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Summary

Global algorithmic hedge fund with a focus on developing high-quality financial strategies across a variety of asset classes, utilising a proprietary research platform which exploits market inefficiencies.

This role offers the opportunity to work across the whole pipeline, from development to deployment, and the successful candidate will have lots of business exposure, working directly with technologists, researchers & portfolio managers.

Requirements

• Experience developing distributed and scalable backend systems
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Experience with creating microservices
• Experience with containerisation technology (especially Kubernetes)
• Experience with Go is beneficial but not essential (other tech backgrounds welcome: C++ / Python / Java)
• No financial knowledge required

Benefits:

• Market leading salary + lucrative bonus
• Opportunities to learn / develop new skills
• Great work-life balance
• Freedom in work and dynamic culture; opportunity to bring new ideas and really have an impact

Summary: 

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

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

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

Requirements:

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

Culture / Benefits:

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

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements:

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

Culture / Benefits:

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

Summary

This is a fantastic opportunity for experienced developers who are passionate about using the right tools to build great software and who love delivering outstanding solutions as part of a tight-knit agile team.

This expanding tech firm provides large-scale, bespoke systems for some the world’s largest organisations, across multiple industries, offering the chance to work on a range of different technologies.

They follow an agile approach, solid development practices and employ a number of modern technologies based on what each individual project requires, including C#, Java, Scala, Node, Angular and React. This is a technical, client-facing role and they’re keen to hire a hands-on leader where you’ll not only lead through writing exceptional code, but also through mentoring and nurturing the talent around you.

Requirements

• Good academic background, with a degree in a relevant technical field
• Solid commercial experience with enterprise-level systems
• Strong technical design skills, including OO design principles and design patterns
• Full SDLC experience and proficient in Agile/Scrum methodology
• The ability and willingness to adapt and learn new technologies on the job
• Experience of leading teams or managing client projects

Rewards and Incentives

• Competitive compensation + benefits package
• Friendly, collaborative working environment with plenty of personal progression
• Regular company-sponsored social events
• Have a direct, significant impact on a fast-growing business

The Client:

My client is a leading quantitative research and technology firm. They research investment strategies to predict returns in financial markets across multiple asset classes; then develop the research and execution platform to deploy these ideas in global markets. They offer a dynamic, flexible and highly stimulating working environment, where good ideas are prized and rewarded appropriately.

The Role:

My client is looking for top talented engineers to join their firm who will work across an array of areas within the business. An idea of responsibilities for those successful candidates include, but are not limited to: extending systems for deployment of increasingly advanced features without sacrificing accuracy, processing and executing large data sets with strict realtime performance obligations and building modern UIs for managing and understanding complex systems running around the world. My client’s systems are mostly written in C#, but also provide the opportunity to work with a range of modern technologies, including F#.

Requirements:

• Proven capability to develop high quality software.
• 2+ years’ commercial experience in C#, Java, C++ or other mainstream modern programming languages.
• Excellent education – 2:1 degree or above in Computer Science (or equivalent) from a top-tier university.
• Passionate about software technology and the underlying hardware.
• Financial experience is desired but not essential.

Benefits:

• Market-leading salary and bonuses
• Private medical insurance
• Refreshments
• Games Room
• Sports socials
• Cycle-to-Work scheme
• Give-as-You-Earn scheme

Summary

Spinning out from the top automated trading firm in 2014 – this firm has rapidly become the global leader in cryptoassets. With its unique positioning between the financial markets and the cryptoassets ecosystem, this role offers a great opportunity for a senior technologist to merge their trading knowledge with new evolving asset classes.

Joining a small, highly productive team, you will be responsible for building and supporting a multi-language, functionally diverse technology stack to empower the team to trade across many exchanges and regions using a wide range of strategies. The team’s existing systems are written in Java, C++ and Python.

You will be expected to design and develop trading systems, exchange connectivity solutions, monitoring systems, and tools to integrate with the firm’s core infrastructure. Working directly with Traders and Quant Researchers on a daily basis, you will get great exposure to the business.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional Java or C++ experience.
• 3+ years of professional script development experience, preferably Python.
• Demonstrated knowledge of network communication, including multicast and WebSockets.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent degree.

Benefits

• Market-leading salary + bonuses + generous benefits package
• Tech culture where everyone ideas are truly valued
• Environment where coding and hard work is truly rewarded

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary: up to $300k + bonus

Summary

Lively, positive spirit of a start-up, with the stability of a longer-established player. This leading quant firm 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.

Looking for a quant dev with experience enhancing quant infrastructure / platforms.

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

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

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

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

Requirements

• 3 – 8 years’ solid dev experience (in financial markets would be ideal)
• Strong Python, Pandas, R, MATLAB, C++ skills
• Master’s or PhD in Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research (or equivalent)

Benefits

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

Salary: up to £150k + bonus

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

4+ years’ experience

Job description:

Client

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

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

Role

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

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

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

Skills and Experience Required

• Significant modern C++ skills on Linux, ideally with some Python experience too
• Minimum bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related) from a top-tier university
• Strong analytical and maths skills, including algorithms and data structures
• Good knowledge and experience of distributed computing, client server and multi-threading
• Bonus points for Docker/Kubernetes, micro-services or NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB) experience

Benefits & Incentives

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

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

4+ years’ experience

Job description:

Client

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

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

Role

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

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

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

Skills and Experience Required

• Significant Python skills on Linux, ideally with some C++ experience too
• Minimum bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related) from a top-tier university
• Strong analytical and maths skills, including algorithms and data structures
• Good knowledge and experience of distributed computing and micro-services design patterns
• Bonus points for Docker/Kubernetes or NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB) experience

Benefits & Incentives

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

Salary: £80,000

8 years’ experience

Job description:

Client

A well-funded scale-up that span out of Cambridge University, my client is an award-winning fintech that delivers AI/ML-driven analytics to unlock the predictive power of pricing data.

Role

They are looking for a modern C++ developer to help them work on their market data platform – taking huge amounts of financial data from different stock exchanges in all of their different messy forms and bring them together into one usable format for the clients to use.

Consuming 250GB of new data every day, there is the opportunity for huge amounts of autonomy as you help drive improvements in all areas of data processing. Currently focussed on equities on the US and UK exchanges, they are expanding out with their ultimate aim being all asset classes on all exchanges worldwide.

The ideal candidate will be a very strong problem-solver, adept at managing day-to-day issues, and a skilled communicator at all levels of technical ability.

Skills and Experience Required

• Solid experience of market data (real-time or historical) within an agile development environment
• Demonstrable professional experience of C++ development
• Experience of at least one market data protocol – equities or futures
• Proficient in writing production Python code
• Strong academics, with Computer Science or other STEM degree from top-tier university

Benefits and Incentives:

• Friendly, inclusive culture and flat management structure
• Competitive, merit-based salary including stock options
• Benefits include: professional training, regular team socials, enhanced pension and sick pay, and enhance maternity, paternity, adoption & bereavement payments
• Work with super smart people on exciting and complex projects

My client 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. This is a great opportunity for a Senior Data Engineer with innovative ideas to play an integral role managing datasets used to determine trading opportunities and strategies.

Working closely with traders and quant researchers, you’ll be responsible for architecting data management solutions, evaluating and implementing appropriate data sources, and delivering data analysis tools to optimize existing trading strategies.

The successful engineer will need to be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, bring proven technical problem-solving skills, and have a strong ownership mentality.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of database, ETL and process monitoring experience in financial markets
• Expertise in various RDBMSs (for example, Postgres, Oracle, SQL Server) and NoSQL solutions (for example, Spark)
• Significant experience constructing SQL queries and SQL optimization skills
• Knowledge of Python coding and Python programming skills (Numpy, SciPy, Pandas, Jupyter Notebooks)
• Self-starter who can work independently and be able to drive a project from inception through delivery
• Prior knowledge of one or more of the following: big data serialization, cloud providers, R/Matlab/Tableau, Java/Scala/C++/Rust/Go
• Candidates must be based in the USA and have a valid working visa (H1B/Green Card)

Benefits:

• Top of the market compensation package
• Culture has the lively spirit of a start-up, with stability of a longer-established firm
• Feel valued for your input and get rewarded for great ideas

Remote interviews are available if required.

Summary

Great opportunity for tech-savvy C++ engineers to join a global multi-strategy fund (focus on Fixed Income) in their Tel Aviv office. Not your standard hedge fund, they have built their own core infrastructure platform that allows its traders to pursue unique investment strategies, consistently delivering high quality returns independent of the general market. Being part of the core group, they are looking for strong technologists with an interest in quantitative finance.

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

Role

Working closely with other fixed income & commodities teams (research, trading, middle office), you’ll be developing and enhancing the in-house distributed pricing platform. Other work will involve building a new analytics library, using the latest integration tech to incorporate it into the existing system.

It is progressive and fast-paced, with outstanding career growth and development.

Requirements

• Significant modern C++ experience
• Minimum bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related) from a top-tier university
• Sound analytical and mathematical skills (design patterns, algorithms, data structures)
• Good knowledge of working in a Linux environment and working with source controls, such as Git / SVN
• Bonus points for experience in finance (cross-asset or Fixed Income) and/or Python skills

Benefits

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

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Job Summary

My client is a rapidly growing fintech start-up in London who have built a fast, flexible and intelligent cloud-based operating platform for financial services providers.

They are looking for a Senior Python Developer to head up a high-performance team of engineers. You will be contributing to the expansion of integration with third party services, providing even more value for clients and end customers. You will also have the ability to shape the products they build using leading-edge technologies.

The ideal candidate is a strong communicator, with a passion for creating high quality, readable, and easily maintained code. Ideally, you will also have experience of team management or mentoring junior colleagues.

Requirements

• 5+ years’ commercial experience of Python 3+
• Degree in a STEM subject from a top university
• Some exposure to another OOP language (e.g. Java, C++, C#)
• Relational databases experience and recent use of modern testing tools (unit and functional testing)
• Strong experience and knowledge of Django, in particular the use of Django Rest Framework.
• Bonus points: for AWS infrastructure knowledge (e.g. Cloudformation/CDK for automation) and open source contributions or personal projects

Benefits

• Encouraging, diverse, collaborative working environment, solving complex problems
• Competitive salary and central London office location
• Generous benefits package, including flexi-work, individual training budget, work-from-home office set-up allowance, discounted gym and bike schemes, private health & life insurance, free breakfast when in the office

Job Summary

My client is a rapidly growing fintech start-up in London who have built a fast, flexible and intelligent cloud-based operating platform for financial services providers.

They are looking for innovative thinkers and talented developers to contribute to the expansion of various teams. This is an exciting time to get onboard as they shake up the financial services sector and are looking to scale the company even further!

The ideal candidate has proven experience delivering numerous front-end web applications independently; it is crucial that you are able to take ownership of your projects. Ideally, you will also have some experience of Selenium/other functional testing frameworks and Python experience (as their backend is based on it).

Requirements

• At least 2 years’ commercial experience of ReactJS and Redux (redux-forms is a plus)
• Degree in a STEM subject from a top university
• Proven experience in architecting complex React/Redux applications
• Sound custom web application development skills
• Experience with the following: HTML/CSS, BEM methodology, ECMAScript 6 programming, data visualisation libraries, at least one automation tool, such as Gulp, Grunt and/or Webpack
• Experience following a test-driven (TDD) approach when writing software for cross-browser issues

Benefits

• Encouraging, diverse, collaborative working environment, solving complex problems
• Competitive salary and central London office location
• Generous benefits package, including flexi-work, individual training budget, work-from-home office set-up allowance, discounted gym and bike schemes, private health & life insurance, free breakfast when in the office

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

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

The Company

A market-leading London-based trading firm achieving groundbreaking success within the quant space. One of the largest hedge funds worldwide in assets under management (over $30 billion). You will be joining a highly talented team, writing high quality code – working closely with the Quant Research team in a very front office-based role. It is a mature environment that is transparent, collaborative and offers enormous opportunity to grow and have an impact on the business.

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Job Summary

My client is a tech-first hedge fund based in the heart of London with views across the Thames. They are top of their field with offices across 6 locations worldwide with their flagship team based here in London. You will build and develop the trading infrastructure using cutting-edge tech, implementing higher performance trading algos, writing robust code and contributing to the long-term growth and profitability of the company.

The Company

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Job Summary

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

The Company

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

My client is a globally recognised investment fund with circa $50bn AUM. Their set up enables leading PMs who successfully run their own book to come in and run their own business within the fund, without the limitations of a highly corporate structure.

Alternatively, if you are a currently a Quant Researcher/Sub-PM, they can also find space for you on an existing team.

They will give you access to data, infrastructure, pricing, risk systems, giving you the freedom to get up and running as quickly as possible. They are looking for candidates who have a minimum 3-year track record / and strong Sharpe Ratio working across any of the following:

• Quant Strategies – Equities/Stat Arb/Systematic Commodities/Macro/Rates/Credit
• FICC – Credit/FX/Rates/Commodities
• Equities – Fundamental RV/Stat Arb/Volatility.

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 ideal candidate for this role is a talented polyglot familiar with many programming languages, where Python or C# knowledge is a plus. Your main focus will be managing the multiple and extensive dataset used in the research and trading platform. You will also contribute to the design and implementation of the data store and its API, providing support to the many Quants and Traders who use the platform.

Requirements

• Proficient use of common tooling: git, unix shell
• Sound experience in Continuous Integration/Deployment process
• Structured and unstructured data management expertise
• Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, etc.) skills
• Intellectual curiosity to identify emerging and alternative data
• Comfortable working autonomously within a global team

Benefits

• Great opportunity to be part of a collaborative, creative environment where you can feel valued for your input
• Competitive salary + generous benefits
• Professional and personal development; healthy work-life balance

Summary:

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

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

Requirements:

• STEM degree
• Commercial programming experience with Python and at least one object oriented language (Java / C# / C++)
• Knowledge of markets and finance is not required
• London-based

 Benefits:

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

Summary:

A global pioneer in technology solutions within finance are looking for a front-end JavaScript developer to join the London-based core engineering team within this global tier 1 bank. This is a high impact role, building client-side software, tools and libraries that are rolled out internally to thousands of developers on a global scale.

Requirements:

• Solid Computer Science fundamental knowledge, through degree or engineering experience
• React.js experience, TypeScript a bonus
• Good understanding of full software development lifecycle and agile methodology

Benefits:

• Considerable salary and bonus structure in London
• Flexible working hours, working from home available

Summary:

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

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Summary:

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

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Summary:

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Summary:

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits and Incentives:

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

Summary:

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Summary:

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Summary:

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

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits and Incentives:

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

Summary

Summary

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

Summary

Summary:

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

Responsibilities:

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

Requirements:

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

 Benefits:

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

Summary:

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

Requirements:

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

 Benefits:

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

Summary:

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

Requirements:

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

 Benefits:

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

Summary:

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

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

Requirements:

• STEM degree
• Programming experience with any object oriented language (Java / C# / C++)
• Predictive modelling and data handling experience in Python
• Knowledge of markets and finance is not required
• London-based

 Benefits:

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

Summary:

A leading quant trading hedge fund are looking for a C++ developer to join their front office London team. Working alongside quant developers and researchers in London, the C++ developer will be scaling out their trade execution platform in C++ on Linux. The successful C++ developer will have full ownership and will architect the platform, APIs and backend code to build fast, low-latency distributed systems that can handle multiple TBs of data in real time.

Requirements:

• BSc STEM field, preferably Computer Science
• Experience programming in C++ 17 or 20
• Experience writing multi-threaded code, building distributed systems and low-latency environments is beneficial
• Experience in an agile, test-driven development
• No financial product knowledge / experience needed

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and hedge fund-style bonus in London
• Agile, technology and data-driven culture
• Large investment in technology and low levels of red tape

Summary:

A leading quant trading hedge fund are looking for a Java developer to join their front office London team. Working alongside quant developers and researchers in London, the Java developer will be scaling out their trade execution platform in Java on AWS. The successful Java developer will have full ownership and will architect the platform, APIs and backend code to build fast, low latency distributed systems that can handle multiple TBs of data in real-time.

Requirements:

• BSc STEM field, preferably Computer Science
• Experience programming in core Java
• Experience writing multi-threaded code, building distributed systems and low-latency environments is beneficial
• Experience in an agile, test-driven development
• No financial product knowledge / experience needed

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and hedge fund-style bonus in London
• Agile, technology and data-driven culture
• Large investment in technology and low levels of red tape

Summary:

A leading quant trading hedge fund are looking for a Quant Developer to join their front office London team. Working alongside quant developers and researchers in London, the Quant Developer will be scaling out their quant trading platform in Python. The successful Quant Developer will have full ownership and will architect the platform, APIs and backend code to build fast, low-latency distributed systems that can handle multiple TBs of data in real time.

Requirements:

• BSc STEM field, preferably Computer Science
• Experience programming in either Python or Java
• Experience with SQL
• Experience in an agile, test-driven development
• No financial product knowledge / experience needed

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and hedge fund-style bonus in London
• Agile, technology and data driven culture
• Large investment in technology and low levels of red tape

Summary:

A cutting-edge and rapidly growing health-tech start-up based in London are looking for a full stack developer to join their engineering team. Working directly alongside the CTO in a small, agile (test-driven) team, the successful Full Stack Developer will be building new products from scratch that aim to revolutionise communication channels within healthcare.

Working closely alongside the NHS, this health-tech start-up are directly contributing active solutions in the fight against Covid-19, and the successful full stack developer will be building highly scalable, mission-critical software that makes a real-world impact from day one.

Requirements:

• Good computer science fundamental knowledge – either from degree level or coding bootcamp
• Full stack development experience in any OO language – experience with C# and Javascript is beneficial
• Interest in health-tech and working in a start-up culture and environment in London

Benefits:

• Build impactful software that aims to solve real-world problems in healthcare
• Extremely bright, collaborative and agile engineering teams
• Exciting and growing start-up culture with competitive salary in the London market

Summary:

A cutting-edge data and technology-driven quant hedge fund are looking for a quant analyst or researcher to join their quant research team in London. Working with vast amounts of financial data, the successful quant analyst will be building quantitative models alongside quant researchers and developers in a close-knit collaborative team in London.

Requirements:

• MSc or PhD in a STEM field, preferably Physics or Maths related
• Strong programming fundamental knowledge and experience with OO programming principles in C++, C# or Java
• Python development experience with the PyData stack

Benefits:

• Central London location with fantastic views of the City
• Competitive salary and hedge fund-style bonus structure
• Work alongside world-class engineers and quant researchers

Summary:

A cutting-edge data and technology-driven quant hedge fund are looking for a data scientist to join their quant research team in London. Working with vast amounts of financial data, the successful data scientist will be building quantitative models alongside quant researchers and developers in a close-knit collaborative team in London.

Requirements:

• MSc or PhD in a STEM field, preferably Physics or Maths related
• Strong programming fundamental knowledge and experience with OO programming principles in C++, C# or Java
• Python development experience with the PyData stack

Benefits:

• Central London location with fantastic views of the City
• Competitive salary and hedge fund-style bonus structure
• Work alongside world-class engineers and quant researchers

Summary:

A sponsor of London’s PyData and ML meetups is looking to hire a Python / Data Engineer to join their core team in London. The successful Data Engineer will be building ETL data pipelines in Python and Kafka on Linux platforms, and will be working with a wide range of opensource frameworks and tools (NumPy/SciPy/Pandas). Joining a collaborative and remote team, the successful Data Engineer will be working on the central data platform, bringing together multiple sources of unstructured and structured data for the entire engineering team to access.

Requirements:

• BSc/MSc STEM subject
• Commercial experience working in Python, the PyData stack and SQL
• Interest in open source software

Benefits:

• Leading London salary structure
• Remote working for the foreseeable future (and commitments to maintain remote working options post Covid-19)
• Work in an exciting hedge fund environment, no financial experience needed

Overview:

Leading global prop trading firm that is very tech-driven and invests heavily in their engineering teams. The culture here is unique in that it is relaxed and informal, yet highly rewarding of strong performance.

They are seeking exceptional C++ software developers to join their new technology hub in Sydney as they grow their presence across the APAC region. Working alongside the very best traders and developers, you will be improving existing and building new technology to ensure operations run smoothly.

This is a high impact role, where you have the opportunity to take ownership of core technology elements and test your own ideas for the markets.

Requirements:

• Outstanding C++ developer (with experience of C++ 14/17, STL and template programming)
• Development experience in low-latency exchange connectivity components for Asian markets
• Strong knowledge of optimization for modern Intel / AMD architectures
• Good understanding of network stack
• Equity and/or derivatives market experience is a plus

Rewards and Incentives:

• Excellent bonus potential and compensation
• Friendly, collaborative working environment
• No dress code, catered offices and regular social events
• Fast-growing firm, where you can work with the latest technologies

Salary:

AUS$250k base + generous bonus scheme

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary: up to £130k base + bonus

High-frequency prop trading firm, with offices worldwide, are looking to expand their in-house trading team with an experienced C++ developer with demonstrable theoretical and practical experience.

Working as part of an established, experienced and motivated development team, enjoying high levels of autonomy, the successful candidate will be contributing to market-making infrastructure codebase. Providing technologically advanced solutions to demanding real-world problems.

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:

• 5+ years’ C++ experience working on ultra-low latency systems.
• Experience in other key languages, such as Python
• Understanding of and a keen interest in finance and all major financial exchanges.
• Comfortable in high-speed environments, ability to work under pressure whilst implementing code that pushes boundaries.
• Solid communication and interpersonal skills applicable to a dynamic trading environment.
• An undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related engineering or science curriculum.

Benefits:

• Market-leading compensation – which will be negotiable for the right candidate.
• Collaborative and friendly environment, working with the best minds in industry.
• Opportunity to work with cutting edge tech at a world renowned company.
• Huge scope for supported progression.
• Free breakfasts, lunches and activities.

Summary 

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary 

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 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.

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary

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

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary

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

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary 

***This position can be based in Chicago / London / Singapore.***

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary 

***This position can be based in Chicago / London / Singapore.***

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary:

My client is a leading data-driven market-maker, designing and deploying its own low-latency technologies, trading strategies and statistical models. Trading across multiple asset classes and markets, automation is crucial. Seeking a highly experienced senior web developer to build performance-minded front-end systems and provide mentorship and guidance to the development team.

They are looking at candidates from a variety of experience levels for this team: both senior engineers and hands-on people managers are encouraged to apply.

Culture:

They foster a competitive yet collaborative culture where innovation is rewarded. They have a jeans-clad workforce and offer fantastic perks and holiday allowance to eliminate the burnout typically associated with finance. They have quick release cycles so you will see your code in production, fast!

Responsibilities:

You will collaborate with senior trading and quant stakeholders to architect, design and build web applications and software for data visualization, system monitoring, automation, etc. which enable traders to better understand market conditions and evaluate risk. The team follows Agile methodologies and modern software best practices, where you’ll be keen to drive innovation and share your prior experience and knowledge of latest web technologies. Additionally, you will provide coaching and mentoring to more junior team members.

Requirements:

• 5-7+ years of commercial web development experience
• Experience in at least one of the following (and a willingness to learn others): Javascript/Typescript, ReactJS, Python
• Strong CI/CD skills
• Experience mentoring others on your team and/or people management
• Trading or finance experience desirable, but not mandatory
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Physics (or equivalent)
• Candidates must be based in the USA and have a valid working visa (H1B/Green Card)

Benefits:

• Market-leading salary + performance bonus
• Generous holiday allowance
• Comprehensive medical packages
• Social events
• Continuing education – reimbursement for tuition / courses / conferences

Summary:

My client is a leading data-driven market-maker, designing and deploying its own low-latency technologies, trading strategies and statistical models. Trading across multiple asset classes and markets, automation is crucial. Seeking a hands-on developer to oversee the global middle office and post-trade processes.

Culture:

They foster a competitive yet collaborative culture where innovation is rewarded. They have a jeans-clad workforce and offer fantastic perks and holiday allowance to eliminate the burnout typically associated with finance. They have quick release cycles so you will see your code in production, fast!

Responsibilities:

This is a great opportunity if you’re looking to have ownership of exciting projects. Leading a small development team, you will collaborate with trading and quant research teams to architect, design and implement tools and automated data flows for the global middle office and post-trade systems, mostly in Python. The team follows Agile methodologies and modern software best practices, where you will contribute clean, maintainable code and build large distributed systems.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of commercial experience using Python in production environment
• Strong relational databases and SQL skills
• Familiarity with web development using React/Redux a plus.
• Track record as an exceptional communicator – particularly with less technical users.
• Trading or finance experience desirable, but not mandatory
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math (or equivalent)
• Candidates must be based in the USA and have a valid working visa (H1B/Green Card)

Benefits:

• Market-leading salary + performance bonus
• Generous holiday allowance
• Comprehensive medical packages
• Social events
• Continuing education – reimbursement for tuition / courses / conferences

Summary:

My client is a leading data-driven market-maker, designing and deploying its own low-latency technologies, trading strategies and statistical models. Trading across multiple asset classes and markets, automation is crucial. Seeking a data engineer to improve and expand the global data platform.

Culture:

They foster a competitive yet collaborative culture where innovation is rewarded. They have a jeans-clad workforce and offer fantastic perks and holiday allowance to eliminate the burnout typically associated with finance. They have quick release cycles so you will see your code in production, fast!

Responsibilities:

This is a great opportunity which would suit someone who thrives in a high impact role with ownership of exciting projects. You will collaborate closely with talented developers, quant researchers, traders and management to examine the large volumes of data collected and identify ways in which the data capabilities could be expanded. The team follows Agile methodologies and data management best practices, where you will contribute clean, well-tested and documented code to support mission critical applications.

Requirements:

• BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Physics (or equivalent)
• 5+ years of commercial experience developing software applications
• Strong Java, Scala or Kotlin skills required; Python is a bonus
• Proficiency in building large-scale ETL pipelines
• Preferred: hands-on experience in data platforms and technologies, e.g. Kafka, Presto, Delta Lake, Spark, etc. and/or cloud providers, e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure
• Trading or finance experience desirable, but not mandatory
• Candidates must be based in the USA and have a valid working visa (H1B/Green Card)

Benefits:

• Market-leading salary + performance bonus
• Generous holiday allowance
• Comprehensive medical packages
• Social events
• Continuing education – reimbursement for tuition / courses / conferences

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 one of their growing quant trading teams where you will draw on both your superb problem-solving skills and your proven track record with large data sets.

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary

up to £120k + bonus

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary

up to £150k base + bonus

Job Summary:

Fantastic opportunity to join a leading fund, trading globally across major macro asset classes, where you will draw on your excellent academics, your Matlab expertise and your strong programming skills.

This is a high impact, front-office role, where you will work closely with exceptional macro economists, investment professionals and technologists. There is the opportunity for a huge amount of ownership as you contribute to this new research team responsible for providing data and economic models that directly enable traders to make the best-informed decisions.

The successful Research Engineer will be technically strong, but will also have statistical skills and the ability to talk to traders.

Work will typically involve:

• convert early-stage models into production-quality outputs
• write robust code to enable existing or new models to be developed into scalable applications
• maintain and develop the research modelling platform, making improvements to output sharing where applicable

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

Requirements:

• Strong academic background with minimum 2:1 in a STEM subject from top-tier university
• 3+ years’ Matlab experience, plus 2+ years’ Python
• Sound programming and technology skills
• Solid experience of producing statistical forecasting models in production environment
• Front-office exposure in financial services and/or Python libraries (NumPy, Pandas, Dask, etc.) experience is a plus

Benefits:

• Thrive in a collaborative working environment, where everyone can significantly impact the team and wider organisation
• Strong emphasis on professional and personal development
• Generous benefits package – on-site facilities, healthcare, dental, pension, etc.

Salary: up to £130-140k + bonus

Summary

Lively, positive spirit of a start-up, with the stability of a longer-established player, this leading quant firm is looking for tech-savvy software engineers to join an growing global team designing and building a leading-edge post-trade processing platform.

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

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

Role

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary

up to £150k + bonus

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

They are seeking talented software engineers with expertise in both Javascript/Typescript and React to build robust, scalable tools and resources to enable the smooth operation of the front, middle and back offices. Here there is very little red tape, and a rapid feedback loop on the software you build. They are firm believers in automated testing and lightly-coupled architectures.

This role would suit someone who enjoys working on both front- and back-end code, likes actionable feedback and would relish the chance to influence the design and architecture of an expanding system.

Requirements:

• Significant experience using Javascript/Typescript, plus latest versions of React
• Skilled communicator – able to listen to colleagues’ needs and translate them into well-engineered products
• A background firmly rooted in software engineering
• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent from a top-tier institution
• Strong API design and data modeling skills
• Desirable – at least one of the following: GraphQL, Docker, Node.js, modern front-end build systems
• Candidates must be based in the USA and have a valid working visa (H1B/Green Card)

Benefits:

• Top of the market compensation package
• Culture has the lively spirit of a start-up, with stability of a longer-established firm
• Feel valued for your input and get rewarded for great ideas

My client 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. This is a great opportunity for a Site Reliability Engineer with in-depth knowledge of the software development life cycle to help build and support their scalable infrastructure.

Working closely with developers, you’ll be tasked with the implementation of various parts of an application’s life cycle (deployment, scaling, monitoring, etc.) and making processes uniform across the different teams.

The successful SRE will have a passion for helping fellow developers succeed, be a best practices advocate and is happiest when working collaboratively in a team.

Requirements:

• CompSci bachelor’s degree (or other STEM discipline)
• Significant hands-on software development experience
• Experience in networking, automation and microservices
• Sound understanding of databases
• Knowledge of one or more of the following (or similar): Linux, Ansible, Nginx, Webpack, Git, or RabbitMQ
• Candidates must be based in the USA and have a valid working visa (H1B/Green Card)

Benefits:

• Top of the market compensation package
• Culture has the lively spirit of a start-up, with stability of a longer-established firm
• Feel valued for your input and get rewarded for great ideas

My client 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 exceptional application software developers to build robust, scalable tools and resources to enable the smooth operation of the front, middle and back offices.

Joining a talented group of polyglots and technologists, developers here have large amounts of autonomy and are always looking for the very best tool to solve each individual problem. Work will involve designing, modeling and programming in a number of different languages and technologies, tackling both legacy code projects alongside greenfield development.

Requirements:

• Substantial JVM knowledge; familiarity with Java 8 is ideal
• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent from a top-tier institution
• Experience building reliable, scalable, maintainable systems
• Multiple years of experience with server-side development
• Desirable: microservices, functional paradigms, SQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript, financial concepts/exchange trading knowledge
• Candidates must be based in the USA and have a valid working visa (H1B/Green Card)

Benefits:

• Top of the market compensation package
• Culture has the lively spirit of a start-up, with stability of a longer-established firm
• Feel valued for your input and get rewarded for great ideas

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

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

Your incredibly varied workload will include tasks such as order routing, exchange connectivity / market data feeds, risk management and would be perfect for someone skilled in performance tuning/troubleshooting (applications, Linux, socket I/O, etc.)

Requirements:

• Significant development experience using modern C++ and Python on high performance, low latency design
• Multithreaded programming experience with in-depth understanding of hardware/software interaction
• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent from a top-tier institution
• Knowledgeable about C++11/14 standards; C++ libraries experience (e.g. STL, Boost)
• Experience in trading or other ultra-low latency sensitive industry is a big plus
• Candidates must be based in the USA and have a valid working visa (H1B/Green Card)

Benefits

• Top of the market compensation package
• Culture has the lively spirit of a start-up, with stability of a longer-established firm
• Feel valued for your input and get rewarded for great ideas

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, but also exciting and technically stimulating, where you’ll be working with some of the smartest engineers in the industry.

This role would suit someone who thrives on constant interaction and discussion, and is happy to have multiple projects on the go at any one time. The firm is a Linux shop with a codebase written mostly in C++ and Python. You’ll build tools and systems for the research team to visualize their strategies and to open up new areas/types of research.

If you care about the engineering process, such as automated testing, design/code reviews and technical training, and less about the project management process, this role is for you!

Requirements

• You must be familiar with a non-scripting language, e.g. C++ or Java
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering (or related field)
• Driven and self-motivated, you thrive in a collaborative environment where everyone decides on the direction of their team
• Linux/Unix experience is an advantage
• A keen desire to figure out and solve open-ended problems, making things better for other people
• Candidates must be based in the USA and have a valid working visa (H1B/Green Card)

Benefits

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

Salary: No salary cap, circa 100% bonus – competitive

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

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

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

Requirements

• 3-5+ years of working with large compute clusters
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering (or related field)
• C++ experience is essential; Python would be beneficial
• Good knowledge of UNIX operating systems
• Skilled communicator; comfortable implementing your own ideas, particularly at POC
• Strong debugging and problem-solving abilities in complicated distributed compute environments and using large data sets
• Candidates must be based in the USA and have a valid working visa (H1B/Green Card)

Benefits

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

Salary: No salary cap, circa 100% bonus – competitive

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

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.

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.

Requirements

• Outstanding C++ programming skills, ideally a daily use of most recent standards
• Strong experience with UNIX operating systems
• Skilled communicator and problem-solver; comfortable describing software designs at all technical knowledge levels
• Self-starter, you are happy both working independently and as part of a team
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering (or related field)
• Candidates must be based in the USA and have a valid working visa (H1B/Green Card)

Benefits

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

Salary: No salary cap, circa 100% bonus – competitive

One of the world’s largest hedge funds, this is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced, data engineer to join the technology team in their Boston office. With plenty of scope to grow and have an impact on the business, you will be responsible for on-boarding data, exploratory research and production of new data sets and potential alpha sources.

The majority of their systems run on Linux and most code is written in Python, with the full scientific stack, e.g. numpy, scipy, pandas, scikit-learn are a few of the libraries used exclusively. New tools and technologies are constantly in review and adopted where applicable.

The Role

Working exceptionally closely with the quant research and data science teams, you can expect a wide variety of work, from contributing to the ongoing development of the central data platform, to curating multiple various data sets, to supporting the integrity of data and production trading algorithms.

Requirements

• Significant Python programming experience
• Good understanding of modern practices in data engineering
• Strong degree in Computer Science / Mathematics / Engineering / Physics
• Proven track record managing both structured and unstructured data sets
• Good proficiency with Linux platforms; expert-level version control systems skills, e.g GIT
• Familiarity with database technologies, e.g. Oracle, MS SQL, MongoDB
• Mentoring or management experience is an advantage
• Bonus points for open source data analysis packages (Spark, Pandas, Numpy, Scipy) and/or financial markets experience
• Candidates must be based in the USA and have a valid working visa (H1B/Green Card)

Benefits

• Very competitive compensation + benefits package
• Active engagement with broader tech community; they host & sponsor Boston meetups and talk regularly at industry events
• Smart, open-plan office overlooking Boston harbour
• Flat-structured, transparent and collaborative environment, ‘no-attitude’ culture

Salary: up to $150k

Industry-leading market maker using innovative and cutting-edge technology, with data at the core of the investment process. Great opportunity for data engineer with experience of building market data pipelines to join a smart, talented team creating next-generation software solutions.

The successful engineer will be responsible for building, maintaining and supporting a cutting-edge processing and reconciliation pipeline for ETF market and reference data. You will collaborate with business leaders to identify priorities and devise custom solutions, providing systems support for trading practices.

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

Requirements

• Strong skills in modern Python to an expert level is essential
• Sound experience with relational databases, such as SQL
• Proven track record building market data pipelines
• Experience/knowledge of ETF markets, ETF issuers and ETF baskets is a huge plus
• Comfortable tackling open-ended problems using analytical methods
• Minimum bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related field)

Culture / Benefits

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

The Client

They are a leading algorithmic trading firm built upon cutting-edge technology, sophisticated quantitative research, and an entrepreneurial culture. This is an excellent opportunity to join one of the most prestigious technology teams in systematic trading with a strong track record of success through all market conditions.

The Role

Involves working on one of their best performing and growing quantitative trading teams. The individual in this role will collaborate extensively with traders and technologists to evolve, improve, and maintain all elements of the team infrastructure, including execution, signal generation, model building and back testing.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about development and able to solve difficult technical problems in a fast-paced and energetic environment. In this role, a candidate can expect exposure to a wide range of interesting and challenging problems involving high performance computing, software design and big data. 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.

Key Skills

• Any OO (ideally C++ & Python)
• 2+ years’ experience
• Degree from a top-tier university in Maths or Computer Science (or similar subject)
• Experience working in a financial domain is a bonus
• Strong communication, analytical and problem-solving skills, including debugging and code comprehension
• Passion for technology

Benefits

• Market-leading salary
• Very generous bonuses
• Central London offices
• Tech-based atmosphere

One of the world’s largest hedge funds, this is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced, hands-on engineer to join the technology team in their Boston office. With plenty of scope to grow and have an impact on the business, you will be responsible for building the tools, frameworks, libraries and applications which enable the smooth operation of a critical, leading-edge quant research and trading platform.

The majority of their systems run on Linux and most code is written in Python, with the full scientific stack, e.g. numpy, scipy, pandas, scikit-learn are a few of the libraries used exclusively.

The Role

Working exceptionally closely with the research and portfolio management teams, you can expect a range of work, from implementing signals, to analysing and onboarding new datasets, cluster-computing solutions and numerical algorithms, through to developing portfolio optimization toolkits.

Requirements

• 8+ years’ engineering experience
• Proven track record in programming, Python is ideal
• Strong degree in Computer Science / Mathematics / Engineering / Physics
• Familiarity with database technologies, e.g. SQL Server, Postgres, MongoDB
• Mentoring or management experience
• Good proficiency with Linux and Git
• Bonus points for open source data analysis packages (Spark, Pandas, Numpy, Scipy) and/or financial markets experience
• Candidates must be based in the USA and have a valid working visa (H1B/Green Card)

Benefits

• Very competitive compensation + benefits package
• Active engagement with broader tech community
• Smart, open-plan office overlooking Boston harbour
• Flat-structured, transparent and collaborative environment, ‘no-attitude’ culture

Salary: up to $150k

Summary:

Enthusiastic Software Engineer wanted for leading investment firm where you’ll use your solid engineering expertise to create innovative, next-generation software solutions which drive the whole investment process.

A fast-paced, dynamic environment, this position would suit someone who is continually striving to improve solution efficiency and effectiveness, and who is keen to expand their knowledge and expertise on this next step in their career.

This role will give you the opportunity to design, develop and deploy critical solutions while working closely with business leaders, including high availability, high throughput systems scaling to millions of transactions per second.

You will also receive structured learning on technical and quantitative skills with the support of the firm’s CTO. If you have a passion for software development and a passion for learning new technologies, this is perfect for you!

Requirements​:

• Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD degree in Computer Science from top-tier institution
• 3-5 years’ expertise with one or more OO language (e.g. Java, C++, Python)
• Deep knowledge of distributed service oriented architecture, relational databases, machine learning/deep learning
• Sound experience building high performance, highly available and scalable systems
• Proficiency in building complex software systems successfully taken up by users
• Candidates must be based in the USA and have a valid working visa (H1B/Green Card)

Benefits:

• Hugely collaborative environment; fantastic opportunity to learn new tech
• Competitive compensation: truly flat structure; feel valued for your input and be rewarded for great ideas
• Work with the latest technologies on complex problems

The Company

Exciting cutting-edge fintech is looking for a creative software developer to join its core development team in New York.

Empowering quantitative developers and business users in major financial firms to be as productive as possible, they deliver a cloud-based, end-to-end development and production platform. With open architecture, transparent source code, and automated infrastructure solutions, clients can own the full technology stack.

The Role

This is a high impact position where you will be part of the team that architects and builds the platform, developing elements in collaboration with client-facing teams, such as high performance compute and batch schedulers, databases and APIs and network services and application proxies

The ideal candidate is a polyglot experienced in many programming languages, who has experience of SDLC tools and agile methodologies. Their stack includes C++, Python, Golang, Javascript and Rust.

Requirements

• Solid C++ and Python skills and understanding is essential
• Experience with at least one database design, compilers, systems/kernel programming
• Desire to build tools/components for fellow developers; to solve difficult, open-ended challenges for others
• Effective communicator at all levels – technical and non-technical
• Self-motivated and enjoys working both independently and on team projects
• Candidates must be based in the USA and have a valid working visa (H1B/Green Card)

Benefits

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

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.

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary:

up to £120k

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary:

up to £120k

Summary

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

Joining a small, highly productive and fast-paced team, you’ll be working on critical software in a real-time environment. You’ll do machine learning over huge data sets in a massive compute cluster, honing and sharing your knowledge of C++, OS internals, CPU architecture and networking hardware and protocols with colleagues.

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.

Requirements

• Outstanding C++ programming skills, including a deep knowledge of the language
• Strong experience with UNIX operating systems
• Skilled communicator; comfortable describing software designs at all technical knowledge levels
• Self-starter, you are happy both working independently and as part of a team
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering (or related field)

Benefits

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

The Client

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

The Role

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

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

Key Skills

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

Benefits

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

The Client

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

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

The Role

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Fantastic opportunity for smart, motivated, problem-solvers to get involved in a major build-out of functionality using Rust and Python. Hugely successful, this firm insures the pensions of over 800,000 individuals and they’re in the midst of redeveloping and modernizing their full technology stack.

Joining a talented and friendly team of ~15 people, in this role you will be making a real impact from day one. Your focus will be on projects such as trade modelling and pricing, market data processing, risk reporting, scenario analytics tools and DevOps/platform engineering.

The successful candidate will have a ‘can-do’ attitude with demonstrable commercial experience of delivering robust, high-performance software. If you enjoy working on multiple and varied large projects and sharing your tech knowledge & creative ideas, this is the role for you!

Requirements

• Degree in Maths, Physics, Computer Science, Engineering or similar
• Excellent applied programming skills – Python, Rust, C++ or other major languages
• Financial markets experience or keen interest to learn
• Knowledge of Fixed Income products and derivatives is desirable
• Bonus points for contributions to open-source projects

Culture / Benefits

• Market-leading base + bonuses
• Meritocratic work culture and superb chance to work with the best engineers
• Direct business impact

Salary

<£200k total compensation

With no red tape, no dress code and no rigid structure, this is not your standard hedge fund.

Superb opportunity for a full stack Java developer to work on a brand-new centralised research data platform, the first of its kind at this fund. With significant amounts of greenfield work and the chance to work with a truly diverse tech stack, you can really make an impact in this forward-thinking environment.

Role will include

• data platform design and build out
• integrated pricing and risk models / APIs
• developing and supporting all levels of the tech stack, including frontend, middleware, servers and databases
• full SDLC involvement: from requirements gathering, to designing, developing, deploying, through to support and system monitoring

Requirements

• 2+ years’ commercial core Java experience
• Degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or similar
• Basic knowledge of SQL/RDBMS
• Strong team-working and communication skills – comfortable suggesting new technologies/methodologies
• Bonus points for Fixed Income knowledge and/or experience with ETL, data pipelines, data monitoring, etc.

Culture / Benefits

• Opportunities to influence tech decision-making, while using the latest technologies and open source software
• Atmosphere of open dialogue and entrepreneurial/start-up feel
• Recently renovated, amazing open-plan office with roof terrace overlooking Green Park

Salary

<£130k base + lucrative hedge fund bonuses

Salary Range: €75,000 – 150,000

Summary: 

An elite prop trading firm, with a relaxed yet rewarding approach, is looking for exceptional engineers to join their talented FPGA team in London. They are scientific, tech-driven and they invest heavily in their engineering teams. Developers here are truly world-class.

Working with traders and technologists, the FPGA team designs and builds technology to support global trading operations, seeking to increase efficiency of existing strategies and exploit new, previously inaccessible trading opportunities. Many of the projects you will tackle are greenfield; you will be at the bleeding edge of hardware and proprietary design.

It is a mature environment that is transparent, collaborative and offers enormous opportunity to grow and have an impact on the business. The ideal candidate will come from a mathematical background, with strong problem-solving abilities and an eagerness to take on new challenges.

Requirements:

• 2+ years’ FPGA experience
• Proficiency with Verilog and source control management
• Experience with automated verification and mathematical/DSP implementation in FPGA
• Comfortable solving new and unfamiliar problems quickly and creatively
• Interest in trading and finance

Culture / Benefits:

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

Summary: 

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

Collaborating with traders and other developers, this is a high-impact role. You will be responsible for building and improving in-house applications, through to cutting-edge web-based user interfaces, to tools to interrogate multi-terabyte data sets.

The ideal candidate will come from a mathematical background, with an enthusiasm for learning new technologies. You must be an exceptional communicator, adept at sharing and presenting your expertise to technical and non-technical users alike.

Requirements:

• Significant C++ experience, including writing, deploying and maintaining in a production environment, with some Python development skills
• Sound programming fundamentals and mathematical techniques
• Experience in any of the following is a bonus: large data sets, time series, Python libraries (e.g. sciPy, numPy, pyTorch, pandas, pickle, hd5, feather, etc.)
• Outstanding level of attention to detail and quality
• Desirable: buy-side firm experience and/or knowledge of derivative pricing

Culture / Benefits

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

Summary: 

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

Working closely with Portfolio Managers and Researchers, you will be pivotal in the development of their systematic trading business. This is a high-impact role, responsible for deploying scalable and performant tools for research on large data sets, implementing advanced statistical techniques, and creating a market-leading research platform.

The ideal candidate will come from a mathematical background, with an enthusiasm for learning new technologies. You must be an exceptional communicator and be keen to share your expertise with end users to improve the standard of their Python engineering.

Requirements:

• Strong Python experience, including writing, deploying and maintaining Python in a production environment
• Sound programming fundamentals and mathematical techniques
• Experience in any of the following is a bonus: large data sets, time series, Python libraries (sciPy, numPy, pyTorch, etc.), knowledge of financial markets
• Outstanding level of attention to detail and quality

Culture / Benefits

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

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

Job description:

Client

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

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

Role

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

Skills and Experience Required

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

Benefits & Incentives

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

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

3-20 years’ experience

Job description:

Client

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

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

Role

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

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

Skills and Experience Required

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

Benefits & Incentives

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

1-20 years of experience

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

Job Description:

Client:

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

Role:

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

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

Skills and Experience Required:

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

Benefits and Incentives:

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

Salary:

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

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

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

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

Requirements​:

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

Benefits:

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

Job Summary:

This is a leading multi-asset fund focused on major macro asset classes, including interest rates, FX, equities, credit, and commodities in developed and emerging markets. They value technology highly and are looking to add an outstanding Support Engineer to their Quant/Enterprise Tech team.

The Role:

You will be:

• Proactively ensuring systems are stable, performing well and accurate
• Supporting the Quant/Enterprise Technology systems
• Identifying technical challenges and opportunities, and providing practical solutions
• Working closely with developers to manage release deployment whilst handling the test environment

Their stack is primarily focused on Microsoft .NET technologies (though candidates from any OO background are encouraged to apply) and you will be using Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 and ReSharper.

Requirements:

• Strong academic background with 2:1 (or higher) in a STEM subject from top-tier university
• Sound programming and technology skills with an in-depth understanding of Microsoft technologies, e.g. C#, .Net, SQL, etc.
• Substantial experience in the support function within financial services, e.g. a bank, hedge fund or other market contributor
• Enthusiastic about programming and technology
• Bonus points for software development life cycle experience
• Previous exposure to a test-driven environment would be advantageous

Benefits:

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

Job Summary:

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

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

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

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Rewards and Incentives

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

Summary:

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

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

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

Requirements​:

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

Benefits:

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

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary

Up to £180k base + bonus

Salary: up to £150k + bonus

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Company:

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

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

Position:

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

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

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

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

Requirements:

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

Helpful:

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

Benefits:

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

Comp:

Up to £150k + bonus

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary

Up to £120k + bonus

The Company

Exciting cutting-edge fintech is looking for a talented software developer to join its Front Office Suite core technology team.

Empowering developers in major financial firms to be as productive as possible, they deliver a cloud-based, end-to-end development and production platform. With open architecture, transparent source code, and automated infrastructure solutions, the platform provides clients with the tools to build reliable, scalable in-house functionality and fully integrated applications.

The Role

The successful candidate will be part of the team responsible for designing, developing and testing essential components, such as risk (framework and real-time), STP and market data feeds and ETL pipelines. This role is client-facing, working together to adapt and customise the core cloud-hosted platform in order to meet each client’s unique and varying requirements.

The ideal candidate is a polyglot with exposure to multiple programming languages and paradigms.

Requirements

• Strong academic background in a relevant STEM field
• Sound Python skills and professional experience
• Solid knowledge of software engineering fundamentals, i.e. data structures and algorithms
• Strong communication skills, able to articulate technical detail to both peers and non-technical colleagues
• Familiar with database technologies
• Bonus points for experience with cloud computing, such as AWS or Azure

Benefits

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

Join a tech-driven quant and systematic IM with no red tape. They combine data, research, technology and trading proficiency to implement a scientific and innovative approach to investment.

The ideal candidate for this role will have front office development experience in either Market Access, Trading Tools, Data + Research or Risk. You will be focused on delivering high-quality, well-engineered software solutions in collaboration with the desks and other business functions. They are keen to explore emerging and disruptive tech, and you will have the opportunity to contribute to future technology design and strategy.

Requirements

• Strong academic background in any STEM subject
• Advanced coding skills in at least one of the following is essential: Python, C++, C#
• Strong team player
• Excellent communication skills

Benefits

• Great opportunity to be part of a collaborative, creative environment where you can feel valued for your input
• Competitive salary + generous benefits
• Professional and personal development; healthy work-life balance

Join a tech-driven quant and systematic IM with no red tape. They combine data, research, technology and trading proficiency to implement a scientific and innovative approach to investment.

The ideal candidate for this role is a talented polyglot familiar with many programming languages. You will be a key member of the development team, working with traders and quants to roll out, enhance and run key components. Gaining exposure to many aspects of electronic and algorithmic trading, you will also build and support ad-hoc infrastructure applications.

Requirements

• Strong academic background in any STEM subject
• 3+ years’ experience in a front office desk-aligned role
• Robust OOP skills in C# / Windows programming are essential
• Excellent Python experience essential
• Good database / SQL knowledge
• Understanding of market data feed handlers and execution feeds highly desirable
• Some finance experience is desirable

Benefits

• Great opportunity to be part of a collaborative, creative environment where you can feel valued for your input
• Competitive salary + generous benefits
• Professional and personal development; healthy work-life balance

The Company

Exciting cutting-edge fintech is looking for a talented quant developer to join its front office technology team.

Empowering developers in major financial firms to be as productive as possible, they deliver a cloud-based, end-to-end development and production platform. With open architecture, transparent source code, and automated infrastructure solutions, the platform provides clients with the tools to build reliable, scalable in-house functionality and fully integrated applications.

The Role

The successful candidate will be part of the team responsible for building product support for cross-asset derivatives and securities. Working closely with developers in other teams, you will also produce complete end-user functionality for trading and risk management. Exceptional interpersonal/communication skills are required, as you will liaise with both internal and external clients.

The ideal candidate is a polyglot familiar with many programming languages, who has  experience of SDLC tools and agile methodologies. Their stack includes Python, C++, Golang, Javascript and Rust.

Requirements

• Strong academic background in a relevant STEM field
• 4+ years’ experience in a front office role working with interest rate, FX, fixed income, commodities, and/or equity products
• Solid knowledge of financial maths, specifically derivatives pricing and risk management
• Strong development skills in a production environment
• Bonus points for experience with real-time quoting and risk systems
• 7+ years’ Python/C++ knowledge highly desirable

Benefits

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

The Company

Salary: £35,000 base + bonus

1-3 years’ experience

Job description: 

Client

One of the UK’s leading providers of independent investment advice, research and solutions for over 140 years, this firm has a strong culture of of integrity and hard work. They are seeking a Junior C# Developer to join their small, agile team in London, where you will contribute to the technical specification, design and maintenance of desktop-based applications and services.

Role

In this role, you will be engaging with the business to build out new systems to solve critical business problems.

The ideal candidate will be a very strong problem-solver, adept at managing day-to-day issues, and a skilled communicator, with experience of regularly liaising with customer stakeholders.

Skills and Experience Required

• 2+ years’ experience with C#, .NET and VB programming languages – required
• Solid experience within an agile development environment
• Strong development skills in ASP.NET, Win Services, Winforms, Web Services (REST/SOAP), WCF, LINQ and Entity Framework
• Familiarity with Azure-based web application development preferable
• Experience of at least one Javascript library, e.g. React, JQuery, Angular or Vue preferable
• Financial technologies and/or products exposure would be advantageous

Benefits

• Excellent exposure to financial markets
• Collaborative culture and an exciting place to work (in normal times, a very social company!)

Company / Job Summary

Tech-driven start-up seeking front end developers to join their small and exceptionally talented team.

Working as part of a small team on a user-facing product and backed by a fantastic set of investors that have helped to build some of the world’s largest companies. My client has just secured Series B funding and their primary focus is on the tech side. Seeking an experienced Front End Developer to design and build out intuitive front end systems. The current tech stack includes React, Typescript, Node and Next.JS.

Requirements

• 2+ years’ experience in software development
• Strong experience in React
• Experience with web technologies
• Strong academic background (from leading university) in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Physics – or equivalent

Benefits

• Competitive salary with stock options and other start-up benefits
• Great culture and collaborative environment
• A strong emphasis on cutting-edge tech and continuous learning and development
• Full ownership of work

Salary range

Competitive, plus stock

The Client

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

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

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

The Role

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

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

Day to day tasks will include:

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

Requirements

• 5+ years’ commercial experience working on Quality Assurance
• 2:1 or equivalent in a STEM subject
• Experience with automation testing tools on a high volume of transactions – Cucumber, Gherkin, Selenium, Postman
• Experience defining QA strategies using both automation and manual techniques
• Coding experience with at least one OO programming or scripting language

 Benefits

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

Salary: Very Competitive

Summary:

A world-leading asset manager is looking for a Senior Developer as part of their RegTech team in Hong Kong.

The successful engineer will be responsible for the development of critical software applications for trading compliance, compliance and regulatory demands. This is a data-intensive position, with the successful candidate working with terabytes of trading data and petabytes of market data.

Requirements:

• Very strong Python programming expertise
• C++ programming skills advantageous
• ~5-10 years’ experience of hands-on development
• Strong understanding of database systems
• Experience of ‘big data technologies’ such as Kafka, Snowflake, KDB+
• Strong academic background in Computer Science or similar field

Benefits and Incentives: 

• Work in a world-class trading firm, as part of significant regional expansion
• Take responsibility for full SDLC
• Work in a highly business-facing role, facing off to traders
• Extremely competitive compensation packages

Salary: €200 – 300k total compensation

3 – 7 years’ experience

Job description:

Client

A multi-strategy fund with offices globally looking for a quantitative developer to join a futures arbitrage-focused team in Europe.

This team operates as a trading pod within the larger fund. It means they benefit from the advantages of being a start-up fund (autonomy, small team, direct impact and tied to PnL) but with the backing and security of the larger firm (the capital, shared infrastructure and resources).

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

Role

In this team of 4, you will be working directly with the PM and trading group. You will be responsible for designing and coding up the tools for the systematic trading platform. With an initial build of tools for directional volatility/options trading (executing and monitoring), ultimately you will be managing all aspects of the trading platforms.

Skills and Experience Required

• Minimum 3 years’ commercial experience in systematic trading (prop desk or hedge fund)
• Solid coding skills in Python (Pandas, Numpy, etc.)
• Strong development experience with Cross Asset Pricing and Risk Systems
• Ideally, C/C++ experience and knowledge of both Windows and Linux environments
• Excellent academics in a hard science, e.g. Maths and Computer Science

Benefits & Incentives

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

Leading payment fintech are looking for a Senior Developer/Engineer to join their team as they look to grow over the next year. They currently provide their services to over 50,000 businesses in over 30 countries and are looking to build on this in years to come. These businesses range from household names to large MNCs and small local start-ups. With over 400 employees globally it is clear that their welcoming, collaborative culture is popular due to the amount of people who have chosen to develop their careers with them. Not only do they value collaborative learning and feedback, but they value developing you as a person as well as your career.

You Should Apply If:

• You want to excel not only in the company’s engineering group but also the wider general tech community
• You work well within a team and look to take advantage of other people’s experience and backgrounds to achieve a common goal
• You want to do work that will ultimately have a positive impact on a business or customer

Requirements:

• High-quality degree in Computer Science, Maths or Physics (or similar) from a top-tier university
• Experience with any OO language & a willingness to learn new tech (Ruby & Go are preferred)
• You enjoy working in a collaborative, team-orientated environment
• You enjoy using your initiative to help solve problems and confirm your findings with reliable testing

Rapidly expanding fintech based in the heart of London are looking for a Python developer to join their application development team. Their focus is to deploy sophisticated technology to analyse financial trade and risk data, then use that information to generate transaction proposals and organise their execution. They are looking to grow both the company and their employees organically in their open, friendly working environment.

Responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Working both individually or as part of a team to deliver the best possible software solutions
• Building APIs for scenario generation
• Promoting continuous improvement at every stage of the SDLC driven by testing
• Generate files and reports for both clients and 3^rd parties

Essential Requirements:

• Strong degree in either Computer Science, Maths or Physics from a top-tier university
• 3-5 years of professional Python development
• Experience with both Git and Unix
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• An appreciation of other programming paradigms (imperative, OO, functional)

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

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

Responsibilities can include:

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

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

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

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

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

Requirements: 

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

Desired:

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

Benefits:

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Desirable

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

Benefits

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

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

Main Responsibilities Will Include:

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

Requirements:

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

Good to have:

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

Benefits:

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

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

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

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

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

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

Responsibilities:

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

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

Responsibilities – your first year will consist of:

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

Requirements:

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

Preferable:

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

Benefits

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

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

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

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

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

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

What you can expect to do:

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

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

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

Requirements

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