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This role sits within the London crypto trading arm of a Chicago-based international hedge fund. Established in 2014, this arm is a global leader in cryptoassets, uniquely positioned between traditional finance markets and the cryptoasset ecosystem. It’s a place of high expectations, deep curiosity and thoughtful collaboration.

You will be responsible for building and supporting a multi-language, functionally diverse technology stack to empower them to trade across many exchanges and regions. The system is currently written in Java, C++ and Python. You will be working alongside Traders and Quant Researchers on a daily basis.

Salary: Competitive/ Market-Leading

Requirements:

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science or another highly technical, scientific discipline.
• In-depth knowledge of Java or C++ programming.
• In-depth knowledge and experience in at least one of: host-based networking, Linux/Unix administration, systems programming, distributed systems, databases – and a desire to learn more.
• A proven track record of automation and an algorithmic approach to solving problems.
• Preference for candidates with previous hedge fund/ high performance computing experience.

Benefits:

• Competitive base salary
• Totally flexible remote-working policy
• Annual discretionary bonus
• Competitive pension contribution
• Healthcare
• Life assurance

Tier-2 visa sponsorship is available.

Salary: up to £200k base + bonus

Summary

My client is one of the world’s largest producers of news and market data; sending more than 60 billion unique events per day across millions of different instruments. They are seeking a hands-on technical manager to join the team that builds the data-distribution architecture; one of the most rapidly expanding parts of the business.

The Team

You will lead the London SRE team responsible for ensuring optimal availability, latency, scalability and efficiency of the real-time distribution platform infrastructure. Collaborating closely with both stakeholders and the wider SRE and development communities, you will own the production environment – from initial design to ensuring continuous high availability.

You will also develop critical new software components to meet current and future business needs.

In your capacity as hands-on team lead, you will develop, coach and guide the team to do their best work, creating a strong, motivational environment where engineering best practices are followed as standard. You will be a real team player, keen to drive the use of new technologies and enthusiastic about sharing your knowledge.

Requirements

• Demonstrable track record in leading engineering teams and people management (including mentorship, performance reviews, recruiting and technical leadership)
• Strong experience of running live production systems, including troubleshooting
• Solid software development skills with an object-oriented language
• Experience of managing projects as a hands-on developer as well as through delegation
• In-depth understanding of large-scale distributed system architectures

Desirable

• Experience working with a globally distributed team and stakeholders
• The ability to take ownership of issues and see them through to resolution

Perks

• Feel valued – develop impactful solutions to highly complex problems using the latest technologies
• Truly collaborative culture across all engineering teams
• Strong base salaries + bonus
• Flexible work environment
• Excellent training provision and progression opportunities

The Company

Exciting cutting-edge fintech is looking for a talented software developer to become part of the UI team in London. 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 Role

You will join the team responsible for developing, supporting and maintaining the platform’s custom UI framework. This will involve designing and implementing components in response to the needs internal and external clients, and researching new technologies that can be implemented within the UI framework where appropriate. You will also conduct code reviews, providing technical feedback to the team.

The successful Core Developer will be a polyglot familiar will multiple programming languages, with exceptional attention to detail and a real passion for technology. React and Redux experience would be ideal as they underpin the frontend of the framework.

Requirements

• 5-7 years of development experience in Python (or any other OOP languages)
• Familiarity with Javascript, HTML, CSS or a keen desire to learn
• Solid experience writing unit tests, e.g. Python
• Desire to build tools/components for fellow developers, making hard things easy for others
• Skilled communicator on all levels – technical and non-technical/internally and with clients
• Comfortable working in an agile-based project management structure

Benefits

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

Summary: 

This is a fantastic opportunity for talented front end developers who are passionate about designing and deploying beautiful front ends, enjoyed by all who use them. If you thrive in a collaborative environment, this role would be perfect for you!

This expanding travel tech firm provides the travel booking industry with the products they use to search and sell flights, modernised for the 21st century. To create these stunning interfaces, they use React, Node, NextJS and Typescript (among others).

Joining a small, dynamic team, you will be contributing to the rebuilding of the infrastructure that underpins the travel industry. You will take pride in the quality of the code you produce and you will recognise the importance of truly understanding the customer’s needs from the outset.

Requirements:

• Strong React experience, building elegant, clean and intuitive products
• Sound understanding of and opinions on good engineering practices
• Outstanding communication skills – able to present information clearly and concisely
• Customer-led approach – able to empathise and determine the right solutions for their specific needs

Culture / Benefits:

• Competitive salary and profit share scheme
• Friendly, relaxed yet highly rewarding work environment
• Plenty of scope for personal and professional growth
• Work with the latest technologies on complex problems with real-world impact

Summary

My client is a highly successful, VC-backed fintech start-up who are expanding rapidly. They provide data refineries for investment management firms to map and clean information from multiple sources in a way that constantly improves and adapts, leaving the IMs to focus on managing client money.

They are seeking a Software Engineer with experience of developing high performance systems to help build out their data refinery platform. Working closely with the Product Team, you will design and build services and software libraries to add features to the platform. You will also implement applications on top of the platform and solve key data processing problems.

The successful Software Engineer will be a strong communicator, with a proactive attitude towards problem-solving and a good degree from a top-tier university.

Requirements

• 2-3 years’ experience of working in higher performance tech / product teams
• Strong Python fundamentals, including experience in pandas and numPy
• Sound experience designing / developing software libraries
• Background in designing systems to handle large datasets / high traffic volumes
• Linux essential, AWS & Kafka experience beneficial
• Experience with any of the following: REST APIs / Web Servers in Flask, Django or Fast API, Microservices Design & Architecture

Culture / Benefits

• Excellent bonus potential and compensation
• Highly collaborative and fun working environment
• Enormous opportunity to grow, learn and have an impact
• Work with the latest technologies on complex problems.

A great opportunity to work within an elite functional compiler engineering team focusing on the development of in-house tools. This role would suit someone who is an expert on the frontend of compilers with strong typed systems experience and language design. Experience with functional programming or proprietary languages is desired.

About You

An experienced SWE who has worked on compilers and specifically the frontend for a significant tenure; open to industry/academic experience. No specific language experience required, but an interest and willingness to work in a functional language is essential.

About Us

I am working with a market-making proprietary trading company with a global presence. This is an opportunity to join their rapidly growing London office and help contribute to the large trading systems being developed by a small, talented group of engineers.

Compensation: Very competitive packages

Summary:  

An elite prop trading firm with a relaxed yet rewarding approach is looking for exceptional developers with Python experience to lead their Core Utilities team. They are scientific, tech-driven and they invest heavily in their engineering teams. Developers here are truly world-class. 

A pivotal role where you will be a hands-on lead, this team is responsible for developing solutions used across the business. You will contribute to and be responsible for the designs and implementations of your team. Currently, this includes developing the internal CI/CD system and its build process plus tools to support process and event monitoring. You will also be involved in plans for developing orchestration long-term, and other general tool and utilities. 

The successful Core Utilities Tech Lead will be an exceptional communicator, adept at liaising with stakeholders both technical and non-technical, and enthusiastic to rapidly learn new technologies and skills. 

Requirements: 

• Strong Python experience 
• Proven track record of solid design skills and experience 
• Efficient, diligent and skilled at simultaneously driving multiple projects through to completion 
• Outstanding level of attention to detail and quality

Desirable: 

• Experience with: C#, Typescript/React

Culture / Benefits:

• Excellent bonus potential and compensation
• Upside of a start-up without the associated risks
• No dress code, catered offices and regular social events
• Work with the latest technologies on complex problems with significant impact

Summary

This fully automated trading firm has a unique culture that is relaxed, yet exciting and technically stimulating, where you’ll be working with some of the smartest engineers in the industry. This is a great opportunity for C++ experts who love the challenge of getting into the very detail of code; understanding how it works and finding ways to improve it.

Joining a small, highly productive and fast-paced team, you’ll be working on critical software in a real-time environment. You’ll develop in-depth C++ knowledge of the latest standards, OS internals, CPU architecture and networking hardware and protocols. As a core developer, this is a fantastic learning opportunity – their distributed system is on the Pareto frontier – you’ll be astonished by how much your understanding increases by being part of this team.

Technology is very highly regarded here, with coders recognised as being integral to the success of trading. As a result, you are fully supported from all sides of the business with everything you need to do your job well.

Requirements

• Outstanding C++ programming skills, ideally with a daily use of most recent standards
• Strong experience with UNIX operating systems
• Solid design and debugging skills
• Adept communicator and problem-solver; comfortable describing software designs at all technical knowledge levels
• Self-starter, you are happy both working independently and as part of a team
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering (or related field)

Benefits

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

Summary

This is one of the world’s top algorithmic trading firms, where their high performance compute cluster is the heart of the business. A community of self-starters from multiple tech backgrounds – maths, computer science, statistics, physics, engineering – they have built one of the world’s most sophisticated computing environments for research and development.

They are seeking enthusiastic software engineers to help them improve their compute cluster and ensure it’s the best in the industry.

To achieve this, you’ll work closely with storage, ML and strategy experts to set direction and implement it. You’ll be responsible for anticipating what the algo developers will need and putting in place strategies that meet those needs. You will also evaluate developments in the HPC landscape, applying new technologies where appropriate.

Requirements

• 3-5+ years of working with large compute clusters
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering (or related field)
• C++ experience is essential; Python would be beneficial
• Good knowledge of UNIX operating systems
• Skilled communicator; comfortable implementing your own ideas, particularly at POC
• Strong debugging and problem-solving abilities in complicated distributed compute environments and using large data sets

Benefits

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

Summary

An elite prop trading firm with a relaxed yet rewarding approach is looking for exceptional Python developers with strong analytical and quant skills. They are scientific, tech-driven and they invest heavily in their engineering teams. Developers here are truly world-class.

Collaborating with the industry’s best traders and developers, you will use open-source and in-house tools to build the data platform. Joining a small, dynamic team sitting on the trading floor, you will be building out the brand-new central repository for data loads and processing pipelines, drawing on your technical expertise to deliver innovative solutions.

The successful Python developer will be passionate about learning new technologies with the drive to see projects through to completion. Your business communication skills will be second to none, able to presenting information to technical and non-technical users alike.

Requirements:

• At least 2 years of Python experience, including Numpy and Pandas, is essential
• Sound programming fundamentals and mathematical techniques are a must
• Solid previous experience of working with large data sets
• Experience in any of the following is a bonus: containerisation, C#, C++
• Minimum 2.1 bachelor degree (or equivalent)
• Desirable: financial markets, derivatives or time-series data experience

Culture / Benefits:

• Excellent base salary + bonus potential + benefits
• Friendly, informal yet highly rewarding work culture
• No dress code, catered offices and regular social events
• Work with the latest technologies on complex problems with significant impact

Salary: up to $150k base + bonus + investment in fund

Summary: 

Unique opportunity to join a rapidly growing crypto trading firm in a fully remote role. Hugely tech-driven, they have been developing HFT algorithms for more than 10 years. They are looking to hire an experienced developer who eats, sleeps and breathes Python.

The Role: 

You will be responsible for improving the system architecture, optimizing different parts of the project, developing new features and ensuring Python best practice is used throughout the team. Drawing on your very deep knowledge of Python, you will also develop low-latency trading systems and integrations to various crypto exchanges and develop scalable profiling and debugging solutions.

The successful candidate will be a true Python evangelist, who can point out the architectural flaws soon after joining and will constantly have an eye on improving the systems. You will have experience of building complex systems with Python, and a deep understanding of GIL/asyncio.

Skills and Experience Required: 

• 8+ years’ hands-on programming skills in Python (following the latest versions), with good grasp of advanced concepts including generators, async/await, GIL and multiprocessing
• Deep understanding of design patterns, data structures, and algorithms
• Prior experience working with mission-critical, high-performance applications
• Knowledge and extensive experience with network protocols: REST, Websockets, FIX
• Experience with profiling, debugging and testing Python applications
• Good communications skills in English (both written and spoken)

Benefits:

• Competitive salaries + bonuses, with the opportunity to reinvest into the lucrative employee-owned fund
• Flexible hours and a healthy work-life balance
• Work with some of the smartest people in one of the fastest-growing industries in the world
• Fully remote, with paid ‘workations’ 3-4 times a year to cool places all over the world to meet your colleagues!

Salary: up to £150k base + bonus

Job Summary

Fantastic opportunity to join a growing group of talented mobile engineers at of one of the largest global information & market data providers. Their mobile app provides customers with up-to-date market news and analysis wherever they are, 24/7.

In this role, you will gain exposure to a broad set of languages (Swift, Objective-C, Python, C++) and tools. Taking advantage of the latest technologies, you will be responsible for a diverse tech stack around the iOS platform, including the app’s server-side infrastructure. You will be creating mobile UIs, client software, infrastructure and services as you develop and design the mobile experience. Your work will impact many thousands of people daily.

The successful iOS Engineer will be passionate about working collaboratively, both with other tech teams and with product and UX stakeholders. An enthusiasm for teaching and mentoring less experienced team members would also be ideal.

Requirements

• 5+ years’ expertise developing and designing native iOS applications in both Swift and Objective-C
• Experience in writing modular and (highly) testable code
• An expert communicator, confident when dealing with a diverse set of stakeholders

Perks

• Feel valued – opportunities for both technical specialists and those who’d like to progress into leadership
• Truly collaborative culture across all engineering teams
• Strong base salaries + bonus
• Flexible work environment

Salary: £80 – 250k total comp

Summary:

This is a fabulous opportunity to join a tech-driven investment manager with a quant focus based in the heart of Oxford. They’re passionate about writing clean code, innovative thinking and keeping up with the latest technology developments.

They are looking for exceptional software engineers to join a talented team responsible for all aspects of developing and maintaining system-critical software. Work within this open, friendly team involves using C++ and Python on Linux on a wide range of projects, including automated trading strategies, order management systems, integrating third-party data into our systems and the development of data analysis tools.

The successful engineer will be enthusiastic about writing high-standard, modern and well-tested code. A background in finance is not necessary. If you’re ambitious, and want to grow your career at a relaxed company where there’s plenty of opportunity for professional development, this role is perfect for you.

Requirements:

• 0 – 5 years’ relevant experience
• Strong coding skills in C++11/17/20 and Python
• Excellent knowledge of Linux
• Degree in a hard science subject, e.g. Computer Science, Engineering or Physics (or equivalent experience)
• Outstanding communication skills & problem-solving capabilities

Experience of any of the following is beneficial:

• Pandas, Numpy, ML, SQL, GIT, Javascript
• Financial markets

Perks:

• Generous benefits package, including private healthcare, cycle-to-work and enhanced family leave
• Friendly, smart people in a truly collaborative working environment
• Work-from-home 2 days per week
• Fabulous modern office with dedicated training facilities

Salary: £80 – 250k total comp

Summary:

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a tech-driven investment manager with a quant focus, based in the heart of Oxford. They’re passionate about writing clean code, innovative thinking and keeping up with the latest technology developments.

They are looking for super talented QRs to join their top-notch research team who build quant models the find alpha in financial markets, covering everything from initial idea-generation through to implementation and execution. Work within this open, friendly team is varied and will involve large and complex data sets, using programming languages and the in-house development library infrastructure.

The successful Quant Researcher will relish a challenge and thrives in a collaborative working environment. A background in finance is not necessary. If you’re ambitious, and want to grow your career at a relaxed company where there’s plenty of opportunity for professional development, this is the role for you.

Requirements:

• 0 – 5 years’ relevant experience
• Degree in a hard science subject, e.g. Maths, Engineering or Physics (or equivalent experience)
• Strong Python skills

Experience of any of the following is beneficial:

• Optimisation; Numerical and time series analysis; Signal processing statistics
• Volatility / GARCH modelling and/or Machine Learning

Perks:

• Generous benefits package, including private healthcare, cycle-to-work and enhanced family leave
• Friendly, smart people in a truly collaborative working environment
• Work-from-home 2 days per week
• Fabulous modern office with dedicated training facilities

Salary: £150,000 base salary + bonus

Company

You won’t be another suit amongst the thousands at a bank. You don’t even need to wear a suit at all; flip flops and shorts will suffice!

This successful prop house are looking for only the best software engineers with exceptional academics to join their team. Join a company with a start-up mentality that knows investing heavily in its staff and systems is the way to remain ahead of the competition in real-time algorithmic trading.

Role

You will be writing and implementing high quality code with huge data sets. This position is 97% tech-driven so a background in finance is not required! You will however need to be able to adapt to new technologies to keep ahead of the competition, with the software primarily developed in C#.

Requirements

• Top academics from a top-tier university
• Experience in at least one of: C#, C++ or Java
• Strong comp sci fundamentals: data structures, algorithms and complexities
• Team player and easy to get on with!

Benefits

• Start-up mentality – no red tape
• Fun working environment – dress down and games room
• Exceptional bonus potential

Salary: £100-145k base + £30-60k bonus

Job description

One of the world’s most renowned financial institutions is looking for a Senior Software Developer with experience in Python. You will join a talented, creative team of exceptional developers designing and implementing innovative technology via solid engineering practices.

As a senior leader in software engineering, you will draw on your deep knowledge of design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming to solve complex and mission-critical problems. Your passion and experience in multiple tech domains will raise the team’s game to even higher levels, allowing business and functional requirements to be met and exceeded.

The successful Senior Python Developer is passionate about software design and writing high quality code. An early adopter of leading-edge technologies, you will set the example which encourages others to follow suit.

Skills and Experience Required

• Professional Python and OO experience, with proven track record of high quality successful delivery
• BS/BA degree in a quant field, e.g. computer science, maths, engineering, physics
• Strong skills in software and algorithm design and development
• An excellent communicator with both technology and business users alike

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Knowledge of industry-wide tech trends and best practices, plus a keen desire to share these with others
• Finance experience is highly desirable

Benefits

• Significant salaries + bonuses + benefits
• High degree of ownership and impactful work
• Excellent career growth and professional development is encouraged
• Work alongside some of the brightest technologists, analysts, and quants in London

Salary: €75,000 – €120,000 + 100% bonus

Job description:

Client

One of the world’s leading global proprietary electronic market makers, trading on over 50 exchanges around the world, headquartered in Amsterdam.

Role

The trading systems are high performant and low latency; responding to the market events in nanoseconds with extremely low error tolerance.

You will be responsible for designing, maintaining and improving their networks; performing at optimal levels under all conditions. From tweaking and optimising, to troubleshooting to long-term strategic projects, no two days will be the same.

Skills and Experience Required

• Strong network and performance monitoring skills
• Experience with low-latency networking
• Automatic deployment experience, e.g. Ansible
• Good communication skills in a fast-paced environment

Benefits & Incentives

• Strong salary + profit-share scheme
• Collaborative culture and an exciting place to work
• Fantastic offices
• Generous benefits, including relocation package

Salary: €75,000 – €120,000 + 100% bonus

Job description:

Client

One of the world’s leading global proprietary electronic market makers, trading on over 50 exchanges around the world, headquartered in Amsterdam.

Role

The trading systems are high performant and low latency; responding to the market events in nanoseconds with extremely low error tolerance.

You will drive the trading environment towards simplicity and reliability. Sat on the trading floor itself, you’ll ensure the production environment works optimally by deploying, maintaining, monitoring and operating a fleet of UNIX servers to its highest possible performance.

Skills and Experience Required

• Strong Linux skills
• Some automation experience, e.g. Powershell or Python
• Knowledge of networking
• Good communication skills in a fast-paced environment

Benefits & Incentives

• Strong salary + profit share scheme
• Collaborative culture and an exciting place to work
• Fantastic offices
• Generous benefits, including relocation package

Salary: Potential for £300-400k total comp

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).

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: £100,000 – 140,000 base + 50-100% bonus

Job description:

Client

Fantastic opportunity for a modern C++ developer (14 or later) 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++17 and 20. 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++14, ideally later) on Linux
• 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

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Python or Java experience is highly advantageous
• 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: £100-140k base + bonus

The Company

– C++ developers on the C++ Standards Committee

– An average of 43 billion live updates a day (compare that to Twitter’s 2 billion…)

– 350,000 paying customers

– 200 million lines of C++

Role

They are looking for C++ developers to work on their world-renowned Core Infrastructure team. The work you do will impact the software for the entire company; developing high-performance data-driven libraries and toolkits used by over 2000 application developers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline
• Strong C++ skills
• Multithreading experience

Benefits & Incentives

• Huge prestige working for this team
• Great career progression
• Fantastic salary
• Potential for big bonuses (first year guaranteed)
• Various perks – insurance, pension, training investment, etc.

Full relocation package offered to international candidates – including temporary accommodation and shipping costs covered!

Salary: £400,000 total comp

The Company:

This is a small company of just 150 employees, yet they are one of the major players in the FX markets – outperforming banks and companies that are over ten times their size.

Role:

Working directly on the business-critical, ultra-low latency FX C++20 platforms facing off directly to the business, this team is the pinnacle for any C++ developer. They have a diverse workforce, having made hires from FAANG companies, elite teams in finance, and top tech & gaming houses.

Requirements:

• Minimum bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline
• Strong C++ skills
• Multithreading and low-latency experience

Benefits:

• Fantastic salary
• Huge bonuses (first year guaranteed)
• Big impact / big business exposure
• Great career progression

Salary: £200,000 total comp

Company

Join a company that has a proven track record of success by investing heavily in its staff and systems that produce integrated automated trading platforms for use in real-time algorithmic trading.

You will be creating systems to stimulate investment ideas, test for and control risk in investment portfolios, and ultimately maximise investment returns across a range of markets and products.

This is a dynamic and flexible work environment where new ideas are encouraged!

Role

You will design and implement high quality code with huge data sets, to enhance and support the existing trade tech platform and toolset – this role is 97% tech-driven.

You will need to be able to rapidly adapt to new technologies to maintain the company’s technology advantage, with the software primarily developed in C#.

Requirements

• Excellent academics from a top-tier university
• Ability to develop high-quality software
• Experience in at least one of C#, C++ or Java
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms and complexities!
• Financial experience not mandatory!

Benefits

• Good work-life balance
• Small company culture – no red tape
• Relaxed, fun working environment – very dress down and a games room!
• Exceptional bonus potential
• Huge opportunities for progression

Salary: £75,000 – £120,000 base

3-10 years’ experience

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 – 10 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)

Desirable

• Experience with any of the following: 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

Salary: £100,000 – £140,000 base + bonus + profit share

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 successful 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
• Knowledge of relational databases and maintaining SQL
• Experience in software testing

Desirable:

• Experience working on risk engines, PnL attrition/PnL explain or time-series analysis is a big plus
• 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.

Salary: €200-400,000 total comp, including profit share

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 team split between Amsterdam and London, 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.

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 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

Salary: £200-250,000 total compensation

Experience: 5+ years

Job Description:

Client

A multi-strategy fund with offices globally is looking for a buy-side quantitative developer with credit experience to join their London team. With huge autonomy within small teams, they share a core infrastructure platform but encourage 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 superb tech culture.

Role

Joining the Credit Quant Technology team, you’ll build out next generation in-house analytics and trader support tools. Working closely with Quants across the globe, you’ll also design, develop and maintain the in-house pricing libraries. Utilising your mix of strong maths, compsci fundamentals and your expertise in credit, you will be critical to the growth of the desk working across the full trading system. Extensive experience with Credit (and market data) is ideal.

Skills and Experience Required

• Substantial programming experience in systematic trading (prop desk or hedge fund)
• Experience with market data would be ideal
• High-performance, multithreaded C++
• Strong problem solving and analytical mindset
• Excellent academics in a hard science (maths and computer science preferred)

Benefits

• Strong salary + bonuses + generous benefits package
• Collaborative culture and an exciting place to work
• Huge amounts of ownership and autonomy

Salary: 30-45,000 shekels / month + bonus

4+ years’ experience

Job description:

Client

This is a global, massively successful hedge fund employing thousands of people, but it operates like a start-up, with all the latest technologies and solely greenfield projects / building from scratch – with no legacy systems.

Tel Aviv is a key area of expansion for them in 2021, and this team operates nothing like what you’d expect from a traditional financial firm. This is a fantastic opportunity for expert C++ engineers who thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative culture, where your hard work is well-rewarded.

Role

This specific team is operating like a core team of the company: 45 members globally have built a next-generation platform using micro-services architecture in C++17 and Python (3.8 with asyncio concurrency module), and using the latest cloud and containerisation technologies (AWS / Docker / Kubernetes).

This platform is only 18 months old, so there’s no legacy code involved, and nearly all of the work over the next 2-3 years (and likely beyond) is being built from scratch / completely greenfield.

Here you’ll find no ‘finance culture’ and very little ‘red-tape’; it is a team of techies who are there to build awesome, new, vital platforms. A hedge-fund salary without the long, finance-associated hours or work.

Skills and Experience Required

• Significant modern C++ skills on Linux, ideally with some Python experience too
• Minimum bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related) from a top-tier university
• Strong analytical and maths skills, including algorithms and data structures

Desirable

• Good knowledge and experience of distributed computing, client server and multi-threading
• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes, micro-services or NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB)

Benefits & Incentives

• Strong salary + bonuses + generous benefits package
• Work-from-home opportunities
• Collaborative working environment
• Unique company where you will work on engaging, greenfield projects

Salary: £60,000 – £120,000 base + substantial profit share

Experience: Hiring at graduate through to senior level (0-10+ years’ experience)

Summary

You will be using Rust and C++ to create low-latency, high-availability, high-throughput cryptocurrency derivative exchange technology, in order to run the world’s first performant cryptocurrency derivative exchange.

They’re not technically doing the trading or market-making themselves; they’re building the exchange: the platform on which people can trade.

Skills and Experience Required

• Excellent academics in Computer Science, Mathematics (or similar discipline)
• Excellent computer science fundamentals and problem-solving skills – showcase
• Many of the team have Olympiad / competitive programming success
• Specific Rust experience is NOT required

Benefits

• High degree of ownership and impactful work
• Building greenfield platforms using interesting technologies
• Flexible working and working-from-home opportunities
• Large amounts of stock and profit share on offer

Salary: £100,000 – £130,000 base + bonus

Summary

Creating the infrastructure for a new, open financial system in which anyone can participate. Their customers include some of the world’s largest global financial firms who rely on them to bring digital assets to their customers.

Their Crypto Brokerage team enables hundreds of millions of consumers to leverage crypto for investing and other financial services. You will be building a platform that both customers and regulators can trust.

Skills and Experience Required

• Experience in multiple programming languages – at least one of Kotlin, Golang, Rust, Java, Scala, C++, Typescript, Python
• Strong core computer science fundamentals (algorithms and data structures)
• Able to apply both OO and functional style to coding

Benefits

• Real and measurable impact growing the company
• Thoughtful benefits – family leave, healthcare coverage for whole family, PTO, etc
• Tech-first environment

Salary: up to £135k base + bonus

Summary:

This is a great chance to join one of the world’s most renowned financial firms as a Senior Data Scientist on a brand-new team. You will lead a highly creative team of innovators and engineers, who use data science, AI, ML, optimization algorithms and automation to solve some of the biggest and most complex problems faced by the business. The team essentially operates like an internal software house, with small but high-performing teams, that impact 2000+ developers and the entire organisation.

The Role: 

Collaborating with front office, quants and other technology teams, this is a hands-on position where you will draw on your significant experience and knowledge of Applied Data Science, AI/ML and Operations Research. You and your team will take complex datasets and business challenges, turn them into technical problems, and find scalable solutions while choosing the most appropriate tools and methodologies.

You will be working on several exciting greenfield and ongoing projects all of which offer the opportunity to use your expertise in creative problem-solving. Projects will cover everything from applying data science/analytics and AI to software engineering problems (such as coding quality and improving coding), to high-performance compute optimization, to intelligent resource allocation and automated inefficiency/anomaly detection.

The successful Senior Data Scientist will have deep-level expertise in robust design, development, coding and testing of high standard and scalable software.

Skills and Experience Required: 

• Substantial hands-on programming skills in Python (or similar language)
• Proven track record dealing with large-scale analytical, data-driven decision and optimization problems
• Experience in data science, analytics and AI/ML
• Finance experience is NOT required

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Knowledge of AWS technologies and/or big data technologies

Benefits:

• Significant salaries + bonuses + benefits
• High degree of ownership and impactful work
• Excellent career growth and professional development is encouraged
• Cutting-edge AI and being at the forefront of the industry

Salary: £70 – 100k base + bonus

Summary

This is a unique opportunity at an employee-first hedge fund, currently with 35 people, looking to rapidly grow their technology team in the near future whilst maintaining a good culture and healthy work-life balance to keep their brilliant retention levels.

You will be tasked with working directly with quant and data analysts to develop software and tools to support research and development projects. You will also work with more experienced developers to improve your knowledge and work towards good software architecture and development practices.

For this role, experience in finance is not required, but an ability to understand statistical analysis and modelling is useful. The ability to demonstrate a strong knowledge of object-oriented programming, data structures and algorithms, and optimisation of software is expected.

Predominantly a C# Windows house, the firm is also starting to use more Python and associated libraries for the Quant and data science platforms.

They are very flexible in terms of working from home, offering the potential for you to be 100% remote from anywhere in the UK.

Skills and Experience Required

• 5+ years of software development experience, with good knowledge of recent C# (6.0>)
• Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent) or demonstrated good software development practice with strong computer science knowledge
• Proficiency in implementing multithreaded, robust and fast real-time systems
• Finance experience is NOT required

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Knowledge of any of the following: RabbitMQ, Redis, Python, ReSharper, ComponentOne, FIX

Benefits & Incentives

• Strong salary + bonuses
• You can be remote 0-5 days a week
• Friendly working environment with multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
• Relaxed culture in a brand new Knightsbridge office – not stuffy like other hedge funds

Salary: £70 – 100k base + bonus

Summary

This is a unique opportunity at an employee-first hedge fund, currently with 35 people, looking to rapidly grow their technology team in the near future whilst maintaining a good culture and healthy work-life balance to keep their brilliant retention levels. They’re looking for a hands-on Python Developer who can develop core Python libraries used across the firm.

You will be tasked with working directly with quant and data analysts to develop software and tools to support research and development projects. You will also work with more experienced developers to improve your knowledge and work towards good software architecture and development practices.

For this role, experience in finance is not required, but an ability to understand statistical analysis and modelling is useful. The ability to demonstrate a strong knowledge of object-oriented programming, data structures and algorithms, and optimisation of software is expected.

Originally a C# Windows house, the firm is starting to use more and more Python and associated libraries for their Quant and data science platforms.

The firm is very flexible in terms of working from home, offering the potential for you to be 100% remote from anywhere in the UK.

Skills and Experience Required

• 5+ years of software development experience, with good knowledge of Python (3.5>)
• Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent) or demonstrated good software development practice with strong computer science knowledge
• Proficiency in implementing multithreaded, robust and fast real-time systems
• Proficiency in building internal libraries
• Finance experience is NOT required

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Knowledge of any of the following: RabbitMQ, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, Microsoft SQL Server (2017 >)

Benefits & Incentives

• Strong salary + bonuses
• You can be remote 0-5 days a week
• Friendly working environment with multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
• Relaxed culture in a brand new Knightsbridge office – not stuffy like other hedge funds

Salary: £250,000 total comp

Company

A hedge fund with a difference; relaxed, fun and with a start-up mentality, you can earn huge amounts of money without the stifling environment of a large corporation. Donning your shorts and flip flops in the summer in a great office in London, you’ll have the flexibility on projects that banks simply can’t offer, as well as the chance to earn huge, guilt-free bonuses.

Role

You’ll be writing algorithms to make sense of big data sets, working back-end with real time data and working closely with the quants. Using predominantly F#, as well as C# and a bit of C++ on a Microsoft SQL database, you will have the opportunity to make a real difference to the company and not just be another suit or another number. Described as 97% tech-driven a background in finance is not required – just strong core computer science skills.

Requirements

• Experience with functional programming, ideally F#
• Top academics from a top-tier university
• Experience of at least one of: C#, C++ or Java
• Strong comp sci fundamentals

Benefits

• Relaxed feel
• Start-up mentality
• Exceptional bonus potential

Salary: £150k base + £100k bonus

Company:

This small, high frequency trading (HFT) hedge fund is still very greenfield, but with market leaders at the helm they are growing fast and making a massive impression on the industry using C++.

Being a small team there is no red tape and no legacy code. Everything here is being built from the ground up and you’ll have the chance to really make your mark.

Role:

You will be designing, implementing and maintaining latency sensitive high frequency trading systems. You will be coding in C++ working on ultra-low latency systems.

Working alongside some of the brightest minds and top techies you’ll be pushed daily, but in a more relaxed, open environment where you are encouraged to express your C++ skills individually and as part of the team.

Benefits:

• Greenfield project
• Massive compensation package
• Small team – big impact to be made + growing fast

Requirements:

• Exceptional C++ skills
• Highly desirable: previous low-latency or HFT experience

Salary: £80k – 130k base, £200k+ total compensation

Job description:

Client

A multi-strategy fund with offices globally. With huge autonomy within small teams, they share a core infrastructure platform but encourage 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 superb tech culture.

Role

Working as part of a trading team, you’ll build out and support proprietary analytics software and tools, primarily written in Java. 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

• 3-5 years’ commercial experience in systematic trading (prop desk or hedge fund)
• Strong OO development experience; substantial Java would be ideal
• Excellent academics in a hard science, e.g. Maths, Computer Science, Physics or Engineering
• Outstanding communication skills with the ability to explain complex concepts

Benefits

• Strong salary + bonuses + generous benefits package
• Exciting place to work with great career progression
• Huge amount of ownership and autonomy

Salary: £80k – 130k base + bonus

Job description:

One of the world’s most renowned financial institutions is looking for an exceptional UI developer with solid React and Typescript experience.

Working in small, highly motivated, agile teams, members of the Digital Platform group are multi-disciplined, working across all areas of the solution space. In this role, you will be tasked with building and supporting a client-side platform, where you will will build libraries, frameworks and services for other development teams.

The work you do will be crucial to 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.

Skills and Experience Required

• Advanced knowledge of application, data and infrastructure architecture disciplines
• In-depth knowledge of React, ES6+ Javascript and Typescript
• Strong programming skills in one or more modern language(s)
• Experience in full SDLC with agile methodologies
• Good understanding of OO and functional programming paradigms
• Finance experience NOT required!

Benefits

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

Salary: c. £140k base + good bonus

Job description:

This is a global firm looking for a senior and experienced front office developer in the heart of London’s Mayfair.

Working in a small, highly motivated, agile team, this role offers the opportunity of huge amounts of autonomy. You will work on a wide range of projects from end to end, building and maintaining the front office tools for around 200 users, including new development of what-if scenarios in interest rates. You will also develop pre-trade systems used to evaluate relative value trading strategies.

They would welcome interest from developers with any OO experience, though CompSci, C# and finance are preferred (Rates experience would be ideal).

Skills and Experience Required

• 8-10 years of development experience in any OO
• Strong CompSci fundamentals
• Exceptional academic record, with an MSc in Computer Science preferred

Desirable Skills and Experience

• In-depth knowledge of C# and .NET is highly advantageous
• Any of the following: Python, C++, Matlab, R, SQL Server or PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ or Kafka, Memcache or Redis
• Finance experience is desired but not strictly required

Benefits

• Excellent salaries + bonuses + benefits
• High degree of ownership and impactful work
• Positive, collegial culture encourages knowledge sharing

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Skilled in automating systems configuration and orchestration using tools, e.g. Chef, Ansible or Salt
• Experience designing & implementing CI/CD tools with infrastructure-as-code pipelines (CloudFormation or Terraform)
• Sound knowledge of systems engineering – Linux, security and networking

Salary: £80 – 110k base + bonus

Summary

This is a unique opportunity at an employee-first hedge fund, currently with 35 people, looking to rapidly grow their technology team in the near future whilst maintaining a good culture and healthy work-life balance to keep their brilliant retention levels. They’re looking for a Quant Developer with credit experience who can build robust and scalable systems, in both the real-time and batch processing spaces.

Collaborating regularly with Portfolio Managers, Traders and Quants, you will be tasked with working on a real-time PnL and risk management system written in C#, which provides traders with ticking valuation of their portfolios, provides quants with calculated metrics, and provides the risk manager with scenario analysis.

The tech stack is predominantly C#, with Python being used by the Quant teams.

The successful Quant Developer will have experience calculating market value for credit indices (CDX, iTraxx etc) and building associated credit curves. Experience in curve construction and pricing models for fixed-income instruments in a middle-office setting (performing real-time valuation of a portfolio) is a big plus.

Skills and Experience Required

• 5+ years of software development experience, with the ability to program in C#
• Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent) or demonstrated good software development practice with strong computer science knowledge
• Good understanding of rates, curve construction

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Experience in one or more of: RabbitMQ, Redis, Python, ReSharper, ComponentOne, FIX

Benefits & Incentives

• Strong salary + bonuses
• Flexible working opportunities
• Friendly working environment with multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
• Relaxed culture in a brand new Knightsbridge office – not stuffy like other hedge funds

Salary: £250-350k total comp

Summary:

One of the world’s most renowned financial institutions is looking for an experienced developer with substantial KDB+/Q expertise to lead a team of 10-12 KDB developers and market data experts in London. Joining the Data & Analytics team, they need a strong leader to own and expand the strategic market-wide Tick data store.

The Role:

This is a pivotal role where you will be a hands-on developer, while also guiding your team members, completing code/design reviews, etc. As a result, your workload will be varied, covering everything from technical design documentation and code, to the full project life cycle, through to various aspects of project development.

Collaborating regularly with business stakeholders, local product/desk colleagues and QR and tech teams, you will co-ordinate with the global KDB team to ensure consistent functional and technical design.

The successful KDB Data Lead will be an exceptional communicator, adept at liaising with stakeholders both technical and non-technical, and skilled at simultaneously driving multiple projects through to completion.

Required Skills and Experience:

Benefits:

Salary: £90,000 – £130,000 base + 50-75% bonus

Summary

Using Rust and Python, you’ll be building out a brand-new core risk platform for this hedge fund. Boasting profits of roughly £2million per head last year, their growth in the past five years has been staggering as they disrupt a previously established industry.

Quite mathsy in nature, this role will cover everything from analytics, to yield curve simulation, to building the core risk platform.

Skills and Experience Required

• Excellent academic background in Computer Science, Mathematics or similar discipline
• Fantastic computer science fundamentals and problem-solving skills
• Strong Python or Rust programming skills
• Ability to speak with the business, gather requirements and work in a fast-paced environment

Benefits

• Significant salaries + bonuses + benefits
• High degree of ownership and impactful work
• Building greenfield platforms using interesting technologies
• Flexible working and working from home opportunities

Salary: £150,000 – £400,000 base + 100%+ bonus

Summary

Arguably the biggest advocates of OCaml in the world, this hedge fund builds all of their systems in the statically typed functional language. They also give back to the OCaml open-source world with contributions such as an alternative for the OCaml standard library, and a library for concurrent programming.

Skills and Experience Required

• Exceptional coding skills in any language – OCaml can be learnt ‘on the job’
• Top-notch academics in Computer Science or related discipline
• Excellent computer science fundamentals and problem-solving skills
• Financial knowledge is not required

Benefits

• Market-leading salaries
• Work alongside some of the world’s smartest colleagues
• Tech-first environment

Salary: £100,000 – £150,000 base + 50-100% bonus

Summary

Despite being one of the world’s foremost hedge funds, this team is almost entirely composed of developers from FAANG-style companies or Research. Boasting one of the strongest teams of functional developers in the industry, you will predominantly use Elixir with elements of other functional languages, such as Erlang and Haskell.

A hands-on role, you will build risk systems for multiple lines of business, and have access to huge amounts of data.

Skills and Experience Required

• Deep experience with functional programming (ideally Elixir, Erlang or Haskell)
• Excellent computer science fundamentals and problem-solving skills

Benefits

• Significant salaries + bonuses + benefits
• High degree of ownership and impactful work
• Flexible working and working from home opportunities

Salary: ~£800 / day for 12+ months

Experience: 8+ years

Job description:

Client

Fantastic opportunity for a strong Java Developer to join the core Fixed Income and Commodities Technology group at one of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds. This team forms 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 collaborative tech culture.

Role

You will be building and integrating the next-generation analytics library in Java. 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

• 8+ years’ development experience in Java
• Minimum bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related) from a top-tier university
• Sound experience of multithreading, client-server and distributed computing

Desirable

• FI pricing and Risk analytics in front-office trading, Rates/Credit/FX
• Experience with: cross-asset pricing and risk systems and/or OTC, Swaps, Bonds, yield curves
• Familiar with Docker/Kubernetes, NoSQL (MongoDB), CI/CD, Linux

Benefits & Incentives

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

Salary: up to £150k base + bonus (roughly £220k TC)

Summary:

One of the world’s most renowned financial institutions is seeking strong C++ engineers to join a growing core tech team, based in London. You will work closely with traders in a dynamic and busy trading-floor environment, contributing significantly to the front office team and the design of low-latency strategies.

The role: 

You will be working on several exciting projects for the EMM Technology team, covering all aspects of the software development lifecycle. Collaborating closely with the traders to understand their needs, you will design, develop, maintain and support the cutting-edge low-latency trading platform and provide a meaningful contribution in terms of pre- and post-trade analysis.

Projects in the pipeline are broad, and include things like:

Summary:

A globally leading sports betting and prop trading firm are looking for a Systems or Support Engineer to join their highly agile, London-based team. The successful Systems Engineer will be providing 3^rd line technical support, along with troubleshooting infrastructure, networking, virtualisation and storage solutions for the London team.

Required Skills:

• Background in Systems engineering, support, or troubleshooting
• Good experience providing 3^rd line technical support
• Good experience with networking, virtualisation and storage

Skills that are nice to have, but not required:

• Experience with Windows Server Suite / Firewalls / Network Security / Cloud Technology / configuration management tooling and automation

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and bonus structure for London market
• Highly agile team and technical environment
• Work alongside some of the brightest engineers, analysts, and quants in London

Summary:

A globally leading quant trading firm in London are looking for a Senior C# Developer to join their agile, London-based technology team. Working on trade execution, the Senior C# Developer will be working closely alongside execution traders, portfolio managers, and quant developers in C# and SQL on AWS cloud infrastructure. The work carried out by this team is business critical, and the successful C# developer will have significant ownership and impact over projects and the business as a whole.

Required Skills:

• BSc/MSc in STEM subject
• Strong knowledge of C# fundamentals
• SQL experience
• Experience of Test-Driven and agile development environments

Skills that are nice to have, but not required:

• Background in Computer Science / Maths
• Experience with .NET 5.0
• Experience working with large, complex software systems
• Cloud experience – ideally AWS, Kubernetes, Docker

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and bonus structure for London market
• Highly agile team and technical environment
• Work alongside some of the brightest engineers, analysts, and quants in London

Summary:

A globally leading sports betting and prop trading firm are looking for Data and Quant Analysts to join their highly agile, London-based team. Working on vast data sets, the successful Data Analyst will be manipulating massive amounts of data from a variety of unstructured sources and will be applying statistical analysis and quantitative modelling. As a Data and Quant analyst, you’ll be working in Python and SQL, along with applying your skills in mathematics, physics and statistics.

Required Skills:

• BSc in STEM subject – Maths, Statistics, Physics or Computer Science preferred
• Some technical experience with Python and/or SQL
• Keen interest in sports is beneficial

Skills that are nice to have, but not required:

• Programming experience in python and/ or another OO language
• MSc/PhD level education
• Experience working on statistical analysis of large data sets

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and bonus structure for London market
• Highly agile team and technical environment
• Work alongside some of the brightest analysts, quants and engineers in London

Summary:

A boutique systematic and quant trading firm is looking for a Quantitative Analyst to join their quant research team in London. With a small, agile and technology-driven environment, the successful quant analyst will be working alongside software engineers and quant researchers to build and develop statistical, mathematical models from scratch using vast data sets and modern, cutting-edge technology. Free from a bureaucratic and corporate culture, this small team are able to react to changing financial markets with agility, chaos and speed, whilst maintaining an emphasis on employees’ personal and professional development.

Requirements:

• MSc or PhD in STEM subject
• Good object-oriented programming experience
• Experience programming in Python and SQL
• Experience with time-series analysis and forecasting models, large data sets, model development and visualisation, statistics, optimisation are beneficial

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and bonus structure in London
• Work with elite technologists and quant researchers
• Small, agile environment with opportunity to work close to the business in all areas from development, modelling and trading

Summary:

A globally leading quant trading firm in London are looking for a C# Developer to join their agile, London-based technology team. Working on trade execution, the C# Developer will be working closely alongside execution traders, portfolio managers, and quant developers in C# and SQL on AWS cloud infrastructure. The work carried out by this team is business-critical, and the successful C# developer will have significant ownership and impact over projects and the business as a whole.

Required Skills:

• BSc/MSc in STEM subject
• Strong knowledge of C# fundamentals
• SQL experience
• Experience of Test-Driven and agile development environments

Skills that are nice to have, but not required:

• Background in Computer Science / Maths
• Experience with .NET 5.0
• Experience working with large, complex software systems
• Cloud experience – ideally AWS, Kubernetes, Docker

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and bonus structure for London market
• Highly agile team and technical environment
• Work alongside some of the brightest engineers, analysts, and quants in London

Salary: £200-400k total compensation

Company:

The role sits within the London office of one of the world’s largest quantitative trading firms with a unique focus on technology and collaborative problem solving, trading a wide range of financial products.

Join a company in which technology is central to how they approach their work and thus engineers are intimately tied into every area of the business – allowing your work to have a real impact! This is complemented by their relaxed non-hierarchical work environment which has been described as having a great ambience.

Role:

There is no use of mainstream technologies with OCaml being the primary programming language. But don’t worry about previous experience, there is great emphasis on teaching. The ideal candidate for them will be passionate about technology and hold outstanding records!

Requirements:

• A bachelor’s/master’s degree in Computer Science or another highly technical, scientific discipline.
• Proven track record in technology, all-encompassing any OO to ML, demonstrating your excellent programming skills.
• Great interpersonal skills that would flourish in an intimate collaborative environment.

Benefits:

• Competitive base salary.
• Holiday policies.
• Retirement benefits.
• Health insurance.
• Private on-site gym.

Tier-2 visa sponsorship is available.

Summary

Lively, positive spirit of a start-up, with the stability of a longer-established player, this leading quant firm is looking for a Quant Developer skilled in C / C++. You will join a growing quant trading team to evolve, improve and maintain all elements of the team’s infrastructure, including execution, signal generation, model building and back testing.

Developers here are highly valued and well-rewarded for hard work, and as a result, are some of the brightest minds from across the trading, tech, academic and start-up industries. Collaborating extensively with traders and technologists, you can expect exposure to a wide range of exciting and challenging projects. These will include high performance computing, software design and big data, developing high-availability, high-throughput and low-latency solutions.

Technology is viewed by the traders as a crucial component of their continued success. The successful Quantitative Developer will have exceptional communication, analytical and problem-solving skills, comfortable taking ownership of projects and responsibilities.

Requirements

• Solid C/C++ development experience, including low- and high-level optimization
• Strong instincts around performance vs simplicity tradeoffs, engineering for maintainability, extensibility and debuggability
• Good Linux platform skills and experience
• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science or Computer Engineering (or equivalent)

Benefits

• Competitive base salary & bonus
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Have a direct impact and be exposed to cool, cutting-edge technologies
• Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported
• Free breakfast, lunch and dinner

Summary 

Not your traditional HFT firm, this company takes a scientific approach to trading financial products. They’re looking for a modern C++ engineer to help drive their expansion into the EU, US and APAC markets. A community of self-starters from multiple tech backgrounds – maths, computer science, statistics, physics, engineering – they have built one of the world’s most sophisticated computing environments for research and development.

This is an extremely high-impact role – contributing to the bottom line from day one. You will work closely with the algo and operations teams, and you will be expected to own the process of entering new markets while managing the continuing ongoing process of optimizing trading in existing markets.

***Interviews will be remote; ideally start dates will be in-house, but they’re flexible.***

Requirements

• Modern C++ (17/20) experience is a must-have
• Familiarity with UNIX operating systems and comfort at a command line
• Exceptional communication skills, including the ability to describe software designs at all technical knowledge levels
• Self-starter, with a passion for coding, tinkering, reading, exploring, breaking things, etc. in your spare time
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering (or related field)
• Experience developing market data and order entry systems a plus

Benefits

• Market-leading salary + bonuses + benefits
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Collaborative and friendly environment with smart, highly engaged colleagues
• Culture where everyone’s ideas are encouraged and celebrated
• Gain broad exposure to both technical and business aspects of trading

Summary

The positive feel of a start-up with the benefits that come with a more established player, this leading quant firm is looking for exceptional C++/FPGA engineers to join an elite global team to design and build the next generation of hardware solutions.

Collaborating with technologists and traders, you will provide hardware systems in areas such as fast networking, high performance compute and real-time acceleration. You will be expected to solve difficult technical problems in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, with a focus on co-designing hybrid hardware/software solutions.

They see technology as a key component of their continued success. The ideal candidate will be keen to learn new, cutting-edge technologies, and have a proven record of solving unstructured problems.

***Interviews will be remote; ideally start dates will be in-house, but they’re flexible.***

Requirements

• Must be able to write C/C++ in a commercial environment
• Solid knowledge of building reliable, high performance FPGA hardware systems
• A mix of traditional RTL development + software skills
• Ability to perform in a fast-paced environment, where accuracy is crucial
• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science or Computer Engineering (or equivalent)

Benefits

• Competitive base salary + bonus; they will pay leading market rate / are flexible for the right candidate
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Enormous opportunity to grow and have an impact
• Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported
• Free breakfast, lunch and dinner

Summary

Lively, positive spirit of a start-up, with the stability of a longer-established player. This leading quant firm has a fantastic opportunity on their centralised trading team where you will draw on your quantitative problem-solving skills and advanced statistical techniques to build and enhance market prediction models.

They are ideally looking for a platform engineer who has built and improved quant infrastructure.

This role is perfect for an experienced developer who can pull together all of their previous skills and expertise to lead, architect and create a platform designed to be a critical tool for this team both now and for many years in the future.

Technology is viewed as a crucial component of their continued success. The successful quant developer will be a self-starter, thrive under pressure and excel when given ownership of projects and responsibilities. Work is varied; example projects include:

• Investigate and design data mining and machine learning algorithms
• Research modeling and forecasting future price actions
• Develop and improve scalable quant research frameworks using Python and C++
• Serve as an advisor across a the business, providing new and innovative solutions

***Interviews will be remote; ideally start dates will be in-house, but they’re flexible.***

Requirements

• 3 – 8 years’ solid dev experience (in financial markets would be ideal)
• Strong C++, Python
• Experience building and improving quant infrastructure would be ideal
• Master’s or PhD in Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research (or equivalent)

Benefits

• Competitive base salary & bonus
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Enormous opportunity to grow and have an impact
• Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported
• Free breakfast, lunch and dinner

Summary

Lively, positive spirit of a start-up, with the stability of a longer-established player, this leading quant firm is looking for an engineer skilled in Python. You will join a growing quant trading team to evolve, improve and maintain all elements of the team’s infrastructure, as well as contributing to production – ensuring trading proceeds smoothly across global markets.

Developers here are highly valued and well-rewarded for hard work, and as a result, are some of the brightest minds from across the trading, tech, academic and start-up industries. Collaborating extensively with traders and technologists, you can expect exposure to a wide range of exciting and challenging projects. These will include software design, big data, and high-performance computing, working with infrastructure in Python and C++.

Here, technology is viewed as crucial to their continued success. The successful Software Engineer will be passionate about development, and able to solve difficult technical problems in a fast-paced and energetic environment.

***Interviews will be remote; ideally start dates will be in-house, but they’re flexible.***

Requirements

• Minimum 2+ years’ Python programming experience, with some knowledge of C++
• Comfortable doing system design as well as situational problem-solving
• Solid experience of working on a Linux platform
• Self-starter who can work independently and be able to drive a project from inception through to delivery
• Minimum bachelor’s Computer Science/Engineering degree
• Bonus points for trading industry experience (2-5 years would be ideal)

Benefits

• Competitive base salary + bonus
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Enormous opportunity to grow, learn and have an impact
• Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported
• Free breakfast, lunch and dinner

Salary: up to £150k + bonus

Summary

Perfect opportunity for a pragmatic problem-solver to join one of the world’s leading quant funds in their Singapore office, where you will tackle head-on the region’s unique business challenges. Well-versed in Python, you will be part of the team using a sophisticated technology stack to collate a centralized source of research and reference data accessed by the consumers within the firm.

Working with colleagues across all areas of the business, this role offers the opportunity to understand how the company operates on a fundamental level. You will be involved in making a substantial contribution to the evolving codebase and investigating a variety of datasets to provide a scalable, validated representation of reference data.

This is a great place to work, where the entrepreneurial culture of a start-up is coupled with the security of a more established company. Technology is valued and recognised as critical to continued success, and hard work is well-rewarded. The ideal candidate is a self-starter who thrives in fast-paced, dynamic environments, is adept at skilled communication, and is an expert at designing streamlined solutions that end users love.

***Interviews will be remote; ideally start dates will be in-house, but they’re flexible.***

Requirements

• Minimum 2+ years’ demonstrable Python programming experience
• Solid hands-on experience of a Linux environment
• Strong unit-testing / test-driven coding skills
• Skilled at independently driving projects to completion while working in a team
• Bonus points for data analytics tools, such as Pandas

Benefits

• Competitive base salary & bonus
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Enormous opportunity to grow, learn and have an impact
• Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported
• Free breakfast, lunch and dinner (when office-based)

Salary: up to £150k + bonus

Summary

Perfect opportunity for a pragmatic problem-solver, well-versed in Python development,  to join one of the world’s leading quant funds. This is a cross-functional team, which develops tools that enhance the development, testing and deployment of cutting-edge FPGA products used by colleagues in the production trading environments. Contributing solutions across many areas of product development, this role offers unique challenges and the opportunity to use the latest technology on a daily basis.

This is a great place to work, where the entrepreneurial culture of a start-up is coupled with the security of a more established company. Technology is valued and recognised as critical to continued success, and hard work is well-rewarded.

The ideal candidate is a self-starter, passionate about automation, who can provide scalable, maintainable solutions to challenging technical problems in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

***Interviews will be remote; ideally start dates will be in-house, but they’re flexible.***

Requirements

• Minimum 2+ years’ demonstrable Python programming experience
• Solid experience of a Linux environment
• Experience of Continuous Integration and automated test flows
• Proficiency with distributed development workflows (git)
• Bonus points for any of the following: Jenkins (Groovy, Java, Maven); containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.); test-driven development; interfacing to C/C++ code from Python.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary & bonus
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Enormous opportunity to grow, learn and have an impact
• Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported
• Free breakfast, lunch and dinner (when office-based)

Salary: up to £120k + bonus

Summary

Lively, positive spirit of a start-up, with the stability of a longer-established player, this leading quant firm is looking for an experienced Python Web Developer to join their crypto team. The projects this team works on are extremely varied, focused within the broader De-Fi, blockchain and crypto landscape.

A client-facing role, you will be working alongside world-class crypto experts and collaborating with community managers to effectively communicate the Pyth vision. This will involve building a top-notch marketing and documentation site, designing and implementing front- and back-end APIs and managing scalable backend and infrastructure solutions. You will also contribute to a variety of open-source projects.

Technology is recognised as crucial to their continued success and is highly valued here. The successful Full Stack Web Developer will have exceptional communication and organizational skills, a keen interest in crypto, DeFi, and blockchain, coupled with the ability to work both independently and collaboratively.

Requirements

• At least 3+ years’ relevant experience
• Solid expertise in React, Node, serverless, SQL
• Motivated to create user-friendly, intelligible, high-performance front-ends using React
• Experience visualizing concepts and data
• Exposure to AWS / GCP
• Bonus points for experience with crypto, DeFi or blockchain

Benefits

• Competitive base salary & bonus
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Enormous opportunity to grow, learn and have an impact
• Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported
• Free breakfast, lunch and dinner

Salary: up to £150k base + 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 of assets every day. Employee turnover is below 5% / ten digit amount of equity capital.

***Interviews will be remote; ideally start dates will be in-house, but they’re flexible.***

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
• Financial experience is NOT required

Desirable

• 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.

Benefits

• Significant compensation package – you are making a direct impact on the PnL
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Collaborative and friendly environment with highly engaged colleagues
• Culture of trust, innovation and scientific rigour

Salary: up to €200k + bonus

Summary

This is a fabulous opportunity for a talented engineer with expert coding skills and experience of large-scale computers to join the Research Technology team at this tech-savvy algorithmic trading firm. Working hand-in-hand with quant researchers, this full stack team strives to make their system as performant, reliant and transparent as possible.

A role where you can make an immediate impact, it has a varied workload: from designing the datacentre environment and assessing leading edge new compute technology, to tuning operating systems, storage and networks, through to writing efficient distribution software for the compute cluster.

The successful candidate will be an experienced developer, with hands-on experience in computer networks, who can’t wait to get to work on growing one of the biggest private compute clusters out there.

Requirements

• Excellent coding skills; recent Python and at least one statically-typed language would be ideal
• Deep knowledge of software workflows and testing & deployment methodologies
• Strong experience of large-scale distributed systems
• Knowledge of the full tech stack – network, hardware, OS, software
• Bonus points for exposure to machine learning frameworks (e.g. Pytorch) or supporting tech (e.g. CUDA)

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Solve complex problems from the ground up; ideas from everyone are encouraged and evaluated
• Generous benefits package, including life & health insurance, pension, onsite gym, yoga, climbing wall, pool & table tennis and regular staff social events

Summary

This is a fabulous opportunity for a talented engineer with expert Linux skills and a strong background in shell scripting to join the Research Technology team at this tech-savvy algorithmic trading firm. Working hand-in-hand with quant researchers, this full stack team strives to make their system as performant, reliant and transparent as possible.

A role where you can make an immediate impact, it has a varied workload: from designing the datacentre environment and assessing leading edge new compute technology, to tuning operating systems, storage and networks, through to writing efficient distribution software for the compute cluster.

The successful candidate will be a experienced engineer with hands-on experience in developing automated builds and patching cycles, who can’t wait to get to work on growing one of the biggest private compute clusters out there.

Requirements

• Outstanding Linux engineering skills
• Excellent coding skills; Python would be ideal
• Good knowledge of configuration management using Puppet, Ansible (or similar)
• Knowledge of network & storage technologies and container tech, e.g. podman, docker and Kubernetes
• Bonus points for exposure to prometheus/alertmanager/grafana or system admin-level knowledge of hardware, networking and/or file storage systems

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Solve complex problems from the ground up; ideas from everyone are encouraged and evaluated
• Generous benefits package, including life & health insurance, pension, onsite gym, yoga, climbing wall, pool & table tennis and regular staff social events

Summary: 

Exciting opportunity to work at a tech-centric prop trading fund which trades a wide range of financial products, with offices across the globe. Work is organized into small, project-oriented teams, each with the independence and responsibility to make decisions that impact the business.

Windows is the primary desktop operating system, with many core infrastructure services being provided by Windows servers. They are seeking a talented and experienced Windows Developer to build and deploy tools and applications necessary to maintain and enhance the Windows environment. 

Joining a highly dedicated team of developers who use multiple programming languages across a variety of platforms, you will be involved in a number of projects alongside writing code. You’ll manage the entire development lifecycle, using your mix of strong communication and problem-solving skills to gather requirements and incorporate new features.

Requirements: 

• Demonstrated code-writing experience in a .NET language, GUI applications (WPF preferred), Windows services and Web services (ASP.NET Web API preferred) 
• A desire to learn F# and OCaml (experience with any functional languages is ideal) 
• Understanding of key Windows Server technologies, especially IIS 
• Experience designing MSSQL DB schemas for use with Entity Framework 
• Bonus points for data serialisation (JSON.net desirable) and/or web development experience

Benefits and Incentives: 

• Substantial and varied range of project work
• Market-leading compensation
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Exciting and enjoyable company culture, including relaxed dress code, huge emphasis on work-life balance, learning outside of the workplace 
• Collaborative and innovative environment where each person has the opportunity to make a significant impact

Salary: up to £150k base + bonus

Fantastic opportunity for all-star coders at one of the world’s top algorithmic trading firms. The Systems Development team builds and maintains the infrastructure and software platform used by all Systems teams to manage servers and networks.

As a Systems Engineer, your workload will be varied, offering great opportunities to improve and have a huge impact. Your main focus will be tool development in Python, both improving and integrating existing tools and libraries across the platform, as well as designing and building new ones.

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

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience, including strong Python programming skills
• Highly proficient in debugging and analysing problems quickly
• Minimum bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related field)
• Excellent understanding of CompSci fundamentals
• Bonus points for knowledge of: Debian operating system, systems configuration management and/or CI/CD tools and processes

Benefits

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

Summary

Lively, positive spirit of a start-up, with the stability of a longer-established player, this leading quant firm is looking for an expert C++ Engineer to join their core UI team, whose projects include applications for real-time trading and generation of information-rich visualizations based on archived data.

Developers here are highly valued and well-rewarded for hard work, and as a result, are some of the brightest minds from across the trading, tech and start-up industries. This team serves the UI needs across the business, and this role will involve writing highly optimized code for high-performance back-ends running on Linux to process huge amounts of data. There will also be an opportunity to do full-stack work, contributing to the C++ front-end code for Qt desktop applications, as well as Typescript/React for web applications.

Here, technology is viewed as key to their continued success. The successful C++ Engineer will be passionate about development, have a strong work ethic and be motivated to continually learn and improve.

***Interviews will be remote; ideally start dates will be in-house, but they’re flexible.***

Requirements

• Minimum 4+ years’ modern C++ development experience (C++ 11/14/17)
• Solid experience of Linux and low-level systems programming
• Knowledge of and ability to develop scalable back-end services
• Skilled at writing reliable code, and providing code review feedback to others
• Bonus points for any of: Typescript/Javascript, React, Qt, Python

Benefits

• Competitive base salary + bonus
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Enormous opportunity to grow, learn and have an impact
• Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported
• Free breakfast, lunch and dinner

Summary

This leading HFT firm 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, this role is for you.

***Interviews will be remote; ideally start dates will be in-house, but they’re flexible.***

Requirements

• 2+ years of Python experience/SQL and non-SQL DBs
• Sound experience in developing Rest Endpoints
• Strong experience in (or desire to learn) 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
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Collaborative and rewarding work environment and culture
• Free breakfast, lunch and dinner

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 – they rely 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.

This is an entirely UK-based fund and is one of the best performing systematic prop funds over the last 10 years. All of the major decision-makers are based in London – which is a very rare advantage.

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.

This role is business facing; working with 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.

***Interviews will be remote; ideally start dates will be in-house, but they’re flexible.***

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
• 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 multithreaded 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
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• 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

Salary: up to £150k + bonus

Summary

Fantastic opportunity for a pragmatic Linux engineer with expert skills in infrastructure systems engineering to join a talented team at this tech-savvy algorithmic trading firm.

A complex and involved role, you will be designing, developing and striving to always improve the platforms and tooling, and also automating complex processes to reduce manual tasks. You will maintain the current infrastructure and tooling while constantly evaluating new technologies and techniques, choosing those which are most appropriate.

The ideal candidate will have a strong academic record with a scientific degree from a top-tier university, have more than three years’ experience as a Linux or Site Reliability Engineer and be passionate about open-source technologies.

***Interviews will be remote; ideally start dates will be in-house, but they’re flexible.***

Requirements

• Excellent engineering skills on Linux, with experience of developing automated builds and patching cycles, rolling new kernels and fixing open-source tools
• Expert at shell scripting and the ability to write code in Python (or other OO)
• Experience with configuration management and deployment (Puppet, Ansible, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with one or more distributed systems (e.g. Elasticsearch, Cortex or Cassandra)
• Previous exposure to one of the following would be highly desirable: containerisation; monitoring applications; logging tools; production experience with cloud-based providers; knowledge of trading systems.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Challenging work within a truly flat structure; ideas from everyone are encouraged and evaluated
• Generous benefits package, including life & health insurance, pension, onsite gym, yoga, climbing wall, pool & table tennis and regular staff social events

Summary

This is a superb opportunity for a well-organised and pragmatic engineer with a passion for concise, efficient code to join the team who design, develop and maintain the infrastructure at this tech-savvy algorithmic trading firm.

A complex and involved role, you will be designing, developing and striving to always improve the platforms and tooling, and also automating complex processes to reduce manual tasks. You will maintain the current infrastructure and tooling while constantly evaluating new technologies and techniques, choosing those which could be applicable.

The ideal candidate will have a strong academic record with a scientific degree from a top-tier university, have a minimum of three years’ experience as a DevOps Engineer where you designed tools to automate processes for your team and the wider business.

***Interviews will be remote; ideally start dates will be in-house, but they’re flexible.***

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience of automation, e.g. tools you developed, what impact they had, etc.
• Excellent development skills using Python or Go
• At least one of the following: Linux, networking, storage technologies
• Experience of standard development tools, e.g. git, IDEs, CI/CD, test-driven techniques
• Previous exposure to one of the following would be highly desirable: containerisation; monitoring applications; logging tools; configuration management; knowledge of trading systems.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Challenging work within a truly flat structure; ideas from everyone are encouraged and evaluated
• Generous benefits package, including life & health insurance, pension, onsite gym, yoga, climbing wall, pool & table tennis and regular staff social events

Salary: up to £150k + bonus

Summary

Fantastic opportunity for a talented engineer with expert coding skills and experience of large-scale computers to join the Research Technology team at this tech-savvy algorithmic trading firm. Working hand-in-hand with researchers, this full stack team strives to make their system as performant, reliant and transparent as possible.

This is a role where you can make an immediate impact, and it has a varied workload: from designing the next datacentre, to tuning operating systems, storage and networks, to writing efficient distribution software for the compute cluster.

The successful candidate will be an experienced developer with hands-on experience in computer networks who can’t wait to get to work on growing one of the biggest private compute clusters out there.

Requirements

• Excellent coding skills; recent Python and one or more statically typed language would be ideal
• Deep knowledge of networks (design, configuration, monitoring, automation, etc.)
• 4+ years’ experience in a similar setting; finance experience not necessary
• Knowledge of the full tech stack – network, hardware, OS, software
• Bonus points for exposure to at least one machine learning framework and compute offload device, such as GPUs

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Solve complex problems from the ground up; ideas from everyone are encouraged and evaluated
• Generous benefits package, including life & health insurance, pension, onsite gym, yoga, climbing wall, pool & table tennis and regular staff social events

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, Chicago, 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 of assets every day.

***Interviews will be remote; ideally start dates will be in-house, but they’re flexible.***

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 – they will pay leading market rate / are flexible for the right candidate
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Collaborative and friendly environment with highly engaged colleagues
• Culture of trust, innovation and scientific rigour

Summary 

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

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

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

***Interviews will be remote; ideally start dates will be in-house, but they’re flexible.***

Requirements

• 5+ years of practical experience in C++ and 3 years with Python
• Professional experience of C++ 11/14/17
• Strong proficiency with data structures, algorithms, and OOP
• Sound experience using other programming languages, such as Java
• Solid working knowledge of Linux and SQL
• Self-starter, with a passion for innovation and building systems from scratch

Benefits

• Competitive salary + bonuses
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Benefits including medical insurance and gym membership
• Collaborative and friendly environment with smart, highly engaged colleagues
• Relaxed, dress-down office culture, with breakfast, lunch and snacks provided

Salary: up to £150k + bonus

Summary

Lively, positive spirit of a start-up, with the stability of a longer-established player, this leading quant firm is looking for a talented engineer to join the core development team designing and building a leading-edge post-trade processing platform.

Developers here are highly valued and well-rewarded for hard work, and as a result, are some of the brightest minds from across the trading, tech and start-up industries. This role will involve working with users to understand their needs and translate them into user-friendly solutions using robust, reliable code.

Here, technology is viewed as key to their continued success. The ideal candidate will have significant web development skills, including JavaScript / React / Redux on the front-end, and Python or C++ on the back-end. You will also be passionate about designing beautiful frontends, enjoyed by all who use them.

***Interviews will be remote; ideally start dates will be in-house, but they’re flexible.***

Requirements

• 5+ years’ hands-on development experience
• Strong coding skills; able to write reliable, readable code and provide feedback to colleagues on code reviews
• Proficient in one or more of: Javascript, React or Redux
• Bonus points for Python backend frameworks, such as Tornado or Django
• Experience with databases and/or unit testing

Benefits

• Competitive base salary + bonus + benefits package
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Enormous opportunity to grow, learn and have an impact
• Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported
• Free breakfast, lunch and dinner

Salary: up to $300k + bonus

Summary

Lively, positive spirit of a start-up, with the stability of a longer-established player, this leading quant firm is looking for a pragmatic Production Engineer to join one of their most established teams, where you’ll take ownership of post-trading analysis and operational issues.

Developers here are highly valued and well-rewarded for hard work, and as a result, are some of the brightest minds from across the trading, tech and start-up industries. This role will involve working with colleagues across the business, writing and maintaining a complex Python infrastructure to make the deployment process for production trading scalable, fault-tolerant and automated. You will also identify and fix issues which prevent trading of deployment of new code.

Here, technology is viewed as key to their continued success, where traders and software engineers work on their own proprietary trading algorithms. If you would value having the autonomy to pursue your own projects to help the team’s trading, and manage your own workload, this role would be perfect for you.

***Interviews will be remote; ideally start dates will be in-house, but they’re flexible.***

Requirements

• 3+ years’ hands-on C++ programming experience, plus proficiency in Python
• Able to carry out complex debugging, design work and problem-solving
• Strong track record of owning and driving forward mission-critical systems
• Skilled at managing priorities with the ability to switch between multiple projects at once
• Bonus points for trading industry experience

Benefits

• Competitive base salary + bonus
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Enormous opportunity to grow, learn and have an impact
• Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported
• Free breakfast, lunch and dinner

Salary: up to £150k + bonus

Summary

Join a sophisticated technology team in the Singapore 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.

***Interviews will be remote; ideally start dates will be in-house, but they’re flexible.***

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
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Free food / gym onsite

Summary

Lively, positive spirit of a start-up, with the stability of a longer-established player, this leading quant firm is looking for a pragmatic Hardware Production Engineer to join a new team, where you’ll take ownership of trading analysis and operational issues. This is a brand new office which is being built around an industry legend.

Developers here are highly valued and well-rewarded for hard work, and as a result, they attract the brightest minds from across the trading, tech and start-up industries. This role will involve working with colleagues across the business, writing and maintaining the C++, SystemVerilog and Python infrastructure to make the deployment process for production trading scalable and fault-tolerant. You will also identify and fix issues which prevent trading or deployment of new code.

Technology is viewed as key to their continued success, where traders and software engineers work on their own proprietary trading algorithms. If you value having the autonomy to pursue your own projects and manage your own workload, this role would be perfect for you.

Requirements

• Minimum 2+ years’ C++ programming experience OR at least one year’s experience with Verilog/SystemVerilog/VHDL, plus proficiency in Python
• Exceptional attention to detail; adept at managing and debugging complex hardware-based production processes
• Strong track record of owning and driving forward mission-critical systems
• Skilled at managing priorities with the ability to switch between multiple projects at once

Benefits

• Competitive base salary & bonus
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Enormous opportunity to grow, learn and have an impact
• Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported
• Free breakfast, lunch and dinner

**THIS ROLE CAN BE FULLY REMOTE**

Summary

Lively, positive spirit of a start-up, with the stability of a longer-established player, this leading quant firm is looking for a tech-savvy software engineer to join an growing global team designing and building a leading-edge post-trade processing platform. This is a very strategic build out, so very strong communication skills are needed, as is the ability to work well independently.

Developers here are highly valued and well-rewarded for hard work, and as a result, are some of the brightest minds from across the trading, tech and start-up industries. This role would suit someone who thrives in an autonomous position with large amounts of project ownership, while being part of a larger, collaborative team.

They see technology as a key component of their continued success. The ideal candidate will have significant experience with SQL databases and messaging solutions (such as Kafka) and be a skilled communicator.

NO finance experience is necessary.

Role

• Design and develop a next-generation post-trade system
• Design and develop software components, such as trade reconciliations, and tools to analyse trading activity involving Big Data
• Work closely with users and core tech team to gather requirements and translate them into robust system design

***Interviews will be remote; ideally start dates will be in-house, but they’re flexible.***

Requirements

• Minimum 5+ years’ hands-on development experience in Python, Java or C++
• Strong knowledge of data architecture, software design and best coding practices
• Bonus points for supporting middle and back office functions (e.g. trade, position, locates, settlements management, inter-departmental workflows)
• Ability to perform in a fast-paced environment, where accuracy is crucial
• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science or Computer Engineering (or equivalent)

Benefits

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

Summary

Lively, positive spirit of a start-up, with the stability of a longer-established player, this leading quant firm is seeking a Python QD to join one of their growing trading teams where you will draw on both your superb problem-solving skills and your proven track record with large data sets. This is a great opportunity to work in a cross-asset team which is one of the most successful at the firm.

Collaborating extensively with talented researchers and technologists, you will develop new research infrastructure and look at ways to improve the production systems that power the business. Working in a dynamic, energetic environment, finding solutions to complex technical problems will enable productivity to increase and the entire business to grow.

Technology is viewed as a crucial component of their continued success. The successful quantitative developer will be passionate about development, highly driven and excel when given ownership of projects and responsibilities.

***Interviews will be remote; ideally start dates will be in-house, but they’re flexible.***

Requirements

• Solid experience working with Python on large distributed systems
• Strong Linux platform skills
• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science or Computer Engineering (or equivalent)

Benefits

• Competitive base salary & bonus
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Enormous opportunity to grow and have an impact
• Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported
• Free breakfast, lunch and dinner

Summary

Lively, positive spirit of a start-up, with the stability of a longer-established player, this leading quant firm is looking for an experienced React Developer to join their core UI team as they branch out into new styles of trading. Projects include using Typescript/React/Redux to build fast, information-rich web applications that users love to engage with, for areas such as real-time trading and visualization, monitoring trading systems and managing system configuration.

This is a high impact role where you will collaborate extensively with users to ensure the robust, scalable front-ends you write meet their needs and are user-friendly. You will work closely with C++/Python back-end developers on the overall architecture and APIs, and, should you be interested in full-stack development, there is the opportunity to contribute to back-end code as well.

Here, technology is viewed as crucial to their continued success. The successful React Developer will be passionate about front-end development, enjoys staying on the cutting edge of what’s happening in the Javascript/React world, and is an asset to the team through knowledge sharing and mentoring.

***Interviews will be remote; ideally start dates will be in-house, but they’re flexible.***

Requirements

• Highly proficient in React and Redux, modern Javascript, HTML5, and CSS
• Prior knowledge of UI/UX design
• Deep-level understanding of building high-performance Javascript applications
• Skilled at writing reliable, readable code; able to give code review feedback
• Familiar with unit testing front-end code with Jest or similar
• Experience of /willingness to learn back-end development in Python (Tornado/FastAPI/Django) is a plus
• Bonus points for Linux and/or trading industry experience

Benefits

• Competitive base salary + bonus
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Enormous opportunity to grow, learn and have an impact
• Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported
• Free breakfast, lunch and dinner

Salary: Flexible for the right candidate

Summary

Lively, positive spirit of a start-up, with the stability of a longer-established player, this leading quant firm is looking for an experienced Python Web Developer to join their core UI team as they branch out into new styles of trading. Projects include building fast, information-rich web applications that users love to engage with, for areas such as real-time trading and visualization, monitoring trading systems and managing system configuration.

This is a high impact role where you will collaborate extensively with users to ensure the robust, scalable back-ends for the web apps you write meet their needs and are user-friendly. You will also work closely with front-end developers on the overall architecture and APIs, plus you will share your knowledge of best practices as you mentor other back-end developers.

Here, technology is viewed as crucial to their continued success. The successful Python Web Developer will be passionate about development, with a strong work ethic, and the drive to continually learn and improve.

***Interviews will be remote; ideally start dates will be in-house, but they’re flexible.***

Requirements

• 5+ years’ Python back-end development experience
• Strong experience in at least one Python web framework (FastAPI, Tornado, Django, etc.)
• Deep-level understanding of architecture and best practices for web applications
• Solid knowledge of methods of communicating data to web apps (REST, GraphQL, websockets, etc.)
• Proficiency with API testing frameworks/TDD
• Bonus points for any of: Linux, UI/UX, Docker/Jenkins/Ansible, front-end tech, e.g. React, Javascript, HTML

Benefits

• Competitive base salary + bonus
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Enormous opportunity to grow, learn and have an impact
• Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported
• Free breakfast, lunch and dinner

Salary: up to £150k + bonus

Summary

This is a superb opportunity for a well-organised and pragmatic engineer with a passion for concise, efficient code to join the team which develops and operates the off-exchange trading system and products at this tech-savvy algorithmic trading firm.

This is a high impact role, where you will be maintaining and extending the JVM-based networking platform in order for it to integrate with new trading venues and adapt to new asset classes. You will also be implementing new cross-asset pricing features.

The successful candidate will be an expert Java developer – your in-depth understanding of the inner workings of modern JVMs will be invaluable, particularly around performance optimisation.

***Interviews will be remote; ideally start dates will be in-house, but they’re flexible.***

Requirements

• 3+ years’ professional experience of writing Java and/or Kotlin
• Strong testing skills and understanding of its importance
• Proactive and adept at managing multiple projects
• Highly numerate, with fantastic problem-solving skills
• Finance experience NOT necessary
• Ideal candidate would have some UI experience, preferably React

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Challenging work within a truly flat structure; ideas from everyone are encouraged and evaluated
• Very direct impact on the PnL, with very little bureaucracy
• Generous benefits package, including life & health insurance, pension, onsite gym, yoga, climbing wall, pool & table tennis and regular staff social events

Salary: up to £130k base + bonus

Summary

Unique in their field, this HFT fund has the lively, positive spirit of a start-up with the stability of a longer-established player. They hire exceptional talent in Maths, Physics and Computer Science, from across the trading, tech and start-up industries, to apply cutting-edge research to global financial markets.

One of their growing quant trading teams is looking to hire a dynamic Hardware Engineer with HDL development experience and ideally an understanding of C++.

You will collaborate extensively with traders and technologists to evolve, improve and maintain all elements of the team infrastructure. This role offers the opportunity to gain exposure to a wide range of interesting and challenging problems involving high performance computing, software design and big data, where most problems require high-availability, high-throughput and low-latency solutions.

The trading team sees technology as a key component of their continued success and candidates will be exposed to cool, cutting-edge technologies. The successful Hardware Engineer will be enthusiastic about development and able to solve difficult technical problems in a fast-paced and energetic environment. 

Requirements

• At least 5+ years’ hands-on development experience in HDL (SystemVerilog/VHDL) with C++ knowledge
• Solid experience in solving numerical problems with existing commercial architectures (CPU/GPU/FPGA/etc.)
• Sound knowledge of bridging solution from both hardware & software
• Experience in Linux system programming & computer architecture
• Desirable: exposure to Python or a willingness to gain proficiency quickly

Benefits

• Competitive base salary & bonus
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Enormous opportunity to grow, learn and have an impact
• Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported
• Unique culture where you can fulfil your potential through collaboration and mutual respect

Summary

High-frequency prop trading firm with offices worldwide are looking to expand one of their in-house trading teams with a Trade Operations Analyst well-versed in Python scripting.

Enjoying high levels of autonomy, you can expect a varied workload. The successful candidate will design, develop and implement tools to improve trading monitoring and manage ongoing projects with various support teams. You will also monitor live trading, coordinate software/hardware upgrades, and resolve any discrepancies with trading positions, broker statements and internal applications.

The ideal candidate will be equally comfortable working independently and in a team, capable of managing multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment and be a strong communicator.

*Strong Python skills are essential* / *This will not turn into a trading role*

Requirements

• 3+ years’ practical experience, with Python scripting skills
• Sound analytical and problem-solving abilities, with track record of making data-driven strategic decisions
• Proficient working knowledge of PnL and Risk reporting applications
• Ability to identify slow exchange sessions and deploy replacements
• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM subject from a top-tier university

Benefits

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

Salary: up to £150k + bonus

Summary

Unique in their field, this HFT fund has the lively, positive spirit of a start-up with the stability of a longer-established player. They hire exceptional talent in Maths, Physics and Computer Science, from across the trading, tech and start-up industries, to apply cutting-edge research to global financial markets.

Their growing crypto trading team is looking to hire a dynamic Software Engineer who is passionate about development and loves tackling difficult technical problems head-on.

You will collaborate extensively with traders and technologists to evolve, improve and maintain all elements of the trading infrastructure, including feeds, gateways and strategies. This role offers the opportunity to gain exposure to a wide range of interesting and challenging problems involving high performance computing, software design and big data, as well as gaining an understanding of trading on centralized and decentralized exchanges. Most problems require high-availability, high-throughput and low-latency solutions.

The trading team sees technology as a key component of their continued success and candidates will be exposed to cool, cutting-edge technologies in the fast-evolving crypto space. The successful Software Engineer will be self-directed, with the ability to take ownership of projects and responsibilities.

Requirements

• At least 5+ years’ hands-on C++ development experience in a Linux environment
• Good understanding of templates and both low- and high-level optimization
• Sound knowledge of computer systems (operating systems, networks), plus the ability to build and debug high performance distributed systems
• Experience in creating and debugging multithreaded applications
• Bonus points for experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS) and/or internet protocols WS, HTTP
• Exposure to Python or a willingness to gain proficiency quickly

Benefits

• Competitive base salary & bonus
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Enormous opportunity to grow, learn and have an impact
• Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported
• Unique culture where you can fulfil your potential through collaboration and mutual respect

Compensation: Top of the market in HFT

Summary

Unique in their field, this HFT fund has the lively, positive spirit of a start-up with the stability of a longer-established player. They hire exceptional talent in Maths, Physics and Computer Science, from across the trading, tech and start-up industries, to apply cutting-edge research to global financial markets.

Their crypto trading team is looking to hire a hybrid quant/dev, skilled in Python or C++, who can excel in the fast-paced, rapidly changing world of cryptocurrency.

In this role, you will be directly responsible for advancing the team’s trading footprint. Your work will include building and optimizing trading strategies; researching new protocols and datasources; designing and improving our research and trading systems; and collaborating with team members and others to advance the team’s dual mission of being the top crypto trader in the world and a major contributor in the crypto ecosystem.

The successful Quant Dev will appreciate cleanly architected systems and is willing to do the dirty work to ensure team standards are raised. They will also make decisions to optimize the team’s productivity, going the long way round if it helps make the code more scalable and robust.

Requirements

• At least 1+ year of programming experience in Python or C++
• Exceptional programmer, with high personal coding standards
• Strong understanding of Unix and git
• Ability to drive long-term projects independently and creatively
• Bonus points for experience with distributed systems and/or an interest in open-source software
• Exposure to or an interest in cryptocurrencies is a big plus

Benefits

• Competitive base salary & bonus
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Enormous opportunity to grow, learn and have an impact
• Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported
• Unique culture where you can fulfil your potential through collaboration and mutual respect

Salary: up to £150k + bonus

Summary

Unique in their field, this HFT fund has the lively, positive spirit of a start-up with the stability of a longer-established player. They hire exceptional talent in Maths, Physics and Computer Science, from across the trading, tech and start-up industries, to apply cutting-edge research to global financial markets.

Their crypto trading team is looking to hire a hybrid quant/dev, well-versed in Python, who can excel in the fast-paced, rapidly changing world of cryptocurrency.

In this role, you will be directly responsible for advancing the team’s trading footprint. Your work will include building and optimizing trading strategies; researching new protocols and datasources; designing and improving our research and trading systems; and collaborating with team members and others to advance the team’s dual mission of being the top crypto trader in the world and a major contributor in the crypto ecosystem.

The successful Python Engineer will appreciate cleanly architected systems and is willing to do the dirty work to ensure team standards are raised. You will also make decisions to optimize the team’s productivity, going the long way round if it helps make the code more scalable and robust.

Requirements

• 2+ years’ programming experience in Python
• Exceptional programmer, with high personal coding standards
• Strong understanding of Unix and git
• Ability to drive long-term projects independently and creatively
• Bonus points for experience with distributed systems and/or an interest in open-source software
• Exposure to or an interest in cryptocurrencies is a big plus

Benefits

• Competitive base salary & bonus
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Enormous opportunity to grow, learn and have an impact
• Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported
• Unique culture where you can fulfil your potential through collaboration and mutual respect

Compensation: Top of the market in HFT

Summary

Unique in their field, this HFT fund has the lively, positive spirit of a start-up with the stability of a longer-established player. They hire exceptional talent in Maths, Physics and Computer Science, from across the trading, tech and start-up industries, to apply cutting-edge research to global financial markets.

Their crypto trading team is looking to hire a Production Reliability Engineer who can excel in the fast-paced, rapidly changing world of cryptocurrency.

In this role, you’ll be proactively monitoring and supporting large-scale trading systems applications, as well as building and maintaining devops toolkit for the production trading system (config + process management, deployment, data collection, analysis, etc.). You’ll also work directly with traders and developers, communicating technology changes, managing incidents and solving problems.

The successful Production Reliability Engineer will have a rigorous, detail-oriented approach to operations, able to take ownership of difficult technical problems, and who enjoys the challenge of finding solutions.

Requirements

• 3+ years’ relevant experience in IT ops, such as DevOps, Linux System Engineering, or Network Engineering
• Strong skills in Python and shell scripting
• Degree in Computer Science (or related) or equivalent commercial experience
• Bonus points for C++ and/or crypto markets experience
• Exposure to networking concepts, such as routing, multicast, LLDP, VLAN tagging, ethernet, is a plus

Benefits

• Competitive base salary & bonus
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Enormous opportunity to grow, learn and have an impact
• Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported
• Unique culture where you can fulfil your potential through collaboration and mutual respect

Compensation: Top of the market in HFT

Summary

Unique in their field, this HFT fund has the lively, positive spirit of a start-up with the stability of a longer-established player. They hire exceptional talent in Maths, Physics and Computer Science, from across the trading, tech and start-up industries, to apply cutting-edge research to global financial markets.

Their crypto trading team is looking to hire a Front End Developer who is keen to share their knowledge with an enthusiastic and forward-thinking team.

In this role, you’ll work with internal users to understand their needs and build fast, informative, user-friendly React apps using robust, reliable code. These apps will monitor trading activities in real time and control complex automated systems. As a result, this role would suit someone who gets real satisfaction from developing the best front-ends that users love to engage with on a daily basis.

The successful Front End Engineer will be passionate about front-end development, always looking to improve by staying up-to-date with new advances in the Javascript/React space.

Requirements

• 5+ years’ hands-on programming experience in React & Redux, modern Javascript, HTML5 and CSS
• Strong coding skills; writing reliable, readable code and providing code review feedback is second nature
• Bonus points for experience with libraries for grids/charting/visualization, e.g. d3.js, ag-grid, React Charts, etc.
• UX design proficiency is a big plus

Benefits

• Competitive base salary & bonus
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Enormous opportunity to grow, learn and have an impact
• Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported
• Unique culture where you can fulfil your potential through collaboration and mutual respect

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

Summary

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

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

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

Skills and Experience Required

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

Benefits

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

Fantastic opportunity to join a leading software consultancy in London for a senior developer from any industry background. They’re looking for passionate developers, who are interested in solving various technical problems and challenges for their high profile clients stretching across the financial and public sectors. You’ll deliver these solutions with a focus on an agile approach and the use of engineering best practices to not only develop clients’ systems, but to develop your own skills too.

The role is based in their offices in the centre of London, but there may be the requirement to visit client sites in the UK and beyond (Covid restrictions allowing).

Requirements

• A Computer Science (or similar) degree from a top-tier university
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the desire to take on new challenges head-on
• Strong engineering fundamentals – as a tech-agnostic firm you can develop in and learn whatever languages you like
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience communicating with non-technical stakeholders
• The desire to not only pick up new languages but also to collaborate with other ideas to get the job done

An exciting start-up are looking for Senior Engineers to come and join their rapidly growing fully remote team. They use their AI to help SaaS companies optimise the pricing of their products to ensure the highest amount of revenue and customer retention as possible. The idea itself became a revenue-generating product in less than 6 months, and with experienced VCs on board (soon to be announced) and the support of Y Combinator, the potential for the firm to grow is endless.

Founded by ex-BlackRock data scientists, you’ll be joining engineers who have worked for the likes of Yandex, various FAANG companies and top-tier finance firms spread across the world in London, San Francisco, Russia and India. It’s a really exciting time to join, as they already have a strong product and investors on board, but there are also so many new aspects to build upon.

Requirements

• Strong Computer Science (or related) degree from a top-tier university
• Strong communication skills as the whole company is remote
• Excellent Python and SQL skills
• Experience using GCP and Kubernetes

Benefits

• Strong compensation and equity package
• Visa sponsorship wherever you need it in the world
• Fully remote
• Flexible working and flexible time off
• Healthcare: healthcare changes from country to country and they’ll ensure you have the cover you need wherever you are in the world!

Location: Chicago, with some WFH flexibility

Position: This is a great opportunity for a systems engineer to join one of the longest-standing and most profitable algo trading desks at this firm. This is a collaborative team where engineers are embedded with the researchers and traders.

This hire will be surrounded by cutting-edge technology and will responsible all aspects of the desks’ trading infrastructure. The team is looking for a problem-solver who can find new ways to gain edge through systems engineering, tuning and networking.

Requirements:

• Trading industry experience
• 5-7 years’ Linux
• Knowledge of network communications (TCP-IP, Multicast)
• Performance tuning
• Scripting in Bash, Python or Ruby

Summary: 

This is a fantastic opportunity for talented front end developers who are passionate about designing and deploying beautiful front ends, enjoyed by all who use them. If you thrive in a collaborative environment, this role would be perfect for you!

This expanding travel tech firm provides the travel booking industry with the products they use to search and sell flights, modernised for the 21st century. To create these stunning interfaces, they use React, Node, NextJS and Typescript (among others).

Joining a small, dynamic team, you will be contributing to the rebuilding of the infrastructure that underpins the travel industry. You will take pride in the quality of the code you produce and you will recognise the importance of truly understanding the customer’s needs from the outset.

Requirements:

• Strong React experience, building elegant, clean and intuitive products
• Sound understanding of and opinions on good engineering practices
• Outstanding communication skills – able to present information clearly and concisely
• Customer-led approach – able to empathise and determine the right solutions for their specific needs

Culture / Benefits:

• Competitive salary and profit share scheme
• Friendly, relaxed yet highly rewarding work environment
• Plenty of scope for personal and professional growth
• Work with the latest technologies on complex problems with real-world impact