hedge fund, with offices in London, Hong Kong and New York. They trade across every major asset class, and this multi-strategy investment approach has allowed them to amass assets of over $7 billion.

They’re looking to hire a talented Full Stack Java Developer.

The Role:

• A varied role, responsibilities will include developing applications, infrastructure and connectivity spanning through their entire trade lifecycle.
• You’ll be involved in every stage of the SDLC, from gathering requirements, designing, developing, testing, deploying, supporting and monitoring the system.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related subject.
• 3 – 5 years’ commercial Java experience.
• Experience with Risk Systems.
• UI experience preferred.

Perks:

• Atmosphere of open dialogue and entrepreneurial/start-up feel.
• Expansive modern office space.
• Great social environment, with regular company events.

Salary: up to £150k + bonus

Summary

Not your standard financial services provider, this firm prides itself on its flat hierarchy, avoiding bureaucracy whilst rewarding people on merit and excellence. Specialists within electronic market-making in FX, equity, fixed income and commodity markets, they have one of the best names in the industry.

Based in London/Sydney/Amsterdam, they are looking to expand their low-latency team with a developer well-versed in modern C++ (C++11 onwards). They design, build and maintain the entire software stack and everything they build is used in-house, trading over 175 billion dollars worth of assets every day.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of C++11 onwards (they have a completely post-2011 codebase)
• Sound understanding of what happens inside a computer when your code is running, e.g. caching, paging & system calls, how these work and why. (Knowledge of execution pipeline in a modern CPU is a bonus.)
• Good proficiency in mathematics, especially being comfortable with calculus and matrices (as much of the work involves designing and implementing numerical algorithms)
• Familiarity with common algorithms and data structures and their performance trade-offs
• Practical experience designing and implementing complex software systems is a plus.
• Experience with Linux and/or Python is a plus, but by no means a necessity.
• Financial experience is not required

Benefits

• Significant compensation package – you are making a direct impact on the PnL
• Collaborative and friendly environment with highly engaged colleagues
• Culture of trust, innovation and scientific rigour

This is a great opportunity to for a UI engineer to join a growing team in a fast-paced, flat-structured organization that are responsible for developing industry-leading products from design to production. As a key member of the engineering team, you’ll have a strong influence on the strategy of the products by helping to define product features, system architecture and by driving forward best practices to ensure the highest possible quality.

Therefore outstanding communication and team-working skills are key requirements.

Responsibilities

• As a UI engineer you will use technical leadership to mentor and improve more junior members of the team.
• Create sub-tasks and use your own design, coding and testing all the way through each deployment when completing these sub-tasks.
• Use your experience to find the best solution to not only fix problems, but also to find the source of the problem and take the necessary steps to avoid it becoming a recurring issue.

Requirements

• A strong Computer Science degree from an elite university (Russell Group or EU/international equivalent)
• The ability to coordinate across several stakeholder groups (Engineering, Operations, Marketing, HR, etc.)
• Experience with React.JS
• Experience in agile environment following TDD & BDD
• You’re driven to learn new technologies

Benefits

• Free snacks and drinks in the office
• Healthcare coverage
• Strong PTO/family leave allowance
• Strong compensation packages
• Great London office

Exciting start-up are looking for a driven, ambitious and energetic Cloud Engineer who is able to work closely with the existing systems and team to help grow the business. This’ll be by working on their AWS architecture and continuing to maintain and build their systems.

If you’re someone who likes to create secure and highly scalable cloud systems, this would be a great opportunity to consider.

Core Responsibilities

• Creating CI/CD Pipelines
• Creating systems within their AWS environment using terraform
• Maintaining correct approaches to code Management
• Developing new machine learning pipelines

Requirements

• Experience within cloud infrastructure, through deploying and maintaining AWS.
• Vast experience scripting and programming Python.
• Hands on experience with Windows servers and Linux.
• Experience with Terraform using infrastructure-as-code systems.
• Strong Computer Science degree from a top tier university.

Benefits

• Good compensation package
• Strong company benefits
• Pension

Algorithmic traders based in London are looking for bright programmers who love to code, enjoy being challenged and who like to see hard work rewarded. Coders are integral to their success and because your code ‘is’ their business they ensure that their core development team have the best tools to work with. You’ll be surrounded by some of the best developers in the industry who hone their skills every day to make sure this algo traders stay at the top of their game.

Requirements

• Excellent design, problem-solving and debugging skills
• Experience using C++
• Knowledge of Unix operating systems
• Strong Computer Science degree from a top tier university

Preferred

• The ability to work both independently and in a team
• The ability to analyse and fix any problems quickly and efficiently
• The ability to look at code, figure out how it works and figure out how to make it better

Benefits

• Very strong compensation
• Flat company structure & transparent culture
• Casual office
• Strong pension
• Employee insurance

Technology and data-driven firm are looking for a Full Stack Developer to join their ranks. They design and build their own systems, from high-performance trading platforms to data analysis farms. They have an expertise in trading, technology and operations and credit their continuous success to their rigorous scientific research.

Responsibilities

• Take part in all phases of the development process – from working with stakeholders to define their requirements all the way through designing, implementing, testing and releasing to production.
• Build tools to configure and deploy applications
• Facilitate historical and real-time data, allowing researchers to explore large amounts of data
• Build web applications and microservices within the in-house trading and research technology stack

Requirements

• Strong Computer Science degree or related subject from a top tier university
• 3+ years’ professional development experience
• Skilled in React JS
• Experience building web application back-ends
• Experience developing under Linux – including bash scripting

Desired

• Proficiency with Python
• Experience with large data sets
• Knowledge of financial markets

Benefits

• Great compensation
• Strong bonuses
• Health insurance
• Central London office

Summary:

A cloud-tech start-up are looking for a software engineer with Kubernetes and cloud-tech experience to join their core agile team in London. The successful Kubernetes engineer will be building open-source containers tools and frameworks, and will be working with K8s, Go and other cloud native technologies in a distributed, agile team (London HQ).

Requirements:

• Engineering background within agile teams
• Kubernetes experience – standalone and with GCP/AWS/Azure, etc.
• Experience with, or interest in using Golang
• DevOps mindset

Benefits:

• Build open-source software in a commercial environment
• Gain commercial experience with Kubernetes engineering and Go
• Remote or London-based working, flexi-working, strong work/life balance

Summary:

A cutting-edge fintech start-up are utilising Kotlin to create a complex distributed ledger platform and services for the financial technology industry. Looking for core Java / JVM-based developers to join a growing global team, this start-up are making waves within their industry, creating groundbreaking technology from a London-based, agile team.

Requirements:

• Strong computer science fundamental knowledge
• Core Java development experience (multithreading, distributed systems are a plus)
• Interest in functional programming on the JVM (no Kotlin experience needed)

Benefits and Incentives:

• Competitive salary, benefits, etc.
• Highly agile, London-based team
• Gain commercial experience functional programming for a fintech start-up

Summary:

A bleeding-edge systematic quant trading technology firm is looking for a low-latency C++ engineer to join the London-based trading optimisation team. Utilising C++17 to optimise live trading execution speeds on real-time trading platforms, the successful C++ developer will be working in a small, highly agile team on front office technology in London.

Requirements:

• MSc/BSc Computer Science or other STEM subject
• Commercial experience of good software architecture, data structures and algorithms
• Low-latency engineering experience in C++, C# or Java

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and top buy-side bonus structure in London
• Cutting-edge agile technology environment
• Dress-down London office and great work-life balance

Summary:

A bleeding-edge challenger bank, disrupting the b2b financial tech industry, is looking for a Front-End / Javascript Engineer to join a growing, agile team of engineers, designers and machine learning specialists in London. You’ll work directly with the product team to build beautiful and functional front-ends for cloud-based applications that millions of end users will fall in love with. The tech revolves around the latest React.js, with the back-end written in Python and deploying to AWS with Docker and Terraform.

Requirements:

• BSc/MSc Computer Science or other STEM subject, or relevant commercial experience detailing fundamental knowledge of computer science principles
• Development experience with vanilla Javascript and modern frameworks (React.js / Angular / Vue), along with a keen eye for detail and UX/UI design
• Understanding and appreciation for the back-end is a must; you’ll be working closely with back-end and full stack engineers

Benefits:

• Highly competitive salary and benefits package in central London
• Work closely with AI/ML engineers on bleeding-edge software products
• Meritocratic, agile environment

Summary:

Awarded Product of the Year by Cambridge University in 2017, this exciting London-based software start-up is looking for strong software developers to join their engineering team in London. Launched in 2015, they have developed a distributed knowledge graph – a logical database organising large, complex networks of data as one body of knowledge – used by industries as diverse as robotics disaster recovery and financial analytics.

The successful candidate will cover all aspects of software engineering: programming, architecture, build and release, PRs & code reviews, etc. They build with open-source and distributed tech stacks including: Hadoop, Spark, Cassandra and Kubernetes, while the main back-end is Java with some Python and node.js.

Requirements:

• BSc Computer Science or Software Engineering
• 3+ years’ commercial experience
• Solid programming experience in OOP languages
• Proven experience in back-end systems with multithreading and parallel programming
• Experience in distributed systems and cloud environments

Benefits and Incentives:

• Competitive salary + benefits + stock
• Talented, collaborative and ambitious team
• Flexible working hours, and fully stocked kitchen
• Open-source cutting-edge technology
• Visa sponsorship, and relocation support

Summary

Summary

Quant Developer wanted for leading investment firm to join their fast-paced, dynamic engineering team. This role will give you the opportunity to design, build and optimize a diverse trading platform. You will be working closely with the researchers and live traders to develop the core-trading infrastructure.

Summary

Summary

Company:

This hedge fund, with a cool start-up vibe, is the next big thing in systematic trading. Using the best technology and tools in the market, they are developing proprietary trading strategies, technology and algorithms to make tens of thousands of trades per second.

With technology being so central to the success of this company, relying heavily on the ultra-low latency of trades and high performance code, this hedge fund proudly brands itself as 97% tech-driven and ‘more like a software house’ than a bank. Working with a range of technologies – C++/Java/C# – they will consider any OO.

Position:

An opportunity exists for several strong developers to join the EU development team based in London. With experience developing in OO languages [C++ or Java or C#] you will work on one of the core trading systems. While you need NO financial knowledge, you should be willing to learn.

The role is business facing; working with the traders to implement new ideas and further enhance the in-house developed trading applications whilst maintaining scalability.

Your key responsibilities will be to produce the best trading tools in London. Finding new techniques on how to improve trading algorithms and systems as well as improving performance on the current system will be crucial.

Requirements:

• Excellent OO knowledge [C++ / Java / C#]
• Degree (or relevant qualification) – preferably Computer Science or numerate subject
• Desire and ability to learn more, particularly about financial markets
• Pragmatic, open-minded and eager to learn from others
• Commercially aware, priorities in business context
• Strong team-oriented attitude with natural inclination to share and collaborate

Helpful:

• Understanding and experience developing mission-critical, performance-sensitive, real-time systems
• Experienced in multi-threaded and preferably network software development
• Cross-platform development (Windows and Linux)
• Thorough understanding of software development methodologies – especially Scrum/Agile methods
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Prior financial markets experience is preferable but not essential

Benefits:

• Incredible salary & bonus
• Informal dress code
• Daily catering – breakfast, lunch, plus a fully stocked kitchen
• Chill-out area with pool table, table tennis, TV and Playstation
• Competitive annual leave
• Health and life insurance
• Gym membership
• Two discretionary performance-related bonuses a year

Comp:

Up to £150k + bonus

Summary

This leading HFT firm, based in London, has the feel of a small start-up with the benefits of being a more established player. They are developing a next-generation trading platform to store and analyze billions of historical transactions for regulatory/analytical purposes.

The successful full stack developer will be involved in the design and development of this system, with the added opportunity to learn various aspects of the financial business functions, including risk, regulatory, accounting and compliance. You will also be expected to use or develop skills in custom Python-based data warehouse integration and work directly with business users on requirements gathering and system design.

If you’re a tech-savvy individual who enjoys the challenge of solving difficult technical problems in a fast-paced, energetic environment, then this is the role for you.

Requirements

• 2+ years of Python experience/SQL and non-SQL DBs
• Sound experience in developing Rest Endpoints
• Strong experience or desire in developing UIs using ReactJS, Javascript, etc.
• Previous experience with Linux Shell (all utilities)
• Experience with any of the following is beneficial: numpy, pandas, matplotlib
• Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in Computer Science or Information Technology

Benefits

• Competitive base salary & bonus
• Collaborative and rewarding work environment and culture
• Free breakfast, lunch and dinner

Salary

Up to £120k + bonus

Summary

The positive feel of a start-up with the benefits that come with a more established player, this leading HFT firm is looking for engineers passionate about open-source database technology to join their London team.

You will work on and lead major projects using a mix of technology. These will span database engineering (deploying, scaling or managing database infrastructure) and collaborating with other teams to solve challenging business problems (e.g. Schema design, data architecture planning, technology selection).

Current projects include: a many hundred-TB data warehouse based on Clickhouse, migration from legacy Sybase environment onto MySQL 8, scaling a small MySQL cluster that returns more than 100GiB/sec of data to thousands of clients.

If you’re a tech-savvy individual who enjoys the challenge of solving difficult technical problems in a fast-paced, energetic environment, then this is the role for you.

Requirements

• Significant experience working with more than one of the following: SQL (MySQL), Postgres, Kafka, Clickhouse, InfluxDB, Prometheus
• Sound ability to automate using a programming language such as Python, Go, etc.
• Previous experience with Linux shell
• Experience managing ETL pipelines and managing petabyte-scale data warehouses is valuable, but not essential

 Benefits

• Competitive base salary & bonus
• Collaborative and rewarding work environment and culture
• Free breakfast, lunch and dinner

Salary

up to £150k + bonus

Summary

The positive feel of a start-up with the benefits that come with a more established player, this leading HFT firm is looking for a no-nonsense technologist to join one of their quant trading teams. Collaborating extensively with traders and other technologists, you’ll design, build, maintain and test cutting-edge systems.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about coding and automation and able to solve difficult technical problems in a fast-paced and energetic environment. You’ll be exposed to interesting and challenging problems involving big data and HPC. Most problems require high-availability, high-throughput and low-latency solutions.

The trading team see technology as a key component of their continued success and candidates will be exposed to a wide range of technologies.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of Python and Linux
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Self-directed and able to take ownership of projects and responsibilities
• Experience working with HPC systems and technologies, such as grid clusters, large data processing, etc., a bonus
• Exposure to C++ (or willingness to learn) is advantageous
• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science or Computer Engineering (or equivalent)

 Benefits

• Competitive base salary & bonus
• Collaborative and rewarding work environment
• Culture of continuous learning and innovation – get rewarded for your efforts!
• Free breakfast, lunch and dinner

Salary

up to £150k + bonus

Summary

Join a sophisticated technology team in the London office of a prop trading house that places software development at the centre of business strategy.

This role is for a senior engineer who is able to take on problems at all levels of the software stack, including low-level code to drive network hardware, super reliable high-performance trading infrastructure and time-saving internal tools. You will be taking ownerships of projects and writing production code from day one.

Working collaboratively alongside the traders, this is very much a hands-on role with a real impact on improving people’s daily work. The development team enjoys great flexibility when planning roadmaps and deciding which features to implement.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering (or equivalent experience)
• Expert-level experience programming in C/C++ 11/17, Python
• Previous finance experience, or other significant hands-on development
• Linux guru
• Ability to juggle a lot of priorities and continuously deliver
• Interest in finance / machine learning / big data and/or robotics are pluses

Benefits

• Vibrant, flexible and inspiring work environment with excellent rewards
• Free food / gym onsite

Salary

Up to £180k base + bonus

Salary – Competitive

Summary

My client is a leading fintech, which provides web-based portfolio management tools and outsourcing services across all investment management functions, including risk analysis, operations, treasury and regulatory reporting.

The Role

• Contribute to maintenance and engineering of the firm’s global desktop and VDI environment.
• As a senior member of the team, you’ll have the chance to provide technical leadership within the team and assistance in complex projects spanning multiple technologies within a fast-paced environment.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Strong experience with Powershell, VMWare, SCCM.
• Experience working in financial institutions.

Salary: £250,00 – £400,000 total compensation

5-10 years’ experience

Job description:

Client

A multi-strategy fund with offices globally. With huge autonomy within small teams, they share a core infrastructure platform but allow their traders and quants to pursue unique investment strategies, consistently delivering high quality returns independent of the general market.

They’ve got a fantastic name in the industry with good reason; paying strong salaries on both base and bonus, and a good tech culture, which is both collegial and dynamic. This is the perfect time to get onboard as they look to grow and expand.

Role

Joining a team of 6, you’ll build out a real-time data system for FX and Equities. This is an ambitious team based in the US, looking for a Quantitative Developer to build out their European presence in London. Utilising your mix of strong maths and computer science fundamentals, you will be critical to the growth of the desk working across the full trading system.

Skills and Experience Required

• High-performance, multithreaded C++
• Knowledge of scripting languages, such as Python
• Strong problem solving and analytical mindset
• Excellent academics in a hard science (Maths and Computer Science preferred)

Benefits & Incentives

• Target bonus, but also desk-aligned bonus means the potential for huge compensation
• Collaborative culture and an exciting place to work
• Huge amount of ownership and autonomy

Salary: £80,000 – 130,000 base + 40% bonus

3-20 years’ experience

Job description:

Client

Fabulous opportunity for a talented Python engineer to join a global multi-strategy fund (with a focus on Equities) in their central London office. Not your average hedge fund, they have built their own core infrastructure platform that allows its traders to pursue unique investment strategies, consistently delivering high quality returns independent of the general market.

They’ve got a fantastic name in the industry with good reason; paying strong salaries on both base and bonus, and a good tech culture, which is both collegial and dynamic. This is the perfect time to get onboard as they look to grow and expand their PM teams.

Role

You will join a middle-office development team which primarily looks at equities, with some cross-asset components as well. You’d be working on a trading application with a focus on data, expanding database access by building RESTful APIs for the front-office teams. This role will also involve release management, configuration, testing and production troubleshooting as functionality is extended.

This year, they are moving a lot of the code to the cloud (AWS), using containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes) and are also looking at using Amazon Redshift for historical data. They have a rich tech stack, using predominantly Python (bits of Java) along with RabbitMQ, MongoDB and Apache Kafka for data access.

Skills and Experience Required

• Exceptional Python skills
• Commercial experience writing and tuning SQL queries
• Strong knowledge of Unix/Linux
• Computer Science degree (or similar) from a top-tier university
• Bonus points for experience in cloud tech (AWS), Apache Kafka or container tech (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Finance experience is beneficial, but by no means a requirement

Benefits & Incentives

• Strong salary + bonuses
• Work-from-home opportunities
• Collaborative culture and an exciting place to work
• Generous benefits package

1-20 years of experience

Job Summary: A small firm with one of the best names within the HFT market. Specialists within electronic market making in FX, equity, fixed income and commodity markets. Ultra-low-latency C++ development alongside industry experts (C++ committee members and contributors to latest C++ versions).

Job Description:

Client:

The algorithmic models are built against multi-petabyte datasets on huge clusters, all run in-house. With fewer than 100 staff in total but a household name within the HFT world, this company prides itself on its flat structure whilst avoiding bureaucracy. They hire the best and encourage them to innovate and break boundaries – not get stuck behind red tape.

Role:

Yes, you have the fancy office with a replica spaceship (genuinely!), the latest hardware, the company trips abroad, the Michelin star dinners. But it’s the work, and the colleagues that draw people to this company:

• Build the trading models actually run in production
• Launch new strategies without involvement or interference of the quant team
• PnL-generating function – not just making adaptors for other teams
• Ultra-low latency optimisation down to the hardware
• Build custom compilers, build custom math functions
• Work alongside the developers implementing C++20 on the Standards Committee (code in production is mostly C++17 with some C++20)

Skills and Experience Required:

• Phenomenal development skills
• Interest in C++ as a language – you should know about the changes in C++20, and be using C++17 at work or in spare time
• Financial knowledge is not required. They have hired from finance, but also from gaming and other tech firms

Benefits and Incentives:

• Ownership + the work
• Techie culture
• Compensation – you are making a direct impact on the PnL

Salary:

£100-200k base + bonus potential of multiples of base

Summary

Fantastic opportunity to join a rapidly growing international crypto fintech at their London office in Shoreditch. They are looking for a creative self-sufficient developer, with a solid understanding of core engineering concepts, proficient in any OO and keen to learn more.

Founded in 2012, with offices in New York and Singapore, this firm creates a range of products in the crypto / blockchain space so that customers’ transactions are safer, faster and more efficient. They also help global financial institutions improve their day-to-day transaction processing using the latest technology.

This company is perfect for those who enjoy a fast-paced working environment with a flat-structured organization; this is a high impact role where you will be a pivotal engineering team member, with influence on strategy and architecture decisions.

Role

Reporting to the engineering manager in London, you will have complete responsibility over multiple projects from end-to-end. You will also be working across a number of industry-leading products – designing the features, refining system architecture, writing the code, through to deployment – sharing knowledge and mentoring others.

Tech stack: current focus is Kotlin (and they’ve used GOLANG and many others in the past), but they are keen to see candidates with any OO experience and from any background – their current team includes people from banking, start-ups, tech giants and consulting.

The ideal candidate is intellectually curious, keen to make an impact on the financial markets of the future and passionate about learning new technologies.

Requirements

• Experience with any OO, with expert-level knowledge of at least one domain (e.g. Securities, Commodities, Distributed Systems, Cryptography, etc.)
• Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Solid academic background in a STEM subject from a leading university
• Strong work ethic, self-motivated and keen to work collaboratively
• Exceptional communication skills – across all areas of the organisation

Benefits

• Strong base salaries + stock
• Generous benefits package, including healthcare, significant holiday allowance and free snacks, drinks and ping pong in the office
• Work for a young company that is changing the future of finance!
• Truly collaborative culture (your ideas matter) with substantial career growth
• Meaningful impact on profitability / your direct impact on the business is huge
• Visa assistance available

Salary Range: £90 – 120k

Summary:

This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to take ownership of the AWS architecture and create secure and highly scalable cloud systems. If you like to be involved in key decisions and have a significant influence over the building and maintaining of the cloud infrastructure, this is (absolutely) the perfect time to become part of this dynamic team.

Based in Cambridge, the aim of this research start-up is to build global biodata resources. Currently, their focus is gathering large scale real-world health data, and integrating it with genomics so it can be used to innovate in drug development and healthcare provision.

The successful candidate will be agile, a critical thinker and willing to work with a range of cloud infrastructure, from database/server systems to modern serverless architectures.

Responsibilities:

• Creation of systems within AWS environment using terraform
• Creating a CI/CD pipeline
• Maintaining correct approaches to code management
• Developing new machine learning pipelines

Requirements:

• Experience within cloud infrastructure, deploying and maintaining, with a preference for AWS
• Excellent scripting and programming experience, with a preference for Python
• Hands-on with Linux and Windows servers
• Experience using infrastructure-as-code systems, with a preference for Terraform

Benefits:

• Join an early-stage start-up at exciting stage of its growth
• Competitive salary + bonus
• Flexible working / working from home opportunities

Summary

Exciting chance to join a fintech start-up who are helping to change the way we generate energy. Leveraging satellite data and machine learning, they are developing software to predict the performance of wind and solar power and electrical grids worldwide.

Based in London, you will have significant impact on the future of the product as you support and lead your team.  You’ll develop exciting new features from specification, through development and testing, to their launch, while also driving improvements to the existing functionality. As part of this role, you will recruit junor engineers for the team and collaborate with academics working on ML algorithms.

The ideal candidate will have a passion for renewable energy and a keen interest in the technology that powers it.

Requirements

• 3+ years’ proven experience as a Python developer
• Proficiency with at least one of the following: Django/Flask; PostgreSQL/PostGIS/ElasticSearch; AWS; Kubernetes; CI/CD tools (such as Ansible/Terraform/Jenkins)
• Familiar with HTML, CSS3, Javascript ES6 (for the existing front-end)
• Exceptional communication skills, at all levels and technical understanding
• Understanding of libraries such as Pytorch and Tensorflow is a bonus

Benefits

• Competitive salary + stock options
• Fun, collaborative, future-focused colleagues and culture
• Work in a truly agile start-up environment

Summary:

This is a digital health company whose mission is to transform medical research by bringing together patients and organisers of clinical trials, facilitating new treatment breakthroughs that were previously not possible.

The Role:

Bridging the gap between front end development and design, you will be excited to help the company fulfil its mission by designing and implementing highly performant, component-based, responsive web applications. You will be part of an essential team architecting scalable solutions in a fast-paced environment and have front-end experience of building functional web apps.

The ideal candidate puts users first, is technically-minded, creative, and passionate about front-end engineering and UI.

Requirements:

• Deep knowledge of HTML, CSS and Javascript
• Working knowledge of modern Javascript (ES5, ES6, ES2017 a plus) and related ecosystems, especially React (bonus points for server-side rendering)
• Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities
• Experience with any CSS in JS libraries, TDD or Docker/Kubernetes is a bonus

Benefits:

• Collaborative culture with opportunities to grow
• Stock options
• Incentives including: flexible working hours; gourmet coffee, snacks & fruit in the office and discounted gym membership
• Private healthcare and life assurance cover

The Company:

A young fintech, which has received over $800m in investments and is looking to revolutionise the lending industry. As they are at early stages, potential employees will be given the chance to have great ownership over the codebase and influence the technology stack. They are currently a small team of c. 35 developers with plans of doubling in the next year or so. They have a very pragmatic view towards tech and therefore are happy to employ developers from any OO background.

The Role:

Working closely with both academically and technically strong developers on an array of challenges.

Majority of the work is cloud-based, operating within an AWS environment and most of their code is written in Python and React. Experience with Python is not fundamental – strong technical experience and high-quality coding abilities in any OO will be sufficient. Evidently, developers should be pragmatic – keen to cross-train.

Requirements:

• Strong academic background (from a leading university) in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or Physics – or equivalent
• Strong coding experience (ideally 1+ yr) in any OO
• Personal passion for technology, e.g. open-source involvement, attending meet-ups, personal projects, etc.
• Preferably working at a major tech company, but not imperative

Keywords: Python / React / Javascript / AWS / Docker / Kubernetes / Terraform

Summary

An exciting fintech company, with offices in New York, Tokyo and London, is looking for a talented front office developer to join its London technology team. Empowering developers in major financial firms to be as productive as possible, they deliver a cloud-based, end-to-end development and production platform. With open architecture, transparent source code, and automated infrastructure solutions, the platform provides clients with the tools to build reliable, scalable in-house functionality and fully integrated applications.

The successful candidate will be proactive, continually striving for improvement and have excellent communication skills on all levels. You will be working with clients – including asset managers, hedge funds, insurance companies – to adapt and customize the core cloud-hosted trading risk management platform.

You will also be expected to build functionality for clients, program financial analytics and applications in Python and integrate with cloud computing services.

Requirements

• Polyglot with exposure to many programming languages. Experience with Python is a must-have.
• Javascript, web development frameworks (e.g. React) experience ideal.
• 2+ years’ commercial experience.
• Exposure to SDLC tools and agile methodologies.
• Experience of cloud infrastructure, Docker and Linux administration a bonus.
• Financial knowledge would be preferable, or a keen interest to learn.

Benefits

• Great opportunity to be part of a collaborative, innovative environment
• Competitive salary + generous benefits
• Work with the latest technologies on complex problems

Summary:

An exciting fintech company, with offices in New York, Tokyo and London, is looking for a talented Senior Software Developer to join its London technology team. Empowering developers in major financial firms to be as productive as possible, they deliver a cloud-based, end-to-end development and production platform. With open architecture, transparent source code, and automated infrastructure solutions, the platform provides clients with the tools to build reliable, scalable in-house functionality and fully integrated applications.

The successful candidate will have experience of SDLC tools and agile methodologies. You will join the team responsible for extending the platform product and mentoring internal core developers.

Requirements:

• Polyglot familiar with many languages; experience with C++ is essential.
• Cloud / Web (e.g. AWS) experience is a must-have.
• General knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
• Experience with Python, Javascript, web development, cloud infrastructure, Docker or Linux administration is a plus.
• Desire and ability to mentor other developers.

Benefits:

• Great opportunity to be part of a collaborative, innovative environment
• Competitive salary + generous benefits
• Work with the latest technologies on complex problems
• Flexible working opportunities
• Flat structure, freedom to learn and high level of responsibility

Summary:

An exciting fintech company, with offices in New York, Tokyo and London, is looking for a talented Quant Developer to join its London technology team. Empowering developers in major financial firms to be as productive as possible, they are building a cloud-based, end-to-end development and production platform.

The successful candidate will be part of the team responsible for building support for fixed income products in the Python Environment Platform. You will have solid knowledge of financial mathematics (with a specific focus on fixed income products), and will be expected to have strong interpersonal skills as you will liaise with both internal and external clients.

Requirements:

• Strong academic background in a relevant STEM field
• 3+ years’ experience in a front office role working with fixed income products
• Experience with typical rates products (bonds, swaps, EDs, bond futures, swaptions, etc.)
• Strong programming skills
• Knowledge of CSAs/Funding effects on pricing – especially of multi-curve bootstrapping and why it’s important – is advantageous
• 3+ years’ Python/C++ knowledge highly desirable

Benefits:

• Great working environment, with true ownership and responsibility
• Competitive salary + generous benefits
• Highly collaborative, agile development process

Summary

Exciting opportunity for a hands-on SRE Team Leader in the London office of this global information business.

The core infrastructure system processes tens of billions of data points from thousands of sources every day, enriches the data and makes it accessible to downstream apps and users at the stroke of a key. Within this area, the SRE team is responsible for continuous improvements, ensuring the production environment and platforms remain stable, robust and scalable.

The Role

You will be providing guidance and mentoring for your team (4 – 7 people) while also contributing individually to the team’s day-to-day responsibilities. Sharing your knowledge of SRE best practices, your unique skillset of technical expertise, stakeholder management and leadership skills will be pivotal in driving the team forward.

Requirements

• Outstanding communication skills
• Proven success with new methodologies driving an SRE culture
• Strong experience of running production systems, and of large-scale system architecture
• Working knowledge of UNIX/Linux internals
• Bonus points for familiarity with at least one scripting language (e.g. Python, Perl)
• Experience with config management (Ansible, Saltstack, Chef) and test frameworks (GTest, etc.) is a plus

Perks:

• Truly collaborative culture across all engineering teams
• Strong base salaries + bonus
• Close-knit team where you can have a huge impact
• Flexible work environment

Salary: £150k base + bonus

Industry-leading investment firm using innovative and cutting-edge technology, with data at the core of the investment process. Great opportunity for a support engineer to join their London office where you’ll work closely with the Front Office (traders, investment professionals) to ensure functionality and business continuity.

You will provide first and second level support, quickly identifying and resolving issues as soon as they arise. You will also be involved in all aspects of user/strategy application support and you will assist in application deployment, checkout and QA testing.

The ideal candidate will have outstanding communication abilities (with both technical and non-technical colleagues). You will also be familiar with trading or risk systems and ideally come from a background in the financial industry.

Requirements

• Minimum bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science (or related field)
• 3+ years’ commercial experience
• Sound experience with Unix, Linux and databases, such as Sybase or SQL
• Proficient in shell scripting language(s)
• Experience of KDB is a plus
• A self-starter able to work with minimal supervision, and strong critical reasoning skills

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 data engineers to join their London office to focus specifically on data ingestion and transformation through web scrapes.  You’ll architect and build platforms integral to the sourcing, enriching and storing of the data that enables the investment process.

Partnering with investment professionals and data scientists, you will develop solutions that enable investment professionals to efficiently extract insights from data. This includes owing the ingestion (web scrapes, S3/FTP sync, sensor collection), transforming it into actionable insights (Spark, SQL, Kafka, Python/C++/R) and designing their interfaces (API, schema design, events).

The successful Data Engineer will have a passion for working with data and developing software to solve data processing challenges.

Requirements​:

• Experience building and managing large web scrapes
• Experience working with Google Cloud/AWS
• Strong Python skills
• Expert in some of the following: RDBMS, NoSQL, distributed compute platforms, such as Spark, Dask or Hadoop, Snowflake
• Minimum BS degree in Computer Science (or related); Master’s or PhD degree would be ideal
• Experience with any of the following systems is a plus: Apache Airflow, AWS/GCE/Azure, Jupyter, Kafka, Docker, Nomad/Kubernetes
• Experience building ETL pipelines also a plus

Benefits:

• Hugely collaborative environment between teams, not siloed like other firms
• Competitive compensation: truly flat structure; feel valued for your input and be rewarded for great ideas
• Work with the latest technologies on complex problems
• Flexible working encouraged and regular socials

Leading global market maker leveraging technology to solve challenges in the markets is looking for an experienced Systems Engineer to reduce complexity in and improve performance of trading systems.

Working within a dynamic team in Sydney, Systems Engineers at this firm are responsible for the deployment and configuration of all Linux-based systems and services. You’ll work directly with researchers, application development and other infrastructure teams as they grow their presence in the APAC region.

This is a team of highly skilled engineers who oversee reliability, availability and performance, working with the global systems team to improve technology, while innovating and pushing for APAC autonomy.

Requirements​:

• Strong, comprehensive understanding of Linux engineering and administration methods
• Solid understanding of data protection schemes, how they’re commonly deployed, and how they fail: erasure coding, replication, RAID, snapshots, etc.
• Familiarity with tuning OS and kernel parameters for improved performance, and tools such as Terraform, Packer, Ansible, Puppet, etc.
• Comfortable working with common scripting languages, such as Python
• Broad experience with common infrastructure services, such as DNS, DHCP, LDAP, Kerberos, etc.

Benefits:

• Hugely collaborative environment between teams, not siloed like other firms
• Competitive compensation: truly flat structure; feel valued for your input and be rewarded for great ideas
• Work with the latest technologies on complex problems

Summary:

FPGA Developer wanted for this award-winning market maker to join their highly experienced team. This role will give you the opportunity to develop and implement hardware solutions in areas such as fast networking, high performance compute and real-time acceleration.

They are seeking an extraordinary problem-solver and an outstanding communicator, comfortable liaising with a variety of cross-functional teams. The successful candidate is expected to research design and implement FPGA solutions for the ultra-low-latency trading systems. You will also design and develop high-performance C++ components used by trading applications.

** Positions available in London, Dublin, Sydney or Hong Kong **

Requirements​:

• Strong C++ programming skills
• Very good scripting skills; Python preferred
• Working knowledge of FPGAs from an interface perspective
• Experience building digital systems for a variety of domains
• Familiarity with networking protocols – Ethernet, TCP/IP, UDP, Multicast
• Minimum bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science (or related field)
• Financial experience is NOT required

Benefits:

• Market-leading base salaries + huge bonus potential
• Collaborative culture and an exciting place to work
• Huge amount of ownership and autonomy
• Flexible working encouraged and regular socials

Summary:

This is a tech-driven liquidity provider with offices in Europe, USA and Asia. They are looking to hire a talented, highly motivated data engineer to maximise the value of their data.

Working closely with quantitative traders and fundamental analysts, this is a high impact role. You will be developing and maintaining data infrastructure, making data available, performant and accessible for business. You will also be part of ongoing development work, such as reviewing code on pull requests submitted by other developers.

Their company culture is second to none: with a very flat structure and open-plan office space akin to that of social networks, this is a great place to work.

Requirements​:

• Strong background in Computer Science or Software Engineering
• Sound experience with SQL, Spark, Python, Java and Hadoop (Cloudera is a plus)
• Linux expertise
• Proficiency with Atlassian products: Bitbucket (code review), Bamboo (continuous integration), Jira, Confluence

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation package
• Direct business impact with short feedback loop
• Onsite gym, bar, restaurant, as well as nutritionists and personal trainers
• Annual trip abroad, socials on company boat
• Visa / relocation assistance available

Summary:

Fantastic opportunity for a highly motivated UI developer to join the Sydney team of this leading global market maker. You’ll leverage advanced Javascript knowledge and visualization skills to build scalable and performant web applications.

A front-end focused role, you’ll communicate and collaborate directly with the business, trading desk and development teams to optimize users’ workflow and improve traders’ productivity while also providing application support. You’ll gather requirements, and design innovative solutions or enhance existing applications to deliver stable and performant GUI.

The ideal candidate will enjoy challenging the status quo in order to improve research processes and have a passion for developing innovative interactive applications.

Requirements​:

• C# (ideally version 8)
• Strong Python skills
• Proficient in design and development of front-end enterprise-wide GUIs and/or framework libraries
• Experience in Winforms and Microsoft Visual Studio
• Ideally experience on web GUI, such as Javascript (including React/Redux) Typescript, HTML, CSS

Benefits:

• Hugely collaborative environment between teams, not siloed like other firms
• Competitive compensation: truly flat structure; feel valued for your input and be rewarded for great ideas
• Work with the latest technologies on complex problems

Summary:

A bleeding-edge health-tech start-up making waves in the health-tech space in London are looking for full stack engineers to join their East London-based team. The successful software engineer will be solving complex real-world problems in the field of health-tech and building ethical solutions to technology challenges in this space. The work you do will make a huge national impact, and will help transform the healthcare industry in the UK.

Responsibilities:

• Work in a close knit, collaborative and highly agile team in London
• Tech stack is C#/.NET Core, SQL, React.JS and Redux. Candidates from any OO background are encouraged
• Take ownership of your work, make an impact both internally within the team, and externally with industry-changing products

Requirements:

• STEM degree or equivalent experience
• Full stack engineering experience in a commercial setting within an agile team
• Mission-driven mentality to solve complex real-world problems

 Benefits:

• Competitive salary and stock options
• Flexi working hours in London
• Chance to turn your code into something meaningful that will make a real, important impact on millions of people

Salary – Competitive, strong bonus potential.

Summary – My client is an options market making and sales advisory firm with a global trading footprint, operating in the Equities, Fixed Income, Commodities and FX derivatives markets. They’re looking to hire a strong Quantitative Researcher.

The Role:

• Conduct research and statistical analysis to build and refine trading signals and strategies utilizing historical datasets.
• Manage all aspects of the research process, including methodology selection, model prototyping and backtesting.
• Lots of opportunity to define research direction within the team.

Requirements:

• PhD/Masters in Statistics/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Finance
• Solid foundation in probability, optimization.
• Coding experience with Python and knowledge of OO programming principles

Salary: circa £65,000 base

Job description:

Client

This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to be a key figure in the AWS architecture and create secure and highly scalable cloud systems. If you like to be involved in key decisions and have a significant influence over the building and maintaining of the cloud infrastructure, this is (absolutely) the perfect time to become part of this dynamic team.

Based in Cambridge, the aim of this research start-up is to build global biodata resources. Currently, their focus is gathering large scale real-world health data, and integrating it with genomics so it can be used to innovate in drug development and healthcare provision.

The successful candidate will be agile, a critical thinker and willing to work with a range of cloud infrastructure, from database/server systems to modern serverless architectures.

Responsibilities

• Creation of systems within AWS environment using Terraform
• Creating a CI/CD pipeline
• Maintaining correct approaches to code management
• Developing new machine learning pipelines

Requirements

• Experience within cloud infrastructure, with a preference for AWS and serverless architectures
• Strong Python programming skills
• Container technologies such as Docker

Benefits & Incentives

• Join an early-stage start-up at exciting stage of its growth
• Competitive salary + bonus
• Flexible working / working from home opportunities

Systematic hedge fund in London are looking for a Java Developer to join their team. They use technology to build out current workflows and processes to create repeatable, scalable results. They pride themselves on their use of technology to automate their processes.

The systems you’ll be building will have a direct impact on the business as they’ll be exposed to the portfolio managers, quants and operations team who all place an immense amount of value and trust in these systems. Also, with no business analysts you’ll be involved in every stage of the SDLC – from information gathering to deploying, supporting and monitoring the system.

Responsibilities can include:

• Work directly with the Risk team to develop new tools to automate their processes and improve workflow
• Source and refine analytical and market data to give risk managers the data they need to create results – not more spreadsheets
• Help design and create a system to model portfolio exposures under bespoke market conditions
• Help design and create tools to help specific desks manage their exposures to various asset classes
• Improve and support the existing systems

Requirements:

• Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or similar discipline
• 3 – 5 years of core Java experience
• Risk experience
• SQL/RDBMS experience
• The ability to work at all levels of the technology stack, from front end to middleware, and servers and databases.
• Excellent communication and team working skills

Benefits:

• Excellent compensation
• New central London office with roof terrace
• Pension
• Healthcare

Summary:

An elite prop trading firm headquartered in Amsterdam are looking for FPGA engineers to join their trading technology team. As a successful FPGA developer, you will be building ultra-low-latency, high performance exchanges and trading platforms. Working closely with traders and researchers, you will be in the heart of the trading business in Amsterdam. You do not need financial experience or knowledge, but an interest in the finance industry is beneficial. 

Requirements:

• STEM degree
• FPGA experience
• Experience with 10 GB networking and with networking protocols (TCP/UDP)
• Hand-written RTL

 Benefits:

• Highly competitive compensation package, including profit sharing bonus scheme
• Relocation bonus and support to Amsterdam
• Visa sponsorship offered
• Huge investment into personal development, training and progression

High frequency trading firm are looking for a software engineer to join their team in Amsterdam. You’ll be working on some of the fastest systems and most advanced technology out there so they’re only looking for the best IT professionals to develop, optimise and support their tools. You’ll be working in a fast, but exciting atmosphere where you’ll find that expertise, innovation and fun go hand in hand.

As part of the trading technology team you’ll be responsible for applications required to run the business. Day-to-day activities range from developing ultra-low latency exchange protocol decoders and encoders, to helping the monitoring and analysing effort by creating and developing UIs, to helping the traders with more control and information. You’ll frequently sit on the trading floor working alongside the traders so you’ll receive immediate feedback on how successful your work is.

Requirements

• An excellent Computer Science degree from a top tier university
• Professional expertise in one or more OOP languages
• An entrepreneurial attitude, with a strong interest in the financial industry
• A team player and exceptional communicator who thrives on independence and enjoys creative freedom
• The ambition to grow through experience, training and on-the-job development.

Benefits

• Great compensation package
• Profit-sharing structure
• Commuter costs paid for
• Friday afternoon drinks
• Sports and leisure activities
• Relocation assistance

Summary:

An elite prop trading firm headquartered in Amsterdam are looking for C++ engineers to join their trading technology team. As a successful C++ developer, you will be building ultra-low-latency, high performance exchanges and trading platforms. Working closely with traders and researchers, you will be in the heart of the trading business in Amsterdam. You do not need financial experience or knowledge, but an interest in the finance industry is beneficial. 

Requirements:

• STEM degree
• 5+ years of commercial experience with low-latency C++ 17 / 14 / 11
• Linux/Unix experience
• Interest in living in/ relocating to Amsterdam, NL

 Benefits:

• Highly competitive compensation package, including profit sharing bonus scheme
• Relocation bonus and support to Amsterdam
• Visa sponsorship offered
• Huge investment into personal development, training and progression

Summary:

A world-leading asset manager is looking for a Senior Developer as part of the Risk division of their Commodities technology group.

The successful engineer will be responsible for the development of the core architecture of the risk management systems for proprietary trading in Commodities, encompassing Valuation, Risk and PnL. The successful candidate will be responsible not only for maintaining BAU, but will also have the mandate to expand functionality and build things from scratch.

Requirements:

• Strong C++ and Python programming skill-set
• 5+ years’ experience designing and building end-to-end risk software/architectural solutions
• Experience as a software architect on high-performant architecture
• Bachelors/Masters in a highly analytical or technical field: CS, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, etc.
• Outstanding communication and presentation abilities

Benefits and Incentives:

• Brand new seat with huge opportunities for greenfield expansion
• Potential for substantial business impact and significant upside
• Chance to work for the leading global Commodities fund
• Work alongside the best talent in the industry, including strategists and traders, in a front-office position

Salary: Market-Leading