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Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Culture / Benefits

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

Salary:  

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

Have you ever wondered how buildings like The Shard or The Gherkin are built? Our clients have revolutionized construction around the world to make the construction of iconic buildings easier and more digitalized. Through the use of computer vision and AI, buildings like the upcoming 22 Bishopsgate – which will be the UK’s second tallest building – are utilizing tech to aid the productivity of construction. The team are a proudly diverse community of creative minds, including architects, software engineers, designers and AI researchers dedicated not only to building the skyline of London, but the skyline of the future as well.

The Role

Working in London with their client base, you’ll be tasked with understanding and translating their needs into new software. You’ll also work with computer vision scientists to develop algorithms and software suitable for billion-pound construction projects.

As a full-stack engineer your role will be varied. You could be using either Python, configuring AWS-based stack or developing web apps using Vue.js or Node.js.

As one of the first engineers in the London office – you’ll have the responsibility of defining the culture of future engineers whilst you nurture the rapidly growing team.

Requirements

• You’re able to work independently and have a strong product mindset with the desire to build solutions that offer value to the user
• You’re excited by the prospect of taking computer vision from the lab to the real world in order to solve real-life problems
• You’re familiar with data structures, storage systems, cloud infrastructure, front-end frameworks, and other technical tools
• You have a strong engineering background or degree in computer science, maths, physics or software engineering

Desirable

• You’ve used Amazon AWS stacks
• You’re able to write code in either Python or Javascript (familiarity with modern front-end frameworks)
• You have experience in start-up cultures/environments

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity package
• Based in central London with flexible hours and health insurance – extra flexible if you have young children (or are planning to have children)
• Bi-annual company-wide Hack Week – take time off work to develop any projects you’ve been working on in your spare time, then show them off to your colleagues
• Grow with the company – take leadership courses so you can eventually manage your own team. Want to run your own workshop? They’ll set up the courses. Interested in AI and computer vision? Not only will you be working along side some of the best in the business but you could also be sponsored for a nanodegree through Udacity

Salary: CHF (Swiss Francs) 130,000 base + bonus

5 – 10 years of experience

Job Summary: A Systems (DevOps) position working closely with the traders, brokers and analysts at a global energy and commodities firm in their Geneva office.

Job Description:

Role:

You’ll be working closely with the traders, brokers and analysts to push an aggressive transformation to a better DevOps environment. The work is very greenfield; participating in the full development lifecycle from definition to design to delivery.

A DevOps position, you’ll use Jenkins, Docker and Kubernetes.

Client:

An energy and commodities company with 40 offices worldwide. Their primary business is the trading and distribution of energy products globally; trading over seven million barrels of crude oil per day. The scale of operations means they face tough technical challenges to build reliable, fast and scalable systems.

Skills and experience required:

• 4 years minimum as a DevOps or Systems engineer
• Experience with the likes of Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes and in cloud environments (AWS preferred)
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and communicate with the business

Benefits and incentives:

• Ownership of systems
• Facing off to key stakeholders, this is a high-exposure position
• Compensation will reflect the seniority and impact

Reference: Geneva commodities

Salary: CHF (Swiss Francs) 130,000 base + bonus

5 – 10 years of experience

Job Summary: A front-end React position working closely with the traders, brokers and analysts at a global energy and commodities firm in their Geneva office.

Job Description:

Role:

You’ll be working closely with the traders, brokers and analysts to build a new analytics platform. The work is very greenfield; after collecting the user’s requirements you’ll create prototypes before implementing them to the wider business.

A front-end position, you’ll be working in React Javascript with Redux.

Client:

An energy and commodities company with 40 offices worldwide. Their primary business is the trading and distribution of energy products globally; trading over seven million barrels of crude oil per day. The scale of operations means they face tough technical challenges to build reliable, fast and scalable systems.

Skills and experience required:

• Extensive experience with React; ideally version 16.8 and above
• Experience with Redux is beneficial
• Financial or commodities experience is beneficial
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and communicate with the business

Benefits and incentives:

• Ownership of systems
• Facing off to key stakeholders, this is a high-exposure position
• Compensation will reflect the seniority and impact

Reference: Geneva commodities

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

Summary:

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

Role:

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

Required Skills:

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

Perks:

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

Salary:

up to £140k base salary + annual bonus

My client is a tech-driven asset management and market-making firm, currently expanding all its London teams which build software designed and optimized for low-latency electronic trading from the ground up.

Benefits:

• They have a strong culture of learning and innovation. They host regular workshops where an expert in C++/ML community will come in to do a talk and they encourage your own personal development
• Work from home / flexi-working
• Great office with fully catered breakfast/lunch
• Amazing socials
• Market-leading base salaries in London + up to 100% bonuses
• Visa sponsorship available

Teams Hiring:

1. Market Data: building out high-performance market data-feed handlers and distribution system
2. Execution: algorithmic trading and execution and order management
3. Risk: designing and building cutting-edge next-gen risk platform

Requirements:

• Computer Science or STEM degree from a top global university
• 2 years’ experience with C++ on UNIX (Python desirable)
• Distributed systems
• Multithreaded application design
• TCP/IP Network protocol

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Highly proficient Python engineer with high performance computing experience wanted for a fantastic opportunity in the London team of this sports betting start-up. You’ll be working closely with the CEO, CTO and ML research team to design and build tools and frameworks for supporting strategy research and development.

Having developed a lot of their core platform infrastructure, they’re looking to expand their trading strategy research activity. The stack is Python-based, communicating with the core infrastructure written in Golang, by RPC. For cluster computation they use AWS EC2 and S3 together with Ray.

If you are intellectually curious, enjoy learning about new technologies and thrive on solving problems, this is for you.

Requirements

• Significant software engineering experience in Python
• Strong high performance computing: multiprocessing, IPC, comfortable profiling and debugging deep performance issues, distributed computing, queues, etc.
• Takes pride in engineering excellence and encourages best practice in others
• Strong degree in computer science (or similar) from a leading university
• Proficient on Linux platforms; knowledge of scripting languages
• Experience with the NumPy/SciPy stack/Cython & JIT compilation beneficial

Rewards and Incentives 

• Great base salaries, pension contribution & private health insurance
• Working in a small team of highly talented engineers
• Super relaxed atmosphere, working weekdays 10 – 6
• Regular team lunches and after work socials

London-based consultancy looking to upscale due to client demand is looking for a Technical Consultant in Java. In comparison to the huge corporate consultancies, our client puts employee happiness at the top of their priorities – you’ll be made to feel like a fabric of the company rather than just another cog in the wheel. This is further supported by the fact they will not take on clients if they feel it isn’t beneficial to their workforce. Their world-class software consultants design and build complex applications using cutting-edge technology for web, mobile and desktop. The role is in the London office but transfers to regional offices are considered after some time.

The Role

You’ll work throughout the development stack, from web apps to scalable low-latency back-ends. There are opportunities at all levels of seniority and can accommodate different areas of specialism if you’re eager to pick up new skills and expand your experience in the London office.

You’ll be obsessive about doing software engineering right first time and ultimately delivering great solutions – combining an agile approach with solid development.

They look for flexibility and a pragmatic approach as you work as part of a team between our office and also client site in London. In return you’ll be offered a variety in project types to ensure your role as a Java Consultant is always interesting and challenging.

Requirements

They’re more interested in meeting passionate technologists with potential, rather than looking for a specific skillset, but you will need to demonstrate:

• The ability to adapt quickly and solve problems efficiently
• Expertise in the fundamentals of Java
• Good Java design principles and good technical design skills

Knowledge of the following would be beneficial:

• Front-end frameworks, and a good knowledge of Javascript
• Server-side development for Java
• Practices in agile delivery, such as Scrum

London-based consultancy looking to upscale due to client demand is looking for a Technical Consultant in either Java, Web, C# or .Net. In comparison to the huge corporate consultancies, our client puts employee happiness at the top of their priorities – you’ll be made to feel like a fabric of the company rather than just another cog in the wheel. This is further supported by the fact they will not take on clients if they feel it isn’t beneficial to their workforce. Their world-class software consultants design and build complex applications using cutting-edge technology for web, mobile and desktop. The role is for the London office but transfers to regional offices are considered after some time.

The Role

You’ll work throughout the development stack, from web apps to scalable low-latency back-ends. There are opportunities at all levels of seniority and can accommodate different areas of specialism if you’re eager to pick up new skills and expand your experience in the London office.

You’ll be obsessive about doing software engineering right first time and ultimately delivering great solutions – combining an agile approach with solid development.

They look for flexibility and a pragmatic approach as you work as part of a team between our office and also client site in London. In return you’ll be offered a variety in project types to ensure your role is always interesting and challenging.

Requirements

They’re more interested in meeting passionate technologists with potential, rather than looking for a specific skillset, but you will need to demonstrate:

• The ability to adapt quickly and solve problems efficiently
• Expertise in the fundamentals of your preferred language
• Good OO design principles and good technical design skills

Strong knowledge of the following would be beneficial:

• Front-end frameworks, such as Angular or React, and a good knowledge of JavaScript
• Server-side development for Java, C#, .NET or Node
• Practices in agile delivery, such as Scrum

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

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

Primarily you will be designing and developing web applications using Node.js and Vue.js, but the nature of the company is such that you will have many opportunities to get involved with all parts of the business.

Core Requirements:

• Strong engineering background in Computer Science / Maths / Software Engineering / Physics or similar
• 3+ years’ experience of Javascript and familiarity with modern front-end frameworks, eg VueJS or React.JS
• Enthusiastic to take computer vision out of the lab and use it on real-life problems
• Keen product mindset and desire to build pragmatic solutions that provide genuine user value
• Experience of small start-up environments is a bonus

Benefits include:

• Competitive salary (< £90k) + generous benefits package (laptop, flexible working, health insurance)
• Wide range of career progression paths and online nanodegree sponsorship
• Be part of their bi-annual, company-wide Hack Week

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

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

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

Core Requirements:

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

Benefits include:

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

Summary:

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

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Summary:

My client is one of the world’s leading investment firms with multi-billion dollar assets under management and over 200 employees worldwide. Through continuous development and innovation, they optimise the investment process with sophisticated, proprietary technology and data sources at every level, delivering market-leading returns for over 20 years.

Role:

They are looking for a passionate, hands-on C++ developer, with a record of delivery and professional innovation, to join their current team of seven based in New York and London.

In this front office role, you will be responsible for the research, enhancement and innovation of algorithmic trading strategies. You have a deep understanding of high performance computing and experience of designing and implementing trading systems on a Linux platform.

Frequent contact with the global trading and quantitative research teams is required; therefore you will need to be confident when discussing/defending your contributions.

Requirements:

• 2-5 years commercial experience
• Advanced C++ on Linux
• Strong academic background in a STEM subject from a leading university
• Excellent communication skills when in contact with all levels of the organisation

Desirable Skills / Experience:

• Advanced Python on Linux for data intensive workloads
• Experience implementing real-time market data feeds and FIX protocol applications, preferably from an algorithmic trading perspective
• Experience building and maintaining multi-TB tick databases
• Interest in mathematical modelling, time series analysis and optimization techniques

Benefits:

• Strong base salaries with market-leading bonuses
• Innovative investment firm with sophisticated technology
• Truly collaborative culture
• Meaningful impact on profitability

Salary:

£90,000 + strong bonus

Summary

My client is one of the world’s largest producers of news; ingesting millions of news stories every day from external feeds and social media in order to keep their customers informed.

The Team

Engineers and researchers solving complex problems by identifying relevant information from real-time data so that internal and external customers can make swift financial decisions. They also provide advanced ways of accessing data, such as search, summarization, recommendations and natural language question answering and are widely involved in the larger data science community.

Responsibilities

• Write, test and maintain production-quality code – 60/40 split (coding/research)
• Design, experiment and evaluate algorithms, and models
• Publish research papers, and present findings in leading academic venues; attend industry conferences representing the company

Requirements

• 1+ years of experience in AI, NLP, ML, Optimization, or related fields
• 1+ years of experience programming in C++, Python or Java
• A master’s degree (PhD preferred) with industrial experience
• A quantitative background is advantageous
• Experience with YARN, Spark, Hadoop, Kubernetes or Docker is a plus

Benefits

• Close-knit team where you can have a huge impact
• Strong base salaries + bonus
• Flexible work environment
• Internal training
• Paid for conferences

Company:

This firm is a specialist provider of tailored solutions to institutional pension funds and global insurance companies. With over $3.6bn of assets under management, they insure the pensions of over 770,000 individuals.

They are looking for smart, quantitative, commercial, problem-solving-oriented, pragmatic candidates with the skills to deliver robust, high-performance software and quantitative analyses.

Position:

An opportunity exists for a Quantitative Analyst to join the Strats team based in London. Using your mathematical and scientific training, your focus will be the pricing and risk management of complex transactions.

Working closely with the traders and structuring teams, the successful QA will create financial products, advise clients, measure risk and identify market opportunities. If you enjoy working on large projects, developing cutting edge analytics and implementing production-quality pricing, analysis and risk management, this is the role for you.

Requirements:

• Excellence in applied programming skills – Python, C, C++ or other major languages
• Degree in Maths, Physics, Computer Science, Engineering or similar
• Advanced quantitative skills
• Experience in financial markets or keen interest to learn

Preferred:

• Knowledge of financial mathematics and stochastic calculus.
• Understanding of Fixed Income products and derivatives.
• Experience in creating and validating pricing and/or risk models for use in a financial services organisation.

Benefits:

• Market-leading base & bonuses
• Meritocratic work culture and environment

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering (or equivalent experience)
• Expert level experience programming in C/C++, 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

• Incredible base salary + bonus
• Vibrant, flexible and inspiring work environment with excellent rewards

Summary:

My client is a top player within the most competitive markets across the globe. Technology is core to their business and their success is due to being constantly ahead of the competition in both their adoption and execution of hardware, super fast infrastructure and ML techniques.

Role:

They are looking for a software developer to build out their fully automated trading systems which evolve continuously to ever-changing markets.

• Systems are built in Java, C++, Unix
• Great balance between the race to production and software quality and testability
• Daily production releases / short innovation cycle
• Rapid feedback loop on the software you build

Responsibilities:

• End-to-end development of the entire software stack for their cutting-edge trading systems
• Manage your own time and tasks
• Work alongside traders to implement complex strategies

Culture / 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

Requirements:

• Minimum BSc degree in computer science / mathematics or equivalent
• > 3 years’ experience
• Entrepreneurial, self-starter attitude
• Strong core Java
• Experience with C++ and Python is a plus
• Excellent knowledge of data structures and algorithms

Summary:

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

Role:

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

Required Qualifications:

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

Culture / Benefits:

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

Not your usual type of investment manager, this innovative company looks beyond traditional finance and uses data science and technology to discover value in markets worldwide and develop sophisticated trading models. Scientists, technologists and academics continually improve investment strategies, making more intelligent trading decisions and effectively managing risk.

This is a great opportunity for a Reliability Engineer with experience using Java, C++ or Go to help build and support their scalable infrastructure. You will gain exposure to off-the-shelf and open source systems (e.g. Jenkins, Grafana, Nagios, Zookeeper), and the opportunity to construct complex SQL queries.

The Team

Reliability Engineering is a versatile group of full stack engineers, at the front line maintaining and expanding the capabilities of the many and varied systems. They are a passionate and diverse team, who enjoy collaborating and learning from one another.

You will be developing tools to monitor the production environment, ensuring systems are resilient to failure; tools to automate manual processes and providing real-time solutions to challenges, while identifying root causes to avoid repetition.

Responsibilities

• Engage with software engineering teams on architectural design, reliability, performance, support issues and improvements
• Get involved in all aspects of software development of SRE-owned systems
• Analyze metrics to pinpoint faults and improve robustness and reliability of systems and applications
• Provide primary operational support for multiple large distributed software applications

Requirements

• Experience building and working on large-scale systems is essential
• 2+ years development-focused experience, with one or more high level languages, such as Java, C++ or Go
• High proficiency with one or more scripting languages, such as Python or Bash
• Working knowledge of UNIX/Linux systems
• Bachelor’s or Masters degree (or equivalent) in computer science or another highly technical, scientific discipline
• Proactive problem identification and resolution. Proven track record for automating process together with an algorithmic approach to solving problems
• Financial experience is a bonus, but not essential

Benefits

• Market-leading base salaries + bonus
• Work with numerous open source technologies
• Truly collaborative culture and growth opportunities throughout the firm
• Flexible work environment
• Internal training

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

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

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

Requirements:

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

Culture / Benefits:

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

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

Role

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary:

A leading financial institution are looking for a strong Java developer to join one of their key technology teams.

The successful engineer will play a key role in facilitating the growth of their commodities business, working directly with front-office teams and working across the full project lifecycle. You will be exposed to both technical and business elements of the fund’s trading operations, taking an active role in designing and implementing solutions, as well as building and improving trading applications.

Requirements:

• Strong Java development experience
• Practical Python knowledge beneficial
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
• Professional finance experience (Commodities a bonus)
• Excellent communications skills

Benefits and Incentives:

• Be part of a high-performing team and sit side-by-side with business stakeholders
• Take ownership of a diverse range of projects, using the latest technologies
• Strong compensation and benefits

Salary:

<£85,000

Summary:

A cutting-edge technology company are looking for a mid-level Javascript / front-end web engineer to join their core engineering team in London. The successful Front-End Web Developer will be using modern Javascript frameworks, including React.js and Vue.js, to build responsive, single-page applications in a highly agile, London-based team.

Requirements:

• Good understanding of computer science fundamentals
• Commercial experience with Javascript (React.js) and HTML/CSS
• Commercial experience building responsive single-page web applications

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits
• Cutting-edge front-end technology in agile London team

Summary:

A London-based start-up, using AI, ML and drones to create mapping software and 3D visualisation technology, are looking for a Python developer to join their agile engineering team. Working on bleeding-edge technology, creating real-time AI simulations and machine learning tools, the successful candidate will be using Python and the MEAN stack in a small engineering team of six in London.

Requirements:

• MSc/BSc in Computer Science, Maths or Physics, or relevant experience demonstrating solid understanding of core computer science principles
• Python development experience
• Interest in working for a small-scale (in-profit) start-up – team of 6 engineers currently

Benefits & Incentives:

• Competitive salary and stock options in London
• Work for an early-stage start-up already in profit
• Gain experience building real-world AI simulations in a small, highly agile (TDD) development environment

Summary:

A London-based financial software company is looking for machine learning research engineers to join its AI and Machine Learning group. The successful person will have both academic and commercial experience with machine learning research and natural language processing (NLP), and will be applying these techniques and models to some of the largest data-prediction problems in the industry.

Role:

• Build scalable machine learning tools, distributed clusters and models for NLP search
• Work closely alongside a software and ML engineering team on a global scale from London-based HQ
• Work on cutting-edge research to be published in the ACL

Requirements:

• PhD in Computer Science, Physics, Machine Learning, or relevant other quantitative field
• Experience with Natural Language Processing, search relevance, semantic web, data mining or artificial intelligence
• Experience with server architectures and distributed systems, preferably some engineering experience with an OO or functional language

Summary:

A London-based fintech is looking for a Java developer to join their technology team. The successful Java developer will be working on systems design and engineering, and building scalable distributed systems from scratch in Kotlin and Java. The successful candidate will be working in an agile, London-based team, alongside security engineers, front-end developers and designers, devops/SRE, testers and architects.

Responsibilities:

• Build scalable and multithreaded distributed systems in Java and Kotlin
• Solutions/ systems design and development, including software architecture and design
• Work closely with designers, testers, security engineers, network operations, devops, etc.

Requirements:

• Solid understanding of computer science and engineering fundamentals
• Software engineering experience with Java (or another JVM-based language) in an agile, commercial software environment

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Flexible working policy
• Work with agile technology team in a beautiful central London office
• Cutting-edge technology, including modern Java and functional programming with Kotlin

Well-backed medium-sized start-up looking for passionate and talented engineers to help build new products in London. Based in the cyber security and privacy market so applicants must feel strongly about protective security and individual privacy.

If you are passionate about the products you build and tackling big data problems, and you enjoy a fast-paced environment where you need to adapt quickly to solve deeply challenging technical issues, this is certainly for you.

Role:

• You’ll combine state-of-the-art tech with leading-edge algorithms to effectively tackle difficult data-security and data-anonymization problems
• Deliver results under pressure with rapidly evolving propositions, business needs and client demands
• Use experience in automated testing to perfect your own products to the highest standard

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s (or higher) in Comp Sci or a science or engineering discipline
• Knowledge of SQL
• Experience of building a software over its full lifecycle
• Strong experience of multithreading and concurrent programming.
• Experience of Python and being a team lead is also desirable

Benefits:

• Stock options
• Great holiday
• Tech packages
• Bike-to-work scheme
• Private medical insurance for you and your family

Summary:

Venture capitalist firm in London, with $1.5bn of assets, is seeking developers for data-driven approach to investing, with a goal to increase current transaction speed by 10 times.

Responsibilities:

• Manage own projects (from idea – launch)
• Use data to find investors, etc. within the European start-up ecosystem
• Focus on robustness of firm systems (85% test coverage now)

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of software development experience building great products
• Passion for start-ups/data-driven VC opportunities
• Experience with real-time data pipelines, PostgreSQL, Python 3 ideally, statistical data analysis/ML
• Degree in Computer Science or similar

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Flexible gym pass
• Regular socials

The Company:

A new-age engineering company, backed by the likes of NASA/BAE Systems. This company uses its technology to massively accelerate design and make inconceivable technologies possible. Phenomenal team already assembled from the likes of Google, Improbable, Microsoft, etc.

The Role:

You will be creating a software abstraction platform that will power the next 100 years of engineering design. A software platform that builds hardware for you. As an early hire you will be in a unique position to grow into technical leadership position and to have a large ownership over the developing tech.

Requirements:

• Minimum 2:1 grade STEM degree
• 2+ years’ experience
• Experience in low-latency systems
• Experience building complex distributed systems
• Full cycle experience
• Exposure to Big Data – Spark / Apache / Hadoop, etc. – a bonus

Benefits:

• Generous compensation
• Meritocratic working environment
• Autonomy over product
• Impactful work
• Flexible working

Salary:

Up to £130k

The Company

A dynamic, VC-backed data privacy start-up working with large organisations worldwide. Working with an ethical mindset, my client is looking for passionate and talented engineers who want to have a tangible, positive impact on society.

The Role

Working in a close-knit team with bright and talented people, you will combine state-of-the-art technologies with leading-edge algorithms to understand and tackle hard-data security and data anonymisation problems. You will be working in a positive, constructive and proactive environment, designing and building solutions.

Requirements:

• Minimum 2:1 grade STEM degree
• 3+ years’ experience
• Preferred language – Java
• Experience with other languages – Go, Rust, C++, Java, etc. – a bonus
• Strong experience and commitment to automated testing
• Experience building complex distributed systems
• Full cycle experience
• Exposure to Big Data (Spark / Apache / Hadoop, etc.) a bonus

Benefits:

• Generous compensation
• Meritocratic working environment

Summary:

Leading quant firm developing post-trade processing platform in London. This system is designed to store/analyze billions of transactions for regulatory/analytical purposes. This role allows the chance to learn various aspects of financial business functions also.

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

Role:

• Develop next generation post-trade system
• Use skills in custom Python-based data warehouse integration
• Work with business users and core team on requirements gathering and system design

Qualifications:

• 2+ years of Python experience/SQL and non-SQL DBs
• Sound skills in Rest Endpoints (Django/Flask), UIs, ReactJS, Javascript, Linux
• Degree in Computer Science or similar

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Social events
• Feel of a small start-up, with benefits of being part of a one of world’s leading quant trading firms

Summary:

Thriving tech firm opening new office in London for cloud-based digital platform allows developers the chance to work in capital markets and with global names. Their current tech stack is React/ Typescript/ Node.JS/ AWS but are open to applicants from any OO with a willingness to learn.

Qualifications:

• 4+ years’ experience in agile delivery teams
• Sound language skills in any of the following: Typescript/React/AWS/Node.JS/Java/C#
• Experience in process experience, e.g. TDD, CI/CD
• Degree in Computer Science or similar
• Worked in agile teams

Benefits:

• Flexible working
• Competitive base salaries + stock options
• Regular socials

The Company:

Award-winning fintech with a market-leading team of over 100 people across three continents that has been built out in less than a year. Their start-up nature allows employees to have a large say in technical decision-making and direction within the company.

The Role:

You will work directly with the Director of Product to build and deliver products efficiently and in line with business needs. An extremely high-impact role with an opportunity to have ownership over large parts of the codebase. Full stack engineers are preferable, but the client will also consider those with a speciality area: front-end / server-side / DevOps. The client is open to expertise in any language.

Requirements:

• Minimum 2:1 grade STEM degree
• 3+ years’ experience
• Preferred language – Python/Javascript (happy to look at any OO)
• Experience with other languages (Go/Rust/C++/Java, etc.) a bonus
• Exposure to Shell Scripting and UNIX
• Familiarity with CI/CD
• Some knowledge of deployment tools – Docker/Kubernetes

Benefits:

• WFH/flexible working opportunities
• Generous compensation
• Meritocratic working environment

Summary:

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits and Incentives:

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

Summary:

A globally leading, systematic hedge fund is looking for a C++ developer to join their London-based technology team. Working in the latest iteration of C++ (17), the successful developer will build highly scalable distributed systems from scratch to produce world-class market-making infrastructure and trading platforms. Working directly alongside traders and quant researchers, the successful candidate will be part of a London-based, agile technology team.

Requirements:

• BSc/MSc Computer Science, Maths, Physics, or relevant hard science subject
• C++ engineering experience
• Experience building multi-threaded, distributed or highly scalable, high-performance systems

Incentives and Benefits:

• Competitive salary and buy-side bonus structure
• Cutting-edge technology, including C++17
• London-based, agile technology team

Summary:

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Summary:

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Summary:

A British technology unicorn is looking for an Engineering Manager to join a London-based engineering team. The successful Engineering Manager will come from a software engineering and technical background, and will be building and leading cross-functional agile development teams.

Requirements:

• Experience recruiting and leading high-quality engineering teams
• Strong computer science fundamental knowledge (algorithms, data structures, system design)
• Architectural and software development experience

Benefits and Incentives:

• Work directly with the CTO in a scaling unicorn start-up
• Have a huge amount of autonomy, ownership and make a big impact to the roadmap and direction of the technical products
• Highly competitive salary and stock options

Summary:

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

The successful candidate will cover all aspects of software engineering; developing the desktop and web applications for the database management and graph visualisation tool and all other in-house web infrastructure.

Requirements:

• BSc Computer Science or Software Engineering
• 3+ years’ commercial experience
• Solid programming experience in web technologies: Javascript, Node.js, Vue/Angular/React, HTML, CSS
• Proven experience in developing desktop/dashboard apps and data visualisations

Benefits and Incentives:

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

Summary:

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

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits and Incentives:

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

Summary:

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

The successful candidate will be researching, developing and disseminating powerful applications within the organisation and the wider developer community, publishing your work via GitHub, papers, blogs, etc. and presenting it at conferences and meetups.

Requirements:

• BSc Computer Science or Software Engineering
• 2+ years’ commercial experience
• Solid programming experience in OOP languages
• Proven experience in research-driven development
• Proven experience in one or more advanced computer science fields: Natural Language Process, Machine Learning, Expert Systems, Networking Theory, and Robotics

Benefits and Incentives:

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

Summary:

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

The successful candidate will be both Software Engineer and Technology Evangelist. You will develop apps to demonstrate the power of the distributed knowledge graph while educating and empowering the pioneering community, through varied sources such as webinars/blog posts, community events and meetups.

Requirements:

• BSc Computer Science or other STEM subject or equivalent experience
• 3+ years’ commercial experience
• Programming experience in OOP languages
• Proven experience working with open-source communities
• Proven technical writing and public speaking skills (blogs, conferences, etc.)
• Enjoys frequent international travel

Benefits and Incentives:

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

The Client

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

The Role

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

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

Key Skills

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

Benefits

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

Job Summary

My client is a tech-first hedge fund based in the heart of London with views across the Thames. They are top of their field with offices across six locations worldwide and their flagship team based here in London. You will build and develop the trading infrastructure using cutting-edge tech, implementing higher performance trading algos, writing robust code and contributing to the long-term growth and profitability of the company.

The Company

A industry-leading London-based trading firm with groundbreaking success within the investment space. One of the largest hedge funds worldwide in assets under management. You will be joining a highly talented team, writing high-quality code – working closely with the Quant Research team in a very front office-based role. It is a mature environment that is transparent, collaborative and offers enormous opportunity to grow and have an impact on the business.

Requirements

• Experience with one or more of Python, Java or C++
• Experience in a front office environment is preferred, but not required
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, robust code
• Degree in a STEM subject from a top university

Benefits

• Diverse tech stack with access to greenfield projects
• Strong salary and market-leading bonuses
• Regular social events and company holidays, competitive compensation, generous holiday allowance, health services and other flexible benefits
• Flat-structured company with ‘no attitude’ culture

The Company

Series A-funded VC-backed London-based tech start up that is using LiDAR and drone technology to develop accurate real time simulations. Their product is used to assist their clients in delivering efficient solutions to geographical issues.

Looking for talented front and back end developers (any OO) that are required to analyse, design and deliver new and existing features.  Developing high performance scalable solutions using large data sets. The ideal candidate will have prior experience developing microservices and modular architecture, RESTful APIs and spatial algorithms.

Requirements

• 2+ years professional experience
• Minimum 2:1 Bachelor’s degree in STEM subject from top university
• Willing to work fluidly between research and development teams in growing start-up environment
• MEAN stack is advantageous
• Interview in any OO familiarity, with Python and GO advantageous but not required
• Experience with 3D web technologies is advantageous, e.g. WebGL and ThreeJS

Benefits

• Good base salaries
• Stock
• Unlimited holiday
• MacBook Pro and add-ons
• Unlimited snacks and Deliveroo when working late

Unable to sponsor visa

You will be involved in the complete development lifecycle, working with large amounts of data on complex software projects, and ideally you will have experience working in multiple languages in an agile environment.

You should expect to create new designs and maintain existing applications; with a focus on performance and stability in a dynamic environment working with the latest technology.

Design, develop and test real-time software for low-latency algorithmic trading, risk management and trade reporting.

You could be creating applications in C++ ultra-low latency to create trading strategies, or supporting the core business by creating high-performance traceable systems.

Benefits

• Market-leading salaries and strong bonuses
• Good company culture; flexible working

Requirements

• Minimum 2:1 degree in STEM subject from a top university
• High level of proficiency in C++
• Experience with low-level C, Java, Python or other OO language is advantageous, but not required
• 3+ years commercial experience
• Parallel and multithreading
• Experience building a software product, full lifecycle
• Experience working with financial system and/or in start-up environments
• Track record delivering complex software projects

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

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

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

Responsibilities 

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

Requirements

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

Rewards and Incentives 

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

Highly proficient C++ programmer with great communication skills wanted for a unique opportunity in one of London’s most exciting hedge funds. Small team of 30 exceptionally talented quant developers, building cutting-edge technology, implementing the full stack of trading infrastructure and algorithms to build high-performance, highly reliable programs in C++ and Python/Cython in a Linux environment.

You would be working on the full stack of trading infrastructure; from idea generation all the way through to programming and trading implementation. This is a revolutionary way of working in hedge funds and is an exciting prospect for any gifted aspirational developer/engineer.

Responsibilities:

• Using leading-edge technologies in C++ and Python/Cython
• Design and implement full stack of trading
• Work on complex computational and data-related problems
• Implementing automated multi-asset trading
• Develop visualisations for experimental training
• Building machine learning models

Requirements:

• Significant programming experience in C++ / Python
• Worked on multi-thousand line coding projects
• Strong degree in computer science (or similar) from a top university
• Knowledge of data structures and algorithms
• Ability to write high quality code

Rewards and Incentives:

• Great pay and bonus scheme
• Working in a small team of highly talented quant developers
• Direct business impact
• Work on the full stack of trading infrastructure
• Amazing offices with views of the London skyline
• Open plan office with free breakfast, snacks, music room, games room, yoga sessions, gym

Summary:

This role is within a London-based start-up who have built the world’s fastest data management platform. They are looking for a talented JavaScript/TypeScript developer to join the platform team working on the JavaScript SDK,  currently written in TypeScript.

The JavaScript SDK operates as the main interface to the platform, which is deployed on GCP and built using Scala and Haskell. It connects hundreds of millions of users to the platform and sends billions of events a day.

They’re currently focused on building a data management platform for publishers, but, long-term, their mission is to power data processing for the next generation of devices/sensors. They want to change the conversation from cloud computing to edge computing for operationalising data-driven products.

Requirements​:

• Experience of the web platform
• TypeScript experience or a keen interest to work in it
• Experience in working with RESTful APIs
• A broad understanding of software concepts with the ability to grasp new ones quickly

Benefits:

• Competitive base salary + incredible benefits package, including pension, generous parental leave policy and weekly lunches
• Stock options (you’ll own a piece of the pie)
• Fully stocked kitchen and a technology budget to spend as you like
• Extensive training and development opportunities

Summary:

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

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

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

Responsibilities:

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Summary:

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

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Summary:

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

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

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Data privacy start-up looking for a back-end engineer with passion for building great products, as well as immersing themselves in, and solving big hard data. Ideally need to be adaptable and comfortable being thrown in at the deep end of technical problems. Caring about the quality of your code is vital – must take pride in your products and use automated testing to show attention to detail.

Team player key too; ability to find problems and fix them with others rather than complaining about them. Keen to both learn from and help others – much rather have the team be successful than just yourself.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in computer science or engineering science discipline
• Experience of building software from one end of its life to the other
• Highly skilled in Java
• Knowledge of SQL and similar tech
• Ability to deliver while under pressure

Desirable:

• Knowledge of Python
• Team-leading experience
• Enterprise development experience
• Experience of AWS and other cloud platforms

Benefits:

• Lucrative stock options due to their accelerated growth in London
• Private medical and life insurance, extended to your family
• 30 days’ holiday
• Bike to work scheme, ideal for central London location

The Company:

You will be joining a fast-paced, talented team, writing high-quality code in one of the most prestigious technology teams in the hedge fund space. It is a transparent, collaborative environment and offers enormous opportunity to grow and have an impact on the business. Ultra-low latency and super exciting projects.

The Role:

You will devise new research strategies, implement high-quality robust code and contribute to the long-term growth and profitability of the company.  You will use ML over large data sets and mathematical models to improve strategies in a live trading environment. From the abstract interface to step-by-step algorithms, your work will be exciting and varied. 2018/19 was a record-breaking year for them; now is a perfect time to join as they expand their engineering and quant teams.

Requirements:

• Minimum 2:1 grade STEM degree from top university
• 3+ years’ experience
• Preferred language: C++ (also happy for candidates to come from a solid Java background)
• Front office experience preferable (not essential)
• A passion for low-latency code and exciting projects
• Experience in Network Acceleration / optimisation (proprietary drivers / kernel bypass) is beneficial

Benefits:

• Industry-leading compensation / generous bonuses
• Meritocratic working environment
• Up to 30 days’ holiday allowance, health services and other flexible benefits

Salary:

Market-leading compensation + bonuses

Location: City of London

Salary: £150,000 – £300,000

Client:

You will be working for a Tier 1 investment bank, within a high-profile technical team, building the best infrastructure in the industry. The team develops enterprise systems to support Equities, Fixed Income, Commodities and Investment Banking.

The role:

You will be part of a small team of 3 – 5 like-minded Linux C/C++ developers. This role is very technical and hands-on; taking ownership whilst designing, coding and testing.

You will be developing low-latency, high-performance electronic trading applications and you will be part of a global strategic low-latency algo trading revamp. This is an algo infrastructure developer role working on the OMS for algo systems.

Skills and experience required:

• Fantastic C/C++ skills on UNIX from a fund or bank
• Understanding of front office flows
• Deep knowledge of data structures and algorithms
• Good communication skills
• Experience developing real-time, performance-critical, large-scale systems

Benefits and incentives:

• Work with some of the best in the industry
• Great comp package
• Fantastic name to have on your CV

Job Summary: A trading systems developer position, working directly alongside the CTO, at a systematic fund manager based in central Geneva, overlooking the river.

Job Description

Client:

An asset management firm based in Geneva, they have the ethos of a start-up, and specialise in alternative asset classes with a significant presence in FX markets. Their objective is to research and implement trading strategies that make money for their clients.

Role:

Working closely with the CTO, you’ll join a talented team of researchers, engineers and traders, developing trading APIs, back-testing, reporting and monitoring tools to enable efficient strategy implementation.

The successful developer will also design and develop low-latency trading systems and build fundamental libraries for the research team, optimising performance and development of infrastructure.

Skills and Experience Required:

• 3+ years commercial experience .NET development in C# or F# is essential
• Strong programming skills and good understanding of CompSci fundamentals – algorithms, data structures, complexities, etc.
• Degree in a quantitative subject – e.g. Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, Engineering – from top tier university
• Excellent communication skills – with fantastic written and spoken English
• EU/Swiss citizenship or existing permit to work in Switzerland

Benefits and Incentives:

• Competitive salary
• Generous holiday allowance
• Huge potential for growth and increased responsibility
• Supportive and friendly working environment in an ergonomic office
• Relocation assistance provided

Salary:

120,000 CHF base

Summary:

• My client is a sports and leisure start-up launched in 2016, building an online marketplace for endurance sports
• Backed by investors such as Serena Williams, Usain Bolt and Paula Radcliffe
• With offices in San Francisco and London, they are an ambitious team motivated by a shared passion for helping people discover and take part in life-changing challenges

Benefits:

• Fantastic benefits package, strong base salaries, with valuable stock options
• Private health Insurance, race entry contributions, gym membership, strong pension and holiday allowance
• Very sociable company, regular organised socials and team runs

Skills & Experience Required:

• 3+ years’ experience
• BA/BS degree in Computer Science (or equivalent)
• Looking for 2 front-end/full stack engineers; experience in React/Node.js/GraphQL/Python required
• You’ll be working across the whole stack: React, Typescript, Node, GraphQL, Redis, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Docker – all backed by AWS (inc. Lambda)

They are on the lookout for talented, enthusiastic people to join their team; if you feel you are a good match or are interested in a general chat about the tech market, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

The Client

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

The Role

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

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

Requirements

• 8+ years’ commercial experience in a front office tech role at a buy-side firm
• STEM education from a top university (combined Computer Science/Maths would be ideal)
• Solid coding abilities in Python or any other OO language
• Experience with Equities trading technology is a bonus

Benefits

• Working with an extremely talented team of software developers and quant researchers
• £120 – 150k base salary + discretionary bonus of ~40-50%
• Relaxed, dress-down office
• Good work-life balance, standard hours (9-6), WFH, etc.

Summary:

My client is a high-growth b2b SaaS start-up that uses leading data-capture technologies – including drones – to create digital replicas of real-world locations.

Currently they are a team of 30 across London and San Francisco with big growth plans for the coming 12 months. Their platform has already supported over £3.5bn in infrastructure builds, helping clients automate and digitise previously manual decision-making.

They are looking for a Back-End Engineer to work alongside a world-leading technical team, developing microservices and APIs to support simulated realities that improve the way users interact with 3D spatial data on cloud platforms.

Requirements:

• Experience as a back-end or full stack developer building APIs to provide commercial solutions
• Evidence of working in multiple languages – ideally experience with Go (current system built with a MEAN stack)
• Strong academic background (from leading university) in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or Physics – or equivalent
• Familiarity with 3D web technologies, such as WebGL and Three.JS, is a bonus

Benefits

• Competitive salaries, flexible working and unlimited holiday
• Ongoing career development and training to help candidates meet their professional goals
• Work for an early stage start-up that is already profitable

The Client

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

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

The Role

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

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

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

Key Skills

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

Benefits

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

Are you:

• super smart, super driven and just a little bit different from the norm?
• looking to join a small, dynamic and friendly team?
• willing to go out of your comfort zone to deliver greatness?

If so, this is the perfect time to join this profitable start-up, revolutionising the recruitment process with their innovative hiring platform.

Currently 40-people strong, 12 of whom are tech, they are accelerating their expansion and need exceptional developers keen to slot right into this highly collaborative, supportive and agile team.

The Role:

You will be part of a growing product development team, continuously building real features for real users on the platform (both candidates and employers).

They are interested in hearing from applicants from a whole range of technical backgrounds and experience; you will have the opportunity to use your initiative to maintain and grow the platform and codebase, employing the latest tools and techniques.

Requirements:

• Experience with front-end frameworks like React, web services and modern web applications is important
• Experience in ES6+ or an equivalent modern functionally-capable language
• Experience at start-ups is a real benefit
• Solid design principle fundamentals

Benefits:

• Have an impact in shaping a business still in start-up mode
• Strong base salaries + stock options + pension
• Extra perks including: Sanctus mental health coaching, regular team lunches and beers after work
• Flexible working, unlimited holiday and learning allowance, with room to grow your career
• Fun, smart team in central London office space

Job Summary

My client is an industry-leading quant trading firm at the top of their field, with offices across six locations and their HQ based in the heart of London with views across the Thames.

You will devise new research strategies, implement high-quality, robust code and contribute to the long-term growth and profitability of the company. 2018 was a record-breaking year for them; now is a perfect time to join as they expand their engineering and quant teams.

The Company

A market-leading London-based trading firm achieving groundbreaking success within the quant space. One of the largest hedge funds worldwide in assets under management – over $30 billion.

You will be joining a highly talented team, writing high quality code – working closely with the Quant Research team in a very front office-based role. It is a mature environment that is transparent, collaborative and offers enormous opportunity to grow and have an impact on the business.

Requirements

• Experience with one or more of Python, Java or C++
• Experience in a front office environment is preferred, but not required
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, robust code
• Degree in a STEM subject from a top university

Benefits

• Strong salary and industry-leading bonuses
• Regular social events and company holidays, competitive compensation, generous holiday allowance, health services and other flexible benefits
• Flat-structured company with ‘no attitude’ culture

Summary

High-performance, low-latency C++ developer role in a technology and data-driven global investment management firm. They use rigorous scientific research to design and build in-house cutting-edge systems, from intraday trading platforms to large-scale data analysis and compute farms.

The Role

Develop and maintain front-to-back trading infrastructure for global frameworks for algorithmic trading, real-time risk management, market connectivity, trade reporting and trade surveillance.

Collaborate closely with traders and researchers to build and maintain some of the world’s lowest latency execution systems.

Take ownership of core elements of the technology, scaling and preparing for global use.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Exceptional C++ on Linux
• Experience working on high-performance applications

Perks

• Market-leading salaries and incredible bonus scheme
• Highly collaborative environment – lots of internal mobility, not siloed into one team
• Impactful work

Salary:

£120k + bonus

Job Summary

My client is looking for a lead engineer / architect to propel their business forward and provide technical direction to a team of six junior developers. You will be working alongside the CTO/CEO in a high-performance, low-latency environment. The projects are greenfield, the system is revolutionary, and the tech is cutting-edge.

You will be tasked with delivering projects, taking ownership, guiding, with the strategic decisions of the company, to an end goal to expand the company and become VP of Engineering.

The technical mentorship from the CTO/CEO is second-to-none and will develop the successful applicant into an expert in this field.

The Company

Formed a couple of years ago by three leading HFT minds, their aim is to revolutionise the crypto markets. They are a fintech focused on algo trading in the blockchain space; providing liquidity to top exchanges, platforms and projects, but their projects don’t stop at providing liquidity…

Requirements

• 5+ years experience in a high performance C++ team
• Architectural experience whilst delivering critical projects
• Exposure to low-latency systems, ideally in the HFT/Market making space
• Ideally with previous leadership experience, but not critical

Benefits

• Competitive base salary + strong bonus
• The best equity package I have ever seen
• Greenfield projects, where tech comes first (no legacy systems)
• An opportunity to lead an exceptionally talented team and join a high growth fintech at its early stage
• Fun, ambitious, meritocratic environment

Salary:

Up to £110k base + bonus + stock

• My client is a B2B SaaS start-up which creates digital duplications of real-world locations using data-capture technologies on drones. These produce an accurate 3D image which can be used for surveying, real-time reporting and real-world AI simulations – such as self-driving cars
• The company is teaching computers how to understand the real world by simulating realities – turning the physical world into a digital environment
• Having just received one of the largest seed rounds in Europe, they are looking for developers to help embark on the next stage of their growth
• You will be working alongside the technical team of innovators and technologists, creating new solutions and helping architect the platform infrastructure that improves the way in which users interact with 3D spatial data on cloud platforms

Skills & Experience Required:

• 3+ years’ experience in a software development role
• Computer Science, Software Engineering or Physics-related degree
• Great communication skills and the ability to work both independently and as an excellent team player

Benefits:

• Strong competitive salary + stock
• Flexible working
• Unlimited holiday
• Sociable team, with happy-hour Fridays, and breakfast, drinks and snacks provided

They are on the lookout for exceptional talent to join their team; if you feel you are a good match or are interested in a general chat about the tech market, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Tweets and posts, comments and character limits: the internet has completely changed the way in which we write. Documents are no longer static prose written on a screen; they are living sets of structured data.

This start-up’s platform integrates document editing, distribution, indexing and collaboration, together with bespoke tools for the specific industries they service. They find inspiration in the tools that software engineers build for themselves and want to bring them to the legal and finance industries.

Being a web-based product, most of their code is built in Typescript. Their front-end is built with React and MobX, and their back-end runs on Node.js with a PostgreSQL database. The platform is also cloud-based and deployed on AWS.

Requirements:

• 5+ years’ experience
• Experience with a strongly-typed language – ideally Typescript – but happy with Java, C# or Scala
• AWS or other cloud experience
• Distributed systems
• Node.js ecosystem is also a bonus

Benefits:

• Have an impact in shaping a business: they have a blank slate, help them create an engineering function which is not only building truly exciting things but is also a fun place to be!
• Collaborative and transparent culture – feel empowered to come up with your own ideas and actually make them happen
• Stock options
• Flexible working – when you want, where you want!
• Regular team socials

Salary: £80k – 120k base + stock

Job Summary

My client is a tech-focused market-maker based in the heart of Amsterdam. They are looking for exceptional engineers to join an elite team of FPGA hardware and software engineers to design and develop ultra-fast trading systems. You will own end-to-end development while implementing new low-latency techniques. You will help develop their hardware platform producing super-reliable high-speed digital designs.

The Company

An industry-leading Amsterdam-based trading firm with groundbreaking success within the high frequency trading space. You will be joining a highly talented team helping redefine the evolution of their trading systems. It is a mature environment that is transparent, collaborative and offers enormous opportunity to grow and have an impact on the business.

Requirements

• Degree in a STEM subject from a top university, preferably in Electronic Engineering or Computer Engineering
• Experience designing/building FPGAs using VHDL, Verilog, or System Verilog
• Experience with 10GB networking and networking protocols (TCP/UDP)
• Experience with high-performance networking stacks on FPGAs and multi-gigabit transceivers
• Willingness to understand how the systems you will build align with trading activities

Benefits

• Strong salary and market-leading profit-sharing structure
• Regular social events and company holidays, fully paid first-class travel, generous holiday allowance, premium-free pension and other flexible benefits
• Flat-structured company with ‘no attitude’ culture
• Relocation packages

Job Summary

My client is a tech start-up based in the heart of London. They are looking for strong front-end engineers with meticulous detail to develop and maintain a robust product with exceptional aesthetics. This is an extremely high-impact role and a great opportunity to be instrumental in defining the product vision, as well as having ownership over large parts of the codebase.

2018 was a record-breaking year for them, now is a perfect time to join as they expand their engineering teams.

The Company

They are at early stages, with an exceptional tech team residing from Palantir, Google and Uber, looking at huge growth potential. You will be joining a highly talented team writing high-quality code, working closely with the Director of Product and the product team. It is a mature environment that is transparent, collaborative and offers enormous opportunity to grow and have an impact on the business.

Requirements

• Experience with React (ideally) or similar front-end frameworks (Vue/Angular)
• Experience with Javascript and integration with GraphQL APIs
• Ability to write great front-ends and a keen eye for detail in UI/UX
• Degree in a STEM subject from a top university

Benefits

• Strong salary + industry-leading bonuses
• Regular social events and company holidays, competitive compensation (generous holiday allowance, health services and other flexible benefits)
• Flat-structured company with ‘no attitude’ culture

The Company:

As a technology and data-driven firm, my client designs and builds their own cutting-edge systems, from high-performance trading platforms to large scale data analysis and compute farms. Offices in New York, London and Singapore.

The Role:

Join a small team of world-class quantitative developers, working directly with the quantitative researchers to design, implement, deploy and use software for research and trading. The candidate must have a strong work ethic, be enthusiastic to work on the bleeding edge of technology, and have the drive to push through complex initiatives.

Requirements:

• 2+ years in industry working with Python, C++ and standard libraries
• Uni degree 2:1 (or above) in Computer Science/Maths (or similar)
• Exposure to Risk or Commodities
• Database experience

Salary:

Highly competitive + bonus

The Company:

As a technology and data-driven firm, my client designs and builds their own cutting-edge systems, from high-performance trading platforms to large scale data analysis and compute farms.

The Role:

Design, develop and test real-time software for low-latency algorithmic trading, risk management and trade reporting.

Requirements:

• Undergrad degree 2:1 (or above) in a degree with high mathematical and computing content
• 3+ years C/C++ development experience on Linux
• 3+ years understanding of code optimization and high performing applications
• Python, SQL and/or scripting experience considered a plus

Salary:

Strong base + lucrative bonus

Summary:

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

The Role:

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

Requirements:

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

Perks:

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

Salary: Competitive, strong bonus potential.

Summary

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

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

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary:

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

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits and Incentives:

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

Summary:

A cyber security firm with an emphasis on big data privacy, based in London. Focusing on developing software which allows the data-mining and analysis of large databases to be carried out safely without danger of compromising GDPR.

They are looking for a London-based back-end engineer who takes enormous pride in developing their own code as well as tackling big data problems. The ideal candidate will have a constructive and proactive approach to problem-solving, as the prospective team is very close-knit in a beautiful location.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in a STEM subject
• Highly skilled in Java, including experience of concurrent programming and multithreading
• Experience of building software in Java from the initial design to the enhancement and support of the product – including experience and commitment to automated testing
• Ability to deliver while under pressure from evolving business needs as well as client demands

Benefits:

• Lucrative stock options due to their accelerated growth in London
• Ability to choose both phone and Apple Mac that suits your needs
• Private medical and life insurance, extended to your family
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, surrogacy and adoption packages
• 30 days holiday
• Bike to work scheme, ideal for central London location

Summary:

A data privacy start-up headquartered in London helping clients, such as the NHS, to use data assets safely and ethically. Their technology platform contributes tangible, positive impacts to society by enabling companies to access maximum data, whilst prioritising consumer data privacy.

They are looking for technically experienced Java developers to work with the team to design and architect solutions, choose technologies, implement and ensure quality.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar
• Skilled in Java with experience of concurrency/multithreading
• Experience working with distributed systems
• Ability to communicate well with others
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (such as Amazon AWS) is a bonus

Benefits:

• Regular whole-company lunches, Friday beers and socials
• Stock options
• Pension contributions
• Private medical insurance

Salary: Competitive + stock options

Summary:

A leading hedge fund with six trading arms, putting an emphasis on the importance of technology fundamentals. They are looking for a developer to help build an algorithmic trading platform initially focused on the equity markets. As a greenfield project, there are many opportunities to make a difference and gain valuable experience within the world of algorithmic trading.

They are looking for a highly skilled Java developer, ideally with an understanding of financial markets.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar
• Highly skilled in Java, with proficiency in Python a bonus
• Proficient working on both Linux and Windows platforms
• Ability to communicate well with others
• Experience in Cash Equities is highly advantageous

Benefits:

• Daily lunch allowance
• Opportunities for internal mobility
• Work from home opportunities
• Strong bonuses

Summary:

My client is a Tier 1 IB looking to expand their world-class, ultra-low latency Market Making team.

They’re looking for a candidate with experience in performance-sensitive code and a deep understanding of algorithms and threading implications.

Requirements:

• 4+ years’ experience
• Bachelor’s (or higher) in Computer Science from a top university
• Deep knowledge of C++
• Strong experience working with low latency software engineering
• Experience in finance a benefit

Benefits:

• Competitive Salary: >£100k
• Collaborative and flexible working environment with excellent rewards

Summary:

My client is a Tier 1 IB looking to expand their team for the next phase of a greenfield project, addressing a completely new market.

They’re looking for a full stack developer with excellent Java skills who would like to be part of a groundbreaking team.

Requirements:

• 2+ years’ experience
• Bachelor’s (or higher) in Computer Science
• Implementation skills with Java and J2EE
• Strong understanding of CSRF, XSS and CORS for browser / native clients
• Advanced experience with Apache Kafka a bonus

Benefits:

• Competitive Salary: >£100k
• Collaborative and flexible working environment with excellent rewards

Summary

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

Summary:

This international firm are seeking SREs to work on their OTC platform with a $500bn daily trading volume – one of the largest fixed-income platforms globally. This team lives within application engineering teams, and, through automation, cuts out manual operational tasks. From the get-go, SREs contribute to application design to meet the demanding stability and availability needs of the application.

Advanced tech from this firm improves price discovery and trade workflows whilst enabling large scale for over 2000 clients internationally.

Requirements:

• STEM degree
• 2+ years in SRE/DevOps role maintaining critical services
• Experience in Python, C++, NodeJS or Java
• Historical skills of exemplary documentation of work

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Tech hub location
• Renowned award-winning OTC trading platform
• Start-up culture in an established firm

Summary:

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

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

Responsibilities:

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

Qualifications:

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

Benefits:

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

Summary:

A global investment management firm trading across a broad range of asset classes, currently in the process of establishing a presence in Asia’s financial market. They attribute their success to the integral role played by developers who design and develop the cutting-edge systems that are indispensable to their profitability.

They are looking for advanced C++ engineers to work on the automated trading platform; designing, developing and maintaining a full stack, including network communication, exchange connectivity, risk controls and trading strategy APIs.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar
• Highly skilled in C++ development (5+ years’ experience)
• Knowledge of UNIX operating systems, preferably Linux
• Ability to design and develop real-time software for low-latency trading
• Experience with exchange connectivity/market data handling for Equities, FX or Fixed Income Products

Benefits:

• Direct business exposure
• Opportunity to relocate to Singapore
• Competitive base salary + performance-related bonuses

JVM tuning/garbage collection/memory management, multithreading, concurrency, distributed computing

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

Responsibilities include:

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

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

Requirements:

• Minimum Bachelor’s (or equivalent) degree in Computer Science or similar from top university
• Commercial core Java experience minimum 1 year
• React, JavaScript, Angular or similar
• SQL/RDMBS
• Scripting languages, Python & Big data exp.
• Financial experience not required

Benefits:

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

Unable to sponsor visas.

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

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

This role will involve contributing to the development of critical infrastructure components and models over a wide set of application domains.

You will work with the team’s senior strategists and developers to drive innovation in connection to the fund’s electronic execution platform, risk analysis tools and the ongoing development of the research platform.

Core Requirements:

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

Tier 2 visa sponsorship is available.

One of the fastest growing tech companies of 2019 is recruiting for talented Java / Big Data engineers to work on their Data Privacy / Anonymisation product – working on concurrent Java programming & the latest Big Data tech.

They are building out their revolutionary data privacy software that enables large institutions – from High Street banks to the NHS – to safely and ethically utilise their vast amounts of data for analysis, research and machine learning.

You will join a strong team of over 40 engineers from the likes of Google, Amazon, Palantir & Microsoft, based in Central London.

Core Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science / Maths / Physics (or other STEM subject)
• Strong experience in Java 8 or above
• 1+ yr commercial experience
• Experience / interest in the latest big data tech, such as: Hadoop, Spark, Apache, Hive, Cassandra, etc.

Benefits include:

• Competitive Salary: <£90k
• Stock options
• 30 days holiday

Tier 2 visa sponsorship available.

Summary:

This innovative start-up addresses world problems through their purpose-driven approach to knowledge engineering. They are hiring exceptional engineers to work in cloud environments to build distributed databases which provide knowledge engineering tools for developers to easily leverage knowledge representation when building complex systems. The tech stack is any OO, but includes Java, Cassandra, Python and Hadoop.

The exciting opportunity to work in this area allows developers to join an extremely high calibre of employees at a high revenue-generating start-up, and the goal is to create the most intelligent database of the generation.

Responsibilities:

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

Qualifications:

• 3+ years working as a software engineer
• Solid skills in OOP languages
• Experience in distributed systems/cloud environments
• Comp Sci degree

Benefits:

• Excellent stock options
• Huge amount of autonomy in role
• Flexible hours
• Open sourced environment

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

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

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

No visa sponsorship

Summary:

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

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

Responsibilities:

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

Qualifications:

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

Benefits:

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

A global trading firm that made over $100 million profit is looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer/SRE to join their London office to work on trading infrastructure. You will be working with talented and passionate developers using cutting-edge technologies.

They are looking for quick thinking and effective communicators to work on operational and project-based work throughout the company. Ensuring that systems are resilient to failure and working on applications, market data tools and automation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s (or higher) degree in Computer Science-related subject
• Minimum 3 years software development / extensive personal projects
• Strong Linux/Unix
• AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
• Experience with C++/Java/Python/Go
• Financial experience not required

Benefits

• Market-leading compensation
• Relaxed dress code
• Social events and company holidays, competitive compensation, generous holiday allowance, health services and other flexible benefits

Visa

Tier 2 transfer available

Summary:

My client is an award-winning digital agency who consistently punch above their weight. Notable accolades include Chartered Institute of Marketing awards and features in Wired and The Guardian.

They’re looking for a senior software engineer to lead an exciting and young team, using PHP/React/node.JS, as well as AWS, Docker and Kubernetes.

Requirements:

• 4+ years’ experience as either a backend or full stack developer
• Bachelor’s (or higher) in STEM from a top university
• Experience with PHP, React and node.JS
• DevOps experience – Linux, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
• Designing, building and shipping microservices
• The Twelve-Factor App methodology
• Leading code reviews and pair programming
• Stakeholder relations

You aren’t expected to have experience with all of these technologies, rather they are an indication of what will be used on the job.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Flexible working
• Bike-to-Work scheme

Summary:

My client is an award-winning digital agency who consistently punch above their weight. Notable accolades include Chartered Institute of Marketing awards and features in Wired and The Guardian.

They’re looking for a software engineer to work within an exciting and young team, using PHP/React/node.JS, as well as AWS, Docker and Kubernetes.

Requirements:

• 1+ year experience as either a backend or full stack developer
• Bachelor’s (or higher) in STEM from a top university
• Experience with PHP, React and node.JS
• DevOps experience – Linux, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes

You aren’t expected to have experience with all of these technologies, rather they are an indication of what will be used on the job.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Flexible working
• Bike-to-Work scheme

Summary

This is a technology and data-driven firm who have designed and built cutting-edge algo-trading systems and large-scale data analysis and compute farms. They have great work-life balance, dress-down policy and foster an atmosphere of collaboration. They have a global presence with offices across the globe, in New York, London and Singapore.

Role: You will join a team of world-class DevOps engineers, working on all parts of the company’s infrastructure. You will architect, build and maintain automated solutions to empower production support and development teams using a modern technology stack: Docker/Kubernetes, Kafka, AWS/GCP, Linux

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related subject
• 5+ years development experience in 3 of the following languages: Python, C/C++, Go, Java, Ruby
• Linux administration (Centos 7) and configuration management (IaC)
• Team player with excellent communication skills
• Understanding of distributed system design

Visa Sponsorship:

Tier 2 transfer available

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary

up to £120k + bonus

Summary:

A world-leading prop trading fund are seeking an experienced Trading Systems DevOps Engineer for operational and project-oriented work to support their high- and mid-frequency trading.

The successful engineer will work with developers to write code for trading infrastructure for a prop fund who made >$100m profit last year. You will also improve system administration, provide rotational on-call support, as well as working on projects related to applications, market data tools, and automation.

Requirements:

• Strong Linux/Unix experience
• Professional coding experience OR extensive personal project work
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting instincts
• Outstanding communication skills required to deal with traders, as well as internal and external business

Benefits and Incentives:

• Substantial and varied range of project work
• Market-leading compensation
• Exciting and enjoyable company culture, including relaxed dress code, generous working hours, learning outside of the workplace, and an environment that fosters collaboration and innovation

Summary

A world-leading spread betting and CFD provider, helping clients trade financial markets on leverage. Their trading platform allows clients to find opportunities in both rising and falling markets – with the option to trade indices, forex, shares, commodities, etc.

They are looking for a senior level developer, with experience in leading a team, to deliver architecture principles to support design and implementation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related domain
• 10+ years commercial experience
• Experience operating at senior level leading a team in an IT function such as architecture
• Background in core Java (or any JVM) language
• Experience working in a fast-paced, high-growth, high-volume environment
• Solid written and verbal communication and presentation skills

Benefits

• Flexible working hours and work-from-home opportunities
• Performance-related bonuses
• Cannon Street office – recently refurbished to encourage an open and collaborative working style
• Pension, insurance and medical plans

Salary

Competitive base + bonus

Summary

Summary

With offices in 14 countries, this highly successful company has a uniquely connected, truly global team. Fantastic opportunity to join their London office for a front-end developer who thrives in a fast-paced, constantly-changing environment, where your hard work is rewarded and your achievements recognised.

Role

• Maintain the front-end experience for users of company website, adding new features and resolving bugs
• Work closely with middleware and and QA teams
• Collaborate with SEO and optimisation teams, implement tests and improving site performance

Requirements

• 2+ years commercial experience
• Front-end development expert, with proven track record in large-scale website projects
• Strong HTML / JavaScript skills, experience with Enterprise CMS is preferable
• Broad understanding of multi-country websites and interacting with content editors
• A tenacious, curious and open-minded attitude

Perks

• Market-leading salary and benefits package
• Work in a highly agile, non-bureaucratic environment with cutting-edge tech
• Friendly, dynamic, collaborative teams across the globe
• Great culture – flexible working, regular social events, funding for charitable work, career-focused training, etc.

Salary

Up to £90k base + bonus

Summary

With offices in 14 countries, this highly successful company has a uniquely connected, truly global team. Fantastic opportunity to join their London office for a developer who thrives in a fast-paced, constantly-changing environment, where your hard work is rewarded and your achievements recognised.

Role

• Design, develop and maintain backend execution services of trading platforms, such as order management, realtime valuation, client exposure monitoring, etc.
• Get involved in refactoring legacy code, as well as writing new services/applications from scratch
• Guide junior developers

Requirements

• 3+ years commercial experience
• Strong Java skills; experience with Spring is preferable
• Proven track record in development, with an interest in engaging with emerging technologies
• An interest in financial trading would be advantageous, though not essential

Perks

• Market-leading salary and benefits package
• Work in a highly agile, non-bureaucratic environment with cutting-edge tech
• Friendly, dynamic, collaborative teams across the globe
• Great culture – flexible working, regular social events, funding for charitable work, career-focused training, etc.

Salary

Up to £100k base + bonus

Summary:

My client is a leading prop trading firm with a global presence (UK, Asia, US).  They are very tech-driven and invest heavily in their engineering teams. Developers here are truly world-class. Their vision is to make connectivity to trading exchanges a specialisation in its own right.

They are seeking a C++ guru to join their London team. With latency at the forefront of your mind, you will be an expert in all aspects of ensuring the stability of connections. The successful developer will understand the importance of following a framework to interact with the many global exchanges. You’ll be a link between exchanges and internal teams, you’ll take pride in owning and improving the capacity and latency of existing and new links.

Requirements:

• Exceptional C++ developer (11/14/17)
• Strong knowledge of multiple exchanges
• Experience in ultra low latency design and template programming
• Ability to solve new and unfamiliar problems quickly and creatively

Culture / Benefits:

• Excellent bonus potential and compensation
• Relaxed, informal yet highly rewarding work culture
• No dress code, catered offices and regular social events
• Work with the latest technologies on complex problems

Summary:

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

This opportunity is within the team that designs, builds and runs the core platforms and the architecture. The main responsibility is for backend services, but they also develop full-stack solutions, including web-based frontends.

They are seeking a talented C# developer to create outstanding solutions supporting critical business functions. You should be passionate about quality, and able to work on fast-paced projects, crafting great code and tests, using automation as your friend.

Requirements:

• Strong analytical and system design skills
• Excellent C# ability including strong focus on testing processes
• .NET Core; CI/CD, containerization (Docker and/or Kubernetes)
• Modern Front-end UI development experience, especially React and TypeScript is a big plus

Culture / Benefits:

• Excellent bonus potential and compensation
• Relaxed, informal yet highly rewarding work culture
• No dress code, catered offices and regular social events
• Work with the latest technologies on complex problems

Job Summary:

Fantastic opportunity to join a leading tech-centric hedge fund as a member of their Systematic Volatility Research team, where you will be designing and building a research simulation platform.

Working closely on the research desk with Quant Researchers and Traders, you will be involved in every stage of the signal generation workflow, learning how to integrate strategies and how these are scaled.

The Role:

• Maintain, develop and support the software platform, delivering strategic enhancements
• Integrate new instruments and trading strategies
• Liaise with other teams, such as Software Development and Data, to coordinate changes to trading programmes

In addition, you will have the opportunity to build your career through mentoring and professional skills courses.

Requirements:

• 1+ year hands-on experience in designing and building backtesting/trading platforms and exposure to full SD lifecycle
• Excellent Python skills, along with one or more of: C++, C# or Java
• Matlab experience is essential
• SDLC tech – Git, BitBucket, JIRA, Jenkins would be advantageous
• Good understanding of option pricing analytics is preferable

Benefits:

• Generous hedge fund bonuses
• Gain in-depth exposure to multiple business areas (strategy, research, etc.)
• Great working culture in fabulous central London offices, with regular socials and sports events
• Opportunity to attend conferences and meet-ups

This role is within a successful mortgage broker start-up. Since their launch in 2016, they have made it their mission to fundamentally change the way people finance their homes. Whether buying for the first time, remortgaging, moving house or buying as an investment, they have developed an award-winning service that puts their customers back in the driving seat, giving them greater control over their finances. They deliver industry-leading expert advice in real time, cutting edge AI-driven technology that gives them access to the best possible deals, plain English conversations and absolutely no fees whatsoever.

Responsibilities:

• Playing a leading role in the evolution of their system architecture, driving best practices and development processes throughout your crew and the wider engineering team.
• Contributing to their culture of automated testing and specification, be it through well-designed strongly-typed interfaces, property testing or end-to-end integration and system tests.
• Working closely with non-technical crew members to focus on building systems that directly serve their customers as much as possible.

Requirements:

• Experience with typed, functional programming (PureScript, Haskell, F#, Scala/Cats/Scalaz, Elm, TypeScript, Flow, ML).
• You’re keen to learn more about some of the technologies they use and concepts they believe in (functional programming, static type systems, event sourcing).
• You’re comfortable dealing with ambiguity and making decisions (and helping others make decisions) in the face of limited information.
• You are excited about the autonomy they’re trying to foster and you want a strong sense of ownership of yours and your team’s work.
• A proven track record of automation and an algorithmic approach to solving problems.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary & share options
• Career development, coaching & training
• Free catered lunches and snacks
• Free healthcare & life assurance
• Contributory pension scheme
• Bi-weekly massages with Urban Massage
• Unlimited holiday
• Cycle to Work scheme

Salary: £70k – 90k base + stock

Summary:

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

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

Requirements:

• General knowledge of data structures and algorithms
• Polyglot familiar with many languages; experience with C++ and Python required.
• JavaScript, web development, cloud infrastructure, Docker, Linux administration experience a plus.
• Desire and ability to mentor other developers.
• Cloud / Web experience required.
• SecDB/Athena/Quartz experience a plus.

Benefits:

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

Summary:

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

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Summary:

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

The successful candidate will be part of the team responsible for automation of deployment of the infrastructure used by clients, deployment of customer environments, supporting customer and internal clients’ infrastructure, and evaluating and deploying new technologies into the environment where appropriate.

This is a client-facing role where you will be using AWS cloud & Linux information technology day in-day out. Bridging the gap between development and infrastructure, you will be a role model for future engineering and devops teams.

Requirements:

• Relevant IT qualification (Microsoft Certification beneficial)
• Self-starter, passionate about software-defined infrastructure and cloud
• 3+ years experience using Linux and proven hands-on experience with RedHat Enterprise Linux or Ubuntu Linux)
• Experience of Python, JavaScript, C/C++ or Golang
• Proficient in using coding/scripting to automate/reduce time taken to complete tasks
• Exceptional communication skills with all levels, technical and non-technical

Benefits:

• Great opportunity to be part of a collaborative, innovative environment
• Competitive salary + generous benefits

The Company:

Join a collaborative and dynamic environment with no politics. My client manages a highly successful fixed income vehicle with a very strong track record (over $4billion AUM). The Quant Strats team develops and manages systematic trading strategies and currently runs a mid-frequency equity market neutral strategy with a global portfolio.

The Role:

Successful candidates will have a broad skillset covering both quantitative modelling and software development, and a solid understanding of the fundamentals of both Java and Python. You’ll be working on their multi-strategy investment model, so you will get exposure to every asset class.

Requirements:

• Undergrad degree 2:1 or above in a degree with high mathematical and computing content
• Minimum 2+ years in a quant development role
• Proficient with Python, Java and SQL
• Excellent financial knowledge (preference for equity markets)

Salary:

Uncapped + strong bonus

The Company:

Founded in New York City, my client are a globally leading quant trading firm, responsible for about 5% of all stock trading in the United States. Employees are at the forefront of innovation in the world of algorithmic trading.

The Role:

Core Developer working on a distributed system at the frontier of latency and throughput. You’ll do machine learning over huge datasets in a massive compute cluster. If you are a smart programmer who loves code challenged, hates to climb corporate ladders, and don’t mind the added bonus of having hard work rewarded through recognition and extremely competitive compensation, this is for you.

Requirements:

• Uni degree 2:1 or above in Computer Science (or similar)
• Knowledge of UNIX/Linux operating systems, system/processor performance, and network communication.
• 2+ years minimum using low latency C++ technologies
• Financial knowledge advantageous but not required

Salary:

Base salary not capped + huge bonuses

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

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

Requirements

Minimum 2:1 in Computer Science or Maths or related subject from world-leading university.

• 3 years commercial C++ experience
• Scientific scripting language, e.g. Python, R
• Familiar with Linux systems
• Regression, optimization and machine learning desirable
• Strong communication skills
• Strong analytical skills and an enthusiasm for problem solving
• Understanding of object-oriented programming, design patterns and data structures

Perks

Tier 2 visa transfer available

Market-leading salaries and bonus structure

Fully catered breakfast/lunch/dinner

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

Summary:

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

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

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

Responsibilities:

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Job Summary

My client has developed a proprietary, intuitive, smart-contract language using their deep expertise in scalable technology. Being a leading provider of distributed ledger technology (DLT) that solves real-world business challenges, they enable financial institutions and cross-industry organisations to bring world-renowned DLT systems into production.

Within this role, you will be required to utilise deep technical and domain expertise to design and develop business-critical products with pragmatic and efficient code. Further to this, you will be asked to collect and define requirements based on a dynamic assessment of functional and non-functional capabilities. This role requires the individual to be able to turn an abstract idea into a strategic, pragmatic solution in code.

The Company

Having combined some of the top global minds with experience in research cryptography and commercial high frequency trading, the company was founded by three individuals in 2014. Their core business offering is multi-faceted: being one of the fastest growing Fintech companies, my client enables some of the world’s largest companies to harness the power of DLT to streamline their business operations. Additionally, their proprietary smart-contract programming language is used to digitise multi-party agreements and automate transactions in a secure manner.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on software engineer on a large-scale project; proficient in one or more functional programming languages, e.g. Scala, Haskell, F#, ideally in a production environment. Happy to look at engineers with no functional experience under exceptional circumstances.
• Exceptional communications skills, comfortable presenting complex concepts in front of large client audiences – both technical and non-technical
• Deep understanding of financial markets and processes; experience should be in the front office; the candidate must understand the strategy of markets as well as its mechanics. Financial engineering experience as a ‘quant’, ‘strat’, or ‘algo trading developer’ would be advantageous
• MSc or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics or a related field would be nice to have

Benefits

• Competitive base salary + strong bonuses
• Opportunity to travel – offices in London, New York, Zurich, Sydney and Budapest
• Incredible benefits package on offer
• A chance to work alongside a world-class team within an excellent working environment