Research Driven Recruitment
World-Leading Quant Fund
London
New Listing
Global quantitative fund is looking for experienced Python developers with data expertise to join their growing London team. You will work in collaboration with data engineers and quants to test and evaluate alternative datasets – operating a wide array of methods, including unsupervised, supervised, learning, natural language processing (NLP), anomaly detection, etc.
Requirements:
Nice to have:
If this sounds like you, or you’d like to know more, please get in touch!
Tara Neville
tara.neville@oxfordknight.co.uk
M: +44 75540 95599
T: +44 20 8156 6143
linkedin.com/in/tara-neville-1b19961a8
Python | C# | SQL | Machine Learning
London
New Listing
Summary:
A boutique systematic and quant trading firm is looking for a Quantitative Analyst to join their quant research team in London. With a small, agile and technology-driven environment, the successful quant analyst will be working alongside software engineers and quant researchers to build and develop statistical, mathematical models from scratch using vast data sets and cutting-edge technology. Free from a bureaucratic and corporate culture, this small team are able to react to changing financial markets with agility and speed, whilst maintaining an emphasis on employees’ personal and professional development.
Requirements:
Benefits:
If you’re interested in Quant Analyst positions in London, please get in touch:
Rosie Griggs
rosie.griggs@oxfordknight.co.uk
linkedin.com/in/rosie-oxfordknight
Systematic Quant Hedge Fund Manager
London
New Listing
Summary:
A London leading quant / systematic hedge fund are looking for a quant developer to join their quant team in London. The successful quant developer will be building quant technology infrastructure in C# and Python, working closely with quant analysts, traders and software developers in an agile, test-driven team.
Requirements:
Benefits:
If you’re interested in Quant Development roles in London, please get in touch!
Rosie Griggs
rosie.griggs@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9577
linkedin.com/in/rosie-oxfordknight
Quant Trading Firm
London
New Listing
Summary:
A cutting-edge quant-driven trading firm are looking for experienced Quant Developers to join their London-based, agile engineering team.
Building bleeding-edge algo trading and quantitative trading models in C++ and Python, the successful quant developer will have commercial experience in a front office environment from another fund or top-tier bank, preferably in London.
Requirements:
Benefits:
If you’re interested in Quant Development or C++/Python development positions, please get in touch:
Rosie Griggs
rosie.griggs@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9577
linkedin.com/in/rosie-oxfordknight
Prop trading // Quant/ Systematic Trading
London
New Listing
Summary:
A boutique prop trading firm with a strong focus on high quality technology and systematic and quant trading models are looking for a Senior C# Developer to join their small, agile, London-based team. With zero red tape or bureaucracy often associated with bigger buy-side firms and investment banks, this London-based team of engineers, researchers, modellers and traders know how to get things done in a cutting-edge market.
Working next to the business, the successful C# Developer will be working with vast, complex data sets, and will be building algorithmic trading models and infrastructure in C# /.NET Core and SQL, directly with London-based quants and traders.
Requirements:
Benefits:
If you’re interested in C# Development roles in London, please get in touch!
Rosie Griggs
rosie.griggs@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9577
linkedin.com/in/rosie-oxfordknight
Quant / Systematic Prop Trading Firm | C# / asp.net / WPF / HTML5 / Agile
London
New Listing
Summary:
A growing quant/systematic-focussed prop trading firm is looking for a C#/.net GUI developer to join their London-based, agile engineering team. The successful GUI 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:
Benefits:
If you’re interested in C# / GUI development roles in London, please get in touch!
Rosie Griggs
rosie.griggs@oxfordknight.co.uk
linkedin.com/in/rosie-oxfordknight
C# / .NET Core / SQL / Azure
London
New Listing
Summary:
A London-based hedge fund with a specialisation in quant and systematic trading are looking for a senior C# developer to join their London-based, agile team. Working on complex quantitative modelling and solutions, the successful C# developer will be working with the latest technologies in an agile and highly diverse environment. Technology includes the latest version of C#/.NET Core, SQL and cloud technology.
Requirements:
Benefits:
If you’re interested in C# development roles in London, please get in touch!
Rosie Griggs
rosie.griggs@oxfordknight.co.uk
linkedin.com/in/rosie-oxfordknight
C# / .NET / SQL / Agile
London
New Listing
Summary:
A globally leading quant trading firm in London are looking for a C# Developer to join their agile, London-based technology team. Working on trade execution, the C# Developer will be working closely alongside execution traders, portfolio managers, and quant developers in C# and SQL on AWS cloud infrastructure. The work carried out by this team is business-critical, and the successful C# developer will have significant ownership and impact over projects and the business as a whole.
Required Skills:
Skills that are nice to have, but not required:
Benefits:
If you’re interested in C# engineering-style positions in London, please get in touch!
Rosie Griggs
rosie.griggs@oxfordknight.co.uk
linkedin.com/in/rosie-oxfordknight
C# | .NET | SQL | Hedge Fund | Asset Management
London
New Listing
Summary:
An industry-leading quant / systematic trading asset manager are looking for a C# focussed software developer to join an agile, London-based engineering team. The successful C# developer will be working very close to the business, alongside traders, risk analysts and quants in London. Their tech stack includes C#, .NET, Azure and Kubernetes.
Requirements:
Benefits:
If you’re interested in C# development roles in London, please get in touch!
Rosie Griggs
rosie.griggs@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9577
linkedin.com/in/rosie-oxfordknight
C# / .net 5.0 / SQL / AWS / Kubernetes / Docker
London
New Listing
Summary:
A globally leading quant trading firm in London are looking for a Senior C# Developer to join their agile, London-based technology team. Working on trade execution, the Senior C# Developer will be working closely alongside execution traders, portfolio managers, and quant developers in C# and SQL on AWS cloud infrastructure. The work carried out by this team is business critical, and the successful C# developer will have significant ownership and impact over projects and the business as a whole.
Required Skills:
Skills that are nice to have, but not required:
Benefits:
If you’re interested in C# engineering-style positions in London, please get in touch!
Rosie Griggs
rosie.griggs@oxfordknight.co.uk
linkedin.com/in/rosie-oxfordknight
C#, SQL, Machine Learning, Quant/ Systematic Trading
London
New Listing
Summary:
A boutique systematic and quant trading firm are looking for a C# Developer to join their quant research team in London. With a small, agile and technology-driven environment, the successful C# Developer will be working alongside software engineers and quant researchers to build and develop statistical, mathematical models from scratch using vast data sets and cutting-edge technology. Free from a bureaucratic and corporate culture, this small team are able to react to changing financial markets with agility and speed, whilst maintaining an emphasis on employees’ personal and professional development.
Requirements:
Benefits:
If you’re interested in C# or Software Development positions in London, please get in touch!
Rosie Griggs
rosie.griggs@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9577
linkedin.com/in/rosie-oxfordknight
Systematic Hedge Fund
London
New Listing
Summary:
A boutique systematic hedge fund in London are looking for a C# developer to join their agile, test-driven development team in London. The successful C# developer will be working with the latest version of .NET and SQL, building multithreaded applications in an agile environment.
Requirements:
Benefits:
If you’re interested in C# Developer roles in London, please get in touch!
Rosie Griggs
rosie.griggs@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9577
linkedin.com/in/rosie-oxfordknight
International Tech Firm
London
New Listing
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 C#/.NET 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:
Benefits:
If you’re interested in C# Development roles in London, please get in touch!
Rosie Griggs
rosie.griggs@oxfordknight.co.uk
linkedin.com/in/rosie-oxfordknight
Systematic Hedge Fund
London
New Listing
Summary:
A boutique systematic hedge fund in London is looking for a C# Developer to join their agile, test-driven development team in London. The successful C# Developer will be working with the latest version of .NET and SQL, building multithreaded applications in an agile environment.
Requirements:
Benefits:
If you’re interested in C# Developer roles in London, please get in touch:
Rosie Griggs
rosie.griggs@oxfordknight.co.uk
linkedin.com/in/rosie-oxfordknight
Quant-Driven Hedge Fund
London
New Listing
Summary:
A globally leading British quant-driven hedge fund are looking for a Senior Full Stack software engineer, with experience of back-end C# and front-end JavaScript (preferably angular.js) to join their London-based team.
Based in central London, with a hybrid work-from-home policy, the successful software engineer does not need specific financial knowledge or experience, but would need to have a strong interest in the field, being responsible for the development of a quant research and strategy platform.
Requirements:
If you’re interested in C# or full stack engineering roles in London, please get in touch:
Rosie Griggs
rosie.griggs@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9577
linkedin.com/in/rosie-oxfordknight
Leading Quant-Driven Market-Maker
London
New Listing
Salary: up to £150k + bonus
Location: London
Summary
Not your standard algo trading firm, this leading market-maker takes pride in 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 and attract the best talent.
They’re now seeking a Platform Performance Engineer to join one of the trading application teams, initially to focus on the performance (both throughput and latency) of cloud-based hosts, but also to be responsible for the performance of a global, co-located trading system.
To begin with, you’ll drive cost efficiency of existing trading deployments and look at on-prem work, e.g. hardware-specific instrumentation & co-ordination of A/B performance experiments. Future projects may cover adapting AWS-based deployment to new clouds (e.g. GCP) and integrating all AWS provisioning into the trading team’s inventory management system over time.
Requirements
NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you or you’d like to know more, please get in touch:
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
up to £150k + bonus
Sophisticated Prop Trading Firm
Amsterdam
New Listing
Summary
High-frequency prop trading firm looking for an outstanding C++ software engineer to join one of their in-house trading teams based in Amsterdam as they design a low-latency, high throughput trading and research system.
Enjoying high levels of autonomy, in this role you will use clean, efficient code to design and develop various components for the high frequency trading platform, collecting quotes and trades from exchanges around the world. You’ll also shape the future of the core engineering team through regular interviewing.
The ideal candidate will be comfortable managing multiple tasks to completion in a fast-paced environment and have highly analytical problem-solving abilities. Some knowledge of crypto would be ideal too.
Requirements
NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you or you would like to know more, please get in touch:
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
+44 (0)20 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
Global Quant Firm
London
New Listing
Salary: up to £150k + bonus
Summary
Leading HFT fund looking for pragmatic Python engineers to join their Production Engineering group in their agile, London-based application team.
This role offers the opportunity to work directly with users, building clean, easy-to-use solutions for complex real-world problems. You’ll be involved in every aspect of software engineering, from understanding users’ needs and gathering requirements, to system architecture design and coding. You’ll also be exposed to a wide range of technologies: Python and Go to build application back-ends, Django/Flask/Dash/React for the front ends, and others including Kubernetes, Kafka, and more.
Unique in their field, this global firm combines the lively, positive spirit of a start-up with the stability of a longer-established player. If you love working on technically challenging problems, learning new things in a collaborative, supportive environment, this role would be perfect for you.
Requirements
NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you or you would like to know more, please get in touch:
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
up to £150k + bonus
Global Quant Firm
London
New Listing
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
NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you, or you’d like to know more, please get in touch:
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
up to £150k + bonus
Global Quant Firm
London
New Listing
Salary: up to £150k + bonus
Summary
Leading global quant firm 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++20 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
NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Desirable
Benefits
If this sounds like you, or you’d like to know more, please get in touch:
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
up to £150k + bonus
Global Quant Firm
London
New Listing
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 Python Software Engineer will be passionate about development, and able to solve difficult technical problems in a fast-paced and energetic environment.
Requirements
NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you, or you’d like to know more, please get in touch.
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
up to £150k + bonus
Global Quant Firm
London
New Listing
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:
Requirements
NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you, or you’d like to know more, please get in touch:
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
Leading Quant Firm
London
New Listing
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.
This firm sees 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.
Requirements
NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you, or you’d like to know more, please get in touch:
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
Systematic Quant Fund
London
New Listing
Our client is a leading tech-driven quant and systematic hedge fund trading with offices across the globe. They leverage deep knowledge in data, research, technology and trading to deliver high-quality returns. This opportunity offers a dynamic and fast-paced environment with excellent prospects for career growth.
Seeking an enthusiastic Python software engineer to join their Risk team in London. Your primary focus will be building and delivering solutions in response to requirements from the Risk Management team and Trading desks.
The successful Python developer will be highly motivated and an exceptional communicator, with experience of facing off to the business and other stakeholders across the firm. You’ll also need to have knowledge of building large-scale applications.
Requirements
Nice-to-Have
Benefits
If you feel you are a good match, please don’t hesitate to get in touch:
Madeleine Mamak
madeleine.mamak@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3745 6529
linkedin.com/in/madeleine-mamak-a06490221
Systematic Quant Fund
London
New Listing
Our client is a leading tech-driven quant and systematic hedge fund trading with offices across the globe. They leverage deep knowledge in data, research, technology and trading to deliver high-quality returns. This opportunity offers a dynamic and fast-paced environment with excellent prospects for career growth.
Seeking a talented Linux Production Engineer to join the global infrastructure support team, where you will be key in supporting the growing Linux on-prem estate to meet complex and evolving business requirements. This role would suit someone who enjoys working with end users, application teams and engineering teams, and you’ll also contribute to project-based activities, e.g. new deployments, general administration tasks and upgrades.
Requirements
Nice-To-Have
Benefits
If you feel you are a good match, please don’t hesitate to get in touch:
Madeleine Mamak
madeleine.mamak@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3745 6529
linkedin.com/in/madeleine-mamak-a06490221
Systematic Quant Fund
London
New Listing
Our client is a leading tech-driven quant and systematic hedge fund trading with offices across the globe. They leverage deep knowledge in data, research, technology and trading to deliver high-quality returns. This opportunity offers a dynamic and fast-paced environment with excellent prospects for career growth.
They’re looking to hire an experienced FPGA Engineer to join the IT team based in London, which trades across all the major Asian, EMEA and US markets. You’ll be expected to provide technical project management and guidance and will be hands-on with infrastructure projects across the EMEA region as well as globally.
Requirements
Nice-to-Have
Benefits
If you feel you are a good match, please don’t hesitate to get in touch:
Madeleine Mamak
madeleine.mamak@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3745 6529
linkedin.com/in/madeleine-mamak-a06490221
Systematic Quant Fund
London
New Listing
Our client is a leading tech-driven quant and systematic hedge fund trading with offices across the globe. They leverage deep knowledge in data, research, technology and trading to deliver high-quality returns. This opportunity offers a dynamic and fast-paced environment with excellent prospects for career growth.
As a key member of the development team, you will be working closely with quant analysts/developers, traders and operations staff to build and enhance low-latency algorithmic trading strategies. You’ll collaborate over the design and implementation of cutting-edge systems, covering all aspects of the trading strategies: from exchange price feeds and financial indicators, to back testing & tick data management, through to production environment support.
The successful candidate will be a self-starter with excellent communication skills, good understanding of user requirements, with knowledge of market data feed handlers and execution gateways highly desirable.
Requirements
Note: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Desirable Skills/Experience
Benefits
If you feel you are a good match, please don’t hesitate to get in touch:
Madeleine Mamak
madeleine.mamak@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3745 6529
linkedin.com/in/madeleine-mamak-a06490221
Global Hedge Fund
London
New Listing
A leading systematic hedge fund, investing across a variety of financial markets in multiple locations, my client is seeking a creative problem-solver to be their next Quant Developer.
You will be working in a team comprised of technical and hands-on builders, each wearing multiple hats, and in this role you’ll be expected to do the same. Working very closely with Researchers and PMs on the team, your primary focus will be building out from scratch performance attribution systems and portfolio analytics to monitor various live trading strategies. You’ll also build out data pipelines to collecting new alternative datasets, automate research workflows, and manage and scale core components of research infrastructure.
The successful Quant Developer will have a strong work ethic and a sense of accountability.
Requirements
Benefits
If you feel you are a good match, please don’t hesitate to get in touch:
Madeleine Mamak
madeleine.mamak@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3745 6529
linkedin.com/in/madeleine-mamak-a06490221
Prop Market Maker
London
New Listing
An elite prop trading firm is looking for exceptional C++ software developers to join their London team. This firm is scientific, tech-driven and they invest heavily in their engineering teams. Developers here are truly world-class.
You will sit on the trading floor, working alongside the very best traders and developers, producing low-latency exchange connectivity components for new markets. You will collaborate closely with other teams ensuring software is supported and runs smoothly.
This is a high impact role, seeing the results of your work immediately and having a direct outcome on the bottom line. You will also have the opportunity to be involved in software engineering processes, such as peer code reviews and daily stand-up meetings.
Requirements
Nice to have
Benefits
If you feel you are a good match, please don’t hesitate to get in touch:
Madeleine Mamak
madeleine.mamak@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3745 6529
linkedin.com/in/madeleine-mamak-a06490221
Prop Trader & Market Maker
London
New Listing
This is an opportunity to join an award-winning algorithmic trading company, operating as a proprietary trader and market maker.
In their research cluster they have over 6000 GPUs and 120 petabytes of usable storage, allowing them to trade c.$295 billion per day. As a result, they are the third largest FX liquidity provider globally with only 170 employees!
In 2021, their UK entities reported revenues of £1.477bn, with net profit of £667m!
They are expanding their exchange trading development team to take on a new remit, building software for their research cluster. They’re currently working on an exabyte-scale highly available distributed filesystem, an optimising JIT compiler targeting massively parallel computation and several in- house custom compression codecs.
People they’ve hired come from a diverse range of backgrounds (gaming companies, Meta, Google, winners of ACM ICPC, Google Code Jam, Olympiads, etc.).
New codebase working on C++ up to C++20.
Salary: Competitive / Market-Leading
Requirements:
Benefits:
Tier-2 visa sponsorship is available.
To apply for this role, please email your CV to:
Kishan Patel
kishan.patel@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9572
linkedin.com/in/kishan-patel-4029aa8b
Global Quant Firm
London
New Listing
Salary: up to £150k base + bonus
Summary
Leading HFT fund looking for a self-driven quantitative researcher to join their centralised Latency team where you will draw on your problem-solving skills and data science/statistics experience to analyse billions of collected trading data points and unearth competitive edges.
This role offers the opportunity to develop both business and technical expertise; working closely with trading teams to perform post-trade statistical analysis and identify relationships between business metrics and changes on the infrastructure technology. You’ll also investigate and design data mining and machine learning algorithms.
Unique in their field, this global firm combines the lively, positive spirit of a start-up with the stability of a longer-established player. This role would suit a curious, highly collaborative researcher who has demonstrated the ability to independently drive projects to completion.
Requirements
NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you or you would like to know more, please get in touch:
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
up to £150k base + bonus
Global Quant Firm
London
New Listing
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
NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Desirable
Benefits
If this sounds like you, or you’d like to know more, please get in touch.
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
up to £150k + bonus
Innovative Algo Trading
London
New Listing
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.
Requirements
NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you or you would like to more, please get in touch:
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
£200k + bonus
Global Quant Firm
London
New Listing
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.
Requirements
NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you, or you’d like to know more, please get in touch.
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
Global Quant Firm
London
New Listing
Summary
Lively, positive spirit of a start-up, with the stability of a longer-established player, this leading quant firm is looking for a skilled C/C++ Developer. 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 C/C++ Developer will have exceptional communication, analytical and problem-solving skills, comfortable taking ownership of projects and responsibilities.
Requirements
NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you or you’d like to know more, please get in touch:
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
Systematic Hedge Fund
London
New Listing
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.
Required:
Helpful:
NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits:
If this sounds like you, or you would like to know more, please get in touch.
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
up to £150k + bonus
Innovative Algo Trading
London
New Listing
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 Python Developer, 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 Python Developer 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
NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you or you’d like to know more, please get in touch:
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
up to £150k base + bonus
Leading Quant-Driven Market-Maker
London
New Listing
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.
***Remote interviews are still possible, but all starts are now onsite and only if it specifies clearly is this role available fully remotely.***
Requirements
NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you or you would like to know more, please get in touch:
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
Sophisticated Prop Trading Firm
London
New Listing
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.
Requirements
NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you or you would like to know more, please get in touch:
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
up to £150k + bonus
Leading Quant-Driven Market-Maker
London
New Listing
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.
Requirements
NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you, or you would like to know more, please get in touch.
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
Leading Quant-Driven Market-Maker
London
New Listing
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.
Requirements
NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you or you would like to know more, please get in touch:
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
up to £150k + bonus
Prop Trading Firm
London
New Listing
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 team have the responsibility of a trading group and a core infra team.
This role is for a senior engineer who is able to take on problems at all levels of the software stack, including low-level code to drive network hardware, super reliable high-performance trading infrastructure and time-saving internal tools. You will be taking ownerships of projects and writing production code from day one.
Working collaboratively alongside the traders, this is very much a hands-on role with a real impact on improving people’s daily work. The development team enjoys great flexibility when planning roadmaps and deciding which features to implement.
Requirements
NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you or you would like to know more, please get in touch:
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
Leading Quant Fund
London
New Listing
Summary
The positive feel of a start-up with the benefits that come with a more established player, this leading HFT firm is looking for a dynamic software engineer to join one of their most successful quant trading teams. Collaborating extensively with traders and other technologists, you’ll design, write and maintain a complex Python infrastructure. This role is as front office as developers come within the firm without being a Quant.
The ideal candidate will be passionate about: data, development, and keen to learn about automated electronic trading. They are very keen to see people with an interest in sports / sports betting. You will be expected to solve difficult technical problems in a fast-paced and energetic environment, with a focus on processes that are robust, scalable and fault-tolerant. Most problems require high-availability, high-throughput and low-latency solutions.
The trading team see technology as a key component of their continued success and candidates will be exposed to cool, cutting-edge technologies.
Financial experience is not essential; just an eagerness to learn, and learn quickly.
Requirements
NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you, or you would like to know more, please get in touch.
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
Global Quant Firm
London
New Listing
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 on this company’s most profitable trading desk.
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. They are very keen to see people with an interest in sports / sports betting.
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.
Requirements
NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you or you would like to know more, please get in touch:
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
Leading Quant-Driven Market-Maker
London
New Listing
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.
Requirements
NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you, or you’d like to know more, please get in touch:
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
up to £130k base + bonus
Global Quant Firm
London / Singapore
New Listing
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.
Requirements
NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you, or you’d like to know more, please get in touch.
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
up to £150k + bonus
Global Quant Firm
London
New Listing
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 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 Developer will be enthusiastic about programming and able to solve difficult technical problems in a fast-paced and energetic environment.
This firm also has roles within its core tech group if you’re not keen working on trading desks.
Requirements
NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you, or you’d like to know more, please get in touch.
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
Global Quant Firm
London
New Listing
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 talented software developers skilled in C++ (ideally C++ 17/20 or Python). You will join the centralized trading team which provides strategy oversight, market knowledge, plus technical and analytical capabilities to the quant trading teams.
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 responding to emerging economic conditions and breaking news, enabling the quant trading teams to do their absolute best work as you provide them with fine-tuned algorithmic strategies.
This team performs an important research function within the firm, so you will also gain exposure to the development of new tools and performing strategy analysis in order to better understand the markets.
This group sits outside of trading teams, but is pivotal to the success of the company. Long term there is the possibility to move into a trading group.
The successful C++ Developer will be inquisitive and self-driven, a skilled communicator, and a technologist who has a passion for trading.
Requirements
Desirable
NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you, or you’d like to know more, please get in touch.
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
Up to £150k + bonus
Leading Global Crypto Market Maker
London
New Listing
Salary: Very competitive
This is a unique opportunity at a highly ambitious market maker that provides high-frequency algorithmic trading involving crypto currencies/blockchain, as well as decentralized finance. They are looking for a highly experienced C++ Quant Developer to join the growing Options team, one of the biggest electronic trading desks in the crypto options market.
This is a hands-on role, collaborating directly with traders, where your primary focus is developing scalable, high-performance options trading systems. Engaging with the full options stack, you’ll expand the business across centralized finance, decentralized finance and OTC.
There are no legacy systems, no multiple levels of approvals, no bureaucracy; all developers report directly to CTO who is very hands-on. The successful candidate will likely come from an HFT/trading firm, be able to solve difficult problems and thrive in the fast-paced, ever-changing environment of high-frequency trading.
Requirements
Rewards and Incentives
If you feel you are suitable for this role, drop me an email or give me a call!
Jack Peck
[e] jack.peck@oxfordknight.co.uk
[t] +44 20 3745 6537
linkedin.com/in/jack-peck-448a70131
Global Quant Firm
London
New Listing
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
NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you, or you’d like to know more, please get in touch.
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
up to £150k + bonus
Global Quant Firm
London
New Listing
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
NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you, or you’d like to know more, please get in touch.
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
up to £150k + bonus
Global Quant Firm
London
New Listing
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.
Very open to seeing devs who mid-long term are keen on relocating to Singapore.
***Remote interviews are still possible, but all starts are now onsite and only if it specifies clearly is this role available fully remotely.***
Requirements
NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you, or you’d like to know more, please get in touch.
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
Leading Quant-Driven Market-Maker
Singapore
New Listing
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
NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you or you would like to know more, please get in touch:
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
up to £150k + bonus
Leading Quant-Driven Market-Maker
London
New Listing
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 System Reliability Engineer / Production 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 System Reliability Engineer / Production Engineer will most likely come from a programming or SRE background, who can code well, likes automation and is focused on network technology.
Requirements
NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you or you would like to know more, please get in touch:
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
up to £150k + bonus
Global Quant Firm
London
New Listing
Salary: up to £150k + bonus
Summary
This is a leading global quant firm looking for a no-nonsense technologist to join one of their growing quant trading teams based in London.
Collaborating extensively with traders and other technologists, your main focus will be designing, building, maintaining and testing cutting-edge systems. You’ll be exposed to a wide range of technologies and challenging problems involving big data and HPC. Most problems require high-availability, high-throughput and low latency solutions.
Technology is prized by the traders as crucial to their continued success. Unique in their field, this global firm combines the lively, positive spirit of a start-up with the stability of a longer-established player.
If you’re passionate about coding and automation and able to solve difficult technical problems in a fast-paced and energetic environment, this role would be perfect for you.
Requirements
Desirable
NB: Please don’t apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you or you would like to know more, please get in touch:
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
up to £150k + bonus
Leading Quant-Driven Market-Maker
London
New Listing
Salary: up to £150-200k base + bonus
Summary
This is a superb opportunity for a proactive and pragmatic engineer to join an award-winning, tech-savvy algorithmic trading firm in London. You will be part of the team that builds the firm’s client-facing/OTC platforms which offer continuous liquidity across multiple asset classes and thousands of instruments.
This role has a company-wide impact, where you will be responsible for the mission control panel for one of the largest trading systems in the world (~$300bn/day). You’ll be providing clarity on what the trading system is doing and how it is performing at any given moment. To do this, you’ll design, implement and maintain reliable software, collaborate with users to understand their needs and get to grips with the workflows of all the teams involved in trading.
The successful candidate will be using Kotlin for day-to-day work, but previous experience isn’t required, just a willingness to learn and fluency in another statically typed language, eg. Java, C++, Rust.
This role offers a high degree of autonomy, giving you the authority to meet business requirements in the manner and using the software hardware that you see fit. If this approach appeals to you, please get in touch!
Requirements
NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you or you would like to know more, please get in touch:
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
up to £150-200k base + bonus
Sophisticated Prop Trading Firm
London
New Listing
Salary: £150,000 base + bonus
Summary
High-frequency prop trading firm with offices worldwide is looking to expand one of its core engineering teams with a talented FPGA / Software Developer.
Core engineering underpins the firm’s trading strategies providing access to a wide range of global financial markets, including access to new markets, cutting-edge new technical capabilities, and expert market intelligence. In this role, your main focus will be the design, development, testing and deploying some of the fastest, most sophisticated trading systems in the world. You will be expected to solve difficult technical problems in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
The successful FPGA / Software Developer will have a strong mix of traditional RTL design and software development skills. You enjoy using software engineering methodologies to improve the hardware development workflow, and integrating their designs into a larger software stack.
Requirements
NB Please don’t apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you or you would like to know more, please get in touch:
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
£150,000 base + bonus
Global Quant Firm
Amsterdam
New Listing
Salary: up to €130k base
Summary
Perfect opportunity for a pragmatic DevOps Engineer to join one of the world’s leading quant funds at their Amsterdam HQ. Contributing initially to fulfil regulatory and exchange reporting requirements – including maintaining and improving the reporting tools’ code – this role offers insight into the unique challenges across the breadth of trading activity supported by the DevOps team.
You will be expected to have a rigorous, detail-oriented attitude to DevOps and a systematic approach to problem solving. Working cross-functionally, you’ll take ownership of day-to-day regulatory reporting operations and the associated support tools, as well as implementing upgrades/changes to the production reporting environment as requirements evolve.
They have a great entrepreneurial culture akin to that of a start-up, yet with the security that comes with a more established company. Hard work is well-rewarded, and technology is highly valued across the business.
Requirements
NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you or you would like to know more, please get in touch:
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
+44 (0)20 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
up to €130k base
Global Quant Firm
London
New Listing
Salary: up to £150k + bonus
Summary
Leading HFT fund looking for modern C++ engineers to join their growing quantitative sports trading team based in London.
This role offers the opportunity to collaborate extensively with technologists and quant analysts as you evolve, improve and maintain 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. Unique in their field, this global firm combines the lively, positive spirit of a start-up with the stability of a longer-established player.
The successful C++ Developer will love solving difficult technical problems and be comfortable with owning multiple projects simultaneously.
Requirements
Desirable
NB Please don’t apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you or you would like to know more, please get in touch:
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
up to £150k + bonus
World-Leading Quant and Systematic Trading Firm
London
New Listing
My client is a leading systematic trading firm that operates in all liquid asset across most major markets. They are looking for a highly experienced developer to join one of their core teams responsible for building and enhancing key components that directly affect their algorithmic trading and data management systems.
This role is an excellent opportunity to work directly with Traders & Researchers on bespoke tooling and their most immediate requirements whilst leveraging state-of-the-art tools and components.
Requirements:
Nice to have:
Benefits:
If you think you are a strong candidate for the role and would like further info, please contact:
Tom Brown
tom.brown@oxfordknight.co.uk
+44 (0)20 4576 5966
linkedin.com/in/thomas-brown-196a29103
World Leading Quant and Systematic Trading Firm
London
New Listing
My client is a global quantitative and systematic trading firm that operates in all liquid asset across all the major Asian, EMEA and US markets. The firm is looking for an experienced FPGA Engineer to join their London team and provide technical project management and guidance whilst remaining hands on with key infrastructure projects across the EMEA region and globally.
This is an opportunity to join an existing team that truly takes a scientific approach to investing and a firm that sees technology as central to their continued success.
Requirement:
Nice to have:
Benefits:
If you think you are a strong candidate for the role and would like further info, please contact:
Tom Brown
tom.brown@oxfordknight.co.uk
+44 (0)20 4576 5966
linkedin.com/in/thomas-brown-196a29103
Leading Global Hedge Fund
London
Posted 3 Wks Ago
Salary: up to £160k base, £250k TC
Job description:
One of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds is looking for an experienced backend engineer to join a brand-new team pioneering sophisticated technology and innovative investment strategies for their top-performing Portfolio Managers.
You will help to build a Python-based platform to integrate datasets, analytics/pricing systems and tech platforms across the firm. You’ll also be part of an elite group deploying the platform to PMs, building & maintaining robust APIs and services to support them in trading, risk management, tech analysis & research.
Successful candidates will likely have front-office experience in a similar role working with PMs, where you have demonstrated that you can adapt to steep learning curves and communicate well with both the business and technology.
Skills and Experience Required
Desirable
Benefits & Incentives
If you feel you’re suitable for this role, want to hear about similar positions, or would like help hiring similar developers for your company, then please send your CV or get in touch:
Richard Allan
richard.allan@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9574
linkedin.com/in/richardallanok/
up to £160k base, £250k TC
Hedge Fund trading team
London
Posted 4 Wks Ago
Salary: £160,000 base + profit share bonus (TC can be north of £500k)
Job Description:
One of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds is looking for an outstanding Python Developer to join one of their their Fixed Income trading pods.
You’ll join a small fixed-income PM team of 10 that enjoys huge autonomy and is looking to grow their risk-taking. Working directly with the PM/trader, you’ll support the team’s entire tech stack. You will have to demonstrate ability to make the trade-offs between long-term stability and sustainability of the tech stack and the immediate needs of the risk takers. Tech stack is primarily Python and they make heavy use of cloud resources and containerization to get things done.
Responsibilities:
Skills and Experience Required
Desirable
Benefits & Incentives
If you feel you’re suitable for this role, want to hear about similar positions, or would like help hiring similar developers for your company, then please send your CV or get in touch:
Richard Allan
richard.allan@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9574
linkedin.com/in/richardallanok/
£160,000 base + profit share bonus (TC can be north of £500k)
Hedge Fund trading team
London
Posted 4 Wks Ago
Salary: £160,000 base + profit share bonus (TC can be north of £500k)
Job Description:
One of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds is looking for an outstanding Python Quant Developer to join one of their Fixed Income trading pods.
You’ll join a small fixed-income PM team of 10 that enjoys huge autonomy and is looking to grow their risk-taking. Working directly with the PM/trader, you’ll be expected to work on a range of tasks, ranging from; data acquisition, turning risk taker ideas to production level code, and helping less experienced coders (i.e. risk takers).
To be successful in this role, you’ll need to have knowledge of Fixed Income / Rates markets and market dynamics, the ability to turn a risk-taker / trader’s ideas into production-level code, and work as part of a tight-knit team.
Skills and Experience Required
Desirable
Benefits & Incentives
If you feel you’re suitable for this role, want to hear about similar positions, or would like help hiring similar developers for your company, then please send your CV or get in touch:
Richard Allan
richard.allan@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9574
linkedin.com/in/richardallanok/
£160,000 base + profit share bonus (TC can be north of £500k)
Hedge Fund
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Salary: Up to £160k base, circa £250k TC
Experience: 5+ years
Summary:
Great opportunity for a skilled Java developer to join one of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds. Come and be a part of the firm’s continued success by developing their Market Connectivity applications which enable the trading of single-stock, complex, index options and options on futures worldwide.
You will join a global Equities Vol team, facing off to Portfolio Managers and the Quants working with them in the different trading pods. Your work will be a mix of building core platforms that can be used by multiple trading teams for different strategies, as well as building out bespoke platforms on top of that for specific trade ideas which may be made more universal if successful.
The successful Lead Market Connectivity Developer will enjoy facing off to the business and have outstanding communication skills across all levels of technical understanding.
Skills and Experience Required:
Rewards and Incentives:
If you feel you’re suitable for this role, want to hear about similar positions, or would like help hiring similar developers for your company, please send your CV or get in touch:
Richard Allan
richard.allan@oxfordknight.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 3137 9574
linkedin.com/in/richardallanok/
Up to £160k base, circa £250k TC
Global Hedge Fund
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Salary: circa £130k base + £40k bonus
Experience: 3 – 6 years
Job Description:
Fantastic chance for a modern C++ engineer to join the core Fixed Income and Commodities Technology group at one of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds. It’s an exciting time for this team, as they craft a cutting-edge, cloud-native intraday Pricing, Risk, and P&L platform – empowering the fund to make the best-informed investment decisions.
Greenfield work, in this role you’ll take ownership of the whole SDLC; developing new – and supporting existing – microservices that make up the distributed risk calculation system. You will get a lot of product exposure whilst working closely with other teams (research, tech, trading, middle office) within FI, Commodities, Credit and FX.
The codebase is written in C++20, utilising such open-source technologies as Google RPC, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS.
To be successful, you will enjoy facing off to the business and have outstanding problem-solving skills. A background in big tech or finance would be highly advantageous.
Skills and Experience Required
Desirable:
Benefits & Incentives
If you feel you’re suitable for this role, want to hear about similar positions, or would like help hiring similar developers for your company, then please send your CV or get in touch:
Richard Allan
richard.allan@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9574
linkedin.com/in/richardallanok/
circa £130k base + £40k bonus
Hedge Fund
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Salary: Up to £150k base, circa £200k TC
Experience: 5+ years
Summary:
Great opportunity for a skilled Java developer to join one of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds. Come and be a part of the firm’s continued success by developing their Market Connectivity applications which enable the trading of single-stock, complex, index options and options on futures worldwide.
You will join a global Fixed Income team (with some cross-asset to Commodities, FX and Credit teams), facing off to Portfolio Managers and the Quants working with them in the different trading pods. Your work will be a mix of building core platforms that can be used by multiple trading teams for different strategies, as well as building out bespoke platforms on top of that for specific trade ideas which may be made more universal if successful.
The successful Market Connectivity Developer will enjoy facing off to the business and have outstanding communication skills across all levels of technical understanding.
Skills and Experience Required:
Rewards and Incentives:
If you feel you’re suitable for this role, want to hear about similar positions, or would like help hiring similar developers for your company, please send your CV or get in touch:
Richard Allan
richard.allan@oxfordknight.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 3137 9574
linkedin.com/in/richardallanok/
Up to £150k base, circa £200k TC
Global Hedge Fund
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Salary: Up to £160k base, circa £250k TC
Experience: 10+ years
Job Description
Fantastic opportunity for a highly experienced C++ developer to join one of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds. Come and be a part of the firm’s continued success by developing a systematic platform for options trading, including algorithms to optimize execution for Portfolio Managers & post-trade analytics capability.
You will join the global Algo Dev Trading team in the process of building a new Volatility Trading system, facing off to Portfolio Managers and the Quants, working with them in the different trading pods. You will help build out a new sub-team and play a vital role in designing, implementing, and maintaining the options trading systems, collaborating closely with QAs and traders to develop efficient, robust code to meet their strategic needs.
This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a dynamic and fast-paced environment, leveraging your C++ expertise and options trading business knowledge.
Skills and Experience Required
Rewards and Incentives
If you feel you’re suitable for this role, want to hear about similar positions, or would like help hiring similar developers for your company, please send your CV or get in touch:
Richard Allan
richard.allan@oxfordknight.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 3137 9574
linkedin.com/in/richardallanok/
Up to £160k base, circa £250k TC
Multi-Asset Class Systematic Trading
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Salary: up to £600k TC
Client
Research at this leading investment firm is key to continued success: based on rigorous and innovative research, they design and implement systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes. You’ll be exposed to all aspects of the systematic investing business; with lots of project ownership and a collaborative start-up environment, this is a fantastic place to work.
Role
They’re looking to add an exceptional Quant Developer to a small engineering team within the central research technology team. Working directly with systematic Portfolio Managers – and closely associated with their success – you’ll build, operate and evolve the tech stack through analyzing business requirements and identifying solutions.
Current work involves the firm’s build-out into High Frequency Trading, to go alongside their multi-asset, multi-strategy approach.
The ideal candidate will be ready to solve a wide variety of problems – from building intraday signal research tools, mid- & high-frequency trading, real-time market data, and beyond.
Requirements
Benefits
If you feel you’re suitable for this role, want to hear about similar positions, or would like help hiring similar developers for your company, then please send your CV or get in touch:
Richard Allan
richard.allan@oxfordknight.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 3137 9574
linkedin.com/in/richardallanok/
up to £600k TC
World-Leading Prop Trading Fund
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Salary: up to £175k base
Summary:
Exciting opportunity to work at a tech-centric prop trading fund which trades a wide range of financial products, with offices across the globe. Work is organized into small, project-oriented teams, each with the independence and responsibility to make decisions that impact the business.
Python is their go-to language for data analysis, visualization and machine learning; you’ll join the team responsible for the tools that support the Python work, such as CI for test running and static analysis and automation around the deployment of Python environments & apps.
Seeking skilled engineers with experience building Python tooling at large scale who are looking for a wide-ranging role that involves both technical and product design challenges.
The successful candidate will be a smart, curious software engineer who enjoys finding solutions for complex problems. If you also have a great appetite for learning new things, this role is for you!
Requirements:
NB Please don’t apply if you’re a fresh graduate.
Benefits and Incentives:
If this sounds like you or you’d like to know more, please get in touch:
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
up to £175k base
Data-Driven Systematic Fund
London / Paris / Montreal
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Company:
A systematic investment manager with deep expertise in quantitative trading, technology, and operations is seeking to achieve high-quality, uncorrelated returns for clients and develop model-based investment strategies through rigorous scientific research. As a data-driven firm, technology plays a critical role in success. The company designs, builds, and operates state-of-the-art systems, from high-performance automated trading platforms to large-scale data science and compute farms.
The Team:
A company is expanding its team of skilled quantitative developers. Successful candidates will join a team of professionals working directly with quantitative researchers to design, implement, deploy, and utilize software for research and trading. The team adheres to modern software development principles and collaborates with peers in technology to enhance these tools for broader use. Quantitative developers lead cross-team initiatives with technologists and quantitative researchers across various asset classes to achieve the company’s objectives.
Candidate Requirements:
The ideal candidate must possess a strong work ethic, enthusiasm for working on the cutting edge of technology, and the drive to navigate through complex initiatives. Attention to detail and defensive programming experience are essential.
Qualifications:
If this sounds like you, or you’d like more information, please contact:
George Hutchinson-Binks
george.hutchinson-binks@oxfordknight.co.uk
(+44) 07885 545220
linkedin.com/in/george-hutchinson-binks-a62a69252
Leading Global Quant & Systematic IM
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Role:
We are seeking an enthusiastic software engineer to join the Risk team in London. The ideal candidate is a highly motivated developer with strong communication skills, experience with direct business interaction, and knowledge of building large-scale applications. The candidate will be responsible for building and delivering solutions to our Risk Management and Trading desks.
About Us: A leading global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. We are a technology and data-driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing. Combining data, research, technology, and trading expertise has shaped our collaborative mindset, enabling us to solve the most complex challenges. Our culture of innovation continuously drives our ambition to deliver high-quality returns for our investors.
Requirements:
If this sounds like you, or you’d like more information, please contact:
George Hutchinson-Binks
george.hutchinson-binks@oxfordknight.co.uk
(+44) 07885 545220
linkedin.com/in/george-hutchinson-binks-a62a69252
Leading Global Quant Trading & Investment Firm
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
About the Company:
This is a quantitative trading and investment firm with a disciplined and systematic quantitative approach to identify factors that consistently generate alpha. These factors are then coupled with our proprietary ultra-low latency trading systems and robust risk management to develop trading strategies across asset classes (equities, commodities, currencies, fixed income) that trade on global exchanges.
They are looking for a ‘full stack’ FPGA developer with at least 3 years of industry experience in hardware development to help build out hardware platform for low latency trading.
Responsibilities:
Qualifications & Skills:
Why You Should Join Us:
If this sounds like you, or you’d like more information, please contact:
George Hutchinson-Binks
george.hutchinson-binks@oxfordknight.co.uk
(+44) 07885 545220
linkedin.com/in/george-hutchinson-binks-a62a69252
Fully Automated Trading Firm
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Are you passionate about software development and eager to be part of a high performing, cutting-edge team in the finance and technology industry? Our company, located in London, is seeking top-tier software developers to be an integral part of our success in automated trading.
Position: Software Developer/Senior Core Developer
About Us: We are a rapidly growing, fully automated trading firm headquartered in the bustling metropolis of NYC. Contrary to traditional assumptions about “trading” companies, at our organization, software development isn’t merely a support function; it’s the heart of our business. Our work environment merges the best of a relaxed dotcom feel, the innovation of a start-up, the energy of a trading floor, and the intellectual depth of a think tank.
Role Overview: As a Software Developer at our company, you’ll be involved in crafting critical software in a fast-paced, real-time environment. Your role will encompass dealing with extensive datasets in a distributed system that champions low latency and high throughput. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of C++, UNIX systems, network communication, and processor performance.
What We Seek:
Qualities We Value:
Join Our Team: If you’re passionate about coding, enjoy a fast-paced, challenging work environment, and thrive in a culture that encourages creativity and cooperation, we’d love to hear from you.
If this sounds like you, or you’d like more information, please get in touch:
George Hutchinson-Binks
george.hutchinson-binks@oxfordknight.co.uk
(+44) 07885 545220
linkedin.com/in/george-hutchinson-binks-a62a69252
Global Hedge Fund
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Salary: up to £160k base + 50% bonus
Experience: 8+ years
Client
This is a global, massively successful hedge fund employing thousands of people, but this division has a tech-centric culture, with all the latest technologies and greenfield projects / building from scratch – with no legacy systems.
This team runs as differently from a traditional financial firm as you can get; offering a unique opportunity for an experienced leader to use their extensive Python skills in a fast-paced, collaborative culture, where your hard work is well-rewarded.
Role
You’ll join a talented Quant Technology team, developing and maintaining the next generation of in-house analytics and trading tools. All greenfield work, you’ll work closely with tech, middle office and trading teams in Tel Aviv and New York/Miami to build out and enhance their back-end distributed systems.
This role offers at least 50% hands-on development; alongside this, you’ll mentor & coach a small team of Python developers, sharing knowledge and motivating them to excel.
Here you’ll find no ‘finance culture’ and very little ‘red-tape’; it is a team of techies who are there to build vital tools and systems. A hedge-fund salary without the long, finance-associated hours or work. The ability to face off to the business is essential, as are outstanding communication and collaboration skills.
Skills and Experience Required
Desirable
Benefits & Incentives
If you feel you’re suitable for this role, want to hear about similar positions, or would like help hiring similar developers for your company, then please send your CV or get in touch:
Richard Allan
richard.allan@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9574
linkedin.com/in/richardallanok/
up to £160k base + 50% bonus
FX & Futures Fund Manager
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
This role is working for fund manager running systematic trading strategies in FX and futures. The technology team is expanding to a new London office to build exciting new capabilities in trading, data, and research. Working collaboratively in a small team your contribution will be both original and make a significant impact.
The successful candidate will work on all aspects of the company’s code, including systems used for securely monitoring trading, risk and profit, post-trade analysis and reporting, development of the back-test framework, interaction with external parties, the company’s cluster computation system, core libraries and frameworks.
Core Skills
Desired Skills / Knowledge
If this sounds like you, or you’d like more information, please get in touch:
George Hutchinson-Binks
george.hutchinson-binks@oxfordknight.co.uk
(+44) 07885 545220
linkedin.com/in/george-hutchinson-binks-a62a69252
Small Boutique Hedge Fund
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Salary: c.£120-140k base + 25% bonus | Experience: 5-10+ years
Job description
Client summary:
Our client is a small but established hedge fund in Geneva, now looking to expand with a new London office following three back-to-back record-breaking years. A systematic FX fund, they have the ethos of a start-up, and have recently moved into Futures, with an eye to becoming multi-asset in the future.
Their CTO is now building out a small tech team in London as they continue to go from strength to strength.
Role:
Working closely with the London-based CTO, you’ll help establish their London operations as one of the first UK hires. All of their systems are built in the latest F# .Net technology, with low-latency code underpinning their trading and execution platforms.
This role offers the opportunity to work on multiple greenfield projects as you build out new platforms: designing and developing low-latency trading systems, optimising performance and developing infrastructure.
Requirements:
Nice to haves:
Benefits and Incentives:
If you feel you’re suitable for this role, want to hear about similar positions, or would like help hiring similar developers for your company, please send your CV or get in touch.
Richard Allan
richard.allan@oxfordknight.co.uk
+44 (0)20 3137 9574
linkedin.com/in/richardallanok
c.£120-140k base + 25% bonus
Boutique Hedge Fund (new LDN office)
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Salary: c.£130-140k base + bonus | Experience: 5-10+ years
Job description
Client summary:
Our client is a small but established hedge fund in Geneva, now looking to expand with a new London office following three back-to-back record-breaking years. A systematic FX fund, they have the ethos of a start-up, and have recently moved into Futures, with an eye to becoming multi-asset in the future.
Their CTO is now building out a small tech team in London as they continue to go from strength to strength.
Role:
Working closely with the CTO, you’ll help establish their London operations as one of the first UK hires, and the first data engineer. All of their systems are built in the latest F# .Net technology, with low-latency code underpinning their trading and execution platforms.
In this role, your main focus will be the development of new pipelines to extract, transform and load financial data from disparate sources. Mostly greenfield work, you’ll build out the company’s data collection platform to incorporate new sources and markets, and validate the quality of imported data.
Requirements:
Nice to haves:
Benefits and Incentives:
If you feel you’re suitable for this role, want to hear about similar positions, or would like help hiring similar developers for your company, please send your CV or get in touch.
Richard Allan
richard.allan@oxfordknight.co.uk
+44 (0)20 3137 9574
linkedin.com/in/richardallanok
c.£130-140k base + bonus
Leading Investment Manager
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Salary: £140,000 base + bonus + profit share
Job Summary:
Fantastic opportunity to join a leading multi-asset fund where you will draw on both your excellent academics and your strong programming skills.
Working closely with Quantitative Analysts and Software Developers, the Quantitative Development team is responsible for the tech infrastructure both inside and surrounding the core analytics library. You will identify technical challenges and opportunities, provide practical solutions to complex problems, and use your initiative when challenging current systems.
They primarily use C#, but are keen to see candidates from any OO background.
The successful candidate will be technically strong, but will also have product/financial knowledge, maths skills, and the ability to talk to traders.
Requirements:
Desirable:
Benefits:
If you feel you’re suitable for this role, want to hear about similar positions, or would like help hiring similar developers for your company, then please send your CV or get in touch:
Richard Allan
richard.allan@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9574
linkedin.com/in/richardallanok
£140,000 base + bonus + profit share
Quant Fund
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Job Specification
Our new data team is looking to support the growth of systematic and quantitative strategies by building a best-in-class data platform. We are building new systems to support the ingestion, processing and distribution of big data sets alongside capabilities in the high-frequency tick data space.
We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer to help architect and build this new data platform. The system will support a diverse array of big datasets, including core symbology, fundamentals, alternative data and tick-derived data. We will also provide an underpinning data model and data access/serving.
Our ideal candidate will have experience building distributed data platforms for both batch and streaming data. This role will provide the opportunity to have a significant business change impact, and, if desired, to work across a broad range of data engineering disciplines, including low latency market data.
Candidate Specification
Required:
Ideally:
If this sounds like you, or you’d like more information, please get in touch:
George Hutchinson-Binks
george.hutchinson-binks@oxfordknight.co.uk
(+44) 07885 545220
linkedin.com/in/george-hutchinson-binks-a62a69252
Multi-Asset Class Systematic Trading
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Salary: up to £600k TC
Client
Research at this leading investment firm is key to continued success: based on rigorous and innovative research, they design and implement systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes. You’ll be exposed to all aspects of the systematic investing business; with lots of project ownership and a collaborative start-up environment, this is a fantastic place to work.
Role
They’re looking to add an exceptional Quant Developer to a small engineering team within the central research technology team. Working directly with systematic Portfolio Managers – and closely associated with their success – you’ll build, operate and evolve the tech stack through analyzing business requirements and identifying solutions.
Current work involves the firm’s build-out into High Frequency Trading, to go alongside their multi-asset, multi-strategy approach.
The ideal candidate will be ready to solve a wide variety of problems – from building intraday signal research tools, mid- & high-frequency trading, real-time market data, and beyond.
Requirements
Benefits
If you feel you’re suitable for this role, want to hear about similar positions, or would like help hiring similar developers for your company, then please send your CV or get in touch:
Richard Allan
richard.allan@oxfordknight.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 3137 9574
linkedin.com/in/richardallanok/
up to £600k TC
Tech-Driven Global Hedge Fund
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
The Client
One of the world’s largest hedge funds, this is an excellent opportunity to join one of the most prestigious technology teams in systematic trading in an agile, hands-on tech manager role. With a flat-structured, ‘no-attitude’ working environment, this is a great time to join as engineering is currently undergoing significant investment.
The Role
This is a highly collaborative position, working with Quants and Engineers across the business as you link together the various facets of the simulation, analytics & reporting platform. You’ll monitor gearing, allocations and implementation shortfall, as well as developing and supporting production optimisers, and implementing the necessary engineering identified by PM research.
The majority of the firm’s systems run on Linux and most code is written in Python, including extensive use of numpy, scipy, pandas, scikit-learn, etc. But they’re also constantly evaluating new technologies, tools and libraries.
The successful Head of Technology will have excellent engineering skills, good financial markets experience, and a good working knowledge of statistics.
Key Requirements
Benefits
To apply for this role, or for further information, please contact:
Maia Ellis
maia.ellis@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3745 6539
linkedin.com/in/maia-ellis-38a577193
Hedge Fund
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Salary: £100-140k base + share of profits bonus
1-6 years of experience
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 as independent small trading pods, taking a large cut of their own profits.
Well-respected in the industry for their fantastic compensation and significant investment in their technology, this is a great, rewarding place to work where you can see a direct impact of your work on the PnL.
Role
Offering the unique opportunity for a creative developer to work directly as part of a high performance trading team. Working closely with the development team, you’ll be designing and implementing a new suite of user interfaces in React / Javascript/ HTML5 with the aim of driving a key expansion of the team’s trading activities.
You will also develop analytics tools to increase the team’s systematic trading activities and contribute to the ongoing development of the team’s data collection processes, analytics, pricing and risk engines, plus develop GUIs to manage these activities.
The successful UI Developer will be someone with excellent attention to detail, who takes pride in producing high quality work, equally comfortable working in a team and independently.
Skills and Experience Required
Desirable Skills and Experience
Benefits & Incentives
If you feel you’re suitable for this role, want to hear about similar positions, or would like help hiring similar developers for your company, then please send your CV or get in touch:
Richard Allan
richard.allan@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9574
linkedin.com/in/richardallanok/
£100-140k base + share of profits bonus
Hedge Fund
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Salary: £130-170k base + bonus + profit share
Company:
Managing over £15,000,000,000 AUM and a signature new CTO, this hedge fund has seen an increase of over 50% in the past 2 years.
A macro fund that is cross-asset, they are very mathematical at their core.
Role:
With many of the portfolios consolidated into one core group which is led by the founder himself, they are looking for another quant developer to join the team.
With close daily interaction with the front office trading and portfolio managers (you will not be siloed as at some trading firms), you get a huge breadth of business exposure and a direct impact on PnL – which is why this role comes with a profit share aspect.
Skills Required:
Benefits:
If you feel you’re suitable for this role, want to hear about similar positions, or would like help hiring similar developers for your company, then please send your CV or get in touch:
Richard Allan
richard.allan@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9574
linkedin.com/in/richardallanok/
£130-170k base + bonus + profit share
Leading Multi-Strategy IM
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Salary: £130,000 – 150,000 base + 50-100% bonus
Job description:
Client
Fantastic opportunity for a modern C++ developer (14 or later) to join the core Fixed Income and Commodities Technology group at one of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds. This team is the backbone of their cross-asset Risk and PnL system for all Fixed Income, Commodities, Credit and FX products. This system is running 24/7 for the past 10 years and is a real-time, highly distributed platform that is being rebuilt into a next-generation platform.
They’ve got a fantastic name in the industry with good reason; paying strong salaries on both base and bonus, and a good tech culture, which is both collegial and dynamic.
Role
You will be building the next-generation analytics library in C++17 and 20. Greenfield work, you’ll be building the distributed pricing platform – utilising Kubernetes, microservices, AWS and Docker on multithreaded systems. You will get a lot of product exposure whilst working closely with other teams (research, trading, middle office) within FI, Commodities, Credit and FX.
Skills and Experience Required
Desirable Skills and Experience
Benefits & Incentives
If you feel you’re suitable for this role, want to hear about similar positions, or would like help hiring similar developers for your company, then please send your CV or get in touch:
Richard Allan
richard.allan@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9574
linkedin.com/in/richardallanok/
£130,000 – 150,000 base + 50-100% bonus
Premier C++ Business-Facing Team
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Salary: up to £150k base + bonus (roughly £250k TC)
Summary:
Arguably banking’s premier C++ business-facing team is seeking strong C++ engineers to join a growing core tech team, based in London. You will work closely with traders in a dynamic and busy trading-floor environment, contributing significantly to the front office team and the design of low-latency strategies.
The role:
You will be working on several exciting projects for the EMM Technology team, covering all aspects of the software development lifecycle. Collaborating closely with the traders to understand their needs, you will design, develop, maintain and support the cutting-edge low-latency trading platform and provide a meaningful contribution in terms of pre- and post-trade analysis.
Projects in the pipeline are broad, and include things like:
The successful C++ Developer will be someone who thrives on huge amounts of project ownership, and using predominantly C++17, moving towards C++20.
Skills and Experience Required:
Desirable:
Benefits:
If you feel you’re suitable for this role, want to hear about similar positions, or would like help hiring similar developers for your company, then please send your CV or get in touch:
Richard Allan
richard.allan@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9574
linkedin.com/in/richardallanok/
up to £150k base + bonus (roughly £250k TC)
Hedge Fund
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Salary: £150,000 base salary + bonus
Company
You won’t be another suit amongst the thousands at a bank. You don’t even need to wear a suit at all; flip flops and shorts will suffice!
This successful prop house are looking for only the best software engineers with exceptional academics to join their team. Join a company with a start-up mentality that knows investing heavily in its staff and systems is the way to remain ahead of the competition in real-time algorithmic trading.
Role
You will be writing and implementing high quality code with huge data sets. This position is 97% tech-driven so a background in finance is not required! You will however need to be able to adapt to new technologies to keep ahead of the competition, with the software primarily developed in C#.
Requirements
Benefits
If you feel you’re suitable for this role, want to hear about similar positions, or would like help hiring similar developers for your company, then please send your CV or get in touch:
Richard Allan
richard.allan@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9574
linkedin.com/in/richardallanok/
£150,000 base salary + bonus
Global Hedge Fund
Miami / New York (USA)
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Salary: $175-250k base, TC $300-350k
Experience: 3-8 years
Job Description:
Fantastic opportunity for a modern C++ engineer to join a core quant group of researchers and developers at one of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds. This group provides an intraday and end-of-day price & risk analytics platform used by traders and PMs – empowering the fund to make the best-informed investment decisions.
Greenfield work, in this role you’ll take ownership of the whole SDLC; developing new – and supporting existing – microservices that make up the distributed risk calculation system. You will get a lot of product exposure whilst working closely with other teams across the world (research, tech, trading, middle office).
Most of the codebase is written in C++, utilising such open-source technologies as Google RPC, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, with Java and Python used for data feeds and tooling.
To be successful, you’ll enjoy facing off to the business, with the drive to see projects through from idea stage to the end user.
Skills and Experience Required
Desirable:
Benefits & Incentives
If you feel you’re suitable for this role, want to hear about similar positions, or would like help hiring similar developers for your company, then please send your CV or get in touch:
Richard Allan
richard.allan@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9574
linkedin.com/in/richardallanok/
$175-250k base, TC $300-350k
C++20/C++23 | Computer Graphics / Data Visualisation Firm
Remote
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Salary: €150,000 base
Experience: C++ Graduate level – 20+ years of experience
Summary:
Are you a C++ specialist who wants to work with a firm that have created their own pioneering C++ library? Do you want to reverse engineer Microsoft’s code?
This is the market-leading firm for data visualisation software for business presentations, yet they operate with a small, elite team.
They are looking to hire exceptional, creative C++ developers at all levels.
Role:
Using the latest versions of C++, you will work on challenging visualization problems, reverse engineering of Microsoft’s code, and reinventing the user-interface. They are the only German company funding a C++ ISO committee delegation, so were you to join there is a good chance components you invent will find their way into the standard. The two founders are Computer Science PhDs – so everyone understands development from the top.
Requirements:
On offer:
If you feel you’re suitable for this role, want to hear about similar positions, or would like help hiring similar developers for your company, please send your CV or get in touch:
Richard Allan
richard.allan@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9574
linkedin.com/in/richardallanok/
€150,000 base
Systematic Trading
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
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:
Desirable:
Benefits:
If you feel you’re suitable for this role, want to hear about similar positions, or would like help hiring similar developers for your company, please send your CV or get in touch:
Richard Allan
richard.allan@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9574
linkedin.com/in/richardallanok/
up to £500k total comp
Greenfield HFT hedge fund
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Salary: £150-180k base + up to 100% bonuses
Company:
This small, high frequency trading (HFT) hedge fund is still very greenfield, but with market leaders at the helm they are growing fast and making a massive impression on the industry using C++20.
Being a small team there is no red tape and no legacy code. Everything here is being built from the ground up and you’ll have the chance to really make your mark.
Role:
You will be designing, implementing and maintaining latency sensitive high frequency trading systems. You will be coding in C++ working on ultra-low latency systems.
Working alongside some of the brightest minds and top techies you’ll be pushed daily, but in a more relaxed, open environment where you are encouraged to express your C++ skills individually and as part of the team.
Benefits:
Requirements:
If you feel you’re suitable for this role, want to hear about similar positions, or would like help hiring similar developers for your company, then please send your CV or get in touch:
Richard Allan
richard.allan@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9574
linkedin.com/in/richardallanok/
£150-180k base + up to 100% bonuses
Leading Multi-Strategy IM
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
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
Desirable Experience
Benefits & Incentives
If you feel you’re suitable for this role, want to hear about similar positions, or would like help hiring similar developers for your company, please send your CV or get in touch:
Richard Allan
richard.allan@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9574
linkedin.com/in/richardallanok/
£300-400k TC
Multi-Asset Class Systematic Trading
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Salary: total comp can hit £600k-£1 million a year
Job description:
Client
Research at this leading investment firm is key to continued success: based on rigorous and innovative research, they design and implement systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes.
Working within a small ‘trading pod’ as the right-hand person to the Portfolio Manager, you will do systematic macro trading within FX, running both intra-day strategies and building HFT strategies to run passively.
Role
They’re looking to add an exceptional Quantitative Researcher with Python experience to their growing London team. You’ll be tasked with discovering systematic anomalies in FX markets and identifying & evaluating new datasets. You’ll also take on end-to-end development: from generating alpha ideas to strategy backtesting and optimization, through to production implementation.
With lots of project ownership and a collaborative start-up environment, this is a fantastic place to work.
Requirements:
Desirable:
Benefits:
If you feel you’re suitable for this role, want to hear about similar positions, or would like help hiring similar developers for your company, please send your CV or get in touch.
Richard Allan
richard.allan@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9574
linkedin.com/in/richardallanok/
Total comp can hit £600k-£1 million a year
Global Hedge Fund
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
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
Desirable (highly valued, but not essential)
Benefits
If you feel you’re suitable for this role, want to hear about similar positions, or would like help hiring similar developers for your company, please send your CV or get in touch:
Richard Allan
richard.allan@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9574
linkedin.com/in/richardallanok/
£130-150k base + ~£80k bonus
Systematic Trading
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
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:
Desirable:
Benefits:
If you feel you’re suitable for this role, want to hear about similar positions, or would like help hiring similar developers for your company, please send your CV or get in touch:
Richard Allan
richard.allan@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9574
linkedin.com/in/richardallanok/
up to £500k total comp
Leading Multi-Strategy IM
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Salary: up to £100k base + ~£30k bonus
Job description:
Fantastic chance for a Python Developer with good knowledge of Pandas/Numpy to join one of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds.
Joining a talented team of other QDs and software engineers, you’ll be developing systems, portfolio analytics and visualisations for the PMs and Quant Strategists. The work will be a mix of software development, web app development creating data-pipelines whilst facing off to the business and understanding business needs.
The successful candidate will likely come from a financial firm and be able to communicate well with Quants / PMs / traders whilst also being a strong enough technologist to implement ideas.
Skills and Experience Required
Desirable
Benefits & Incentives
If you feel you’re suitable for this role, want to hear about similar positions, or would like help hiring similar developers for your company, then please send your CV or get in touch:
Richard Allan
richard.allan@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9574
linkedin.com/in/richardallanok/
up to £100k base + ~£30k bonus
Global Hedge Fund
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Salary: £150k base + £150-200k bonus
Job Description:
One of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds is looking for a Python Quant Researcher to join one of their Fixed Income / Rates trading pods.
This is a brand-new high-impact role, joining a small PM team of 10 that enjoys huge autonomy who are looking to grow their risk-taking capabilities. You’ll work closely with the Portfolio Manager, drawing on your Rates experience to understand and model market behaviour in the short, medium and longer term.
If you’re looking for a dynamic, entrepreneurial and supportive environment and you enjoy seeing the impact of your work on a daily basis, then this is the role for you!
Skills and Experience Required
Desirable
Benefits & Incentives
If you feel you’re suitable for this role, want to hear about similar positions, or would like help hiring similar developers for your company, then please send your CV or get in touch:
Richard Allan
richard.allan@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9574
linkedin.com/in/richardallanok/
£150k base + £150-200k bonus
Top-Tier Global Hedge Fund
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Salary: £140-160k base + £60-100k bonus
Job Description:
Fantastic chance for a modern C++ (17 onwards) engineer to join the core Fixed Income and Commodities Technology group at one of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds. This team forms the backbone of their in-house pricing libraries for all Fixed Income portfolio management trading teams and, following this success, are now expanding into Commodities, Credit and FX trading products.
Working closely with Quants, you’ll develop the next-generation in-house pricing library in C++. Greenfield work, you’ll build and enhance the team development environment – writing efficient, high performing code, and promoting design best practices along the way. You will get a lot of product exposure whilst working closely with other teams (research, tech, trading, middle office) within FI, Commodities, Credit and FX.
To be successful in this role, you will enjoy facing off to the business and have outstanding problem-solving skills.
Skills and Experience Required:
Desirable:
Benefits & Incentives
If you feel you’re suitable for this role, want to hear about similar positions, or would like help hiring similar developers for your company, then please send your CV or get in touch.
Richard Allan
richard.allan@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9574
linkedin.com/in/richardallanok/
£140-160k base + £60-100k bonus
Electronic Market Making
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Salary: Potential for £500-600k total comp
Job Summary: A small firm with one of the best names within the HFT market. Specialists within electronic market making in FX, equity, fixed income and commodity markets. Ultra-low-latency C++ development alongside industry experts (C++ committee members and contributors to latest C++ versions).
Client:
The algorithmic models are built against multi-petabyte datasets on huge clusters, all run in-house. With fewer than 100 staff in total but a household name within the HFT world, this company prides itself on its flat structure whilst avoiding bureaucracy. They hire the best and encourage them to innovate and break boundaries – not get stuck behind red tape.
Role:
Yes, you have the fancy office with a replica spaceship (genuinely!), the latest hardware, the company trips abroad, the Michelin star dinners. But it’s the work, and the colleagues that draw people to this company:
Skills and Experience Required:
Benefits and Incentives:
If you feel you’re suitable for this role, want to hear about similar positions, or would like help hiring similar developers for your company, then please send your CV or get in touch:
Richard Allan
richard.allan@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9574
linkedin.com/in/richardallanok/
Potential for £500-600k total comp
Crypto Prop Trading Firm
Remote
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Salary: Up to $100-160k USD base + strong bonuses (50-100%+)
Summary
This growing crypto trading firm has seen steady growth over the last 3-4 years; not being adversely affected by the wild swings in crypto success due to their robust and sensible strategies.
Hugely tech-driven, they have been developing and improving HFT algorithms for more than 10 years, with a tech team boasting engineers from some of the top market makers and hedge funds globally.
They have an established DevOps/Infra team, but they are looking for an engineer who can come in an help take their low-latency performance to the next level: with monitoring / metrics for performance, as well as optimising speed and networking.
The DevOps team currently has a good infra-as-code mindset and strong AWS skillsets to which you’ll get exposure. The team is spread mostly across Europe, so you’ll be expected to work (roughly) European hours to overlap with your colleagues.
Skills and Experience Required
Rewards and Incentives
If you feel you’re suitable for this role, want to hear about similar positions, or would like help hiring similar developers for your company, please send your CV or get in touch:
Richard Allan
richard.allan@oxfordknight.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 3137 9574
linkedin.com/in/richardallanok/
Up to $100-160k USD base + strong bonuses (50-100%+)
Tech-Driven Global Hedge Fund
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
The Client
One of the world’s largest hedge funds, this is an excellent opportunity to join one of the most prestigious technology teams in systematic trading in a wide-ranging development role. With a flat-structured, ‘no-attitude’ working environment, this is a great time to join as engineering is currently undergoing significant investment.
The Role
Part of a larger Front Office technology group, you will join a small team of polyglot developers working in highly optimised C++17 and Python. You’ll be contributing to a modern C++ codebase, while developing the core of the high performance timeseries database (storing >500TB of data today) which underpins the firm’s data platform. You’ll also collaborate with users to develop analytics capabilities, plus designing and deploying systems to provide production resiliency.
The successful C++ Platform Engineer will be highly motivated and product focused, comfortable facing off to stakeholders across the business.
Requirements
Benefits
To apply for this role, or for further information, please contact:
Maia Ellis
maia.ellis@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3745 6539
linkedin.com/in/maia-ellis-38a577193
Global Hedge Fund
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Summary
One of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds is looking for an outstanding Quant Researcher to join one of their systematic trading pods.
This is a high-impact role, joining a small PM-led team that enjoys huge autonomy and are looking to grow their risk-taking. You’ll work closely with the Portfolio Manager, drawing on your previous experience to develop quantitative investment models, build unique insights into various datasets, and engineer robust systems that will be used as part of the trading strategies. You’ll also apply scientific methods to improve the efficiency of a research and trading pipeline.
If you’re looking for a dynamic, entrepreneurial and supportive environment and you enjoy seeing the impact of your work on a daily basis, then this is the role for you!
Requirements
Benefits & Incentives
To apply for this role, or for further information, please contact:
Maia Ellis
maia.ellis@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3745 6539
linkedin.com/in/maia-ellis-38a577193
Systematic Quant Fund
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Summary
Our client is a leading tech-driven quant and systematic hedge fund trading with offices across the globe. They leverage deep knowledge in data, research, technology and trading to deliver high-quality returns. This opportunity offers a dynamic and fast-paced environment with excellent opportunities for career growth.
You will be a key member of the development team, working closely with quant analysts/developers, traders and operations staff to build and enhance low-latency algorithmic trading strategies. You’ll collaborate over the design and implementation of cutting-edge systems, covering all aspects of the trading strategies: from exchange price feeds and financial indicators, to back testing & tick data management, through to production environment support.
2024 will be a big year of growth for this firm, making now the perfect time to apply!
Requirements
Benefits
To apply for this role, or for further information, please contact:
Maia Ellis
maia.ellis@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3745 6539
linkedin.com/in/maia-ellis-38a577193
Systematic Quant Fund
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Summary
Our client is a leading tech-driven quant and systematic hedge fund trading with offices across the globe. They leverage deep knowledge in data, research, technology and trading to deliver high-quality returns. This opportunity offers a dynamic and fast-paced environment with excellent opportunities for career growth.
They are looking for a talented front-end engineer where your main focus will be to develop and build reusable and testable React components, optimizing the performance and quality of the code. Partnering with other developers, financial analysts and traders to understand users’ requirements, you’ll create web apps and websites for clients, partners and internal teams, using agile methods and the latest tools.
2024 will be a big year of growth for this firm, making now the perfect time to apply!
Requirements
Benefits
To apply for this role, or for further information, please contact:
Maia Ellis
maia.ellis@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3745 6539
linkedin.com/in/maia-ellis-38a577193
Leading High Frequency Trading Firm
Amsterdam / London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Summary
This is a fantastic opportunity to work at a tech-focused market maker with groundbreaking success in the high frequency trading space. With a company culture that’s competitive yet collaborative, they leverage the most advanced technology to ensure they have the fastest and most reliable trading systems in the world.
They are looking for exceptional engineers to join an elite team of FPGA hardware and software engineers to design and develop ultra-fast trading systems. You will own end-to-end development while implementing new low-latency techniques. You will help develop their hardware platform producing super-reliable high-speed digital designs.
You will be joining a highly talented team helping redefine the evolution of their trading systems. It is a mature environment that is transparent, collaborative and offers enormous opportunity to grow and have an impact on the business.
Requirements
Benefits
To apply for this role, or for further information, please contact:
Maia Ellis
maia.ellis@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3745 6539
linkedin.com/in/maia-ellis-38a577193
Tech-Driven Global Hedge Fund
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
The Client
One of the world’s largest hedge funds, this is an excellent opportunity to join one of the most prestigious technology teams in systematic trading in a wide-ranging development role. With a flat-structured, ‘no-attitude’ working environment, this is a great time to join as engineering is currently undergoing significant investment.
The Role
Joining a small, diverse team tasked with delivering alpha at scale across equity events, including index rebalances and corporate actions. As a Quant Researcher, you will work side by side with an experienced semi-systematic Portfolio Manager focusing on these opportunities. You’ll develop quantitative event-driven strategies as well as researching & developing new event-based signals across equities.
If you have a demonstrable passion for technology (personal projects, open-source involvement) and a hands-on attitude, this role would be perfect for you.
Key Skills
Benefits
To apply for this role, or for further information, please contact:
Maia Ellis
maia.ellis@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3745 6539
linkedin.com/in/maia-ellis-38a577193
Tech-Driven Global Hedge Fund
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
The Client
One of the world’s largest hedge funds, this is an excellent opportunity to join one of the most prestigious technology teams in systematic trading in a wide-ranging development role. With a flat-structured, ‘no-attitude’ working environment, this is a great time to join as engineering is currently undergoing significant investment.
The Role
Working in small, diverse, cross-functional teams, Quant Developers collaborate closely with Quant Researchers on a varied project portfolio. You’ll cover everything from implementing new trading strategies, building new research frameworks and quant libraries, to prototyping new data feeds or building risk analysis tools.
The majority of the company’s systems run on Linux and most code is written in Python, including extensive use of numpy, scipy, pandas, scikit-learn, etc. But they’re also constantly evaluating new technologies, tools and libraries.
If you have a demonstrable passion for technology (personal projects, open-source involvement) and writing high-quality code, this role would be perfect for you.
Key Skills
Benefits
To apply for this role, or for further information, please contact:
Maia Ellis
maia.ellis@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3745 6539
linkedin.com/in/maia-ellis-38a577193
Systematic Quant Fund
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Fantastic opportunity to join a tech-driven quant and systematic IM with no red tape. They combine data, research, technology and trading proficiency to produce a scientific and innovative approach to investment. Seeking an enthusiastic software engineer to join the Risk team in London.
Your primary focus will be building and delivering solutions in response to requirements from the Risk Management team and Trading desks.
The successful Python developer will be highly motivated and an exceptional communicator, with experience of facing off to the business and other stakeholders across the firm. You’ll also need to have knowledge of building large-scale applications.
Must-Have Requirements
Nice-to-Have
Benefits
To apply for this role, or for further information, please contact:
Maia Ellis
maia.ellis@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3745 6539
linkedin.com/in/maia-ellis-38a577193
Tech-Driven Global Hedge Fund
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
The Client
One of the world’s largest hedge funds, this is an excellent opportunity to join one of the most prestigious technology teams in systematic trading in a wide-ranging development role.
This is a great time to join as engineering is currently undergoing significant investment. The team works very closely with the trading and research teams, building the tools, platforms and algorithms that drive the centralised global trading operation.
The Role
You can expect a range of work, from building new execution algorithms and platforms, to developing tools for manual traders and monitoring capability, through to post-trade performance analysis and optimising software for all aspects of the trading lifecycle.
The majority of the company’s systems run on Linux and most code is written in Java, with some Python and Typescript.
You will need to have a keen interest in quantitative financial trading markets. Previous experience with almost any asset class will be an advantage.
Key skills
Benefits
To apply for this role, or for further information, please contact:
Maia Ellis
maia.ellis@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3745 6539
linkedin.com/in/maia-ellis-38a577193
International Hedge Fund
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Salary: £200-400k total compensation
Company:
The role sits within the London office of one of the world’s largest quantitative trading firms with a unique focus on technology and collaborative problem solving, trading a wide range of financial products.
Join a company in which technology is central to how they approach their work and thus engineers are intimately tied into every area of the business – allowing your work to have a real impact! This is complemented by their relaxed non-hierarchical work environment which has been described as having a great ambience.
Role:
There is no use of mainstream technologies with OCaml being the primary programming language. But don’t worry about previous experience, there is great emphasis on teaching. The ideal candidate for them will be passionate about technology and hold outstanding records!
Requirements:
Benefits:
Tier-2 visa sponsorship is available.
To apply for this role, please email your CV to:
Maia Ellis
maia.ellis@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3745 6539
linkedin.com/in/maia-ellis-38a577193
£200-400k total compensation
Algorithmic Market Maker
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Salary: £200 – 250k
Company
This fintech is an international global algorithmic market maker in digital assets. They aim to transform Crypto Markets by offering liquidity to trading platforms and exchange. So essentially ‘HFT meets Crypto’. Trading more than $5B+/day across dozens of different trading platforms.
Their meritocratic working environment allows you to be judged only on what you deliver – providing great accountability and tangible impacts. Complementary to this it’s an interesting role, as it culturally combines all the benefits of expert tech and trading used in traditional financial markets and the fast-paced nature of a tech start-up.
Role
As a Core Developer, you will help in building out an automated trade reconciliation system. This greenfield project allows you to work closely with senior members, such as the CTO. Very high performance reconciling up to 100M transactions a day. All you need is strong python skills – they are a Linux-based company, and the solution will be built in Python and should “talk to” C++ stack.
Requirements:
Benefits:
Tier-2 visa sponsorship is available.
To apply for this role, please email your CV to:
Maia Ellis
maia.ellis@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3745 6539
linkedin.com/in/maia-ellis-38a577193
£200 – 250k
International Hedge Fund
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Salary: Competitive / Market-Leading
Company:
The role sits within the London office of a brand new HFT built out of an established systematic fund. So, there are huge buy-ins from the business – allowing you to delve greenfield project but with the advantage of market makers in the saddle.
There is a unique focus on technology and collaborative problem solving, trading a wide range of asset classes across international markets. Join a small team where there is no red tape – allowing your work to have a real impact.
Role:
As a developer, you will be designing, implementing and maintaining high-frequency trading systems. This will be through the use of C++ and ultra-low latency systems. You will be constantly challenged and get great advice from highly experienced developers. Complementary to this, they boast a relaxed working environment.
Requirements:
Benefits:
Tier-2 visa sponsorship is available.
To apply for this role, please email your CV to:
Maia Ellis
maia.ellis@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3745 6539
linkedin.com/in/maia-ellis-38a577193
Leading Quant-Driven Market-Maker
London
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Summary
This is a superb opportunity for a proactive and pragmatic engineer to join an award-winning, tech-savvy algorithmic trading firm in London. You will be part of the team that builds software for their research cluster – one of the largest in the world, and still growing.
Based in London, they are looking to expand their exchange trading development team with a developer well-versed in modern C++ (C++11 onwards). This role has a company-wide impact, where everything the team builds is used in-house on one of the world’s biggest trading systems (~$300bn/day), all in a completely automated manner.
This role offers a high degree of autonomy, giving you the authority to meet business requirements in the manner and using the software/tools that you see fit. If this approach appeals to you, please get in touch!
Requirements
Benefits
To apply for this role, or for further information, please contact:
Maia Ellis
maia.ellis@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3745 6539
linkedin.com/in/maia-ellis-38a577193
Global Prop Trading Firm
Amsterdam
Posted 1 Mth Ago
Summary
This is a fantastic opportunity to work in the Amsterdam headquarters of one of the world’s leading proprietary trading firms. With a company culture that is competitive yet collaborative, working in small, exceptionally talented teams, they build cutting-edge innovative technology solutions for their ultra-low-latency trading system.
They’re now looking for talented C++/Python engineers to join the team responsible for the full stack of applications required to run the trading business.
Sitting on the trading floor, you’ll work closely with traders and researchers to understand their needs and design effective solutions. There is very little red tape, and a rapid feedback loop on the software you build. Activities range from developing ultra-low-latency exchange protocol encoders/decoders, to writing & fine-tuning automated trading strategies, and providing the traders with user interfaces that give them better information and control.
This role would suit someone who relishes the challenges that come with an extremely fast-paced environment and can hit the ground running, making a tangible impact from day one.
Requirements
Rewards and Incentives
To apply for this role, or for further information, please contact:
Maia Ellis
maia.ellis@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3745 6539
linkedin.com/in/maia-ellis-38a577193
Tech-Driven Quant Trading Firm
London / Hybrid
Posted 2 Mths Ago
Summary
Unique trading firm that uses world-class technology to generate and implement outstanding research ideas, underpinned by a truly collaborative culture. Looking for a talented C++ Software Engineer to develop and maintain scalable trading applications and infrastructure, and assist with developing the full stack of infrastructure to support trading ops.
This is a fast-paced, critical role, with daily – or sometimes more frequent – release cycles, so you’ll be expected to understand how to prioritize between longer and shorter term needs. Projects will include systems custom optimization for latency, bandwidth or both, as well as multi-core/multi-threaded communications (using lock-free algorithms) to increase the theoretical computational limit per unit time.
The successful C++ Software Engineer will have a good understanding of trade-offs in terms of clock cycles and CPU cache effects, plus you’ll be expected to have a good grasp of run-time behavior, serialization delays, and asymptotic behavior in this environment.
This is a Linux shop running modern kernels, with a C++20 codebase and a Python layer on top. If you’d like to work in a collaborative environment where everyone programs, this is the role for you!
Requirements
Benefits
If you feel you are suitable for this role, or would like more information, drop me an email:
Jack Peck
jack.peck@oxfordknight.co.uk
linkedin.com/in/jack-peck-448a70131
Tech-Driven Quant Trading Firm
London / Hybrid
Posted 2 Mths Ago
Summary
Unique trading firm that uses world-class technology to generate and implement outstanding research ideas, underpinned by a truly collaborative culture. Looking for a talented Research Engineer to research, test and deploy new trading strategies, as well as designing and building research infrastructure to test trading ideas.
You’ll work closely with teammates to identify and develop new trading opportunities. You’ll code in Python to express statistical ideas and relationships between securities, producing hypotheses about market participants and dynamics. You’ll also design & implement new research tools to meet requirements and extend existing tools.
The successful Research Engineer will be a strong quantitative problem-solver, skilled at implementing performant code and in their element when designing user-friendly tools for colleagues. If you do your best work in a highly collaborative working environment where everyone’s ideas are valued and knowledge is shared, this role would be perfect for you!
Requirements
Benefits
If you feel you are suitable for this role, or would like more information, drop me an email:
Jack Peck
jack.peck@oxfordknight.co.uk
linkedin.com/in/jack-peck-448a70131
Leading High Frequency Trading Firm
Chicago
Posted 2 Mths Ago
Windows Engineers at this leading tech-focused market-maker are highly valued, participating in design discussions with both developers and traders to solve complex business-critical problems.
Primarily, you will be responsible for managing both enterprise and trading Windows machines, working with other engineering teams to design purpose-built infrastructure. You will be required to make sound engineering decisions in a self-directed environment, optimizing for reliability and scalability on the enterprise side, and for various performance characteristics (e.g. latency) to keep the trading team competitive.
The culture here is highly collaborative within a fast-paced environment, and this role would be perfect for someone who has great communication skills with both technical and non-technical colleagues alike.
Requirements
Rewards and Incentives
If you feel you’re a strong candidate for the role and would like further info, please contact:
Greg Leigh-Jones
gregleighjones@oxfordknight.com
linkedin.com/in/greg-jones-8a457011a
Leading High Frequency Trading Firm
Chicago
Posted 2 Mths Ago
Fantastic opportunity for innovative cyber security experts to join an elite team at a tech-focused market-maker. Using the best technology and tools in the market, they develop prop trading strategies, technology and algorithms to make tens of thousands of trades per second.
Collaborating with global partners across the business, you will champion the continuous effort to evolve and strengthen the firm’s security, developing policies and procedures on information security controls. You’ll stay abreast of industry developments and apply this knowledge when you are analyzing source system data and assessing security risks, proposing new ideas where appropriate. You will also liaise with the business and IT, helping them to implement data security, compliance requirements and information security technologies.
The successful candidate will be have a passion for cyber security, with outstanding written and oral communication skills and the ability to build strong cross-functional relationships.
Requirements
Rewards and Incentives
If you feel you’re a strong candidate for the role and would like further info, please contact:
Greg Leigh-Jones
gregleighjones@oxfordknight.com
linkedin.com/in/greg-jones-8a457011a
Leading High Frequency Trading Firm
Chicago / Austin
Posted 2 Mths Ago
Summary
Network Engineers at this leading tech-focused market-maker are highly valued, participating in design discussions with both developers and traders to solve complex business-critical problems.
Primarily, you will work with other engineering teams to design purpose-built infrastructure, optimizing for reliability and scalability. You will also provide technical expertise and support to high frequency traders, and oversee network equipment (Cisco, Aristo & Juniper).
The culture here is highly collaborative within a fast-paced environment, and this role would be perfect for someone who has great communication skills with both technical and non-technical colleagues alike.
Requirements
Rewards and Incentives
If you feel you’re a strong candidate for the role and would like further info, please contact:
Greg Leigh-Jones
gregleighjones@oxfordknight.com
linkedin.com/in/greg-jones-8a457011a
Leading High Frequency Trading Firm
Chicago
Posted 2 Mths Ago
Summary
Highly proficient Linux Systems Engineer with great communication skills wanted to join an elite team at a tech-focused market-maker. Using the best technology and tools in the market, they develop prop trading strategies, technology and algorithms to make tens of thousands of trades per second.
Linux Systems Engineers are a critical part of the firm’s success. You will join a highly talented team, building innovative tools to ensure trading servers work at the highest possible performance level. Work will include overseeing a fleet of UNIX servers (deploying new solutions, performance monitoring, upgrading), fixing and analysing technical problems and researching new technologies either for implementation or to build better.
The successful candidate will be fantastic at multitasking, enjoy collaborating across the business, and have a proactive approach to problem solving.
Requirements
Rewards and Incentives
If you feel you’re a strong candidate for the role and would like further info, please contact:
Greg Leigh-Jones
gregleighjones@oxfordknight.com
linkedin.com/in/greg-jones-8a457011a/
Systematic Quant Fund
New York
Posted 2 Mths Ago
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
Benefits
If you feel you’re a strong candidate for the role and would like further info, please contact:
Greg Leigh-Jones
gregleighjones@oxfordknight.com
+1 929-209-9585
linkedin.com/in/greg-jones-8a457011a
World-Leading Hedge Fund
London
Posted 2 Mths Ago
World-leading hedge fund looking for experienced Python and C++ Quant Developers to join their new systematic arm in London.
Exciting opportunity to join an elite team working to build out and enhance their cutting-edge quantitative trading platform. You will work directly alongside senior PMs, quants and engineers gaining invaluable knowledge and experience across all major financial markets.
Requirements:
Rewards and Incentives
If this sounds like you, or you’d like to know more, please get in touch!
Tara Neville
tara.neville@oxfordknight.co.uk
M: +44 75540 95599
T: +44 20 8156 6143
linkedin.com/in/tara-neville-1b19961a8
Innovative Prop Trading Firm
Amsterdam
Posted 2 Mths Ago
Summary
This is a fantastic opportunity to run your own ‘desk pod’ under the umbrella of this entrepreneurial firm. Founded 5 years ago, they successfully focus on the more interesting part of trading that add value, and are currently going through a really exciting period of growth.
They’re looking for ambitious and driven PMs/Quants who are keen to continue their successful upwards trajectory. You’ll have the autonomy to build and run your own business plus access to cutting-edge infrastructure, but with lower costs and higher payouts than at other funds.
To be successful in this role, you’ll need to have a passion for what you do and the collaborative mindset required for working within a small team.
Requirements
Benefits
If you think you are a good match, or would like further information, please contact:
Henry Abbot
henry.abbot@oxfordknight.co.uk
+44 (0)20 3475 7199
https://www.linkedin.com/in/henry-abbot-5b406912a/
Sophisticated Prop Trading Firm
Singapore
Posted 2 Mths Ago
Salary: up to 250-275k SGD base
Summary
High-frequency prop trading firm with offices worldwide is looking to expand its Trading Platforms teams with a talented FPGA Developer.
This team develops, improves, and governs the platforms via which trading teams access markets, as well as enabling Risk Technology to control market access and trading. In this role, your main focus will be working collaboratively with software developers across the business to architect low-latency connections to global financial exchanges. You’ll build advanced Ethernet-based comms stacks direct from chip to SFP, integrate network stacks to connect to various exchanges, and develop an optimal interface between FPGA hardware and user space software.
You will be expected to be a skilled communicator, able to clearly document specifications and solve difficult technical problems in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
Requirements
NB: Please don’t apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you or you would like to know more, please get in touch:
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
+44 (0)20 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
up to 250-275k SGD base
Sophisticated Prop Trading Firm
Singapore
Posted 2 Mths Ago
Salary: up to 250-275k SGD base
Summary
High-frequency prop trading firm with offices worldwide looking for an outstanding C++ Software Developer to join one of their in-house trading teams as they design a low-latency, high throughput trading and research system.
Enjoying high levels of autonomy, in this role you will use clean, efficient code to design and develop various components for the high frequency trading platform, collecting quotes and trades from exchanges around the world. You’ll also contribute to the development and optimization of large-scale parallel computation problems, and improve performance by optimizing efficiency of machine learning-based algorithms.
The ideal candidate will be comfortable managing multiple tasks to completion in a fast-paced environment and have highly analytical problem-solving abilities.
Requirements
NB: Please don’t apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you or you would like to know more, please get in touch:
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
+44 (0)20 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
up to 250-275k SGD base
Sophisticated Prop Trading Firm
Singapore or Hong Kong
Posted 2 Mths Ago
Salary: up to 250-275k SGD base
Summary
High-frequency prop trading firm with offices worldwide looking for a talented C++ Engineer to join the Markets team, providing the trading strategies access to a wide, growing range of global markets.
Enjoying a varied project portfolio, in this role you will use clean, efficient code to design and develop various components for the high frequency trading platform, collecting quotes and trades from exchanges around the world. You’ll also optimize the platform using network & systems programming, as well as developing systems to provide easy access to historical market data.
If you have creative, insightful problem-solving abilities and can manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced trading environment, then apply now!
Requirements
NB: Please don’t apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you or you would like to know more, please get in touch:
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
+44 (0)20 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
up to 250-275k SGD base
Sophisticated Prop Trading Firm
Singapore or Hong Kong
Posted 2 Mths Ago
Salary: up to 250-275k SGD base
Summary
High-frequency prop trading firm with offices worldwide looking for skilled Senior Site Reliability Engineer developer to join their High Performance Computing team, developing and supporting their large-scale compute and storage platform.
This platform is designed to solve demanding problems – both business and financial – through computer modelling, simulation and analysis. You will be responsible for the deployment, operation and support of HPC infrastructure (focusing on diverse and distributed on-prem & cloud storage), schedulers – e.g. HTCondor or SLURM, and the container orchestration platform (Kubernetes), as well as managing hardware and software vendor relationships.
The successful SRE will have excellent communication skills, and previous exposure to at least one cloud platform.
Requirements
NB: Please don’t apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you or you would like to know more, please get in touch:
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
+44 (0)20 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
up to 250-275k SGD base
Sophisticated Prop Trading Firm
Singapore or Hong Kong
Posted 2 Mths Ago
Salary: up to 250-275k SGD base
Summary
High-frequency prop trading firm with offices worldwide looking for skilled Senior Site Reliability Engineer developer to support and maintain their Linux trading infrastructure on a day-to-day basis.
This is a pivotal role where you will lead designs of major software components and systems to improve the availability, latency and efficiency of trading services. To achieve this, you’ll provide level II support (including emergency response, planned changes, and advanced performance troubleshooting), contribute tools & services, regularly interact with trading and core engineering, and provide guidance and mentorship to team members.
The ideal candidate will have a systematic approach to problem solving, and experience of architecting, developing and troubleshooting systems.
Requirements
NB: Please don’t apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you or you would like to know more, please get in touch:
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
+44 (0)20 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
up to 250-275k SGD base
Sophisticated Prop Trading Firm
Singapore or Hong Kong
Posted 2 Mths Ago
Salary: up to 250-275k SGD base
Summary
High-frequency prop trading firm with offices worldwide looking for a talented Data Engineer to design, implement and maintain the infrastructure which underpins the firm’s data management processes.
Collaborating with other members of the Data Services team, Portfolio Management teams, and colleagues across IT, your primary focus will be the reliability, security and scalability of data systems. This will include automation, troubleshooting, understanding requirements & developing solutions, implementing ETL processes, monitoring, overseeing Airflow workflows, and staying across the latest trends in order to recommend improvements to data processes.
You’ll be expected to have outstanding communication and collaboration skills, and a real passion for meeting users’ needs.
Requirements
NB: Please don’t apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you or you would like to know more, please get in touch:
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
up to 250-275k SGD base
Leading High Frequency Trading Firm
Amsterdam
Posted 3 Mths Ago
Salary: circa €80-150k
A tech-focused market-maker with groundbreaking success in the high frequency trading space, my client is seeking an experienced IAM Engineer to help them achieve ambitious trading goals.
This is a vital role where you will work closely with stakeholders right across the firm to ensure internal user processes are optimized, secure, free from friction and designed to improve the user experience. Partnering with HR, Technology, Compliance and Risk, no two days are the same; your varied projects will include creating & implementing new solutions and procedures, solving ad-hoc technical problems, and managing data reliant systems crucial to business security.
This role would suit someone who is driven by a desire to keep technology reliable, low-latency and optimised to meet the requirements of users. If you think you’d enjoy a relaxed culture working alongside some of the best professionals in the industry from over 40 countries, apply now!
Requirements
Rewards and Incentives
If you feel you are a strong match for this role, please do not hesitate to get in touch:
Dominic Copsey
dominic.copsey@oxfordknight.co.uk
+44 (0) 203 475 7193
linkedin.com/in/dom-copsey-586478143/
circa €80-150k
Leading High Frequency Trading Firm
Amsterdam
Posted 3 Mths Ago
Salary: circa €80-150k
Fantastic opportunity for a pragmatic, forward-thinking engineer to join a tech-focused market-maker with groundbreaking success in the high frequency trading space as a Security Engineer.
As part of a global security team, you will get the chance to take ownership of cybersecurity controls helping the business to remain as free as possible from attacks and intrusions. In this highly collaborative role, you’ll draw on your knowledge of IT infrastructure, project management and problem-solving capabilities to work on a variety of tasks such as security operations and engineering, risk analysis and security governance.
To be successful, you’ll need to have a strong engineering instinct and a deep understanding of both technical and business problems. In return, you’ll enjoy a relaxed culture working alongside some of the best professionals in the industry from over 40 countries.
Requirements
Rewards and Incentives
If you feel you are a strong match for this role, please do not hesitate to get in touch:
Dominic Copsey
dominic.copsey@oxfordknight.co.uk
+44 (0) 203 475 7193
linkedin.com/in/dom-copsey-586478143/
circa €80-150k
Leading High Frequency Trading Firm
Amsterdam
Posted 3 Mths Ago
Salary: circa €80-150k
A tech-focused market-maker with groundbreaking success in the high frequency trading space, my client is seeking a creative problem-solver to be their next Application Engineer in Enterprise Technology.
Working closely with business operations teams, your main focus will be the systems and applications that allow those users to operate at their highest performance level. As the primary point of contact, you will play a vital role in establishing, automating, integrating and building end-to-end solutions from scratch in response to business operation requirements, enabling the firm to reach its ambitious goals.
You’ll need to have a user-first approach to problem-solving where you can adapt and choose the right tool based on each problem’s requirements. In return, you’ll enjoy a relaxed culture working alongside some of the best professionals in the industry from over 40 countries.
Requirements
Rewards and Incentives
If you feel you are a strong match for this role, please do not hesitate to get in touch:
Dominic Copsey
dominic.copsey@oxfordknight.co.uk
+44 (0) 203 475 7193
linkedin.com/in/dom-copsey-586478143/
circa €80-150k
Leading Crypto Prop Trading Firm
Dubai
Posted 3 Mths Ago
Salary: up to £100k base + bonus
Summary
Perfect opportunity for talented infrastructure engineers eager to propel their careers to the next level. Based onsite in Dubai, you will be working closely with the highly experienced founders of this digital assets prop shop as one of their first technology hires.
As Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll be responsible for enabling the software development required to build a world-class trading platform. From network architecture design to cloud infrastructure optimisation, to automated deployment and resource cluster management – no two days will be the same in this exciting role.
The founders are keen to see candidates with a track record of managing large-scale infrastructure from a variety of backgrounds, preferably with a demonstrable interest in trading and finance. They offer a highly attractive working environment, flat organizational structure and superb rewards for your hard work.
Requirements
NB Please don’t apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you or you’d like to know more, please get in touch:
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
up to £100k base + bonus
Leading Crypto Prop Trading Firm
Dubai
Posted 3 Mths Ago
Salary: up to £100k base + bonus
Summary
Fantastic opportunity for ambitious C++ engineers eager to propel their careers to the next level. Based onsite in Dubai, you will be working closely with the highly experienced founders of this digital assets prop shop as one of their first technology hires.
As you can imagine, at this early stage your projects will be many and varied, including being responsible for the systems architecture needed to build and maintain a world-class trading platform.
The ideal candidate will be a dedicated, hands-on developer who can hit the ground running and make an impact from day one. In return, you will find a highly attractive working environment, flat organizational structure and superb rewards for your hard work.
Requirements
Desirable
NB Please don’t apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you or you’d like to know more, please get in touch:
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
up to £100k base + bonus
Leading Fund
Remote / London
Posted 3 Mths Ago
Experience Level: 1+ year
Location: Hybrid (London)
This leading fund is searching for a Data Scraping specialist to join a group comprising some of the best handpicked talent worldwide.
Role
Working very closely with the decision-makers in the business, scraping data from both internal and external sources, to aid decision-makers and draw conclusions within their centralised data function.
Skills/Experience Required
If you would like to know more about this position, please do not hesitate to get in touch!
Amy Gandhi
amy.gandhi@oxfordknight.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 203 475 5019
linkedin.com/in/amy-gandhi-122b55109
Leading Global Quant Trading & Investment Firm
London
Posted 3 Mths Ago
Summary
Founded by experienced quantitative trades, this is one of the largest firms by trading volume on Indian exchanges with a significant market share on several large global exchanges. They’re looking for talented FPGA developers with a full-stack background to help them architect and build out a hardware platform for low-latency trading.
In this role the workload is varied, with responsibilities that include:
The production environment is fast moving with a short feedback loop. If you’re smart, ambitious, hardworking and do your best work in a meritocratic environment, apply for this role now!
Requirements
What They Offer
If you feel you are suitable for this role, drop me an email or give me a call:
Jack Peck
[e] jack.peck@oxfordknight.co.uk
[t] +44 20 3745 6537
linkedin.com/in/jack-peck-448a70131
Market-Leading Global Hedge Fund
New York
Posted 3 Mths Ago
Industry-leading market maker using innovative and cutting-edge technology, with data at the core of the investment process, looking for an SRE with coding experience to work on trading analytics. Great opportunity for a creative problem-solver to work on delivering robust platforms and applications for research, trading and risk management.
Working in partnership with trading, quant research and engineering teams, you’ll be responsible for the full lifecycle of innovative platforms – building them from scratch in a variety of languages and technologies, backed by rigorous automated testing, release and deployment. You’ll own production services and be tasked with debugging live issues, as well as working with a wide variety of open source and proprietary tools to meet the challenges of this important role.
The successful candidate will enjoy working closely with the business to understand their practices and requirements in detail, and have the ability to automate, containerize, monitor and ensure the stability of their applications in a demanding environment.
Requirements
Benefits & Incentives
If this sounds like you, or you’d like to know more, please get in touch:
Alex Hopkinson
alex.hopkinson@oxfordknight.com
+1 929-209-9194
linkedin.com/in/alex-hopkinson-4447741b0
Leading Innovative Algo Trading Firm
NYC / Chicago / Austin
Posted 3 Mths Ago
This fully automated trading firm has a unique culture that is relaxed, yet exciting and technically stimulating, where you’ll be working with some of the smartest engineers in the industry. This is a great opportunity for innovative, creative cyber security experts who love large amounts of autonomy and the chance to strategically impact global security systems.
Working closely with the Systems and Operations teams as well as colleagues across the business, your primary focus will be building, managing and monitoring the secure network. You will drive the network security strategy, manage vendor relationships, and oversee the full optimization lifecycle.
Technology is very highly regarded here, with core security engineering recognised as being critical to the success of trading. To be successful in this role, you’ll need to be excited about security, tackling big-picture problems, and contributing to both the project management and the technical nitty-gritty of global network security architecture.
Benefits & Incentives
If this sounds like you, or you’d like to know more, please get in touch:
Alex Hopkinson
alex.hopkinson@oxfordknight.com
+1 929-209-9194
linkedin.com/in/alex-hopkinson-4447741b0
Thriving Fintech Startup
London
Posted 3 Mths Ago
Salary: up to £150k base
Client
This is an innovative fintech startup going through an exciting period of growth in their London office. Backed by major players in the capital markets and financial services industries, their mission is to become the global leader in financial markets infrastructure for ETP primary markets by leveraging distributed ledger technology (DLT).
Role
They are looking for exceptionally talented technologists who are comfortable being both a hands-on developer and a strong architect, with the opportunity to grow the role into a leadership position in the future (potentially becoming the CTO).
This is a pivotal role, where you will collaborate with cross-functional teams – developers, product managers, business stakeholders – to define and shape the architectural strategy for the cutting-edge SaaS platform using DLT. You’ll also design, develop and implement the scalable and secure DLT-based platform, providing mentorship and technical guidance to the development team.
Skills and Experience Required
NB Please don’t apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you or you’d like to know more, please get in touch:
Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946
up to £150k base
World-Leading Innovative Algo Trading Firm
London
Posted 3 Mths Ago
Summary
This is one of the world’s top algorithmic trading firms, looking for a Data Engineer to join their London team – ideally with Python experience. A community of self-starters from multiple tech backgrounds – maths, computer science, statistics, physics, engineering – they have built one of the world’s most sophisticated computing environments for research and development with data at its core.
This role offers the opportunity to be a critical part of the trading process where you’ll work side by side with live trading teams to support one of the largest automated trading systems in the world. You’ll be tasked with writing automation, exploring data, collaborating with research and trading colleagues and liaising with a variety of external partners. You’ll also acquire, analyse and prepare data for quantitative research.
If you eat, sleep and breathe data, and can solve complex problems quickly, this role would be perfect for you!
Requirements
Benefits
If you think you are a strong candidate for the role and would like further info, please contact:
Tom Brown
tom.brown@oxfordknight.co.uk
+44 (0)20 4576 5966
linkedin.com/in/thomas-brown-196a29103
World-Leading Prop Trading Fund
London
Posted 4 Mths Ago
Summary:
Exciting opportunity to work at a tech-centric prop trading fund which trades a wide range of financial products, with offices across the globe. Work is organized into small, project-oriented teams, each with the independence and responsibility to make decisions that impact the business.
Seeking a talented Software Engineer with experience in high-performance low-latency systems. You’ll collaborate with quant researchers and developers, taking a holistic approach to design and optimize the fast-trading systems.
To be successful, you must have experience of low-level systems programming and optimisation. They are keen to see candidates from both finance and non-finance with experience in any programming language.
Requirements:
Desirable:
Benefits and Incentives:
If you feel you are a good match, please don’t hesitate to get in touch:
Dan Hampton
dan.hampton@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3475 7192
linkedin.com/in/dan-hampton-ab029392
Systematic Prop Trading Firm
Remote
Posted 4 Mths Ago
Summary:
A multi-asset prop trading firm with a strong focus on algorithmic and systematic strategy are looking for a Junior or Graduate Trader to join their core team. This is a fully remote role based in the UK.
Requirements:
If you are interested in Junior or Graduate Trading roles please get in touch:
Rosie Griggs
rosie.griggs@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9577
linkedin.com/in/rosie-oxfordknight
Quant-Driven Hedge Fund
London
Posted 4 Mths Ago
Summary:
A globally leading British quant-driven hedge fund are looking for 2022 or 2023 graduates, to join their London-based team.
Based in central London, with a hybrid work-from-home policy, the successful Graduate Software Engineer does not need specific financial knowledge or experience, but would need to have a strong interest in the field, and would be working on rotation through several front office and quant research and strategy teams. Day-to-day technology will include C#, angular.js, SQL, Docker, Kubernetes.
Requirements:
If you’re interested in Software Engineering roles in London, please get in touch:
Rosie Griggs
rosie.griggs@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9577
linkedin.com/in/rosie-oxfordknight
Leading High Frequency Trading Firm
Amsterdam
Posted 4 Mths Ago
Salary: €250k – 750k
Summary
This is a fantastic opportunity to work in the Amsterdam HQ of a tech-focused market maker with groundbreaking success in the high frequency trading space. With a company culture that’s competitive yet collaborative, they leverage the most advanced technology to ensure they have the fastest and most reliable trading systems in the world.
At this firm, they pride themselves on being real engineers – not just coders. Working closely with traders to understand business problems, you’ll then design & build hardware-based systems to solve them, owning the development process from end to end. This role would suit someone who stays up to date with the latest low-latency techniques and platforms and looks for ways to integrate them with the trading system.
The successful FPGA Engineer will be a very hands-on engineer, with a passion for solving challenging problems in a fast-paced environment.
Requirements
Nice to have
Benefits
If you feel you are a strong match for this role, please do not hesitate to get in touch:
Dominic Copsey
dominic.copsey@oxfordknight.co.uk
+44 (0) 203 475 7193
linkedin.com/in/dom-copsey-586478143/
€250k – 750k
Global Prop Fund
Amsterdam
Posted 4 Mths Ago
World-leading prop fund is looking for a strong Python engineer to join their rapidly expanding team in Amsterdam. This data and technology-driven firm specialise in developing automated trading systems that execute across global financial markets. You will be joining a truly international business, working alongside best-in-class professionals from more than 40 different countries.
The successful candidate will be joining a small, highly productive and fast-paced team – helping to manage more than 1500 servers in more than 15 locations around the world. Depending on your interests, you will situate into a more development or operational focus role, but no matter where you sit you, will have a direct impact on working to create a robust and reliable foundation for the core business.
Benefits:
Requirements:
Desirable:
If this sounds like you, or you’d like to know more, please get in touch!
Tara Neville
tara.neville@oxfordknight.co.uk
M: +44 75540 95599
T: +44 20 8156 6143
linkedin.com/in/tara-neville-1b19961a8
Leading Global Investment Management
London
Posted 4 Mths Ago
Salary Range: £200k-400k TC
Fantastic opportunity at a leading multi-strategy alternative fund manager looking for an experienced developer strategist to head up a talented team of engineers.
In this role, your main focus will be building the next iteration of a Python object model they have created which adds calculated methods to data stored in an encrypted SQL relational database. You’ll lead a team responsible for the architecture, design and implementation.
Some examples of projects: automating risk reports and monthly letters that we send out to the funds’ investors, code to monitor levels of investments of certain classes of investors, and to create a model of the detailed side letter terms for specific investors.
Languages they use here are Python 3.7, C++ 17, SQL/MariaDB, Pandas, and HTML5, CSS and HTTP web technologies.
Requirements
Rewards and Incentives
If you feel you are a strong match for this role, please do not hesitate to get in touch:
Dominic Copsey
dominic.copsey@oxfordknight.co.uk
+44 (0) 203 475 7193
linkedin.com/in/dom-copsey-586478143/
£200k-400k TC
Leading High Frequency Trading Firm
Amsterdam
Posted 4 Mths Ago
A tech-focused market-maker with groundbreaking success in the high frequency trading space, my client is seeking a creative problem-solver to be their next Software Engineer in Infrastructure.
In this role, your main focus will be solving the challenges of infrastructure operations with software. As such, this will include all aspects of Linux server management, working on automation projects, coding in Python together with other tools like Ansible, and contributing to the design and implementation of core infrastructure systems. You’ll split your time between operational tasks and development based on your particular skillset and experience.
You’ll need to have a very hands-on approach to problem-solving where you can adapt and choose the right tool based on each problem’s requirements. In return, you’ll enjoy a relaxed culture working alongside some of the best professionals in the industry from over 40 countries.
Requirements
Desirable
Rewards and Incentives
If you feel you are a strong match for this role, please do not hesitate to get in touch:
Dominic Copsey
dominic.copsey@oxfordknight.co.uk
+44 (0) 203 475 7193
linkedin.com/in/dom-copsey-586478143/
€120-400k
Global Prop Trading Firm
London
Posted 4 Mths Ago
Summary
This is a fantastic opportunity to become an FPGA Developer in one of the Core Engineering teams of a global tech-focused market maker that have experienced consistent, ground-breaking success in the high frequency trading space. With a company culture that’s competitive yet collaborative, they leverage the most advanced technology to ensure they have the fastest and most reliable trading systems in the world.
You’ll join a talented team of engineers where your main focus will be producing highly reliable FPGA designs, aiming for the lowest latency possible. FPGA Engineers here own end-to-end development and your job will be to design and develop highly advanced trading systems to be used by core revenue generating teams across the entire organisation. Similar to software teams, you’ll iterate and release multiple times a week.
To excel in this position you should have a solid foundation in both RTL (Register Transfer Level) design and software engineering. Additionally, you should have an interest in utilizing software engineering techniques to enhance the efficiency of hardware development processes.
The successful FPGA Engineer will be a creative problem-solver, with a strong work ethic, and the drive to continually learn and improve.
Requirements
Benefits
If you think you are a suitable candidate for the role and would like further info, please contact:
Josh Williamson
josh.williamson@oxfordknight.co.uk
+44 (0)20 3475 5021
linkedin.com/in/josh-williamson-3745b7151
Core Revenue-Generating Platform within Global Quant Fund
London
Posted 4 Mths Ago
Salary: up to £250k + bonus
Summary
This is an opportunity to work for a global leader in finance, utilizing cutting-edge technology and alpha-driven strategies to revolutionize the finance industry.
Enjoying high levels of autonomy, the successful candidate will be asked to build new components for an execution platform that underpins multiple business units and that is one of the core revenue generators, across the entirety of the business. As the face of the platform in this region, you will be required to liaise with various stakeholders and drive change when necessary. This team works closely with traders and quantitative researchers to build new components for order management, internalization, crossing, algo wheel and algo execution. They are also responsible for integrating these components with other proprietary quantitative trading processes. This is a holistic role; they are looking for a motivated individual that strives for success in everything that they do – you will be rewarded accordingly.
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.
Requirements
NB: Please do not apply if you are a fresh graduate.
Benefits
If this sounds like you, or you’d like to know more, please get in touch:
Josh Williamson
josh.williamson@oxfordknight.co.uk
+44 (0)20 3475 5021
linkedin.com/in/josh-williamson-3745b7151
up to £250k + bonus
Tech-Driven Quant Fund
London
Posted 4 Mths Ago
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 research and trading infrastructure, where you will shape and drive major engineering decisions focused on optimising and scaling the systems. Currently this covers everything from baremetal servers, VMs, containers and network devices for both the production-critical and large-scale HPC research environments.
Working very closely with the technical teams, you will lead a team of engineers to solve incredibly varied engineering challenges, such as optimising the performance and throughput of highly scalable HPC research clusters, improving the dev environment towards a self service model for the quant developers, expanding data centres and reducing latency via low-level hardware and kernel tuning.
The successful Systems Engineering Lead will love solving problems creatively, be able to work in a highly collaborative environment and will thrive on making a big impact across the business. Now is a great time to join as you will be able to get close to their advanced infrastructure, pre-empting where it could be improved and implementing new solutions at scale.
Requirements:
Rewards and Incentives:
If you think you are a strong candidate for the role and would like further info, please contact:
Josh Williamson
josh.williamson@oxfordknight.co.uk
+44 (0)20 3475 5021
linkedin.com/in/josh-williamson-3745b7151
Systematic Quant Fund
London
Posted 4 Mths Ago
My client is a global investment management firm that utilizes a diversified portfolio of systematic and quantitative strategies across the financial markets. As a leading technology driven firm, they combine data, research, technology and trading proficiency to produce a scientific and innovative approach to investment. An exceptional opportunity to join a competitive name in the industry with both strong compensation and a focus on a great tech culture.
They are looking to add a high performance C++ developer to their core market data team that designs, builds and maintains the firm wide infrastructure for live trading. Working closely with the Front Office, you’ll design and implement improvements to the real time market data software, as well as working on exchange feeds used for trading signal research.
Requirements:
Desirables:
Benefits:
If you think you are a strong match for this job description, please do not hesitate to get in touch!
Marcus Russell
marcus.russell@oxfordknight.co.uk
T: +44 (0) 2034755018
M: +44 (0) 7935948469
linkedin.com/in/marcus-russell-66325817b
Prop Trading Firm
NYC / Chicago / Austin
Posted 4 Mths Ago
Compensation: base of $200,000-300,000 + annual bonus
My client is a legendary prop trading firm based across Chicago, Austin and NYC that’s committed to empowering exceptional engineering talent to push through scientific boundaries and apply cutting-edge technologies to trade across global financial markets.
They are seeking an outstanding Software Engineer with an expertise in C++ to join the Core Infrastructure team which is responsible for designing, developing and maintaining their algorithmic trading platform. This is a high-throughput, low-latency trading system that deploys millions of ML-based trading strategies daily at microsecond latencies.
You will gain exposure to all areas of the technical stack including order routing, market data, and risk systems and you will collaborate closely with traders and quants.
Requirements:
If you’d like to learn more about the role and company, please email your resume to george@oxfordknight.com
George James
george@oxfordknight.com
+1 929 209 9217
linkedin.com/in/george-james98
$200k – $300k base + annual bonus
TypeScript, HTML, and CSS, | React, Node.js
New York
Posted 4 Mths Ago
My client is one of the world’s most successful hedge funds across Commodities, Credit, Equities and Fixed Income.
Technology underpins everything they do and their engineers benefit from unparalleled resources and a world class tech team to learn from, making this a place for extraordinary growth.
I’m hiring a front end / UI engineer to join a specialized team whose focus is to take on the firm’s toughest challenges. As such, they are looking for engineers who are driven to solve seemingly impossible problems and are willing to re-architect systems from the ground up to achieve this.
As this team collaborates with key areas of the business including trading, research, and data, you will gain exposure to the core revenue generating areas of one of the most successful financial institutions in the world.
Requirements:
If you’re a front-end engineer looking to make a large impact at one of the world’s most profitable hedge funds, please send your resume to george@oxfordknight.com for more information.
George James
george@oxfordknight.com
+1 929 209 9217
linkedin.com/in/george-james98
$200k – $300k + discretionary bonus eligibility
Prop Trading Firm
NYC / Chicago / Austin
Posted 4 Mths Ago
My client is a legendary Chicago-based prop trading that’s committed to empowering exceptional talent to push through scientific boundaries and apply cutting-edge research to global financial markets.
They’re looking for Technical Lead to join the team and improve C++ developer productivity by designing, building, maintaining, and evangelizing a suite of core tools, frameworks, and build systems.
The culture at my client is unique – they believe in constant innovation, creativity, honesty, and a having competitive streak. As with any trading firm, they value winning, however this firm likes to achieve this by fostering collaboration and mutual respect.
Skills required:
Base salary range of $200,000 – $300,000, along with discretionary bonus eligibility.
Applicants must be based in the US and have a valid working visa e.g. H1B / Green card.
If you want to push new boundaries within the developer productivity field, please send your resume to george@oxfordknight.com and we can arrange an intro call about the role.
George James
george@oxfordknight.com
+1 929 209 9217
linkedin.com/in/george-james98
$200k – $300k + discretionary bonus eligibility
Systematic Quant Fund
London
Posted 4 Mths Ago
Fantastic opportunity to join a tech-driven quant and systematic IM with no red tape. They combine data, research, technology and trading proficiency to produce a scientific and innovative approach to investment.
The global security team is a skilled group of engineers, analysts, and specialists who are dedicated to keeping the firm safe, without disrupting the business. Your primary focus will be improving capability to monitor, detect, respond to and deal with security incidents. Collaborating with cross-functional teams across the business, you’ll have the chance to design and build systems from scratch, with the autonomy to influence architecture and choose specific technologies or tools as you see appropriate.
The ideal candidate would have experience of working and thriving in a small team with outstanding communication skills, particularly adept at bringing together stakeholders across the business of varying levels of technical ability.
Requirements
Desirable
Benefits
If you think you are a strong match for this job description, please do not hesitate to get in touch!
Amy Gandhi
amy.gandhi@oxfordknight.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 203 475 5019
linkedin.com/in/amy-gandhi-122b55109
World-Leading Prop Trading Fund
London
Posted 4 Mths Ago
Summary
This is a fabulous opportunity for a talented, experienced engineer to join this tech-savvy algorithmic trading firm. Through writing software, the research technology team has built one of world’s largest compute clusters with a single function. In this role, you’ll take on a varied workload: designing the datacentre, choosing the right hardware, tuning OS, storage and networks, writing efficient distribution software for the compute cluster, and more.
Most of the work is greenfield rather than implementing existing, you’ll be writing systems from the hardware level up. Recent projects included writing a new storage discovery system from scratch and writing a distributed file system.
With huge amounts of autonomy, you can really make a large impact from day one. You’ll be expected to take time to truly understand the business and its requirements, taking often half-formed requests and delivering what users actually need, not what they asked for.
The successful candidate will have a track record of outstanding performance, be confident writing whole systems, and a passion to get started growing one of the world’s largest compute clusters out there.
Requirements
Benefits
If you feel you are a good match, please don’t hesitate to get in touch:
Dan Hampton
dan.hampton@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3475 7192
linkedin.com/in/dan-hampton-ab029392
World-Leading Prop Trading Fund
London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Salary: Competitive / Market-Leading
Company:
The role sits in the London office of one of the world’s largest quant trading firms with a unique focus on technology and collaborative problem-solving, trading a wide range of financial products. Technology is central to how they approach their work so you’ll be intimately tied into every area of the business – your work will have a real impact!
Seeking a talented software engineer who is interested in being part of a live support rotation, interacting directly with the business solving crucial problems, keen to build software to improve the infrastructure, and get stuck into varied project work.
Requirements:
Benefits:
If you feel you are a good match, please don’t hesitate to get in touch:
Dan Hampton
dan.hampton@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3475 7192
linkedin.com/in/dan-hampton-ab029392
Market-Leading Global Hedge Fund
London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Leading global hedge fund looking for a ‘best of the best’ C++ engineer to join their Quant Technology Team. They are looking for passionate and driven individuals to sit in their Fixed Income and Commodities technology group in their London office.
Summary:
Have the opportunity to work closely with Quants to expand their in-house pricing library to support trading in Fixed Income, Commodities, Credit, and FX.
Work on a real-time system running 24/7, which has been live for 10 years on a distributed cluster using AWS, microservices, Kubernetes and Docker, in a mix of C++, Java and Python. They’re now building a greenfield next-generation analytics library, with no legacy systems. All of the work is maximum 18-24 months old, with most of it still being built from scratch as additional requirements come through.
Be a part of their repeated success and growth, seen only in the upper echelons of the financial industry, in a dynamic and fast-paced environment with fantastic potential for growth and development.
Requirements:
Benefits:
If this sounds like you, or you’d like to know more, please get in touch!
Stan Cannons
stan.cannons@oxfordknight.co.uk
linkedin.com/in/stan-cannons-86023b237
up to £300k TC
Sophisticated Prop Trading Firm
London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Summary
High-frequency prop trading firm with offices worldwide is looking to expand one of its core engineering teams with a talented FPGA Developer with a keen interest in software engineering.
Core engineering underpins the firm’s trading strategies providing access to a wide range of global financial markets, including access to new markets, cutting-edge new technical capabilities, and expert market intelligence. In this role, your main focus will be the design, development, testing and deploying some of the fastest, most sophisticated trading systems in the world. You will be expected to solve difficult technical problems in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
The successful FPGA Developer will have a strong mix of traditional RTL design and software development skills. You enjoy using software engineering methodologies to improve the hardware development workflow, and integrating their designs into a larger software stack.
Requirements
Benefits
If you feel you are a good match, please don’t hesitate to get in touch:
Dan Hampton
dan.hampton@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3475 7192
linkedin.com/in/dan-hampton-ab029392
Tech-Driven Prop Trading Firm
London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Summary
This is a leading tech-driven prop trading firm, trading their own capital across a broad range of asset classes, instruments and strategies in markets worldwide. They are looking for an exceptional Python developer to join a brand-new team where you’ll design and build robust, scalable tools and infrastructure to enable Traders and Quant Researchers to do their best work.
Working on the automated trading platform of the global Delta One business, this role offers the opportunity to influence the design and architecture of a growing system, while also developing revenue-generating solutions and new tools. There is very little red tape, and a rapid feedback loop on the software you build.
The successful Senior Python Engineer will have a proven track record of independently driving projects to completion and enjoy facing off to the business.
Requirements:
Benefits:
If you feel you are a good match, please don’t hesitate to get in touch:
Dan Hampton
dan.hampton@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3475 7192
linkedin.com/in/dan-hampton-ab029392
Leading Global Hedge Fund
London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Summary
Python Engineer wanted for systematic arm of globally recognised hedge fund to help build out their continuously evolving data platform in their London office. This opportunity will give you the chance to design, implement and evolve a diverse financial system, including pipeline, repository, data warehouse and data access APIs. You will be working closely with the quant PMs and researchers in a fast-paced environment as you automate and support the Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) processes from various market data vendors.
They are looking for a passionate engineer with strong financial data knowledge, including security master, financial time series (pricing data, etc.) across multiple asset classes. You’ll need to have solid coding skills (Python, Java/C++, SQL), and experience working with large, complex datasets.
If you’re self-motivated & proactive with fantastic interpersonal skills, this role is perfect for you!
Requirements
Benefits
If you feel you are a good match, please don’t hesitate to get in touch:
Dan Hampton
dan.hampton@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3475 7192
linkedin.com/in/dan-hampton-ab029392
Global Asset Management
London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Summary
A world-class hedge fund is looking for an experienced Quant Developer with exceptional comms to support commodity trading by building and supporting custom models, tools and analytics for Portfolio Managers and traders.
You’ll need to be comfortable delivering solutions in a fast-paced trading environment, and your main focus will be the day-to-day operation and monitoring of the prop commodity systems. A hands-on QD, you’ll collaborate with technology teams across the business to build interfaces with other systems, as well as providing support for the platform and developing written documentation of infrastructure.
This role would suit someone who works well autonomously and has experience of commodities and trading. The culture here is second-to-none: new ideas are always welcomed, career development is encouraged and the benefits offered are world-class.
Requirements
Benefits
If you feel you are a good match, please don’t hesitate to get in touch:
Dan Hampton
dan.hampton@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3475 7192
linkedin.com/in/dan-hampton-ab029392
Global Propriatory Trading firm
London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Summary
Leading HFT fund looking for an expert C++ Engineer to join their core platform team, designing, developing and maintaining the algorithmic trading platform. Leadership experience is welcomed but not essential
Developers here are highly valued and well-rewarded for hard work, and as a result, are some of the brightest minds from across the trading, tech and start-up industries. Working closely with hands-on Quants and Traders your primary focus will be C++ functionality, responsible for creating and optimizing scalable multi-tiered applications and infrastructure.
The successful C++ Engineer will love solving difficult technical problems and be comfortable with owning multiple projects simultaneously. You’ll be expected to have a strong understanding of computer systems, e.g. operating systems, networks, performance optimization, etc. If this sounds like you, apply now!
Requirements
Benefits
If you feel you are a good match, please don’t hesitate to get in touch:
Dan Hampton
dan.hampton@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3475 7192
linkedin.com/in/dan-hampton-ab029392
Tech-Driven Prop Trading Firm
Amsterdam
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Summary
Founded by experienced high-frequency traders, this Amsterdam-based prop trading firm prides itself on a relaxed working environment which is crucial to their continued success. They’re looking for talented quant developers to help them architect and develop a systematic trading platform from scratch and design a backtesting engine for trading strategies.
You’ll work directly and closely with traders and the rest of the team to identify and capture new opportunities. The workload is varied, but tasks can include building data pipelines, time series databases, and developing high performance distributed data storage solutions.
If you do your best work in a highly collaborative working environment where everyone’s ideas are valued, and knowledge is shared, this role would be perfect for you!
Requirements
Culture / Benefits
If you feel you are suitable for this role, drop me an email or give me a call!
Jack Peck
[e] jack.peck@oxfordknight.co.uk
[t] +44 20 3745 6537
linkedin.com/in/jack-peck-448a70131
Leading Global Crypto Market Maker | HFT | Crypto | Equity
London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Are you curious about high frequency trading, crypto currencies / blockchain and decentralized finance? Does the idea of developing your own product: trading algorithms and trading applications excite you? Do you want to work and be mentored by some of the most experienced traders and developers within this space? This role could be perfect for you.
All greenfield work, your focus will be building out an automated trade reconciliation system, working closely with the Lead Core Developer, CTO, Middle Office Lead and traders. Linux-based, the solution will be built in Python and be able to ‘talk to’ C++ stack. If you have a keen interest in financial and crypto markets, apply now!
Personal Profile Required
A genuine love for code is a must-have, this isn’t a 9 to 5, and a genuine desire & passion for coding is essential.
Benefits:
If you feel you are suitable for this role, drop me an email or give me a call!
Jack Peck
[e] jack.peck@oxfordknight.co.uk
[t] +44 20 3745 6537
linkedin.com/in/jack-peck-448a70131
Tech-Driven Prop Trading Firm
Amsterdam
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Summary
Founded by experienced high-frequency traders, this Amsterdam-based prop trading firm prides itself on a relaxed working environment which is crucial to their continued success. They’re looking for talented C++ engineers to help them create and implement scalable new features and components to the trading platform.
C++ Developers here work directly with traders to enhance internal modules within the core trading system. The workload is varied, but projects can include developing market data connectors for new markets and adding new features to the existing trading systems.
This role would be perfect for someone who does their best work in a highly collaborative working environment where everyone’s ideas are valued, and knowledge is shared.
Requirements
Culture / Benefits
If you feel you are suitable for this role, drop me an email or give me a call!
Jack Peck
[e] jack.peck@oxfordknight.co.uk
[t] +44 20 3745 6537
linkedin.com/in/jack-peck-448a70131
Leading Global Crypto Market Maker
London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Salary: £100 – 400k total compensation
This is a unique opportunity at a highly ambitious market maker that provides high-frequency algorithmic trading involving crypto currencies/blockchain, as well as decentralized finance. As a C++ Trading Platform Developer, you will be passionate about technology, comfortable looking under the hood to see how C++ standard libraries and other solutions are implemented, with a good understanding of data infrastructure.
With huge amounts of autonomy to shape and make the role your own, the main focus would be to work on expanding and scaling up the global trading platform, mainly using C++ and Python. Projects are varied, including real-time data capture, order entry on dozens of exchanges, robust connectivity and built-in monitoring.
There are no legacy systems, no multiple levels of approvals, no bureaucracy; all developers report directly to CTO who is very hands-on. If you love coding, and can hit the ground running, making a tangible impact on revenue right from the start, this is the role for you!
Requirements
Rewards and Incentives
If you feel you are suitable for this role, drop me an email or give me a call!
Jack Peck
[e] jack.peck@oxfordknight.co.uk
[t] +44 20 3745 6537
linkedin.com/in/jack-peck-448a70131
Global Hedge Fund
London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Salary: £120-140k base + £40-60k bonus
Job Description:
Fantastic chance for a Java engineer to join the core Fixed Income and Commodities Technology group at one of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds. This team forms the backbone of their cross-asset Risk and PnL system for all Fixed Income, Commodities, Credit and FX products.
You will be building the next-generation distributed risk and pricing platform. Greenfield work, you’ll develop and enhance the platform – utilising Kubernetes, microservices, AWS and Docker on multithreaded systems. It’s a highly technical role, so they are very happy to bring someone in from outside of the financial world, as you will get to learn more about various financial products on the job whilst providing value to the team with your excellent Java ability.
Skills and Experience Required:
Desirable:
Benefits & Incentives:
If you feel you’re suitable for this role, want to hear about similar positions, or would like help hiring similar developers for your company, then please send your CV or get in touch:
Richard Allan
richard.allan@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9574
linkedin.com/in/richardallanok/
£120-140k base + £40-60k bonus
Crypto Prop Trading Firm
Remote
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Salary: up to $250k base + strong bonus + employee investment fund
Summary:
Unique opportunity to join a rapidly growing crypto trading firm in a fully remote role. Hugely tech-driven, they have been developing and improving HFT algorithms for more than 10 years. They are looking to hire an experienced developer with a proven track record developing high load trading platforms.
The Role:
Working collaboratively with other talented engineers, you will develop and optimize trading systems. You will also be responsible for developing and maintaining connections to crypto exchanges and data providers.
The successful candidate will have a background in trading/crypto exchange (or similar) and will have worked with systems where every millisecond counts and everything has to run fast and smoothly.
If you’re passionate about technology, algorithmic trading and solving intellectually challenging problems, this role is for you!
Skills and Experience Required:
Benefits:
If you feel you’re suitable for this role, want to hear about similar positions, or would like help hiring similar developers for your company, then please send your CV or get in touch:
Richard Allan
richard.allan@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9574
linkedin.com/in/richardallanok/
up to $250k base + strong bonus + employee investment fund
Leading Global Hedge Fund
New York
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Quantitative Researcher wanted for systematic arm of globally recognised hedge fund to help build out and enhance their cutting-edge quantitative trading platform. This opportunity will give you the chance to work on a growing team with an experienced PM focused on mid-frequency strategies in futures and FX.
They are looking for a passionate developer with strong mathematical skills and knowledge of financial markets to research, develop and participate in all aspects of alpha modeling, including data scouting, hypothesis generation, back-testing and production monitoring. You will be working directly with the quants and technologists to automate all aspects of workflow in systematic trading. Over time, the ideal candidate will have the opportunity to become the team expert on either a particular kind of alpha strategies (ex: intraday short term) or a particular asset class.
They are currently using Python in a Linux environment, and are looking for people with knowledge of both to come and contribute to enhancing and building upon the existing portfolio construction and market impact modeling processes.
Requirements
Desirable
Benefits
If you think you are a suitable candidate for the role and would like further info, please contact:
Daniel Boer
daniel.boer@oxfordknight.com
+1 929-777-5053
https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-boer-832987133/
Leading Global Hedge Fund
New York
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Quantitative Platform Developer wanted for systematic arm of globally recognised hedge fund to help build out and enhance their cutting-edge quantitative trading platform. This opportunity will give you the chance to work on a growing team with an experienced PM focused on mid-frequency strategies in futures and FX.
They are looking for a passionate developer with strong mathematical skills and knowledge of financial markets to create and maintain data pipelines seamlessly ingested by alpha models. You will be working directly with the researchers and technologists to automate all aspects of workflow in systematic trading. The initial focus will be purely engineering. Over time, the ideal candidate will have the opportunity to participate in the quantitative research process.
They are currently using Python in a Linux environment, and are looking for people with knowledge of both to come and contribute to building and enhancing the execution framework for live trading of futures and FX instruments.
Requirements
Desirable
Benefits
If you think you are a suitable candidate for the role and would like further info, please contact:
Daniel Boer
daniel.boer@oxfordknight.com
+1 929-777-5053
https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-boer-832987133/
Market-Leading Global Hedge Fund
New York
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Industry-leading investment firm using innovative and cutting-edge technology, with data at the core of the investment process. They are seeking top-level software engineers – well-versed in C++ or Java – to join their Global Fixed Income team where you’ll focus on developing execution capabilities in the interest-rate and currency markets.
Within this high impact role, you’ll architect, build, deploy, and operate new and existing automated trading strategies for Futures, FX, IRS, and government bonds, as well as expanding the set of products supported on the platform. Partnering with quant researchers, you’ll optimize the execution costs through improving signals and order management workflow.
The successful candidate will have a proven track record of successfully managing multiple software design and development tasks in a demanding environment.
Requirements
Rewards and Incentives
If you think you’re a suitable candidate for the role and would like further info, please contact:
Daniel Boer
daniel.boer@oxfordknight.com
+1 929-777-5053
linkedin.com/in/daniel-boer-832987133
Market-Leading Global Hedge Fund
New York
Posted 5 Mths Ago
One of the world’s largest hedge funds using innovative and cutting-edge technology, where data is central to the investment process. Great opportunity for hands-on software engineers with strong project delivery experience to be part of the team responsible for the development of risk applications across multiple business lines.
This is a great time to join as they embark on a re-engineering program, expanding their real-time risk capabilities, building new calculation & analysis interfaces and developing the data analysis architecture. Working closely with Senior Risk Managers, you will lead projects and/or small teams initially focused on fixed income and FX asset classes. You’ll develop primarily in Python to enhance and develop algorithms and models, use C++ for server-side infrastructure, and HTML5 (React, Node.js) for data visualization.
To be successful, you must be a very strong communicator, with a good understanding and previous use of software development life cycle best practices.
Requirements
Rewards and Incentives
If you think you’re a suitable candidate for the role and would like further info, please contact:
Daniel Boer
daniel.boer@oxfordknight.com
+1 929-777-5053
linkedin.com/in/daniel-boer-832987133
Global Investment Bank
London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Summary
This is one of the world’s most renowned financial institutions, going through an exciting period of growth in their London office.
In this role, you will join a highly creative, innovative and passionate team of engineers combining the power of Data Science, AI, ML optimization algorithms and automation to enhance human intelligence and solve business problems at scale. A hands-on, highly critical role, you’ll take on a varied project portfolio: from leading efforts to architect and implement robust and modern cloud-based software solutions to building scalable frameworks to address common data challenges to mentoring junior engineers on the team.
The successful Senior Software/Data Engineering Lead will be an excellent creative problem solver, a data enthusiast and passionate about the potential of applied data analytics and intelligence to solve real-world problems.
Skills and Experience Required
Desirable Experience
Benefits
If you feel you are a good match, drop me an email or give me a call!
Henry Breeze
henry.breeze@oxfordknight.co.uk
linkedin.com/in/henry-breeze
Leading Discretionary Trading Fund
London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
This leading UK-based discretionary trading fund, boasting AUM of over $16 billion, are looking for a highly skilled C# developer to join their technology team. This team works directly with the researchers and quantitative professionals to solve the toughest of technical challenges working throughout all areas of business including: Risk Management, Quant Analytics, Front Office and Middle Office. The successful candidate will have an impact from day one as they are encouraged to take ownership of technical projects, such as delivering massively scalable, high performance computer operations which the whole firm will use.
Although this a C# role, candidates will be interviewed in their preferred language.
Requirements:
Tech Stack: C# 9.0, .Net, SQL, React
If you’re interested in C# roles, please get in touch!
Henry Breeze
henry.breeze@oxfordknight.co.uk
linkedin.com/in/henry-breeze/
Investment Management
London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Salary: £90,000 – £130,000 base + bonus
Summary
This is a great chance to join one of the world’s most renowned financial firms as a Java Developer on their Credit eTrading Development team. If you love facing off to the business, being embedded with the traders and quants, this role would be perfect for you.
This team works closely with the algo business, designing and building software for price contribution and trade execution on the electronic trading platform used globally. You will be liaising with the traders, quants and core technology teams, rapidly translating requirements into robust technical design and implementation, with huge amounts of autonomy. Sprints are typically in 2-week cycles, but releases can occur several times a week.
Along with strong technical abilities, mentoring and reviewing the code of junior colleagues, you need to be able to hold your own in a fast-paced trader environment.
Skills and Experience Required
Benefits
If you’re interested in Java roles, please get in touch!
Henry Breeze
henry.breeze@oxfordknight.co.uk
linkedin.com/in/henry-breeze/
£90,000 – £130,000 base + bonus
Building a Crypto Exchange
Canary Wharf - London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Salary: £100k base, £300k total comp
Summary:
This Cryptocurrency Exchange are building the world’s first performant cryptocurrency derivative exchange which is launching soon! Primarily using Rust and C++ your team will build history’s fastest and safest derivative exchange backend platform.
Users will include hedge funds, HFTs, retail traders and regular people who will be relying on this low-latency exchange. Going live soon – you’ll have a massive impact as part of a small team building an entire exchange.
Requirements:
Benefits:
If you’re interested in applying for this role, or you’d like to know more, please contact:
Henry Breeze
henry.breeze@oxfordknight.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0)2031375408
linkedin.com/in/henry-breeze/
£100k base, £300k total comp
Fixed Income at World-Leading Fund
London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Expected Salary: £180 – £200k TC
A world-leading fund is looking for a highly skilled C++ developer to join their greenfield Fixed Income platform for over 30 Portfolio Managers to use day in, day out. You will build all of the non-linear FI products, FX, Credit and Commodities analytics from scratch. Working closely with trading and researchers, you will ensure that your team provides continuous, uninterrupted, firm-wide real-time risk and PnL. Candidates can apply from outside of finance if they are fluent in either C++ 14/17/20, however finance experience is desired.
Requirements:
Desired Requirements:
Tech Stack: C++ 17, Python 3.8 , AWS, finance or non-finance
If you’re interested in C++ roles, please get in touch!
Henry Breeze
henry.breeze@oxfordknight.co.uk
linkedin.com/in/henry-breeze/
£180 – £200k TC
Systematic Quant Fund
London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Our client is a leading tech-driven quant and systematic hedge fund trading with offices across the globe. They leverage deep knowledge in data, research, technology and trading to deliver high-quality returns. This opportunity offers a dynamic and fast-paced environment with excellent scope for career growth.
As a crucial member of the development team specialising in either C++ or Python, your primary focus will be the building and enhancing key components for the firm. Working closely with traders and quants, this role offers exposure to many aspects of electronic and algorithmic trading, backtesting, and data management systems as you roll out, support and run strategies. You’ll design clean architecture and leverage state-of-the-art tools and components. They would welcome someone with new ideas who enjoys experimenting new technologies.
2023 is a big year of growth for this firm, making now the perfect time to apply!
Requirements
Benefits
If you think you are a strong match for this job description, please do not hesitate to get in touch!
Amy Gandhi
amy.gandhi@oxfordknight.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 203 475 5019
linkedin.com/in/amy-gandhi-122b55109
Systematic Quant Fund
London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Our client is a leading tech-driven quant and systematic hedge fund trading with offices across the globe. They leverage deep knowledge in data, research, technology and trading to deliver high-quality returns. This opportunity offers a dynamic and fast-paced environment with excellent scope for career growth.
You will be a key member of the development team, working closely with quant analysts/developers, traders and operations staff to build and enhance low-latency algorithmic trading strategies and solutions for researchers. You’ll collaborate over the design and implementation of cutting-edge systems, covering all aspects of algorithmic trading research, including the tick data management, back testing engine, and cloud computing tools.
2023 is a big year of growth for this firm, making now the perfect time to apply!
Requirements
Desirable skills/experience
Benefits
If you think you are a strong match for this job description, please do not hesitate to get in touch!
Amy Gandhi
amy.gandhi@oxfordknight.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 203 475 5019
linkedin.com/in/amy-gandhi-122b55109
Algorithmic Trading Firm
NYC / Chicago / Austin
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Location: NYC, Chicago or Austin
Summary
Unique opportunity for a talented programmer at one of the world’s top algorithmic trading firms in one of their offices in New York, Chicago or Austin.
This fully automated trading firm has a unique culture, renowned for a high caliber of engineering and an emphasis on knowledge sharing and learning which has attracted some of the smartest engineers in the industry.
They’re looking to hire talented software engineers to work on their core Algorithmic Trading Platform, where you will collaborate with traders and researchers to build and optimize trading systems that handle billions of dollars of trades daily.
This is a great opportunity for a software engineer with outstanding programming skills in Java, Python, or C++.
Requirements
Benefits
If you feel you’re a strong candidate for the role and would like further info, please contact:
George James
george@oxfordknight.com
linkedin.com/in/george-james98
+1 929 209 9217
up to $250k base salary + additional performance bonus
Prop Trading Firm
London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Summary:
A world-class prop trading firm is in the early stages of a significant Commodities expansion, and looking to build out their data infrastructure.
The successful candidate will work in a hands-on development role, coding primarily in Python, and focusing on building the critical data ingestion and transformation systems for use across multiple trading desks.
Requirements:
Benefits and Incentives:
If you feel you’re suitable for this role, or would like to hear about similar opportunities, please don’t hesitate to get in touch:
Cameron Burt
cameron.burt@oxfordknight.co.uk
+44 (0)20 3137 9576
linkedin.com/in/cameron-burt-74a71118b
Global News and Market Data Leader
London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Job Summary
Fantastic opportunity to join a growing team of talented engineers at of one of the largest global information & market data providers. This team is building a world-class real-time FX trading platform used by the industry’s biggest players in over 120 countries.
You will take ownership of the full development lifecycle, contributing to the expansion of the platform by developing distributed, fault-tolerant, low-latency trading applications. This is a client-facing, impactful role where you will also implement workflows for the front end and low-latency scalable solutions for the back end.
The successful Senior Software Engineer will be passionate about tackling a range of problems – from engineering to business logic to usability – and driven by seeing the impact of your solutions.
Requirements
Perks
up to £150k base + bonus
If you feel you are a good match, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Daniel Readman
daniel.readman@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3475 7190
linkedin.com/in/daniel-readman-a410b515a
Global Investment Management
London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Global algorithmic hedge fund with a focus on developing high quality financial strategies across a variety of asset classes, utilising a proprietary research platform focused on market inefficiencies.
They’re seeking an experienced Quantitative Developer with great mathematical and critical-thinking skills to join a talented team. This role would be perfect for someone with a strong background and expertise with leading on system architecture and application development methodologies.
The successful candidate will be exposed to many different business areas, working directly with technologists, researchers and portfolio managers.
Requirements
Rewards and Incentives
If you feel you are a strong match for this role, please don’t hesitate to get in touch:
Dominic Copsey
dominic.copsey@oxfordknight.co.uk
+44 (0) 203 475 7193
linkedin.com/in/dom-copsey-586478143/
Leading Fintech Startup
London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Salary: up to £80k
Unique opportunity to join a rapidly growing fintech AI startup, where they apply AI techniques to a range of data sources to provide commodity price forecasting, enabling companies to confidently manage their risk. With a small team based in central London, they attract the best talent from across tech, finance, academia, start-ups, insurance, management consulting and trading.
As part of their continued growth, they have just received a new round of investment and are starting work on a completely greenfield Risk Transfer product, and they’re seeking an enthusiastic Quantitative Developer to help build it.
Role:
The successful QD will play a crucial part in the development of this new solution, and will need to be comfortable taking ownership of diverse projects, such as researching risk pricing metholodologies (and presenting results to business stakeholders) alongside improving the accuracy of sophisticated models. You will also draw on your advanced mathematical modelling skills to translate research ideas into code, then produce, analyze and report on results.
This role offers the opportunity to work on complex real-world problems, and make an impact on a growing, fast-moving business.
Requirements:
Benefits:
If you think you are a strong match for this job description, please do not hesitate to get in touch!
Amy Gandhi
amy.gandhi@oxfordknight.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 203 475 5019
linkedin.com/in/amy-gandhi-122b55109
up to £80k
Global Prop Fund
Amsterdam / London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Salary: £150-500k
World-leading prop fund is looking for C++ developers to join their rapidly expanding team in London and Amsterdam. This data and technology-driven firm specialise in developing automated trading systems that execute across global financial markets.
The successful candidate will be joining a small, highly productive and fast-paced team – working on critical software in a real-time environment. You will be responsible for working across the entire trading infrastructure – developing ultra-low-latency exchange protocol encoders; fine-tuning fully automated trading strategies; collaborating with researchers, systems and ops teams will all be part of your daily routine.
Benefits:
Requirements:
Desirable:
If this sounds like you, or you’d like to know more, please get in touch!
Tara Neville
tara.neville@oxfordknight.co.uk
M: +44 75540 95599
T: +44 20 8156 6143
linkedin.com/in/tara-neville-1b19961a8
£150-500k
Global Investment Management
NYC / Old Greenwich (CT)
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Systematic hedge fund with a focus on developing high quality financial strategies across a variety of asset classes and markets, utilising a proprietary research platform focused on exploring market inefficiencies.
They’re seeking an experienced Software Developer with great problem-solving and critical-thinking skills to join the Front Office Technology team. Your main focus is to build and enhance software which enables the large-scale quant research operations that drive the platform and the production of the portfolio. This is an exciting time to join as they undertake a multi-year project to build a powerful, scalable, efficient platform to drive growth for the next ten years.
This role would be perfect for someone who can take ownership of the unique technical challenges involved in such a large project and who can bring solid experience and perspective to the team.
Requirements
Nice to have
Benefits and Incentives
If this sounds like you, or you’d like to know more, please get in touch:
Alex Hopkinson
alex.hopkinson@oxfordknight.com
+1 929-209-9194
linkedin.com/in/alex-hopkinson-4447741b0
Leading Global Fund
NYC / Remote
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Unique opportunity to join a standout global fund that prides itself on being truly tech-driven in order to deliver innovative trading solutions to clients. The UI development team is a talented group of versatile engineers who collaborate across the entire business to build the next generation of scalable web-based UIs and trading tools.
Seeking a highly skilled and passionate UI developer with experience around web technologies and javascript frameworks. You’ll partner with traders and other developers to understand requirements, implementing real-time trading, visualization, analysis and reporting tools.
The successful candidate will enjoy designing intuitive interfaces that users love, with an keen interest in using innovative technology in trading and financial markets.
Requirements
Nice to have
Benefits & Incentives
If this sounds like you, or you’d like to know more, please get in touch:
Alex Hopkinson
alex.hopkinson@oxfordknight.com
+1 929-209-9194
linkedin.com/in/alex-hopkinson-4447741b0
Global Hedge Fund
Greater Chicago area
Posted 5 Mths Ago
This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in a ‘trading pod’ at one of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds. A small, collaborative and highly skilled trading team, they apply cutting-edge machine learning techniques to systematic trading strategies in global futures and currency markets.
They’re looking for a talented developer to build out the critical trading infrastructure (with particular focus on futures markets); designing and maintaining tools, and performing data analysis for live and historical reports. Working within an entrepreneurial team with the culture of a startup, this opportunity offers a dynamic and fast-paced environment with excellent career growth.
To be successful in this role, you’ll need to have a passion for what you do and the collaborative mindset required for working within a small team.
Requirements
Nice to have
Benefits & Incentives
If this sounds like you, or you’d like to know more, please get in touch:
Alex Hopkinson
alex.hopkinson@oxfordknight.com
+1 929-209-9194
linkedin.com/in/alex-hopkinson-4447741b0
Global Investment Management
New York
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Systematic hedge fund with a focus on developing high quality financial strategies across a variety of asset classes and markets, utilising a proprietary research platform focused on exploring market inefficiencies.
Fantastic opportunity for a talented engineer with experience in systems engineering. Your primary responsibility will be to build, maintain and expand market data solutions by implementing low-latency systems, ensuring stability, and optimizing performance-critical code. You will also develop high quality historic market data pipelines.
To be successful, you must be confident working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. This role would be perfect for someone who is confident collaborating directly and building relationships with trading teams and researchers to develop requirements and implement solutions.
Requirements
Benefits and Incentives
If this sounds like you, or you’d like to know more, please get in touch:
Alex Hopkinson
alex.hopkinson@oxfordknight.com
+1 929-209-9194
linkedin.com/in/alex-hopkinson-4447741b0
Global Quant Firm
New York
Posted 5 Mths Ago
This is a fantastic chance to join one of the world’s leading quant investment firms as a Platform Engineer. The business relies upon a technology platform spanning research computing, low-latency trading, application development, and core engineering, and platform engineering teams are tasked with solving real-world technical problems to ensure the firm’s continued success.
Joining one of these close-knit teams, your primary focus will be the design, implementation, and operational support of scalable, performant systems, taking ideas from inception to production. You’ll need to draw on your excellent technology skills and problem-solving abilities to work on projects small and large, working with a mix of open-source and proprietary tools. Teams can specialize in different domains, including HPC Infrastructure, Container Orchestration, CI/CD, Linux, Cloud, and Network Engineering.
Collaborating closely with fellow engineers and/or researchers, and with lots of project ownership this is a great place to work. If you love working on challenging and complicated problems, making a direct impact on the bottom line this role would be perfect for you!
Requirements
Benefits
If you feel you’re a strong candidate for the role and would like more details, please contact:
If you feel you’re a strong candidate for the role and would like more details, please contact:
Adam Pearce
adam.pearce@oxfordknight.com
+1 929-209-9727
linkedin.com/in/adam-pearce-a1390b173
Global Quant Firm
Chicago
Posted 5 Mths Ago
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
NB: this role is open to US Citizens and Visa Transfers only.
Benefits
If you feel you’re a strong candidate for the role and would like more details, please contact:
Adam Pearce
adam.pearce@oxfordknight.com
+1 (929) 209-9727
linkedin.com/in/adam-pearce-a1390b173
Innovative Algo Trading
New York
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Summary
This is one of the world’s top algorithmic trading firms, looking for data engineers who are well-versed in Python programming. A community of self-starters from multiple tech backgrounds – maths, computer science, statistics, physics, engineering – they have built one of the world’s most sophisticated computing environments for research and development with data at its core.
This pioneering role offers the opportunity to help design a brand-new system for the company to manage, store, access and explore data, alongside tools and processes as they build a world-class data warehouse.
If you eat, sleep and breathe data, and can analyze and solve complex problems quickly, this role is perfect for you!
Requirements
NB: this role is open to US citizens and Visa Transfers only.
Benefits
If you feel you’re a strong candidate for the role and would like more details, please contact:
Adam Pearce
adam.pearce@oxfordknight.com
+1 (929) 209-9727
linkedin.com/in/adam-pearce-a1390b173
Global Quant Firm
Chicago / New York
Posted 5 Mths Ago
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 take ownership of trading and operational issues, ensuring processes are scalable, fault-tolerant and fully automated.
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, plus maintaining a robust pre-release automated testing process. You will also identify and fix issues which prevent trading or deployment of new code.
Here, technology is recognised as being 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.
Requirements
This role is open to US citizens and visa transfers only.
Benefits
Salary: Flexible for the right candidate
If you feel you’re a strong candidate for the role and would like more details, please contact:
Adam Pearce
adam.pearce@oxfordknight.com
+1 (929) 209-9727
linkedin.com/in/adam-pearce-a1390b173
Innovative Algo Trading
Chicago
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Summary
Fantastic opportunity for talented developers at one of the world’s top algorithmic trading firms in their Chicago office. 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.
They are seeking a full stack developer to automate and develop a wide variety of systems, including global post trade and middle office, plus architect and design enhancements for these systems, mainly in Python. Working closely with multiple teams across the business, you’ll draw on your technical expertise to implement both quick fixes and longer-term direction setting.
This role would suit someone who thrives when given end-to-end ownership of exciting projects, and who has a keen desire to figure out and solve open-ended problems, making things better for other people.
***All interviews can be fully remote.***
Requirements
NB: this role is open to US citizens and visa transfers only.
Benefits
Salary: No salary cap, circa 100% bonus – competitive
If you feel you’re a strong candidate for the role and would like more details, please contact:
Adam Pearce
adam.pearce@oxfordknight.com
+1 (929) 209-9727
linkedin.com/in/adam-pearce-a1390b173
Innovative Algo Trading | New York
New York
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Summary
Fantastic opportunity for talented programmers at one of the world’s top algorithmic trading firms in their New York office. 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.
Joining a small, dynamic team you’ll work across all areas of the stack, including building web apps in Typescript with React and Redux, and writing backend services in Python or C++.
You’ll work very closely with the algo developers, listening to what they need and putting in place strategies that meet those needs, choosing the best tools for the job. You will also evaluate new features and products, applying new technologies where appropriate. This is critical work; the impact you will have on research infrastructure and the business as a whole is huge!
***All interviews can be be fully remote.***
Requirements
NB: this role is open to US citizens and visa transfers only.
Benefits
Salary: No salary cap, circa 100% bonus – competitive
If you feel you’re a strong candidate for the role and would like more details, please contact:
Adam Pearce
adam.pearce@oxfordknight.com
+1 (929) 209-9727
linkedin.com/in/adam-pearce-a1390b173
Innovative Algo Trading
Chicago / New York / Austin
Posted 5 Mths Ago
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 can be fully remote.***
Requirements
NB: this role is open to US citizens and visa transfers only.
Benefits
If this sounds like you or you’d like to know more, please get in touch:
Adam Pearce
adam.pearce@oxfordknight.com
+1 (929) 209-9727
linkedin.com/in/adam-pearce-a1390b173
Leading Quant Firm | Chicago / London / Amsterdam
Chicago / London / Amsterdam
Posted 5 Mths Ago
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 can be fully remote.***
Requirements
Benefits
If this sounds like you, or you’d like to know more, please get in touch:
Adam Pearce
adam.pearce@oxfordknight.com
+1 (929) 209-9727
linkedin.com/in/adam-pearce-a1390b173
Sophisticated Prop Trading Firm | Chicago / London / Singapore / New York / Austin
Chicago / London / Singapore / New York / Austin, TX
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Summary
***This position can be based in Chicago / London / Singapore / New York / Austin, TX***
High-frequency prop trading firm with offices worldwide are looking to expand their in-house trading team with a talented software developer well-versed in C++.
Enjoying high levels of autonomy, the successful candidate will design, develop and implement a low-latency, high-frequency trading platform. You will also contribute to the development and optimization of large-scale parallel computation problems involving large amounts of shared data, and improve performance by optimizing the efficiency of machine learning-based algorithms.
The ideal candidate will be comfortable managing multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment and possess exceptional communication skills in English, both verbal and written.
***All interviews can be fully remote.***
Requirements
Benefits
If this sounds like you or you would like to know more, please get in touch:
Adam Pearce
adam.pearce@oxfordknight.com
+1 (929) 209-9727
linkedin.com/in/adam-pearce-a1390b173
Leading Quant-Driven Market-Maker
Chicago / New York
Posted 5 Mths Ago
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 can be fully remote.***
Requirements
NB: this role is open to US citizens and visa transfers only.
Benefits
If this sounds like you, or you would like to know more, please get in touch.
Adam Pearce
adam.pearce@oxfordknight.com
+1 (929) 209-9727
linkedin.com/in/adam-pearce-a1390b173
Leading Quant Fund
Chicago / New York
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Summary
The positive feel of a start-up with the benefits that come with a more established player, this leading HFT firm is looking for a dynamic software engineer to join one of their most successful quant trading teams. Collaborating extensively with traders and other technologists, you’ll design, write and maintain a complex Python infrastructure. This role is as front office as developers come within the firm without being a Quant.
The ideal candidate will be passionate about development, and keen to learn about automated electronic trading. You will be expected to solve difficult technical problems in a fast-paced and energetic environment, with a focus on processes that are robust, scalable and fault-tolerant. Most problems require high-availability, high-throughput and low-latency solutions.
The trading team see technology as a key component of their continued success and candidates will be exposed to cool, cutting-edge technologies.
Financial experience is not essential; just a willingness to learn and learn quickly.
***All interviews can be fully remote.***
Requirements
NB: this role is open to US citizens and Visa Transfers only.
Benefits
If this sounds like you, or you would like to know more, please get in touch.
Adam Pearce
adam.pearce@oxfordknight.com
+1 (929) 209-9727
linkedin.com/in/adam-pearce-a1390b173
Innovative Algo Trading
London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
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
Benefits
If this sounds like you or you’d like to know more, please get in touch:
Dan Hampton
dan.hampton@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3475 7192
linkedin.com/in/dan-hampton-ab029392
Global News and Market Data Producer
London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
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
Benefits
If this sounds like you or you’d like to know more, please get in touch:
Dan Hampton
dan.hampton@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3475 7192
linkedin.com/in/dan-hampton-ab029392
Global Algorithmic Trading Firm
London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
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
Desirable
Benefits
If this sounds like you or you’d like to know more, please get in touch:
Dan Hampton
dan.hampton@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3475 7192
linkedin.com/in/dan-hampton-ab029392
Innovative Algo Trading
London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Fantastic opportunity for talented developers at one of the world’s top algorithmic trading firms in their London office. 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.
They are seeking quantitative software engineers with Python expertise to help them develop the next generation of trading strategies.
To achieve this, you’ll join a trading team whose focus is building medium-frequency systematic trading capabilities. Working closely with engineering colleagues and quant researchers, you’ll be responsible for designing infrastructure and building new tools to power the research and trading environment, advocating for coding best practices within the trading team.
This role would suit someone who thrives when given end-to-end ownership of exciting projects, enjoys building tools that empower researchers and is keen to share their knowledge on open-source tools and packages.
Requirements
Benefits
If this sounds like you, or you’d like to know more, please get in touch:
Dan Hampton
dan.hampton@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3475 7192
linkedin.com/in/dan-hampton-ab029392
Prop Market Maker
London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
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:
Culture / Benefits:
If you feel you are a good match, please don’t hesitate to get in touch:
Dan Hampton
dan.hampton@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3475 7192
linkedin.com/in/dan-hampton-ab029392
SysAdmin | Microsoft | SQL | Active Directory | NAS | iSCI | PowerShell | HTML | Juniper
London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Summary:
A leading tech firm specialising in sports trading and data analytics is looking for a System Administrator to join their London-based team.
The successful SysAdmin will assist the existing System Administrator with a wide spectrum of hardware- and software-related tasks, including maintaining the infrastructure, in-house software applications, storage systems and Microsoft-based technology stack.
The role will also involve networking (Juniper), scripting in SQL and PowerShell, and coding in HTML and other web technologies. The role offers a fantastic opportunity to gain exposure to a wide range of technology problems, both on the hardware and software side.
Requirements:
Benefits:
If you’re interested in this System Administrator (SysAdmin) position in London, please get in touch!
Rosie Griggs
rosie.griggs@oxfordknight.co.uk
linkedin.com/in/rosie-oxfordknight
Python | Flask | AWS | Elasticsearch
London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Summary:
An e-sports gaming start-up are looking for a Senior Python Developer to join their London-based team.
The successful Python developer will be building a bleeding-edge trading exchange, in a fast-paced, agile environment, shipping to production multiple times a day and taking ownership of the backend development, written in Python, hosted on AWS.
Requirements:
Benefits:
If you’re interested in senior Python engineering roles in London, please get in touch!
Rosie Griggs
rosie.griggs@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9577
linkedin.com/in/rosie-oxfordknight
C++ 20, Python, Distributed Systems, High Performance Computing, London
London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Summary:
A world-leading systematic trading hedge fund is looking for a C++ developer to join their quant platform engineering team in London. The successful C++ developer will be utilising modern technologies and frameworks, working in C++ 20 to build high performance components and scalable distributed computing architecture in an agile software environment.
Requirements:
Benefits:
If you’re interested in C++ development roles in London, please get in touch!
Rosie Griggs
rosie.griggs@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9577
linkedin.com/in/rosie-oxfordknight
Golang | JavaScript | TypeScript | Agile | open source
Remote
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Summary:
A blockchain development and solutions firm is looking for back end or full stack Go developers to join their globally distributed engineering team, on a fully remote basis.
Working on complex business operations and solutions based on Blockchain technology, the successful developer will be working on open source technology, as well as directly with clients, remotely. Day-to-day programming will be in Go, Typescript and Javascript.
Requirements:
Benefits:
If you are interested in fully remote engineering opportunities, or Go development positions, please get in touch:
Rosie Griggs
rosie.griggs@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9577
linkedin.com/in/rosie-oxfordknight
Bitcoin | JavaScript | Go | Forth | Agile | open source
Remote
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Summary:
A blockchain development and solutions firm are looking for Blockchain engineers to join their globally distributed engineering team, on a fully remote basis.
Working on complex business operations and solutions based on Blockchain technology, the successful developer will be working on open source technology, as well as directly with clients, remotely.
Requirements:
Benefits:
If you are interested in fully remote engineering opportunities, or blockchain development positions, please get in touch:
Rosie Griggs
rosie.griggs@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9577
linkedin.com/in/rosie-oxfordknight
World-Leading Quant Hedge Fund – C++20 / 17
London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Summary:
A globally leading systematic / quant-driven hedge fund is looking for top C++ engineers to join a highly elite team of x10 engineers in London. Working on hard technical problems, the C++ engineer does not need financial experience, just strong computer science and engineering fundamentals, combined with commercial experience working in C++ 17 or 20. The role is based in London, with a hybrid office/ work-from-home working situation.
Requirements:
Benefits:
If you’re interested in C++ or Quant Engineering / Development positions, please get in touch!
Rosie Griggs
rosie.griggs@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9577
linkedin.com/in/rosie-oxfordknight
Thriving Sports Betting Consultancy
London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Summary:
A globally leading sports betting consultancy, focussing on vast amounts of data analytics and predictive modelling with machine learning, are looking for a DevOps engineer or SRE to join their agile, London-based team.
The successful DevOps engineer or SRE will be architecting cloud infrastructure, and developing an AWS environment with Terraform, along with working on the tooling and infrastructure to support the development team. This will include setting up CI/CD pipelines, following infrastructure-as-code best practice and assisting the security and development teams in London.
Requirements:
Benefits and Incentives:
If you’re interested in DevOps or SRE roles in London, please get in touch!
Rosie Griggs
rosie.griggs@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9577
linkedin.com/in/rosie-oxfordknight
Asset Management | Systematic Trading
London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Summary:
A globally leading, systematic, quant trading firm are looking for a Data Engineer to join their technical team in London.
The successful Data Engineer will be utilising both analytical and technical skillsets, building data pipelines in the Python and PyData stack, and working closely with analysts and developers in London to process multiple terabytes of data from various structured and unstructured sources. This is a fast-moving technical team working with the latest data engineering stack, including Kafka, ElasticSearch, Scala/Spark.
Requirements:
Benefits:
If you’re interested in the data engineering role in London, please get in touch:
Rosie Griggs
rosie.griggs@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9577
linkedin.com/in/rosie-oxfordknight
Python – ETL Pipelines – SQL
London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Summary:
A market-leading quant trading hedge fund are looking for a data engineer to join their London-based operations team, building data and trading pipelines from scratch. The successful data engineer will be developing Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) pipelines in Python and SQL, alongside exceptional software engineers in a highly agile environment that significantly impacts the business and trade generation.
Requirements:
Nice to have:
Benefits and Incentives:
If you’re interested in data engineering or python development roles in London, please get in touch!
Rosie Griggs
rosie.griggs@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9577
linkedin.com/in/rosie-oxfordknight
Quant Trading Tech Firm
London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Summary:
A bleeding-edge systematic quant trading technology firm is looking for a low-latency C++ engineer to join the London-based trading optimisation team. Utilising C++17 to optimise live trading execution speeds on real-time trading platforms, the successful C++ developer will be working in a small, highly agile team on front office technology in London.
Requirements:
Benefits:
If you’re interested in hearing about low-latency engineering roles in London, please get in touch.
Rosie Griggs
rosie.griggs@oxfordknight.co.uk
linkedin.com/in/rosie-oxfordknight
ML / AI Tech Start-Up
London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Summary:
A bleeding-edge challenger bank, disrupting the b2b financial tech industry, is looking for a Front-End / Javascript Engineer to join a growing, agile team of engineers, designers and machine learning specialists in London. You’ll work directly with the product team to build beautiful and functional front-ends for cloud-based applications that millions of end users will fall in love with. The tech revolves around the latest React.js, with the back-end written in Python and deploying to AWS with Docker and Terraform.
Requirements:
Benefits:
If you’re interested in hearing about front-end development roles in London, please get in touch.
Rosie Griggs
rosie.griggs@oxfordknight.co.uk
linkedin.com/in/rosie-oxfordknight
Award-Winning Software Start-Up
London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Summary:
Awarded Product of the Year by Cambridge University in 2017, this exciting London-based software start-up is looking for strong software developers to join their engineering team in London. Launched in 2015, they have developed a distributed knowledge graph – a logical database organising large, complex networks of data as one body of knowledge – used by industries as diverse as robotics disaster recovery and financial analytics.
The successful candidate will cover all aspects of software engineering: programming, architecture, build and release, PRs & code reviews, etc. They build with open-source and distributed tech stacks including: Hadoop, Spark, Cassandra and Kubernetes, while the main back-end is Java with some Python and node.js.
Requirements:
Benefits and Incentives:
If you’re interested in hearing about core Development roles in London, please get in touch.
Rosie Griggs
rosie.griggs@oxfordknight.co.uk
linkedin.com/in/rosie-oxfordknight
World-Leading AI Start-Up
London
Posted 5 Mths Ago
Summary
My client is a high-growth B2B SaaS start-up that’s teaching computers to understand the real world. They use leading data-capture technology, including drones, to create ‘digital twins’ of real-world locations.
Having secured $4.5m in seed funding in 2018, they’re looking to expand their London-based engineering team. Their platform has helped more than 20 large enterprise clients create £3.5bn+ in infrastructure builds already.
They’re looking for a Senior Back-End Engineer to work within a world-leading team of innovators and technologists, using a Go/Python/MEAN tech stack, to architect the platform infrastructure that turns 2D and 3D spatial data into visual experiences.
The ideal candidate will have experience using MEAN tech stack with 3D web technologies such as WebGL and Three.JS, and deep knowledge of API designs, microservices, IoT analytics and improving testing frameworks.
Requirements