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Salary: Market-Leading

Location: Flexible (London/EU/Remote)

Summary:

A world-class prop trading firm is building out a brand-new On-Chain / DeFi trading group and looking for early-stage engineers to join.

The successful candidate will work in a hands-on development role, designing, architecting and implementing gas efficient smart contracts

Requirements:

• Solidity development expertise
• Familiarity with common libraries/protocols (e.g. OpenZepplin, Gnosis, Chainlink)
• Preferably understanding of EVM / assembly / gas optimisation

Benefits and Incentives:

• Almost entirely greenfield project
• Outstanding engineering culture
• Flexible/Remote working opportunities
• Working with industry-leading team
• Potential for substantial business impact and significant upside

Salary: Market-Leading

Location: London/EU/Remote

 Summary:

 A world-class prop trading firm is building out a brand-new On-Chain / DeFi trading group and looking for early-stage engineers to join/

The successful candidate will work in a hands-on development role, coding primarily in Rust, building trading systems to take advantage of significant opportunities in this new space. They will join as part of the inception group.

Requirements:

• Strong trading systems development expertise
• Ideally working on Rust, but willing to accommodate C++/Java developers who are willing to work in Rust
• Ability to collaborate with traders and researchers within the group
• Bonus for specific crypto/DeFi experience

Benefits and Incentives:

• Almost entirely greenfield project
• Outstanding engineering culture
• Flexible/Remote working opportunities
• Working with industry-leading team
• Potential for substantial business impact and significant upside

Salary: Market-Leading

Location: London/EU/Remote

 Summary:

A world-class prop trading firm is building out a brand-new On-Chain / DeFi trading group and looking for early-stage engineers to join.

The successful candidate will work in a hands-on development role, coding primarily in Go, working on the core blockchain infrastructure, including Node connectivity, required for the group to take advantage of significant On-Chan opportunities.

Requirements:

• Go/Rust development experience
• Preferably experience working with Ethereum ecosystem
• Experience working on blockchain project implementation

Benefits and Incentives:

Almost entirely greenfield project

• Outstanding engineering culture
• Flexible/Remote working opportunities
• Working with industry-leading team
• Potential for substantial business impact and significant upside

Salary: Up to £140k base, £200k TC

Experience: 5+ years

Summary:

Great opportunity for a skilled C++ developer with financial markets technology experience to join one of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds.

The successful candidate will join a global team, responsible for developing front-office trading solutions with brokers, exchanges, ECNs and third-party platforms across multi-asset classes and regions. In this role, your primary focus will be equities, futures and options, and you will be tasked with developing software applications to support electronic trading. Your project workload will be varied, and may also include monitoring, research and statistical analysis, and automation projects.

To be successful in this role, you will enjoy facing off to the business, and have outstanding communication skills.

Skills and Experience Required:

• 5+ years’ C++ programming experience (with some Java would be ideal)
• In-depth knowledge of object-oriented and low-latency programming is required
• Extensive Linux development experience
• 3+ years’ experience in a similar financial institution
• FIX protocol knowledge is required, e.g. FIX 4.2 – FIX 5.0

Desirable Experience:

• Knowledge of binary trading protocols is a plus
• Understanding of trading equities, futures and FX products
• Basic networking/connectivity skills, e.g. TCP/IP & multicast

Rewards and Incentives:

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

Salary: Up to £140k base, £200k TC

Experience: 5+ years

Summary:

Great opportunity for a skilled Java developer with financial markets technology experience to join one of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds.

The successful candidate will join a global team, responsible for developing front-office trading solutions with brokers, exchanges, ECNs and third-party platforms across multi-asset classes and regions. In this role, your primary focus will be equities, futures and options, and you will be tasked with developing software applications to support electronic trading. Your project workload will be varied, and may also include monitoring, research and statistical analysis, and automation projects.

To be successful in this role, you will enjoy facing off to the business, and have outstanding communication skills.

Skills and Experience Required:

• 5+ years’ Java programming experience (with some C++ would be ideal)
• In-depth knowledge of object-oriented and low-latency programming is required
• Extensive Linux development experience
• 3+ years’ experience in a similar financial institution
• FIX protocol knowledge is required, e.g. FIX 4.2 – FIX 5.0

Desirable Experience:

• Knowledge of binary trading protocols is a plus
• Understanding of trading equities, futures and FX products
• Basic networking/connectivity skills, e.g. TCP/IP & multicast

Rewards and Incentives:

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

Salary: £130-150k base + ~£80k bonus

Summary

One of the world’s most prestigious multi-strategy funds. They employ thousands of people around the world, but it operates like a start-up with all the latest technologies and plenty of greenfield projects / building from scratch – with very few legacy systems. This is a great place to work; the tech culture is excellent and good performance recognised.

For this role, you must be a talented, pragmatic developer as you will be working closely with the quant portfolio managers, designing and building the next-generation systematic framework for them. With a varied workload, it includes transitioning market data to the cloud, running fill simulations and building APIs for execution.

Fantastic communication skills are crucial to be successful in this role, as is the ability to work independently with huge amounts of autonomy and project ownership.

Skills and Experience Required

• 5+ years’ software development experience in Java
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Maths or equivalent
• Solid cloud experience – AWS is preferred, but will also consider GCP or Azure
• Experience on, or adjacent to, an order management system (OMS)

Desirable (highly valued, but not essential)

• Python experience
• Docker & Kubernetes

Benefits

• Significant salaries, strong bonuses + benefits
• High degree of autonomy and impactful work
• Excellent career growth and professional development is encouraged
• Hybrid working – Mayfair office & working from home (3 in office, 2 from home split is ‘the norm’)

Salary: up to £140k base, £200k TC

Client

Fantastic opportunity for a talented individual with Java server-side development skills to join the Risk Technology team at one of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds. This is a great place to work; the tech culture is second to none and hard work is well rewarded.

Working closely with Risk Management teams, you’ll be part of a small team of full stack developers building out the strategic next-generation Enterprise Risk Platform. This will involve developing new tools and infrastructure in a microservices-based event-driven architecture using Java (Spring). You’ll also build custom views, services and workflows using HTML5/Angular/JS/Typescript.

The successful Python Developer will enjoy solving complex problems for the business, and be extremely detail-orientated, organized and thorough.

Skills and Experience Required

• 3+ years’ server-side development experience in Java in a microservices framework
• Previous experience of Kafka and UI/web-based front-end technologies, e.g. HTML, Javascript, Typescript
• Familiar with agile development and testing frameworks, including CI/CD

Desirable

• Financial industry experience
• Strong academic record in STEM subject
• Experience with cloud platforms/products, particularly AWS (Redshift, Dynamo, Lambda, S3, etc.)

Benefits & Incentives

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

Salary: up to £140k base, £200k TC

Client

Fantastic opportunity for a talented individual with Python server-side development skills to join the Risk Technology team at one of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds. This is a great place to work; the tech culture is second to none and hard work is well rewarded.

Working closely with Risk Management teams, you’ll be part of a small team of full stack developers building out the strategic next-generation Enterprise Risk Platform. This will involve developing new tools and infrastructure in a microservices-based event-driven architecture using Python (Flask/FastAPI). You’ll also build custom views, services and workflows using HTML5/Angular/JS/Typescript.

The successful Python Developer will enjoy solving complex problems for the business, and be extremely detail-orientated, organized and thorough.

Skills and Experience Required

• 3+ years’ server-side development experience in Python in a microservices framework
• Previous experience of Kafka and UI/web-based front-end technologies, e.g. HTML, Javascript, Typescript
• Familiar with agile development and testing frameworks, including CI/CD

Desirable

• Financial industry experience
• Strong academic record in STEM subject
• Experience with cloud platforms/products, particularly AWS (Redshift, Dynamo, Lambda, S3, etc.)

Benefits & Incentives

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

Salary: up to £150k + bonus

Summary

Leading HFT fund is looking for a passionate front-end developer with React and Redux programming experience. Unique in their field, this global firm combines the lively, positive spirit of a start-up with the stability of a longer-established player.

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

The successful Front End Engineer will be enthusiastic about front-end development, always looking to improve by staying up-to-date with new advances in the Javascript/React space, and keen to increase team productivity through knowledge-sharing and mentoring.

Requirements

• 2+ years’ hands-on programming experience in React & Redux, modern Javascript, HTML5 and CSS
• Strong coding skills; writing reliable, readable code and providing code review feedback is second nature
• Sound understanding of how to build high-performance Javascript applications capable of visualizing large amounts of data
• Bonus points for experience with libraries for grids/charting/visualization, e.g. d3.js, ag-grid, React Charts, etc
• UX design proficiency is a big plus

Benefits

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

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Desirable

• Familiar with exchange protocols
• Background in statistical analysis

Benefits

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

Overview:

Not your standard algo trading firm, this company prides itself on building robust, fully automated technology to predict and trade on all liquid electronic financial markets.

This is a brand-new, highly impactful role, responsible for managing all day-to-day operational and technical user support, including everything from office IT, AV and hardware to user requests and remote access, to SaaS apps and server hardware. As a team lead, one of your first tasks will be to build a team of enthusiastic support engineers that you will coach and mentor as they troubleshoot problems and implement solutions.

You will also have the chance to improve business efficiency in the way it deals with offering support through better understanding users and automating routine tasks.

The successful Systems Support Lead will most likely come from a senior support lead background, loves solving problems creatively and enjoys being the ‘go-to’ person. Now is a great time to join as they have significantly grown their infrastructure and are looking to the future.

Requirements:

• Hands-on experience with technical operational problems
• Solid experience as a Team Lead, including mentoring, hiring and day-to-day management of team members
• Excellent Linux experience
• A curious mindset; keen to understand how things work, how they can be improved, etc.
• Outstanding communication skills, able to interact at all levels of technical ability
• Bonus points for Windows experience

Rewards and Incentives:

• Competitive pay + bonus scheme + generous benefits
• Huge amount of autonomy and ownership
• Truly collaborative between teams – not siloed like other firms
• Professional development strongly encouraged (funded training, coaching, postgrad study, etc.)
• Incredible, well-equipped office with views across London

Summary:

This is a unique opportunity where you’ll have the chance to shape and improve technical operations. The company is a relaxed but hardworking elite prop trading firm, looking for an exceptional technical operations specialist to oversee several production trading and research environments. They are scientific, tech-driven and they invest heavily in their engineering teams.

A high impact role, you will collaborate closely with traders, developers, quant researchers, data engineers and infrastructure teams to deeply understand how the whole system works through the trading lifecycle from front to back office. It will be your job to ensure operational efficiency and constantly be on the look-out for ways to improve technical operations.

As the tech lead, you will also be mentoring and coaching team members, while planning strategies and identifying priorities that meet the needs of the business going forward.

This is a brand new role offering the chance to define and shape a position that interacts with all functions across the business. The successful DevOps Tech Lead will have outstanding communication skills and a positive mindset, with a pragmatic approach to solving complex problems.

Requirements:

• 2+ years’ experience in a similar role with leadership experience
• Proven track record in a front office environment, working closely with traders to identify and implement operational improvements
• Experience building and automating all kinds of trading operations tasks using scripting languages (e.g. Python/bash), including configuration checks, monitoring, reliability report generation, etc.
• Efficient, diligent and skilled at simultaneously driving multiple projects through to completion
• Self-motivated, with outstanding level of attention to detail and quality

Desirable:

• Experience with: KPI-based monitoring/alerting and creation of performance dashboards, eg. Grafana, Prometheus, etc.
• Knowledge of standard IT and software engineering tooling, such as git, Jira, Teamcity, Confluence, Prefect, Ansible, etc.

Culture / Benefits:

• Excellent base salary + bonus potential + benefits
• Upside of a start-up with the benefits of an established company
• No dress code, catered offices and regular social events
• Work with the latest technologies on complex problems with significant impact

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements:

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

Culture / Benefits:

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

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

 Benefits

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

Summary

Fantastic opportunity to join a growing software start-up based in London as they research low-latency technologies in order to build a high availability, high throughput crypto derivative exchange platform – the world’s first of its kind.

They are looking for a motivated Frontend Developer with a keen interest in cryptocurrency to develop trading applications using React/Redux and to build websites around these. Engaging with and gaining feedback from the product’s customers (hedge funds, HFTs and smaller traders), your role will be to ensure that they receive a best-in-class user experience.

The successful Frontend Developer will be pragmatic, collaborative in their approach to work and eager to work at a rapidly expanding start-up.

Requirements

• 4+ years’ experience, including Javascript (React/Redux) skills
• Exceptional software development skills evidenced through open-source contributions or work history
• Experience at an HFT and/or developing trading applications for retail customers is ideal
• Strong communication skills

Desirable

• Previous experience in finance
• Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Electrical Engineering or similar
• Experience with RxJS and React Hooks
• Rust, C++, assembly or other low-level programming experience

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Enormous opportunity to grow, learn and have an impact
• Exciting time to join a growing start-up

Summary:  

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

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

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

Requirements: 

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

Desirable: 

• Experience with: C#, Typescript/React

Culture / Benefits:

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

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

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

About You

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

About Us

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

Compensation: Very competitive packages

Summary

Unique in their field, this HFT fund has the lively, positive spirit of a start-up with the stability of a longer-established player. They hire exceptional and diverse talent from a variety of places – trading, tech & start-up industries, research labs, PhD programs – to apply cutting-edge research to global financial markets.

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

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

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

Requirements

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

This role is open to US Citizens and Visa Transfers only.

Benefits

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

Summary 

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

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

***All interviews and start dates will be fully remote.***

Requirements

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

This role is open to US citizens and visa transfers only.

Benefits

• Market-leading salary + bonuses + benefits; they will pay leading market rate / are flexible for the right candidate
• Collaborative and friendly environment with smart, highly engaged colleagues
• Culture where everyone’s ideas are encouraged and celebrated
• Gain broad exposure to both technical and business aspects of trading

Summary

***This role is available in Chicago / London / Amsterdam.***

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

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

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

***All interviews and start dates will be fully remote.***

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary 

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

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

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

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

***All interviews and start dates will be fully remote.***

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary

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

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

***All interviews and start dates will be fully remote.***

Requirements

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

This role is open to US citizens and visa transfers only.

Benefits

• Significant compensation package – you are making a direct impact on the PnL – they will pay leading market rate / are flexible for the right candidate
• Collaborative and friendly environment with highly engaged colleagues
• Culture of trust, innovation and scientific rigour

Compensation: Market-Leading & Competitive

Summary

Elite prop trading firm with a global presence (US, UK, Asia).  They are very tech-driven and invest heavily in their engineering teams. The culture is highly rewarding of strong performance yet maintains a relaxed working environment, and as a result, they employ the best traders, developers and engineers from across the market.

Seeking exceptional C++ software developers with high-level engineering, analytical and quant skills to join their London team. You will sit on the trading floor, working alongside the very best traders and developers, producing low-latency exchange connectivity components for new markets. You will collaborate closely with other teams ensuring software is supported and runs smoothly.

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

Requirements

• Exceptional C++ developer (with experience of C++11/14/17)
• Strong knowledge of multiple exchanges & performance analysis
• Experience in ultra-low-latency design and template programming
• Excellent communication skills and skilled problem-solver
• An interest in trading and finance would be a plus

Benefits

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

Compensation: Market-Leading & Competitive

Summary

Industry-leading market maker using innovative and cutting-edge technology, with data at the core of the investment process. Great opportunity for a polyglot software engineer to join the Commodities team working on their advanced technology platform.

Working in partnershop with the trading, research and data teams, you’ll build out and support core analytics in response to challenges faced by the business. You’ll work with large datasets and integrate data & insights into models and investment processes, driving enhancements that help maintain competitive advantage. Utilising your mix of strong technology skills and computer science fundamentals, you will be critical to the growth of the desk.

The successful candidate will likely be working in tech, for example in a product team at a FAANG company or similar. They will enjoy facing off to the business and be an outstanding communicator.

Requirements

• Excellent academics: minimum bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering
• Expert Python skills (or comparable language); multiple programming languages is ideal
• Sound experience with complex, multi-site systems architectures
• Good knowledge of Unix operating systems and database technologies
• Creative problem solver, someone who can look at the bigger picture
• Finance experience NOT required

Benefits

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

Compensation: Market-Leading & Competitive

Summary

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

Their Trade Desk production team is looking to hire a Production Reliability Engineer who can oversee all aspects of the real-time trading platform.

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary:

A highly successful quant and systematic trading firm are looking for a junior quant analyst or data scientist to join their London team. Top graduates are welcome to apply.

The successful quant analyst will be working with world-class software engineers and quant researchers in a highly agile environment in central London, analysing complex financial data in Python and SQL.

Requirements:

• MSc or PhD in Mathematics, Physics or Computer Science
• Experience with Python, SQL
• London-based – this is an onsite role

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and hedge fund-style bonus
• Gain commercial experience in a high calibre quant research and engineering team
• Gain commercial experience handling large data sets in Python (pandas, etc.)

Salary: up to £150k + bonus

Summary

Leading global quant firm is looking for a pragmatic data engineer with experience of ETL pipelines to join the quantitative sports trading team. Despite serving as the hub for managing the substantial operations across the UK, Europe and the Middle East, the London office couples the lively, positive environment of a start-up with the stability of a longer-established player.

Collaborating extensively with technologists and quantitative analysts, you will be responsible for evolving, improving and maintaining all aspects of the sports trading data platform, covering everything from building a world-class data backbone and creating and maintaining ETL pipelines, to identifying ways to improve reliability, efficiency and data quality.

Technology is prized by the traders as crucial to their continued success. The successful Data Engineer will be passionate about solving difficult technical problems in a fast-paced and energetic environment.

If you’re a driven, dynamic individual with an unvarying focus on staying ahead of the ever-changing markets, this role would be perfect for you!

Requirements

• Significant experience with Python and development in a Linux environment
• Experience of working with large datasets
• Deep knowledge of the DMBS landscape
• Experience of building and maintaining ETL pipelines

Benefits

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

Salary: up to £150k + bonus

Summary

Leading global quant firm is looking for a talented engineer with experience in modern C++ to join the quantitative sports trading team. Despite serving as the hub for managing the substantial operations across the UK, Europe and the Middle East, the London office couples the lively, positive environment of a start-up with the stability of a longer-established player.

Collaborating extensively with technologists and quantitative analysts, you will be responsible for evolving, improving and maintaining all aspects of the sports betting platform, covering everything from execution and signal generation to model building and back testing.

Technology is prized by the traders as crucial to their continued success. The successful C++ Developer will love solving difficult technical problems and be comfortable with owning multiple projects simultaneously.

If you’re a driven, dynamic individual with an unvarying focus on staying ahead of the ever-changing markets, this role would be perfect for you!

Requirements

• Substantial skills in C++ (Data structures, STL, Boost, C++11/14/17)
• Solid experience working on a Linux platform
• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science or Computer Engineering (or equivalent)
• Comfortable being involved in DevOps
• Knowledge of common database technologies

Desirable

• Knowledge of distributed systems, multithreading and/or operating systems
• Interest in (or experience of) sports betting

Benefits

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

Real-Time High-Performance Software

Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning

Large Scale Distributed Systems

Summary:

An international technology firm with a world-class, X10 engineering team are looking for a software developer to join their Munich team. The successful software developer will be working on global, impactful projects from high-performance, real-time search platforms to large scale distributed computing, to petabyte-scale data analytics and machine learning tooling in their Munich-based office. This firm work with an unprecedented amount of data, with their platform handling 12 million queries/second and 600 billion queries/day.

Requirements:

• BSc / MSc in hard science subject, with preference for Computer Science
• OO programming skills in C#, Java, C++ or Python
• Passion for solving hard technical challenges at scale, building greenfield projects with global reach and impact, and building bleeding-edge technology solutions.

Benefits:

• Highly competitive salary in Munich – this firm can compete alongside FAANG firms for compensation
• Chance to work on brand-new products in a highly agile technology environment
• Solve complex computer science and technology-focussed problems at scale

Real-Time High-Performance Software

Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning

Large Scale Distributed Systems

Summary:

An international technology firm with a world-class, X10 engineering team are looking for a software developer to join their Madrid team. The successful software developer will be working on global, impactful projects from high-performance, real-time search platforms to large scale distributed computing, to petabyte-scale data analytics and machine learning tooling in their Madrid-based office. This firm work with an unprecedented amount of data, with their platform handling 12 million queries/second and 600 billion queries/day.

Requirements:

• BSc / MSc in hard science subject, with preference for Computer Science
• OO programming skills in C#, Java, C++ or Python
• Passion for solving hard technical challenges at scale, building greenfield projects with global reach and impact, and building bleeding-edge technology solutions.

Benefits:

• Highly competitive salary in Madrid – this firm can compete alongside FAANG firms for compensation
• Chance to work on brand-new products in a highly agile technology environment
• Solve complex computer science and technology-focussed problems at scale

Summary:

A globally leading technology firm are looking for a hands-on, engineering and data-focussed Senior Data Scientist to join their engineering team in Madrid. Working in a heavily data-driven role, with platforms that can handle over 15 million queries/ second and multiple petabytes of data, the successful Senior Data Scientist will be joining a highly agile, Madrid-based engineering team. The successful Senior Data Scientist will be working very close to the business, and directly collaborating with engineers, product managers, researchers in an end-to-end role that will involve design, architecture, development and delivery.

Requirements:

• MSc or BSc in Computer Science, AI, ML, Mathematics, Physics or related hard science subject
• Commercial experience as a Data Scientist
• Interest in and / or experience working with NLP, Machine Learning, graph mining, algo optimization, causal inference, etc. is beneficial
• Programming experience with Python, Scala, Java, or strong knowledge of another OO or functional language
• Experience with AWS, Spark, SQL

Benefits:

• Market-leading base salary and restricted stock units
• Market-leading benefits package
• Hybrid in office (Madrid) and work-from-home environment

Summary:

A globally leading technology firm are looking for a hands-on, engineering and data-focussed Senior Data Scientist to join their engineering team in London. Working in a heavily data-driven role, with platforms that can handle over 15 million queries/ second and multiple petabytes of data, the successful Senior Data Scientist will be joining a highly agile, London-based engineering team. The successful Senior Data Scientist will be working very close to the business, and directly collaborating with engineers, product managers, researchers in an end-to-end role that will involve design, architecture, development and delivery.

Requirements:

• MSc or BSc in Computer Science, AI, ML, Mathematics, Physics or related hard science subject
• Commercial experience as a Data Scientist
• Interest and / or experience working with NLP, Machine Learning, graph mining, algo optimization, causal inference, etc. is beneficial
• Programming experience with Python, Scala, Java, or strong knowledge of another OO or functional language
• Experience with AWS, Spark, SQL

Benefits:

• Market-leading base salary and restricted stock units
• Market-leading benefits package
• Hybrid in office (London) and work-from-home environment

Real-Time High-Performance Software

Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning

Large Scale Distributed Systems

Summary:

An international technology firm with a world-class, X10 engineering team are looking for a software developer to join their London team. The successful software developer will be working on global, impactful projects from high-performance, real-time search platforms to large scale distributed computing, to petabyte-scale data analytics and machine learning tooling in their London-based office. This firm work with an unprecedented amount of data, with their platform handling 12 million queries/second and 600 billion queries/day.

Requirements:

• BSc / MSc in hard science subject, with preference for Computer Science
• OO programming skills in C#, Java, C++ or Python
• Passion for solving hard technical challenges at scale, building greenfield projects with global reach and impact, and building bleeding-edge technology solutions.

Benefits:

• Highly competitive salary in London – this firm can compete alongside FAANG firms for compensation
• Chance to work on brand new products in a highly agile technology environment
• Solve complex computer science and technology-focussed problems at scale

Summary:

A growing quant/systematic-focussed prop trading firm is looking for a C# developer to join their London-based, agile engineering team. The successful C# developer will be working alongside incredibly bright and intelligent software engineers and quant researchers, in a London-based, small front office team with a focus on technology and engineering. The team itself has a flat hierarchy, zero red tape and a non-corporate or bureaucratic environment.

Requirements:

• BSc in Computer Science, Maths, or Physics
• C# development experience – C# / .NET and SQL / Oracle or equivalent
• London-based (visa sponsorship offered if required)

Benefits:

• Competitive salary, pension, health care and hedge fund-style bonus
• Commercial experience within a technology driven, quant trading firm in London
• Highly intelligent engineering team in a low red-tape, agile environment

Salary: up to £150k + bonus

Summary

Lively, positive spirit of a start-up, with the stability of a longer-established player, this leading quant firm is looking for exceptional FPGA engineers to join an elite global team to design and build the next generation of hardware solutions.

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

They see technology as a key component of their continued success. The ideal candidate will have a mix of traditional RTL development and software skills, strong work ethic, and the drive to continually learn and improve.

Requirements

• 5+ years’ proven track record of hands-on FPGA development where you have taken ownership
• Solid knowledge of building reliable, high performance FPGA hardware systems
• 5+ years of SystemVerilog / Verilog / VHDL experience
• Good understanding of technology tradeoffs, with a pragmatic approach to problem solving
• Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science (or related)

Desirable

• Any of the following: Linux, scripting language proficiency (preferably Python), high level synthesis flows, familiarity with Jenkins CI / Github / ctypes / SWIG

Benefits

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

Salary: up to £150k + bonus

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary

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

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

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary: €200k + bonus

Summary 

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary: up to €200k + bonus

Summary

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

Based in London, Sydney & Amsterdam, they are looking to expand their low-latency team with a developer well-versed in modern C++ (C++11 onwards). They design, build and maintain the entire software stack and everything they build is used in-house, trading over $175 billion of assets every day. Employee turnover is below 5% / ten digit amount of equity capital.

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

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of C++11 onwards (they have a completely post-2011 codebase)
• Sound understanding of what happens inside a computer when your code is running, e.g. caching, paging & system calls, how these work and why. (Knowledge of execution pipeline in a modern CPU is a bonus.)
• Good proficiency in mathematics, especially being comfortable with calculus and matrices (as much of the work involves designing and implementing numerical algorithms)
• Familiarity with common algorithms and data structures and their performance trade-offs
• Financial experience is NOT required

Desirable

• Practical experience designing and implementing complex software systems is a plus
• Experience with Linux and/or Python is a plus, but by no means a necessity

Benefits

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

Salary: up to £150k + bonus

Company:

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

Technology is central to the success of this company: they rely heavily on the ultra-low latency of trades and high performance code, proudly branding themselves 97% tech-driven and ‘more like a software house’ than a bank. Although they work with a range of technologies – C++/Java/C# – candidates with any OO experience will be considered.

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

Position:

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

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

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

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

Required:

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

Helpful:

• Understanding and experience developing mission-critical, performance-sensitive, real-time systems
• Experienced in multithreaded (and preferably network) software development
• Cross-platform development [Windows and Linux]
• Thorough understanding of software development methodologies – especially scrum/agile methods
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Benefits:

• Incredible salary & bonus
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Daily catering – breakfast, lunch, plus a fully stocked kitchen
• Chill-out area with pool table, table tennis, TV and Playstation
• Competitive annual leave
• Health and life insurance
• Gym membership
• Two discretionary performance-related bonuses a year

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

• Competitive base salary & bonus
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Collaborative and rewarding work environment and culture
• Free breakfast, lunch and dinner

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary: up to £150k base + bonus

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary: up to £150k + bonus

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary: up to £150k + bonus

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

• Significant compensation package – you are making a direct impact on the PnL – they will pay leading market rate / are flexible for the right candidate
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Collaborative and friendly environment with highly engaged colleagues
• Culture of trust, innovation and scientific rigour

Salary: up to £150k + bonus

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

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.

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

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering (or equivalent experience)
• Expert-level experience programming in C/C++ 11/17/20 and Python
• Previous finance experience, or other significant hands-on development
• Linux guru
• Ability to juggle a lot of priorities and continuously deliver
• Interest in finance / machine learning / big data and/or robotics are pluses

Benefits

• Vibrant, flexible and inspiring work environment with excellent rewards
• They’re willing to be flexible with WFH
• Free food / gym onsite

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

**THIS ROLE CAN BE FULLY REMOTE**

Summary

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

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

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

NO finance experience is necessary.

Role

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary: up to £130k base + bonus

Summary

Tech-savvy algorithmic trading firm looking to hire a Java Developer to help develop and operate the off-exchange trading system and products. This is a superb opportunity for a well-organised and pragmatic engineer with a passion for concise, efficient code to join one of the only Java teams you will find in HFT.

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary: up to £150k + bonus

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary

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

One of their fast-growing quant trading teams is looking to hire a dynamic FPGA/C++ Developer with HDL development experience.

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary: up to £150k + bonus

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary: up to £150k + bonus

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Compensation: Top of the market in HFT

Summary

Despite market vol, this HFT fund is looking to double the crypto trading team in size. Looking for a hybrid quant/dev, skilled in Python or C++, who can excel in the fast-paced, rapidly changing world of cryptocurrency.

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary: up to £150k + bonus

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary: up to £150k + bonus

Summary

Not your standard algo trading company, this leading firm prides itself on its flat hierarchy, teamwork, and rewarding people on merit and excellence. Specialists within electronic market-making in FX, equity, fixed income and commodity markets, they have one of the best names in the industry.

They are seeking a Network Engineer to join the team responsible for designing, developing and maintaining infrastructure – for both the post-trade and low-latency OTC trading platform, as well as company-wide shared services.

In this role, you will cover a wide range of technology, including operating systems, WAN/LAN connectivity, AWS cloud, storage, monitoring tools and configuration management. You will work collaboratively with trading developers and heads of department, and will also mentor team members so they can support the systems you develop.

This role would be perfect for someone who is well-organised, pragmatic and possesses expert skills in network infrastructure engineering and who is keen to utilise and develop further tech knowledge outside of pure network engineering.

Requirements

• 5+ years’ experience as a network engineer, including knowledge of automating and monitoring as much as possible using code and structured configuration
• Familiar with open-source technology – particularly Linux
• Advanced network engineering skills; at ease on the CLI of Cisco/Arista switches and ideally aware of Juniper & other vendors
• Deep knowledge of network routing and switching (BGP, OSPF, PIM, IGMP), etc., with advanced knowledge of Ethernet and TCP/IP
• Ability to code in Python, Go or similar, and familiar using tools like git

Benefits

• Significant compensation package – you are making a direct impact on the PnL
• Collaborative and friendly environment with highly engaged colleagues
• Free onsite gym, sauna and fitness classes
• Breakfast and lunch provided four days a week
• Cutting-edge, beautiful London offices

Salary: up to £150k + bonus

Summary

Not your standard algo trading company, this leading firm prides itself on its flat hierarchy, teamwork, and rewarding people on merit and excellence. Specialists within electronic market-making in FX, equity, fixed income and commodity markets, they have one of the best names in the industry.

Based in London, they are looking to expand their exchange trading development group, which takes trading ideas from the Quant Research team and makes them reality utilising the best technology.

As Python Engineer, you’ll be part of a small team – which works to their advantage – responsible for managing a global network plus multiple hundreds of servers across almost 50 sites. Sitting in between datacentre support and the main development function, you’ll leverage your programming skills to find the correct solution from the start, rather than using repetitive manual work or ad-hoc scripting.

The successful Python Engineer will most likely come from a production engineer or SRE background, who can program well, likes automation and is focused on network technology.

Requirements

• Excellent programming skills in your preferred language(s); they use Go, Python and Rust where appropriate but prior knowledge is not expected.
• Sound understanding of datacentres and the hardware inside them – servers, switches, etc.
• Demonstrable knowledge of network routing and switching (BGP, OSPF, PIM, IGMP), etc.

Benefits

• Significant compensation package – you are making a direct impact on the PnL
• Collaborative and friendly environment with highly engaged colleagues
• Free onsite gym, sauna and fitness classes
• Breakfast and lunch provided four days a week
• Cutting-edge, beautiful London offices

Salary: up to £200k TC

Job Summary

Fantastic opportunity to join a new Data Science Platform team at of one of the world’s largest information & market data providers. This team designs and builds infrastructure and tools to ingest data from various asset classes into a PostgreSQL/Citus-based trade store – currently storing over 8 years’ worth of data and on average processing more than a million events a day.

Collaborating closely with other engineering teams in the wider Electronic Trading space, you’ll take ownership of the full development lifecycle – designing, building and releasing robust, scalable new features without compromising system stability. This is a client-facing, impactful role requiring a real team player, with a passion for new technologies and loves sharing knowledge.

Their tech stack is mostly C++ and Python on Linux (with occasional UI work in Javascript) and you’ll be using industry best practice for testing, automation, and CI/CD (CMake, Google Tests, Pytest, Jenkins, Git, etc.).

Requirements

• 8+ years of development experience
• Strong experience in C++, and ideally Python
• Top-notch problem-solving skills
• Experience managing large-scale projects or working with multiple stakeholders simultaneously
• Sound knowledge of industry best practices for testing, automation and CI/CD
• Excellent communication skills at all levels, both technical and non-technical

Desirable

• Familiarity with any of the following: database technologies, e.g. PostgreSQL, Citus, Greenplum; multithreaded apps; or data science frameworks

Perks

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

Summary

Not your standard hedge fund, the scientists, technologists and academics at this innovative company look beyond traditional finance to develop creative solutions and sophisticated trading models.

They’re looking to hire talented software engineers who are interested in varied, challenging work for positions across all their engineering groups. You will work on world-class trading systems, creating infrastructure for your software engineering colleagues, and building and maintaining a whole host of analysis tools for quant researchers. You’ll also build technologies to boost the trading businesses, drive productivity and reduce risk across the company.

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

• Market-leading base salaries + bonus
• Outstanding benefits package
• Truly collaborative culture and growth opportunities throughout the firm
• Flexible work environment
• Tuition reimbursement, conference and training sponsorship

Salary: Up to £90k base + stock options

Summary:

This is a successful, growing fintech with multiple openings for highly competent and experienced software engineers across both the back and frontend. Set to become the UK’s first platform bank by September, they empower companies to bring new financial products to market at speed on a platform designed with scalability and security in mind.

Now is the perfect time to get onboard as they are growing their technology team substantially.

As a Backend Engineer, you will build out one of the core product pillars – core banking, compliance, accounts, transactions – always being mindful that the infrastructure needs to scale to tens of thousands of requests per second. You’ll also contribute to fully functional integrations with several different payment rails and various card networks.

As a Frontend Engineer, your responsibilities will include integrating & extending backend APIs and building & growing the design system, written in accessible, semantic and performant code.

In terms of tech, the backend stack is Clojure, Kafka, Datomic, Kubernetes and AWS and they use CLJS, Reframe, Reagent, React, Stitches, Storybook, and Playroom on the frontend.

Requirements:

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Experience collaborating in cross-functional product development teams
• Backend:
  • Functional programming experience – Clojure would be ideal
  • Very strong distributed systems background OR full-stack exposure
• Frontend:
  • Strong JS experience in React/Vue
  • Deep-level understanding of semantic, accessible HTML & CSS
• Comfortable working independently within a geographically distributed team

Desirable:

• Experience with any of the other technologies within the stack they use (above)
• Experience working in small teams in a start-up environment

Benefits:

• Competitive base salaries + stock
• Truly flexible working – fully remote (UK/Ireland/Portugal) or office-based (London or UK-wide co-working spaces) or a hybrid of the two
• Generous benefits package, including pension, private medical and life insurance, and paid-for weekly lunch (even when remote)
• Transparent, autonomous working culture

Salary: Highly competitive base salaries + bonuses (in-line with top buy-side + HFT firms)

Location: London

Summary:

Multiple openings for highly competent and experienced Quant OR Core C++ / Python Engineers to join the highly-skilled and globally-distributed Engineering function at a well-established, top HFT firm with global offices. Successful candidates will join an exceptionally successful Front-Office team who have enjoyed significant success since their inception, under the direction of top industry players.

Candidates must currently be hands-on with either C++ or Python and be up to date with the latest frameworks. You must have strong computer science fundamentals (these will be assessed heavily during the interview process) – data structures, algorithms, design principles.

Requirements:

• A minimum of 3+ years of C++ or Python experience
• Computer Science (or similar) degree from a top-10 university (2:1 or equivalent)
• Financial services experience is highly useful but not mandatory
• Competitive programming backgrounds are highly desirable
• Active GitHub pages / extracurricular programming activity

Benefits:

• Packages above industry standard
• Work in a team with some of the top engineers in the UK

Salary: Highly competitive base salaries + options  (in-line with top buy-side + HFT firms and above-industry standard in the crypto space)

Location: London OR Remote (in UK)

Summary:

Multiple openings for highly competent and experienced Functional Programmers to join the highly skilled and rapidly expanding Engineering function at a well-established UK-based blockchain firm – the offshoot of a leading US-based blockchain technology provider. Successful candidates will work directly on the blockchain itself, and will have autonomy to work on their own projects within the blockchain without direction from management.

Candidates must currently be hands-on with a functional programming language, and should be comfortable to work in / pick up OCaml. You must have strong computer science fundamentals (these will be assessed during the interview process): data structures, algorithms, design principles.

Requirements:

• A minimum of 5+ years of functional programming experience
• Computer Science (or similar) degree from a top-tier university (2:1 or equivalent)
• An interest / understanding in blockchain / crypto
• Financial services experience is useful but not mandatory

Benefits:

• Packages above industry standard
• WFH flex (up to fully remote)
• Ability to work on own projects during work hours
• Modern offices
• Flexible work hours

Salary: up to £70k base + performance-based bonus (>15%)

Location: London

Summary:

New opportunity for a Senior C# Developer to join the London-based Tech team for a sociable, leading market-making firm in the equities space. This person will join the team as a Senior Technical Contributor with some oversight of some of the juniors within the team.

Candidates must currently be hands-on with C# in their current role and be comfortable with technically challenging interviews which will test C# competency.

Requirements:

• A minimum of 5+ years of software engineering experience
• At least 4+ years of C# experience
• Computer Science (or similar) degree from a top-tier university useful but not mandatory
• An interest in / understanding of equities

Salary: up to £50k base + performance-based bonus (>15%)

Location: London

Summary:

New opportunity for a Mid-Level C# Developer to join the London-based Tech team for a sociable, leading market-making firm in the equities space. This person will join the team as a Mid-Level Contributor with clear progression into senior / leadership roles down the line.

Candidates must currently be hands-on with C# in their current role and be comfortable with technically challenging interviews which will test C# competency.

Requirements:

• A minimum of 2+ years of software engineering experience
• At least 2+ years of C# experience
• Computer Science (or similar) degree from a top-tier university useful but not mandatory
• An interest in / understanding of equities

Salary: up to £90k base + company shares

Location: London

Summary:

Interesting opportunity for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join the small DevOps function within a well-established AI tech firm who focus on Voice Recognition / Speech Assistance software. This person will ideally come from a Computer Science background, with demonstrable DevOps experience, ideally in a senior role. This person MUST have AWS and Kubernetes experience, and strong Python and / or Bash scripting skills.

You will work as a key contributor in a small team, reporting directly into the Head of Function, and acting as a Senior Engineer.

Please note – the hiring team will only proceed with candidates who closely match the below requirements.

Requirements:

• A minimum of 4+ years of DevOps experience
• Proven AWS experience
• Kubernetes experience
• Competency in Python / Bash
• Computer Science (or similar) degree from a top-tier university (2:1 or equivalent)

Benefits:

• Highly competitive base salaries + company shares on an upwards trajectory

Salary: up to £100k base + bonus (up to 50%)

Location: London – Liverpool Street

Summary:

Newly-released opportunity for a Mid to Senior-level Core Java Developer to join the small but expanding Engineering function within a small, UK-based investment bank, to work on a variety of projects focused on building / maintaining in-house trading systems. This person will ideally come from a Computer Science background, with strong computer science fundamentals and technical competency with core Java, ideally coupled with previous banking / fintech / buy-side experience.

Candidates must currently be hands-on with Java and be up to date with the latest frameworks.

Requirements:

• A minimum of 4+ years of software engineering experience
• At least 3+ years of Java experience
• Computer Science (or similar) degree from a top-tier university
• Previous finance / fintech experience is highly desirable

Benefits:

• Strong base salary + above-industry standard bonuses
• Project-based work
• 30 days holiday
• 1-2 days a week WFH

Salary: up to £120k base + company shares

Location: Fully Remote

Summary:

Exciting, fully-remote opportunity for experienced Back-End Python Developers to join the globally-distributed Engineering function within an up-and-coming pricing optimisation fintech with multiple clients and sponsors. This person will come from a strong Computer Science background, with strong computer science fundamentals and technical competency with back-end Python, ideally coupled with machine learning / AI experience / interest.

Candidates must currently be hands-on with Python as the interview process is rigorous and technically challenging and must be completed in Python.

You will work as a key contributor in a small team, collaborating closely with colleagues on the product side, with autonomy to build the tech stack within the organisation.

Requirements:

• A minimum of 5+ years of software engineering experience
• At least 4+ years of Python experience
• Computer Science (or similar) degree from a top-tier university
• An interest in machine learning / artificial intelligence
• Cloud experience highly desirable – GCP

Benefits:

• Highly competitive base salaries + company shares on an upwards trajectory
• Complete work autonomy
• Fully remote

Salary: up to £120k base + bonuses in line with buy-side finance firms

Location: London

Summary:

Brand new opportunity for an experienced Scala Developer to join the newly formed Digital Assets function with a well-renowned fintech with buy-side finance links. This person will come from a strong Computer Science background, with expert knowledge in design principles, data structures and algorithms; previous finance experience is not required.

Candidates must be currently using Scala as their main language and should be up to date with the latest frameworks.

The successful candidate will be the only Scala Developer within the wider Digital Assets function, so strong technical skill is critical.

Requirements:

• A minimum of 4+ years of software engineering experience
• At least 3+ years of Scala experience
• Computer Science (or similar) degree from a top-tier university
• An interest in financial technology and / or crypto

Benefits:

• Highly competitive base salaries + bonuses
• Work on completely greenfield projects

Please note, this is an urgent business hire, and we are keen to move quickly on this. 

Candidates must be able to start before the end of H1.

Unfortunately, we cannot provide sponsorship for this role.

Salary: up to £150k base + bonuses in line with buy-side finance firms

Location: London

Summary:

Brand new opportunity for an experienced C#/.NET Developer to join the newly formed Digital Assets function with a well-renowned fintech with buy-side finance links. This person will come from a strong Computer Science background, with expert knowledge in design principles, data structures and algorithms; previous finance experience is not required.

Candidates must be currently using back-end C# as their main language and should be up to date with the latest frameworks.

You will work as a key contributor in a small team, collaborating closely with colleagues on the business side too.

Requirements:

• A minimum of 5+ years of software engineering experience
• At least 4+ years of C# experience
• Computer Science (or similar) degree from a top-tier university
• An interest in financial technology and / or crypto

Benefits:

• Highly competitive base salaries + bonuses
• Work on completely greenfield projects

Please note, this is an urgent business hire, and we are keen to move quickly on this.

Candidates must be able to start before the end of H1.

Unfortunately, we cannot provide sponsorship for this role.

Salary: highly competitive packages in line with top HFT + buy-side firms

Location: London OR Remote

Summary:

Excellent opportunity for an experienced Front-End / React Developer to join the rapidly expanding engineering function at an up-and-coming tech scale-up, specialising in building NFT technology platforms. This person will come from a strong Computer Science background, with expert knowledge in design principles, data structures and algorithms, ideally coupled with prior experience in the blockchain space.

Hands-on experience with React is a must, ideally coupled with Typescript and HTML experience.

You will work as a key contributor in a small team, collaborating closely with colleagues on the business side too.

Requirements:

• A minimum of 4+ years of hands-on front-end engineering experience
• At least 2+ years of React experience
• Typescript, HTML, Redux highly desirable
• Computer Science (or similar) degree from a top university
• A working understanding of crypto / blockchain / Web3

Benefits:

• Highly competitive base salaries
• Flexible work arrangements – will consider up to fully remote

Please note, this is an urgent business hire, and we are keen to move quickly on this.

We are unable to sponsor candidates or proceed with candidates based outside of the UK.

Summary 

Are you a technologist passionate about developing first-class IT platforms? Are you keen to work for a large global enterprise on challenging problems, developing innovative solutions? Then this role would be perfect for you! 

One of the world’s most prestigious tier-1 banks is seeking a senior developer to join the technology team which supports the Investment Banking and Global Capital Markets areas, delivering a wide variety of global technology solutions. 

You’ll be a hands-on developer as part of a growing, agile team delivering new functionality rapidly to production. You’ll also build solutions for the client coverage and deal lifecycle platform for both internal and external users, as well as improving the DevOps capability with CI/CD tooling. 

The successful Java Developer will be an outstanding communicator, able to collaborate effectively with users, business owners and the wider global team. 

Requirements 

• Commercial development experience, with strong Java and/or Angular skills
• Hands-on development experience and a passion for continued learning
• Exceptional problem-solving skills

Salary: 150-400 USD TC

Summary: 

Fantastic chance to join one of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds as Quant Developer in one of their Systematic Trading teams. This is a high impact role, within a small, entrepreneurial team, where you will be building robust and fault-tolerant infrastructure to help monetize alphas.

Collaborating with the senior PM and trading group, and engaging with the entire investment process, work will cover everything from designing and building strategy rebalancing and trading infrastructure, through to supporting a 24/5 live trading system in conjunction with middle office and operations.

The successful Quant Developer will be a fantastic problem-solver with strong analytical skills, who excels when part of a dynamic, collaborative team in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment.

Requirements: 

• Substantial Python programming experience
• Bachelors, Masters or PhD degree in a quantitative subject (e.g. Applied Maths, Physics, Computer Science) from a top-tier university
• Proficiency with Linux operating systems
• Knowledge of design patterns, dynamic programming, object-oriented programming, REST APIs

Desirable:

• 5+ years’ quant developer experience in a similar financial institution
• 5+ years’ experience designing & implementing a fault-tolerant trading system

Benefits: 

• Significant salary + bonus + benefits
• Dynamic, fast-paced environment; excellent career growth opportunities
• Positive, friendly culture and rewarding place to work
• Work-from-home opportunities

Summary 

One of the world’s most prestigious tier-1 banks is seeking a technically proficient and enthusiastic senior software engineer to join an agile, global team working on large-scale problems core to the business in London. 

You will be contributing to the team which builds the servers and clients for storage, access and global distribution of data within their ground-breaking, highly integrated risk management Scala platform. You will have ownership of technical deliverables and guiding other team members as you develop a cutting-edge, distributed and strongly consistent store providing data for everything from large-compute grids to front-office UI applications. This role offers the chance to integrate with open-source technologies such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL and Kafka, and with both internal and external cloud platforms. 

The main development language here is Scala, but prior knowledge is not required – you will be given help to learn it, collaborating closely with very experienced Scala developers. 

The successful Senior Developer will have a proven track record of mentoring/managing other developers and be a strong problem solver with analytical skills. 

Requirements

• Significant experience in any of the following: C++, Java, .Net or similar languages
• Sound understanding of core CompSci concepts and code optimization techniques
• Technically curious mindset, keen to dig beneath the surface to understand how things work, why they’re like that and what the design trade-offs were
• Financial industry experience is not a pre-requisite, but familiarity with large enterprise systems is beneficial

Desirable

• Skills in any of the following: SQL, no-SQL datastores, Scala

Summary 

One of the world’s most prestigious tier-1 banks is seeking a senior developer with expert-level knowledge of Java to work on their equity derivatives technology platform and increase its scalability. This system manages the pre-trade workflow for sales and trading, including product definition, pricing and quoting, pre-trade approvals and automated integration with booking systems.  

This role offers the opportunity to play a pivotal part in the build-out of the platform and be involved in strategic architectural decisions at a senior level. You will support and lead various phases of the product lifecycle, including analysis, development and testing, while developing new and existing components in Java. Working closely with front office business users, you will be a proactive member of an agile team. You will also perform code reviews, mentor junior team members, and define and encourage the design and coding best practice standards for the team. 

The successful Java Developer will be an outstanding communicator, able to interact effectively with users, business owners and the wider global team. 

Requirements 

• 5+ years’ commercially proven development experience in Java
• Sound experience of Agile development techniques and build and release management principles, including CI/CD
• Practical TDD experience
• Previous experience in mentoring less experienced team members
• Experience with application integration, software design patterns, frameworks, unit testing, automated testing, performance / memory analysis, and n-tier service-oriented architecture
• Equity derivatives product knowledge is not a pre-requisite, but it is advantageous

• Competitive salary and compensation package
• Direct business impact
• Collaborative culture and an exciting place to work
• Flexible working/working from home opportunities

Salary:£60-65k base (~£80k TC)

Summary

This is a great opportunity at one of the leading providers of sports betting brokerage software. Made up of research mathematicians, computer scientists and trading analysts, they have developed a flagship product – a state-of-the-art research and trading platform that allows clients to find and execute the best prices available.

As an Infrastructure Engineer, you will join a small, motivated team where you can make a meaningful impact both on your immediate colleagues and on the firm’s success as a whole. This role offers the chance to work on many varied projects, from networking design and routing, to maintaining large-scale PostgreSQL database clusters, to system monitoring and security.

The culture here is second to none. They recognise the importance of having a simple, robust, scalable and secure infrastructure, so your work will be truly valued. If you are intellectually curious, enjoy learning about new technologies and thrive on solving difficult problems, this is for you.

Skills & Experience Required

• Strong coding skills, able to write and maintain good quality code, ideally with Python and shell scripting experience
• Proficient in solving difficult problems via coding automation
• Excellent communication skills, able to quickly develop strong working relationships
• Experience with large-scale Linux systems admin – they use Debian/Ubuntu, but would consider someone with CentOS/RedHat experience
• Experience with monitoring systems, config management software, Linux containers

Desirable

• Solid knowledge of all hardware and software layers
• Knowledge of big data systems management (e.g. Spark, HDFS, Airflow)
• Git experience

Benefits & Incentives

• Strong salary + discretionary bonus scheme
• Relaxed working environment, with genuinely flexible hours
• Generous benefits package, including personal training budget, cycle-to-work scheme & generous holiday allowance
• Flat, transparent organisational structure, no bureaucracy
• Regular social events including weekly free lunch

Salary: ~£40-55k

Summary

Fantastic opportunity for a Python Developer to join a small, friendly team at one of the leading providers of sports betting brokerage software. Made up of research mathematicians, computer scientists and trading analysts, they have developed a flagship product – a state-of-the-art research and trading platform that allows clients to find and execute the best prices available.

In this role, you will be be part of developing the next-generation engine at the heart of the platform, writing high quality code to interact with external websites and APIs. You will develop features, fix bugs and carry out maintenance to keep on top of the rapidly changing market. You will also suggest and test improvements, interacting with colleagues using an agile methodology and tools (e.g. Scrum, Gitlab, Jira).

They mostly use Python, C++ and Erlang for the platform, with a wide range of other languages employed where appropriate. They are strong believers in open source and build the system on it wherever possible.

The successful Python Developer will be passionate about tech, be an expert communicator and love working collaboratively and productively in a team.

Skills & Experience Required

• Strong commercial programming experience, or equivalent contributions to public projects
• Demonstrable knowledge of object-oriented Python, particularly structured projects
• Keen interest in the key protocols used on the internet
• Good knowledge of Linux and Git

Desirable

• C++ coding experience/knowledge
• AWS familiarity

Benefits & Incentives

• Strong salary + discretionary bonus scheme
• Relaxed working environment, with genuinely flexible hours
• Generous benefits package, including personal training budget, cycle-to-work scheme & generous holiday allowance
• Flat, transparent organisational structure, no bureaucracy
• Regular social events including weekly free lunch

Compensation: competitive

This is a credit-focused hedge fund based in the heart of the City going through a period of fantastic growth and success. To meet the demand across the business, they are looking to add a highly skilled C#/Python developer to their technology team.

In this role, you will cover the development of all front office modelling, risk and valuation systems. You will report directly to the CTO, but will also interact closely with technology colleagues, Portfolio Managers, Traders, Quants and Operations, plus other key stakeholders as you gather requirements and specifications.

The successful developer will be highly adaptable, an outstanding communicator and demonstrate a proactive approach to problem-solving.

Skills/Experience Required

• 3+ years’ development experience in front office risk
• Strong skills in C#/.Net (multithreaded GUI & server development) and Python (including numpy, pandas, etc.)
• Good working knowledge of the software development life cycle
• Solid experience of building front-end systems and strong database skills (SQL Server)
• A degree from a top-tier university in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Desirable:

• Hedge fund and/or credit derivatives experience
• Agile development practices

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation packages
• Truly collegial tech culture, within a dynamic, stimulating work environment
• Significant amount of autonomy – up to you to make an impact!
• WFH flexibility

Summary

One of the world’s most prestigious tier-1 banks is seeking a skilled engineer with excellent knowledge of Linux to join the Equities Middle Office infrastructure team in London.

This team builds and manages messaging middleware, distributing trading messages from the trading flows to various downstream systems. You will be tasked with providing trade routing application integration as the business expands, plus you will be involved in building the next-generation technologies platform, contributing to global strategic architecture.

This role offers the opportunity to gain exposure across the board of businesses at the firm, including sales & trading, wealth management and fixed income among others.

NB: This is an urgent business hire and the process is very quick – so apply now!

Requirements

• 2+ years’ experience, preferably with large-scale distributed systems
• Strong proficiency in Linux/Unix, including shell scripting
• Sound experience with scripting languages (Python would be ideal)
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Familiarity with configuration files in XML and YAML
• An interest in cloud computing/Big Data/Stream processing is beneficial
• Bonus points for Finance experience or knowledge of Kafka

Culture / Benefits

• Competitive salary and compensation package
• Direct business impact
• Collaborative culture and an exciting place to work
• Flexible working/working from home opportunities

Salary: highly competitive packages in line with top HFT + Buy-Side Firms

Location: London OR Remote

Summary:

Excellent opportunity for an experienced Web3 Developer to join the rapidly expanding engineering function at an up-and-coming tech scale-up, specialising in building NFT technology platforms. This person will come from a strong computer science background, with expert knowledge in design principles, data structures and algorithms, coupled with prior experience in the blockchain space.

Hands-on experience with NodeJS, Python, React or Solidity is a huge benefit, although we will consider people from other backgrounds with strong business knowledge.  

You will work as a key contributor in a small team, collaborating closely with colleagues on the business side too.

Requirements:

• A minimum of 2+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
• Computer Science (or similar) degree
• Previous experience in at least one of: NodeJS, Python, Solidity, React
• A working understanding of Crypto / Blockchain / Web3 

Benefits:

• Highly competitive base salaries
• Flexible work arrangements – will consider up to fully remote

Please note, this is an urgent business hire, and we are keen to move quickly on this.

Salary: Up to ~£200k TC

Summary 

Exciting opportunity for a hands-on software and reliability engineer in the London office of this global information business.

The core infrastructure system processes tens of billions of data points from thousands of sources every day, enriches the data and makes it accessible to downstream apps and users at the stroke of a key. Within this area, the SRE team is responsible for ensuring the optimal availability, latency, scalability and efficiency of the infrastructure for more than ten thousand client-facing applications.

The Role 

Your workload will be varied and include building services and UIs to manage the application configuration for thousands of machines, understanding the current system’s capacity and making appropriate scaling recommendations. You will also develop and maintain tools for automation, helping to create dashboards, monitoring and alerts to track the health of the live system.

Requirements 

• Strong hands-on software development experience in C/C++, Python or any other programming language
• Outstanding communication skills
• Proven success and understanding of large-scale distributed systems, including troubleshooting and solving live production problems

Desirable 

• Monitoring software, e.g. Splunk, Humio or Grafana
• Practical knowledge of networking stacks such as TCP/UDP/IP
• Good understanding of Linux and/or CI/CD, e.g. Jenkins

Perks 

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

Compensation: competitive

This is a London-based hedge fund based looking to grow their technology team with enthusiastic, reliable, smart people. To meet the demand across the business, they are seeking an experienced software engineer to join their close-knit, motivated team of computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians and others.

Working collaboratively across the business, there is a huge amount of greenfield development for you to get stuck into. Examples of some of the varied tasks your work will involve include:

• Designing, developing and implementing trading infrastructure
• Building data analytics tools and engines that enhance the ability to analyse data
• Learning and deploying new technologies (they love open source)
• Complex computational and data-related problems, implementing innovative solutions
• Improving execution/alphas through backtesting/analysis

This role would be perfect for someone who is highly adaptable, an outstanding communicator and demonstrates a passion for problem-solving through programming.

Skills/Experience Required

• Substantial programming experience is essential
• A genuine love of coding; with a desire for your code to impact the real-world
• Deep-level knowledge of data structures and algorithms, proficient in applying this knowledge to real-world problems
• Experience in a Linux environment, particularly in C++ and Python would be a big plus
• Excellent academic record with a degree in a numerate discipline from a top-tier institution would be ideal

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation packages
• Truly collegial tech culture, within a dynamic, stimulating work environment
• Significant amount of autonomy – up to you to make an impact!
• WFH flexibility

Salary: £60 – 200k total comp

Summary:

Fantastic opportunity to join a tech-driven investment manager in state-of-the-art offices based in the heart of Oxford’s city centre. Engineers here are passionate about writing clean code, innovative thinking and keeping up with the latest technology developments.

They are looking for enthusiastic, reliable, smart people to take on challenging technical roles within their Infrastructure team. You’ll be developing solutions for a wide range of complex technological problems, supporting the large-scale global trading infrastructure. An interesting and varied role, you’ll be architecting and building scalable, robust and secure systems. 

The successful Infrastructure Engineer will have a proactive attitude and thrive in a fast-paced environment. If you’re ambitious, and want to grow your career at a relaxed company where there’s plenty of opportunity for professional development, this is the role for you. ​

Requirements:  

• 2+ years’ relevant experience
• Excellent knowledge of Linux
• Scripting/Automation skills – Python, Bash, Shell
• Solid experience in at least one of:
  • enterprise storage – NetAPP, Dell (EMC/Isilon)
  • network & routing protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, LACP, OSPF, and BGP)
  • Cisco – IOS, Nexus, Arista
• Analytical mindset with creative problem-solving skills

Perks:

Salary: €120,000 base

Summary

Are you a C++ specialist who loves a challenge? Do you love creating beautiful code and developing elegant algorithms? Then this could be the perfect next role for you.

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

The Role

With regular input from the CTO, the successful candidate will be confident working independently, able to assess problems and architect solutions. With no scheduled meetings and no deadlines, you will be in control of your own workload: a feature is ready to be released when you are happy you’ve implemented the best possible solution. Developers here enjoy the responsibilities of architecture, design, implementation, gathering customer feedback and bug fixing.

The ideal candidate will have a degree and/or work experience with C++, alongside a fresh, creative approach to problem solving.

Requirements

• BSc (ideally MSc) in Computer Science or other relevant STEM subject from top-tier university
• Solid, demonstrable C++ experience with a solid theoretical background
• Smart, creative development skills with ability to work independently
• Fluency in both written and spoken English is essential. Knowledge of German is a bonus.

What is on offer

• Competitive salaries + generous benefits package
• Flat, transparent organisation; where everyone’s ideas are encouraged
• High degree of autonomy over code you write
• All the equipment you need to work remotely

Salary: up to £500k total comp

Job description:

Client:

This premier investment firm undertake rigorous research and deploy systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes. Technology is central to their success. Systematic macro trading within equities, FX and Futures, they run both intra-day strategies and build long-term systematic HFT strategies.

Role:

They’re looking for a strong software engineer to join their growing development team in London. Working on critical greenfield projects, you’ll build high-performance components for both live trading and simulation, as well as increasing automation and robustness of the research infrastructure, including alpha estimation, risk modelling, and backtesting. With lots of project ownership and a collaborative start-up environment, this is a fantastic place to work.

Requirements:

• 3+ years’ development experience in a similar role
• Strong programming skills in Python (and some C++ would be ideal)
• Bachelors (or higher) in Computer Science or other quantitative discipline
• A motivated self-starter, with creative & analytical problem-solving skills
• Equally comfortable working independently as in a small team

Desirable:

• Experience working as part of a small trading team
• Skills/experience in any of the following: SQL, MongoDB, Bash, Git, Docker, Linux/Unix

Benefits:

• Market-leading base + bonuses
• Meritocratic work culture and environment
• Excellent professional development
• Outstanding opportunities for project ownership

Salary: up to £500k total comp

Job description:

Client:

This premier investment firm undertake rigorous research and deploy systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes. Technology is central to their success. Systematic macro trading within equities, FX and Futures, they run both intra-day strategies and build long-term systematic HFT strategies.

Role:

They’re looking for a strong software engineer to join their growing development team in London. Working on critical greenfield projects, you’ll build high-performance components for both live trading and simulation, as well as increasing automation and robustness of the research infrastructure, including alpha estimation, risk modelling, and backtesting. With lots of project ownership and a collaborative start-up environment, this is a fantastic place to work.

Requirements:

• 3+ years’ development experience in a similar role
• Strong programming skills in C++ (and some Python would be ideal)
• Bachelors (or higher) in Computer Science or other quantitative discipline
• A motivated self-starter, with creative & analytical problem-solving skills
• Equally comfortable working independently as in a small team

Desirable:

• Experience working as part of a small trading team
• Skills/experience in any of the following: SQL, MongoDB, Bash, Git, Docker, Linux/Unix

Benefits:

• Market-leading base + bonuses
• Meritocratic work culture and environment
• Excellent professional development
• Outstanding opportunities for project ownership

Salary: £300-400k TC

Job Description:

One of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds is looking for an outstanding Python QD to join one of their systematic fixed income trading pods.

This is a high impact role, within a small team of 6, where you will report to the team tech lead. Working closely with the quants and traders, you will build and maintain the systematic trading and research code, automating workflows with devops. The tech stack is primarily Python and they make heavy use of cloud resources and containerization to get things done.

If you’re looking for a challenging, entrepreneurial and supportive environment where you can take your skills and experience to the next level plus you enjoy seeing the impact of your work on a daily basis, then this is the role for you!

Skills and Experience Required

• Deep understanding of Python, including recent language developments
• Experience with pandas / numpy
• Technical background (Maths/ Comp Sci/ Engineering)
• Competent with Git and Linux Command Line
• Familiarity with cloud computing
• Finance experience is not required!

Desirable Experience

• Virtual environments & conda
• Cloud computing with AWS (EC2, S3, Batch, Lambda)
• DevOps experience – troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines
• Docker containers

Benefits & Incentives

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

Salary: up to £600k first year total comp

Salary: 50-80 lakhs base + 30-50 lakhs bonus

Job description:

Client

One of the world’s most prestigious multi-strategy funds. With huge autonomy within small teams, they share a core infrastructure platform but encourage their traders and quants to pursue unique investment strategies, consistently delivering high quality returns independent of the general market.

This is a great place to work; the tech culture is excellent, little red-tape and hard work is well rewarded.

Role

You will begin in the core low latency group, designing and building ultra-low latency C++20 systems. After 12 months, you will have the opportunity to in this team or to join a ‘trading pod’ working closely with the Portfolio Manager on trading strategies – this could be the build out of a brand-new trading team or joining an existing successful team.

To begin, working closely with hardware and software developers across the business, you’ll be developing and enhancing a tick-by-tick backtesting research platform and exchange simulation. Other work will involve building and optimizing ultra-low latency trading systems, contributing to the team’s technical direction by driving new initiatives.

Skills and Experience Required

• 3+ years’ C++ programming experience, preferably using C++20
• Minimum bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related) from a top-tier university
• Sound analytical and mathematical skills (design patterns, algorithms, data structures)
• Solid understanding of low-latency and real-time system design and implementation
• Deep understanding of working in a Linux environment and working with CPU architecture

Salary: c.£120-140k base, circa £200k TC

4-10 years’ experience

Job Description

Client

Fantastic opportunity for a strong developer with Java – and ideally some Python – server-side skills to join the core FICC technology group at one of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds.

In this role, you’ll be part of a global team developing the firm’s real-time global trade capture application. This processes, normalizes and enriches the firm’s executions in multiple asset classes as well as feeding the executions to internal systems, including real-time P&L and risk systems. You will get a lot of product exposure whilst working closely with other teams within FI, Commodities, Credit and FX.

Skills and Experience Required

• Minimum 4 years’ development experience in Java; Python experience is highly advantageous
• Strong experience of multithreading, OO design, patterns, unit & integration testing

Beneficial Skills

• Proven experience using Docker, Kubernetes and cloud technology is beneficial
• Good knowledge of CI/CD & devops tools, Angular and web technology
• Familiarity with middleware technologies (e.g. JMS) and Spring

Benefits & Incentives

• Strong salary
• Hybrid working-from-home and office
• Dynamic culture and an exciting place to work
• Generous benefits package

Salary: £140k base + £80k bonus

Job description:

Client

Fabulous opportunity for a talented QD to join one of the world’s most prestigious multi-strategy funds. They attract some of the best talent in the industry, offering true career development within a collaborative, supportive environment. Well-respected in the industry for their fantastic compensation and significant investment in their technology, this is a rewarding place to work.

Role

You will join the Equity Factor Risk Model Research Technology team, which is responsible for the design and development of equity portfolio analytics frameworks. Working closely with the portfolio research team, you’ll be tasked with building the necessary infrastructure for optimal extraction, transformation and loading of data from multiple sources. You will also be identifying internal process improvements and designing & implementing the solutions.

The successful candidate will be a strong team player who enjoys helping others, and a skilled communicator, comfortable facing off to the business.

Skills and Experience Required

• 3-5+ years’ professional development experience at a top-tier technology company/fintech
• Exceptional Python programming skills
• Strong problem-solving skills

Desirable:

• Solid experience of software design – algorithms & object-oriented design
• Advanced working knowledge of SQL
• Experience with ‘big data’ analytics engines, Apache Spark would be ideal
• Understanding of equities markets is beneficial, but by no means a requirement

Benefits & Incentives

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

Salary: £140-200k base + ~100-200% bonus

Job description:

Client

One of the world’s most prestigious multi-strategy funds. With huge autonomy within small teams, they share a core infrastructure platform but encourage their traders and quants to pursue unique investment strategies, consistently delivering high quality returns independent of the general market.

This is a great place to work; the tech culture is excellent, little red-tape and hard work is well rewarded.

Role

You will begin in the core low latency group, designing and building ultra-low latency C++20 systems. After 12 months, you will have the opportunity to in this team or to join a ‘trading pod’ working closely with the Portfolio Manager on trading strategies – this could be the build out of a brand-new trading team or joining an existing successful team.

To begin, working closely with hardware and software developers across the business, you’ll be developing and enhancing a tick-by-tick backtesting research platform and exchange simulation. Other work will involve building and optimizing ultra-low latency trading systems, contributing to the team’s technical direction by driving new initiatives.

Skills and Experience Required

• 3+ years’ C++ programming experience, preferably using C++20
• Minimum bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related) from a top-tier university
• Sound analytical and mathematical skills (design patterns, algorithms, data structures)
• Solid understanding of low-latency and real-time system design and implementation
• Deep understanding of working in a Linux environment and working with CPU architecture

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

4+ years’ experience

Job description:

Client

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

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

Role

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

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

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

Skills and Experience Required

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

Desirable

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

Benefits & Incentives

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

Salary: £200-250,000 total compensation

Experience: 5+ years

Job Description:

Client

A multi-strategy fund with offices globally is looking for a buy-side quantitative developer with credit experience to join their London team. With huge autonomy within small teams, they share a core infrastructure platform but encourage their traders and quants to pursue unique investment strategies, consistently delivering high quality returns independent of the general market.

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

Role

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

Skills and Experience Required

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

Benefits

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

Salary: £200,000 total comp

Company

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

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

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

Role

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary: £300-500k total comp

The Company:

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

Role:

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Salary: £130-160k base + bonus

The Company

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

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

– 350,000 paying customers

– 200 million lines of C++

– Hybrid remote and office working

Role

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

Requirements

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

Benefits & Incentives

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

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