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Salary: €200,000 – 300,000 total compensation

4+ 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. With huge autonomy within small teams, they share a core infrastructure platform but allow their traders and quants to pursue unique investment strategies, consistently delivering high quality returns independent of the general market.

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

Role

Working closely with the PM and trading group, you will be responsible for designing, coding and supporting tools for the systematic trading platform. With an initial build of tools for directional volatility/options trading, ultimately you will be managing all operations and monitoring the full trading infrastructure.

**This position can be based in either Paris or Geneva.**

Skills and Experience Required

• Minimum 4 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
• C/C++ experience and knowledge of both Windows and Linux environments
• Excellent academics in a hard science (ideally to Master’s level), e.g. Maths and Computer Science
• Bonus points for experience interfacing Python code to market data providers’ APIs and market data feeds

Benefits & Incentives

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

Salary: €200,000 – 300,000 total compensation

4+ 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. With huge autonomy within small teams, they share a core infrastructure platform but allow their traders and quants to pursue unique investment strategies, consistently delivering high quality returns independent of the general market.

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

Role

Working closely with the PM and trading group, you will be responsible for designing, coding and supporting tools for the systematic trading platform. With an initial build of tools for directional volatility/options trading, ultimately you will be managing all operations and monitoring the full trading infrastructure.

**This position can be based in either Paris or Geneva.**

Skills and Experience Required

• Minimum 4 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
• C/C++ experience and knowledge of both Windows and Linux environments
• Excellent academics in a hard science (ideally to Master’s level), e.g. Maths and Computer Science
• Bonus points for experience interfacing Python code to market data providers’ APIs and market data feeds

Benefits & Incentives

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

Summary:

A growing London-based software start-up in the health-tech space are looking for an Engineering Manager to join their team.

Working on cutting-edge software solutions to improve technology-focused healthcare in the UK, this fast-growing tech start-up are looking to add an engineering manager to a world class development team. This is a hands-off role, focusing on people and team leadership, mentorship and growth.

Requirements:

• STEM degree / previous engineering experience
• Experience developing, supporting and managing software engineering teams as a team lead or manager

Benefits:

• Join a cutting-edge London-based start-up making a real-world impact with software and solving meaningful problems
• Use your skillset in a tangible way to provide software solutions to complex problems in healthcare, including tools to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic
• Market-leading salary and options; flexible working; inclusive and collaborative culture

Summary:

An e-commerce start-up for female fashion are seeking a hands-on Tech Lead to transform users’ online shopping experience.

The successful candidate will provide technical and architectural leadership and be part of the founding team of a rapidly growing fashion technology start-up. They will establish and implement the technical vision for the start-up’s product roadmap.

Requirements:

• 5+ years working in software development, ideally in e-commerce
• 2+ years in a role providing leadership within software development or technical architecture
• Strong experience of engineering practices, such as TDD, pair programming, CI/CD
• Experience of designing applications to run in a cloud environment
• Experience building responsive web applications using React.

Nice to Have:

• Heroku with Heroku CI
• Experience working with headless CMSs, specifically Contentful

Benefits and Incentives:

• Chance to provide impactful tech leadership and take product ownership
• Equity within fast-growing start-up
• Work within an industry-leading founding team
• Chance to build an engineering team in your image

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 

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.

**This position can be based in either London or Singapore.**

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 + benefits including medical insurance and gym membership
• Collaborative and friendly environment with smart, highly engaged colleagues
• Relaxed, dress-down office culture, with breakfast, lunch and snacks provided

Salary

£165,000 + bonus

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 a perfect time to join as they expand their engineering and quant teams.

The Company

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

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

The Company

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

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

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

The Company

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

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

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

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 bleeding edge fintech start-up, focussing on building trade analytics software, are looking for a Clojure developer to join this early-stage team.

The successful Clojure developer will help build new products from scratch, working on fully greenfield projects in an agile environment.  The successful Clojure developer will be building scalable distributed systems with Clojure, Docker, Kubernetes and AWS. The team is remotely distributed, so you will be able to work from home long term.

Requirements:

• Solid computer science fundamental knowledge – STEM degree preferred
• Experience with Clojure
• Experience with DevOps tools and cloud engineering (Docker, AWS, Kubernetes)

Benefits & Incentives:

• Make an impact in an early-stage start-up
• Gain commercial experience with Clojure in an agile team
• Competitive salary, equity and remote working available

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

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.

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.

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

Summary:

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

Role:

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

Required Qualifications:

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

Culture / Benefits:

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

Job Summary:

Reliability Engineer at market-leading quantitative trading firm in London. The team exists in the space between traditional systems administration and development, and seeks to merge the capabilities from both disciplines. Supporting large, business-critical distributed systems and monitoring software reliability in a high performance environment.

Role:

• Acting as a conduit between both infrastructure and development teams
• Primary support for multiple, large distributed software applications
• Improving all aspects of software reliability, including better monitoring, alerting and documentation
• Engaging with software engineering teams on support issues and improvements to tools, processes, and software
• Gathering and analyzing metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding

Technical Skills Required:

• Experience with one of: Java, C, C++; plus one or more ‘scripting’ languages, such as Python, Ruby, and/or Javascript.
• Solid skills in at least one of the following: i) host-based networking, ii) Linux/Unix administration, iii) systems programming, iv) distributed systems, v) databases, and a desire to learn more.
• The ability to quickly leverage off-the-shelf and open-source systems and utilities to rapidly provision production systems in a variety of domains, especially for multi-tenant use.
• A proven track record of automation and an algorithmic approach to solving problems.
• A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, performance bottlenecks, etc.
• An understanding of the operational concerns in a demanding environment; ideally, but not necessarily, finance.

Salary:

up to £130k base + bonus

Salary: up to £140k + strong bonuses

As a Quantitative Researcher, you will have an opportunity to solve challenging problems arising in a trading environment while utilizing statistical scientific algorithms and mathematical modelling techniques. You will work closely with traders and researchers to build and refine trading tools and strategies.

How you will make an impact:

• Create practical solutions to problems presented in the trading environment
• Implement Natural Language Processing / ML / Deep Learning
• Time series analysis
• Algo design
• Create long/short-term alphas
• Conduct statistical analysis of market data, historical trends, and relationships across multiple asset classes
• Formulate and apply mathematical modelling and quantitative methods to identify and capture trading opportunities

Requirements:

• A master’s or PhD in a technical discipline, with a focus on Statistics, Optimization, Quantitative Finance (or related fields)
• Proficient Python programming skills with experience exploring large datasets
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including a solid foundation of statistics knowledge
• Working knowledge of probability theory, stochastic calculus and numerical algorithms, such as finite differences, Monte Carlo simulation, etc.
• Some exposure to Natural Language Processing and/or high-performance computing is a plus
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to report research results as well as methodologies

***Visa sponsorship available.***

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

Summary:

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

Role:

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

Requirements:

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

Perks:

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

Salary:

up to £140k base salary + annual bonus

My client is a leading prop trading shop who are experts in building low-latency software for high-frequency trading.

The Role:

You will build and enhance the trading platforms through the full SDLC – requirement gathering, building, testing, and deployment. This is a small, 10-person desk looking for a strong and effective communicator to work directly with the traders and researchers.  Work spans from building low-latency/high throughput back-end systems, to time-saving tools and apps. The team also leverage cutting-edge data analysis / machine learning techniques to find patterns and anomalies which will give you exposure to the strategy development side.

Skills and Experience Required:

• 3+ years’ experience in C++ development, especially C++ 11/14 onwards
• Python (for tool/frameworks)
• Good knowledge of Unix/Linux
• Experience in multithreaded, low-latency software
• Solid data structures / algorithms
• Understanding of what goes on inside a computer / experience with CPU

Benefits and Incentives:

• Visa sponsorship and relocation package to London provided (if required)
• Start-up feel / collaborative environment
• Free gym membership / meals

Compensation:

Up to £150k base salary + 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 a senior C++ software engineer for their Singapore office. You will design, develop and maintain the entire stack of the high-throughput, low-latency trading system and mentor junior members of the team. Here, there is very little red tape, and a rapid feedback loop on the software you build. They are firm believers in automated testing and lightly-coupled architectures.

Work includes:

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

Requirements:

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

Culture / Benefits:

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

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

Job Description 

Fantastic chance to join a brand-new Equity Derivatives technology team at one of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds. This is a very impactful role, within a small team; you will be the only pure frontend developer so you will own the systems, as the team implements a new global market data system for the Equity Derivatives group.

You will be building a brand-new Angular and HTML5 frontend – all greenfield work – for PMs, Risk Managers and Quants to view and analyse live and historical market data. The ideal candidate will come from a tier-1 investment bank background and have strong equity derivatives knowledge.

This hedge fund has a great name in the industry with good reason; paying strong salaries on both base and bonus, and a superb tech culture.

Skills and Experience Required

• Substantial development experience with Angular
• Sound HTML5 development skills
• Equity derivatives (or possibly FX derivatives) knowledge is essential
• Some Java experience is also beneficial

Benefits & Incentives

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

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

Job description:

Client

This is the core Fixed Income and Commodities Technology group at one of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds. They are 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 working on both the existing platform and the greenfield next-generation analytics library, using Java with elements of Python and C++, utilising Kubernetes, microservices, AWS and Docker on multithreaded systems. As time goes on, you’ll shift more and more onto the greenfield platform as you understand the workings and flaws of the current system. 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 Java skills on Linux, ideally with some C++ experience too
• Minimum bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related) from a top-tier university
• Strong financial knowledge – FI, 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: £75,000+

5-10 years’ experience

Job description:

Client

Perfect opportunity for a passionate C#-focused quant developer to join a central London-based fund, working directly on their Risk and P&L platform.

With recent new investment and market volatility creating new opportunities, this is a fantastic time to get onboard as they look to grow and expand.

Role

Reporting directly to the CTO, you’ll be developing complex software solutions at server and client level, and developing robust, large-scale greenfield systems across the whole company. You will work closely with the business and use the latest C# technologies.

The ideal candidate enjoys both working independently and sharing knowledge with other developers, and is particularly keen to work closely with end-users to best understand requirements.

Skills and Experience Required

• 5+ years’ software development experience, including recent C# (version 6.0>)
• Proficient knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server (2017>)
• Strong experience with event-driven architecture, multi-threading and asynchronous patterns
• Experience of implementing robust and fast real-time systems and code execution optimisation
• Bonus points for experience with any of these: RabbitMQ, Redis, Python, ReSharper, ComponentOne, FIX

Benefits & Incentives

• Competitive salary + bonus + benefits package
• Truly collaborative culture with impactful, greenfield work
• Smart, centrally located London office

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: £250,000 – £400,000 total compensation

5-10 years’ experience

Job description:

Client

A multi-strategy fund with offices globally. With huge autonomy within small teams, they share a core infrastructure platform but allow their traders and quants to pursue unique investment strategies, consistently delivering high quality returns independent of the general market.

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

Role

Joining a team of 6, you’ll build out a real-time data system for FX and Equities. This is an ambitious team based in the US, looking for a Quantitative Developer to build out their European presence in London. Utilising your mix of strong maths and computer science fundamentals, you will be critical to the growth of the desk working across the full trading system.

Skills and Experience Required

• High-performance, multithreaded C++
• Knowledge of scripting languages, such as Python
• Strong problem solving and analytical mindset
• Excellent academics in a hard science (Maths and Computer Science preferred)

Benefits & Incentives

• Target bonus, but also desk-aligned bonus means the potential for huge compensation
• Collaborative culture and an exciting place to work
• Huge amount of ownership and autonomy

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

Company

My client is a leading fintech developing a cloud-based platform to increase developer productivity and efficiency within leading financial firms. The platform enables quants, scientists, and developers to provide access to data and build and rapidly deploy at scale. They also develop risk management and trading applications used by major clients in financial services.

Role

You will be working within a team to build product support for cross-asset derivatives and securities, as well as related pricing and risk analytics and applications.

You will be collaborating with internal teams and the company’s clients in order to produce complete end-user functionality for trading and risk management.

Requirements

• BSc in STEM subject, 2:1 minimum.
• 5+ years’ commercial experience.
• Strong Python skills; experience with C++ advantageous.
• Experience with real-time systems.
• Financial knowledge and experience in a front office role working with FX, fixed income, commodities, equities, pricing or risk.
• Strong communication skills.

Benefits/Perks

• Competitive base salaries and bonuses and whole host of other benefits
• Smart/casual dress code
• Collaborative environment working closely with founders and across teams

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

Overview: 

Leading prop trading firm with a global presence (US, UK, Asia).  They are very tech-driven and invest heavily in their engineering teams. Developers here are truly world-class. The culture here is unique in that it’s relaxed and informal, yet highly rewarding of strong performance.

They are seeking exceptional C#/Javascript UI software developers to join the team responsible for building advanced low-latency trading systems. You will sit on the trading floor, working alongside the very best traders and developers, building cutting edge web-based trading user interfaces.

Work will include: a long-term greenfield project, full software lifecycle development, designing UI tech stack from scratch, automated testing and peer code reviews and delivering well-engineered software into production fast. This is a high impact role; you’ll see the results of your work immediately and have a direct effect on the bottom line.

Requirements:

• Fantastic C# and Javascript/Typescript skills
• Solid knowledge of HTML, CSS and web dev libraries, e.g. React and ASP.NET Core.
• Strong numerical skills and experience working with intensive data streams and data grids
• Interested in user interface development and technologies
• Desired but not required: Vue, Knockout, Bootstrap; experience with at least one database; .NET Core, WebAssembly, Linux, Docker / Containerization and Cloud technologies.

Rewards and Incentives:

• Excellent bonus potential and compensation
• Friendly, collaborative working environment with plenty of progression
• No dress code, catered offices and regular social events
• Have a direct, significant impact on a fast-growing business

Summary

Join a collaborative, dynamic and friendly team of 15 developers where there’s no red tape or rigid structure. With offices in Hong Kong, London and New York, and assets-under-management of over $7bn, this diverse fund is looking for a Java developer with front office experience.

You’ll be working on a brand-new centralised research data platform, the first of its kind at this fund. You will design and build out this platform, to be used by quants, strats and other teams, plus performance monitoring and making improvements. With significant amounts of greenfield work,  this is a superb opportunity to influence tech decision-making, using the latest technologies and open source software.

The successful candidate will be happy developing and supporting all levels of the tech stack, including frontend, middleware, servers and databases. You will be comfortable suggesting new technologies/methodologies where appropriate, and keen to share your experience and new ideas.

Requirements

• 2+ years’ professional core Java experience
• Degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or similar
• Basic knowledge of SQL/RDBMS
• Excellent team-working and communication skills – they’re a small team so working closely together is vital
• Bonus points for Fixed Income knowledge and/or experience with ETL, data pipelines, data monitoring, etc.

Culture / Benefits

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

Salary

<£130k Base + lucrative hedge fund bonuses

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: 

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

The Company

Summary

My client is a high-growth B2B SaaS start-up that’s teaching computers to understand the real world. They use leading data-capture technology, including drones, to create ‘digital twins’ of real-world locations. Having secured $4.5m in seed funding in 2018, they’re looking to expand their London-based engineering team. Their platform has helped more than 20 large enterprise clients create £3.5bn+ in infrastructure builds already.

They’re looking for an experienced Frontend (Angular / Typescript) Technical Lead to lead the existing UI team creating new solutions and helping architect the platform infrastructure that improves the way users interact with 3D spatial data on cloud platforms.

In the long run, there is road map for this role to grow into an engineering manager position as UI & Engineering grows significantly over the next 2 years.

The successful candidate will have experience leading a team of frontend developers and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced start-up environment.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science or other STEM subject
• 7+ years’ experience as Frontend Developer building modular front-end commercial solutions
• Expertise in the following technologies: Angular, Typescript, Node.JS, Python, WebGL, ThreeJS, RxJs.
• 2+ years’ experience leading a technical team of 4+ developers/engineers
• Strong experience with HTML5, CSS3, SCSS, cross-browser and cross-device development
• Passionate about writing clean, solid, high-quality, scalable code, with a strong desire to share knowledge with others

Benefits

• Competitive salary package
• Exciting time to work at an early-stage start-up that is already profitable
• Unlimited holiday and ongoing career development/training

Are you a C++ specialist? Do you love creating beautiful code and developing elegant algorithms? Would you like to work in the heart of historic Berlin? Then this could be the perfect next role for you.

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

The Role:

With regular input from the CTO, the successful candidate will be confident working independently, able to assess problems and architect solutions. With no scheduled meetings and no deadlines, you will be in control of your own workload: developers here enjoy the responsibilities of design, implementation, gathering customer feedback and bug fixing.

They have a relaxed and friendly working environment, where ideas and suggestions from anyone in the company are taken seriously and acted upon.

What is on offer:

• Competitive salaries + generous benefits package (including flexible working, company nanny, and fresh bakery, fruit, drinks and snacks in the office)
• Fantastic work-life balance
• High degree of autonomy over code you write
• Relocation / work permit support

Requirements:

• BSc (ideally MSc) in Computer Science or other relevant STEM subject from top university
• Solid, demonstrable C++ experience
• Fluency in both written and spoken English is essential. Knowledge of German is a bonus.

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

Industry-leading investment firm using innovative and cutting-edge technology, with data at the core of the investment process. They are seeking top-level data engineers to join their London office to focus specifically on data ingestion and transformation through web scrapes.  You’ll architect and build platforms integral to the sourcing, enriching and storing of the data that enables the investment process.

Partnering with investment professionals and data scientists, you will develop solutions that enable investment professionals to efficiently extract insights from data. This includes owing the ingestion (web scrapes, S3/FTP sync, sensor collection), transforming it into actionable insights (Spark, SQL, Kafka, Python/C++/R) and designing their interfaces (API, schema design, events).

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

Requirements​:

• Experience building and managing large web scrapes
• Experience working with Google Cloud/AWS
• Strong Python skills
• Expert in some of the following: RDBMS, NoSQL, distributed compute platforms, such as Spark, Dask or Hadoop, Snowflake
• Minimum BS degree in Computer Science (or related); Master’s or PhD degree would be ideal
• Experience with any of the following systems is a plus: Apache Airflow, AWS/GCE/Azure, Jupyter, Kafka, Docker, Nomad/Kubernetes
• Experience building ETL pipelines also a plus

Benefits:

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

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 talented Software Engineers to their Market Data Tech team.

This is a highly impactful role, where you will work closely with Quant Analysts to help architect valuation and risk engines. There is the opportunity for a huge amount of ownership as you contribute to a greenfield project to completely re-architect their market data systems in the latest version of C#.

The successful candidate will be responsible for everything from requirements gathering to deployment.

**This role is open to candidates who have a background in Java or C++.**

Requirements:

• Strong academic background with 2:1 (or higher) in a STEM subject from top-tier university
• Sound programming and technology skills, and recent experience in C#/.Net or other OO language, e.g. C++, Java, Python
• Proficient working with SQL databases
• Enthusiastic about programming and technology
• Bonus points for software development lifecycle experience
• Previous front office exposure in financial services would be advantageous

Benefits:

• Fantastic opportunity to thrive in a collaborative working environment, driven by teamwork
• Competitive compensation and very strong bonus potential
• Generous benefits package – healthcare, dental, pension, etc.

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 Lifecycle 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:

Exciting fintech company, with offices in the US, Asia and UK, are looking for a talented DevOps Engineer to join the London technology team. Empowering developers in major financial firms to be as productive as possible, they are building a cloud-based, end-to-end development and production platform.

The successful candidate will help the development team automate the deployment of the client infrastructure; maintaining, supporting and developing the platform as required. You will also aim for continuous improvement by assessing and implementing new technologies within the environment where appropriate.

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

Requirements:

• Relevant IT degree (or equivalent). Microsoft Certifications beneficial
• Self-starter, passionate about software-defined infrastructure and cloud
• Minimum 3+ years’ experience using Linux, including proven hands-on experience with servers (RedHat Enterprise Linux or Ubuntu Linux)
• Exposure to Python, Javascript, C/C++ or Golang or similar languages
• Experience in a live production environment
• Proficient in using coding/scripting to automate/reduce time taken to complete tasks
• Exceptional communication skills at all levels, both technical and non-technical

Benefits:

• Great opportunity to be part of a collaborative, innovative environment
• Strong compensation
• Generous benefits package, including educational subsidies + in-house gym + snacks / fully kitted kitchen incl. oven

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.

One of the largest multi-strategy funds globally, using innovative and cutting-edge technology, with data at the core of the investment process. Great opportunity for an experienced SRE to join the Treasury team in their London office, initially to work on a major automation and re-architecture project.

The Role

• The key goal for this team is to migrate from semi-manual deployments and manual server allocation to a fully automated deployment system.
• Design and deploy a new generation of production infrastructure.
• Ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of applications, making changes to improve production quality where necessary.

The ideal candidate will have a background in CompSci fundamentals, data structures, algorithms and distributed systems, with a strong entrepreneurial mindset.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related subject.
• Strong proficiency in at least one modern structured programming language – Python skills a big plus.
• Familiarity with a range of development tools/practices (testing, source control, build systems, CI/CD etc).
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP networking, LAN/WAN and Linux networking.
• Web UI experience (e.g. Javascript, CSS & similar) a bonus.

Rewards and Incentives

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Culture / Benefits

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

Unable to sponsor visas.

Salary:  

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

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

Fully funded renewable energy tech start-up based in central London are looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer to build out their engineering team. Their software helps wind and solar energy developers save both money and time in their project management through the workflow tools.

You will support both the product manager and VP of Engineering building the future of their B2B SaaS platform. In this role, you will also be partly responsible for the recruitment and development of junior developers.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Developing back-end architecture for the product: from developing to testing and launching
• Improving the functionality and future of the platform
• Attending product management meetings and daily stand-ups
• Helping out on the client side alongside the senior front-end engineer

Requirements:

• 3-4 years’ professional full stack experience
• Proficiency with Python, Javascript and SQL Databases
• Ability to create CI/CD workflows that improve developer experience
• Excellent communication as you’ll be interacting with non-technical stakeholders

Desirable:

• HTML/CSS knowledge
• Knowledge of Kubernetes / container-based architecture
• Knowledge of React
• Professional experience with Elasticsearch

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

Preferred

• The ability to work both independently and in a team
• The ability to analyse and fix any problems quickly and efficiently
• The ability to look at code, figure out how it works and figure out how to make it better

Benefits

• Very strong compensation
• Flat company structure & transparent culture
• Casual office
• Strong pension
• Employee insurance

Technology and data-driven firm are looking for a Full Stack Developer to join their ranks. They design and build their own systems, from high-performance trading platforms to data analysis farms. They have an expertise in trading, technology and operations and credit their continuous success to their rigorous scientific research.

Responsibilities

• Take part in all phases of the development process – from working with stakeholders to define their requirements all the way through designing, implementing, testing and releasing to production.
• Build tools to configure and deploy applications
• Facilitate historical and real-time data, allowing researchers to explore large amounts of data
• Build web applications and microservices within the in-house trading and research technology stack

Requirements

• Strong Computer Science degree or related subject from a top tier university
• 3+ years’ professional development experience
• Skilled in React JS
• Experience building web application back-ends
• Experience developing under Linux – including bash scripting

Desired

• Proficiency with Python
• Experience with large data sets
• Knowledge of financial markets

Benefits

• Great compensation
• Strong bonuses
• Health insurance
• Central London office

Summary:

Hedge fund managing around $9 billion in assets. Placing focus on building a single cross-asset risk/pricing system.

Looking for a Developer (ideally from C# / Java background) to join the team; the opportunity to work across all aspects of development projects (from establishing business requirements and design development, to testing and release management).

Requirements:

• Strong programming skills, including an in-depth understanding of, and recent programming experience in C#/.Net or other object-oriented languages, such as Java
• Experience working with SQL databases
• Excellent communication skills
• 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
• Front office experience within finance is a bonus

Benefits:

• Market leading salary + lucrative bonus
• Large business exposure, with daily interactions with the Quants / PMs / Risk Managers
• Generous pension scheme

Summary:

A leading climate-driven start-up are building technology aimed at solving complex problems in the fields of climate change, population growth and agricultural innovation. Using Python and cloud technologies, this start-up are building a core technology platform capable of hosting autonomous vehicles and robotics.

Working with engineers from DeepMind and researchers from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the successful Python developer will be using the latest technology, including Kubernetes, GCP, Terraform and BigQuery.

Requirements:

• Solid Computer Science fundamentals from a top university
• Python development experience
• Experience architecting cloud infrastructure

Benefits & Incentives:

• Leading London-based software start-up, tackling real-world life-changing issues
• Work together with some of the smartest engineers and researchers in the world in a collaborative, interpersonal environment
• Generous salary and benefits in the London market

Summary:

A bleeding edge software start-up who are pushing the boundaries of C++17 and creating complex solutions to real-world problems are looking for a senior software engineer to join the agile, London-based team.

The successful C++ engineer will be building infrastructure from scratch that is capable of handling and processing vast amounts of unstructured and video-based data streams in real time. The successful C++ engineer will be enthusiastic about tackling real-world problems, building high performance computing engines and scalable distributed systems.

Requirements:

• Solid Computer Science fundamentals, including algorithm design
• Experience with C++17 on Linux
• Experience with high-throughput networking stacks, high performance systems or distributed system design is preferred

Benefits & Incentives:

• Bleeding edge, London-based software start-up, tackling real-world life-changing issues
• Work together with some of the smartest C++ engineers in the world in a collaborative, interpersonal environment
• Generous salary and benefits in the London market

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

Job Description 

One of the world’s most renowned financial institutions is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer. You will be joining a talented team of exceptional techies evolving a core platform which provides application telemetry and performance metrics for a large suite of applications.

You will join the Core Development group as a senior developer in a small, highly motivated and agile team, where you will be both building new features and supporting the platform’s existing functionality. Your end users are thousands of other developers; you will be making their products more performant and putting them in full control of routing to common reporting tools, such as Grafana, Splunk and ELK. Facing off to other developers means that NO financial experience is required, this is an exceptionally tech-focussed team and will always remain so.

The successful candidate will be an expert with open-source monitoring and tracing systems like Prometheus and Jaeger; ideally having contributed to their core libraries. There is scope for you to be either a stand-alone technical expert or become a leader of others in the team.

Skills and Experience Required

• 5+ years’ professional experience, ideally proficient in Java, Golang or C++
• Prometheus and/or Jaeger experience // contributions to the open source libraries
• First-hand experience designing and implementing scalable Event Delivery and batch/continuous operator stream processing solutions
• Sound understanding of distributed, highly available systems
• Financial industry experience is NOT required

Highly Desirable:

• Knowledge of any of the following:
  • Kafka, Spark
  • Relational & No SQL databases
  • Public/private cloud development, e.g. Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry & AWS
  • Modern dev practices, e.g. Agile/Scrum, Git, CI/CD

Benefits

• Significant salaries + benefits
• High degree of ownership and impactful work
• Excellent career growth and professional development is encouraged
• Flexible working and working from home opportunities (currently fully work from home, but 2-3 days a week is ‘normal’)

The Client

My client is a fast-growing start-up within the data privacy industry. They build software to allow them to enable safe, ethical use of valuable data for analytics and machine learning. They work with a range of large clients across the globe in several different industries, including healthcare, telecommunications, financial services, government and pharma.  Their work for these clients allows them to gain the most from their data whilst ensuring they are not compromising on privacy and security.

Currently a team of ~200 worldwide, they have grown significantly over the last 3 years.

The client prides themselves on having a hands-on, team atmosphere, where employees work collaboratively and challenge each other to create ideas to add to their flow, leading to faster results.

The Role

They are currently recruiting strong Java developers at all experience levels who will learn and adapt quickly to their fast-paced environment, and who will get excited by using their state-of-the-art technologies with leading-edge algorithms to overcome difficult data anonymisation and security problems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science or other STEM subject
• Extensive coding experience in Java
• Excellent communication skills
• Desire to work within maths, big data, security or privacy
• Exposure to big data technologies, including Hadoop, Spark, Apache, Nifi, MapReduce, HDFS, HBase, Hive, Cassandra
• Experience with building complex distributed systems

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Intelligent, collaborative team
• Generous holiday allowance
• Stock options
• Snacks and lunch provided
• Bike-to-work scheme
• Choice of preferred phone and Mac

Salary – Market-leading: strong base + bonus potential

Summary – My client is a leading tech-driven proprietary trading firm, trading across a broad range of asset classes, instruments and strategies in financial markets around the world. They’re looking to add a talented Network Engineer to their Network Services and Operations team.

The Role: 

• Opportunity to work on one of the most advanced networks in the world, experiment with the latest technologies and be a pioneer in the networking industry.
• Use proprietary and industry standard monitoring and analysis tools to identify, diagnose and solve network related issues throughout their global infrastructure.
• Design and deploy new point-of-presence infrastructure for their low-latency network.

Requirements: 

• At least 3 years of experience supporting large-scale enterprise or low-latency networks.
• Strong knowledge of switching, routing (BGP, OSPF, MPLS, VPLS, IPSEC) and multicast (IGMP, PIM) protocols.
• Experience with wireless networks/RF principles a plus!

Perks: 

• Fully catered breakfast/lunch
• Regular socials/events
• Regular opportunities for mentoring/development
• Market-leading compensation with very strong bonus potential

Salary – Market-leading, strong bonus potential.

Summary – My client is a leading asset management and market-making firm. Their asset management firm is one of the largest multi-strategy funds globally.

They’re looking to add a talented SRE to their Treasury team to work on a major automation project.

The Role:

• The key goal for this team is to migrate from semi-manual deployments and manual server allocation to a fully automated deployment system.
• Design and deploy a new generation of production infrastructure.
• Ensure the reliability, availability and performance of applications, making changes to improve production quality where necessary.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related subject.
• Strong Python coding skills.
• Familiarity with a range of development tools/practices (testing, source control, build systems, CI/CD, etc.).
• Basic understanding of TCP/IP networking, LAN/WAN and Linux networking.

Perks:

• Fully catered breakfast/lunch
• Regular socials
• Market-leading compensation with very strong bonus potential

Salary: Market-leading – strong base + bonus potential.

Summary:

My client is a leading investment management firm, active across multiple asset classes including equities and fixed income. They’re looking to add a talented Senior Engineer to their Fixed Income Front Office Technology Team.

The Role:

• You’ll be joining the team in building a suite of next-generation, cloud-enabled applications.
• This is a hands-on role, and you’ll be exposed to the full software development lifecycle.
• Design and develop software for the portfolio management space.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related field).
• At least 5 years’ commercial development experience, and knowledge of Java and Python programming.
• Knowledge of AWS/Cloud.
• Previous experience in a financial services firm.

Perks:

• Healthcare benefits for you and your family.
• Life insurance + generous retirement plan.
• Significant opportunities for personal development/learning.

Salary – Competitive

Summary – My client is an exciting fintech start-up, developing data-driven automated working capital finance programmes and analytics.

They’re looking to hire a Senior Python Engineer to lead their development team through a variety of projects from building complex data pipelines to developing end-to-end trading and risk systems.

The Role:

• This is a widely varied role, where you’ll be exposed to a range of tasks, including working with data, building trading or trade processing systems and full-stack development.
• As this is a senior role, you’ll have the opportunity to combine mentoring/leadership with your own hands-on contributions.
• In addition to coding, you’ll take part in system design and architecture.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related subject.
• 2+ years’ commercial Python experience.
• AWS experience is highly desirable.

Salary – Competitive, strong bonus potential.

Summary – My client is a leading proprietary trading firm, implementing both fundamental and quantitative trading & market-making strategies across global financial markets.

They’re looking to hire a talented Build and Release Engineer.

The Role:

• Work on automated release and configuration management tools for a build pipeline for in-house development projects.
• Take ownership of the further development of the tools to increase the quality and maturity of the development environment.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related subject.
• Strong Python development skills.
• Experience automating production processes.

Perks:

• Friendly culture with regular socials.
• Relaxed environment, with dress-down policy and fully stocked kitchen.
• Medical/Dental Insurance.
• Market-leading compensation with very strong bonus potential.

Salary – Competitive, strong bonus potential.

Summary – My client is a leading proprietary trading firm, implementing both fundamental and quantitative trading & market-making strategies across global financial markets.

They’re looking to add a Senior C# Developer to their Core Systems team.

The Role:

• Development of both new and existing GUIs for their in-house systems, as well as expansion of reference data systems.
• As this is a senior role, you’ll have the opportunity to combine mentoring/leadership with your own hands-on contribution.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related subject.
• Significant C# and Linux experience.
• Experience developing easy-to-use front-ends using React/Typescript.

Perks:

• Friendly culture with regular socials.
• Relaxed environment, with dress-down policy and fully stocked kitchen.
• Medical/Dental Insurance.
• Market-leading compensation with very strong bonus potential.

Salary – Market-leading: strong base + bonus potential.

Summary – My client is a leading, tech-driven proprietary trading firm, trading across all major asset classes in dozens of financial exchanges across the world.

They’re looking to hire a Big Data Engineer to support their global, highly distributed trading infrastructure.

The Role:

• Work on and lead major projects involving a mix of database technology.
• Projects include database engineering (deploying/scaling/managing database infra), data architecture planning and technology selection.
• Example of a recent project: A many hundred-TB data warehouse project based on Clickhouse, a migration from a legacy Sybase environment onto MySQL 8, and scaling a small MySQL cluster that at peak times returns >100GiB/sec of data to thousands of clients.

Requirements:

• Significant experience using open source database.
• Programming experience in Python.
• Knowledge of Kafka, MySQL, ETL pipelines a plus.

Perks: 

• Relaxed atmosphere and culture of continuous learning and innovation – Continuous opportunities for personal development
• Market-leading compensation with very strong bonus potential

Salary – Competitive, strong bonus potential.

Summary – My client is a leading global investment management firm that utilizes a diversified portfolio of systematic and quantitative strategies across financial markets.

They’re looking to add strong Data Engineers to their Data Science and Engineering team, which is responsible for the acquisition, pre-processing, and distribution of multiple data sources for investment research.

The Role:

• Gather and process raw data at scale (including writing scripts, web scraping, calling APIs, write SQL queries, etc).
• Process unstructured data into a form suitable for analysis.
• Cooperate with colleagues to ensure consistency and maximum reuse of software components.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related subject.
• Experience with data mining applications, preferably in finance.
• Strong Python/C++ skills, as well as experience with SQL and noSQL technologies.

Perks:

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

Salary: £120,000 – £170,000 base + bonus

Job Description 

One of the world’s most renowned financial institutions is seeking a senior Scala expert for an individual contributor position. Based in their London office, they want to hire a functional programming specialist who eats, sleeps and breathes Scala.

The Data Engineering team designs cutting-edge solutions in meta-data and data for clients in CIB technology, QR and Data Analytics. This is a highly impactful, client-facing role, working with users, developers and DevOps teams to deliver exciting and challenging projects ranging from meta-programming, DSL & interpreter design, to providing components to integrate with SQL / NoSQL databases, Kafka and Spark.

You will be joining a global team of exceptional developers that enjoys a strong culture of collaboration and idea sharing. Your deep Scala knowledge will be invaluable in advancing the team’s ability and in providing technical leadership.

The ideal candidate will be highly efficient when dealing with clients’ needs and comfortable working in large, diverse teams.

Skills and Experience Required

• Applied Scala development experience, proficient with functional programming concepts and practice
• Minimum BS/BA degree (or equivalent experience), with strong computer science fundamentals
• Knowledge of TDD and/or BDD and SQL/NoSQL DBs
• Experience with any of the following is a plus: Meta-programming (through libraries such Shapeless or Magnolia); DSL design and interpretation; Docker / Kubernetes / micro-services / Spark / Kafka
• Demonstrable experience working with Agile, Lean and Continuous Delivery best practice

Benefits & Incentives

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

This role is within an investment management firm specialising in quantitative and systematic trading. Small, agile firm with 60 members in their HQ in London. This asset manager provides quantitative investment strategies to external investors.

Salary: Up to £100k base + strong bonuses

Requirements:

• Strong developers with good Java, Linux command line and SQL database skills. Proven ability to deliver well tested, quality software
• Willingness and ability to quickly learn new languages and technologies
• Interest in trading and execution, a capacity to take on a variety of work
• Strong communication skills, attention to detail, and the ability to adapt to a constantly changing financial environment
• Experience in one other OO language (C++, C# or Python)
• Knowledge of trading systems and/or FIX protocol also an advantage, but not a requirement

Benefits:

• Competitive base salary
• Annual discretionary bonus
• Competitive pension contribution

Summary:

A bleeding edge IoT start-up, focussed on real-time data analytics and machine learning software, are looking for a senior software engineer to join their agile team.

The senior engineer will engage in full ownership of new projects; architecting, designing and implementing new solutions on greenfield products from the ground up in a collaborative, agile environment that embraces a DevOps culture. The senior engineer will be working across the stack, from UI / client side (react.js) to backend APIs and microservices (Typescript / node.js), to cloud infrastructure with AWS.

Requirements:

• BSc STEM degree or relevant commercial experience
• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Experience with Javascript (react/node.js and Typescript are beneficial)
• Experience with an agile development culture and “DevOps mindset”

Benefits & Incentives:

• Top salary and equity options
• Inclusive and highly collaborative engineering team that encourages remote working should you require
• Make a real-world impact with your code, transforming and digitalising an outdated billion-dollar industry

Summary:

My client is a top player in the options market-making business. Technology is core to their business and their success is due to constantly being ahead of the competition in both their adoption and execution of hardware, superfast infrastructure and ML techniques. They foster a great balance between the race to production and software quality and testability.

Role:

They are looking for a software developer to work in the front office building out their fully automated trading systems using Java / Linux. This involves:

• End-to-end development of their industry-leading options market-making trading system.
• Collaborating with traders to implement strategies and write the trading algos.
• Building out a bespoke risk management system.

Requirements:

• Degree in Computer Science / Mathematics (or equivalent)
• > 3 years’ experience
• Entrepreneurial, self-starter attitude
• Strong core Java on Linux
• Distributed Systems
• Excellent knowledge of data structures and algorithms

Culture/Benefits:

• Hugely collaborative between teams, not siloed like other firms.
• Competitive compensation.
• Truly flat structure where employees feel valued for their input and are rewarded for great ideas.

Summary:

My client is a leading player in the prop trading sector with offices in Chicago, London and Singapore. They trade a broad range of asset classes and strategies across all major financial markets around the world.

Team:

This role is within their crypto asset trading venture which operates as a standalone business. Being one of the first trading firms to build an ecosystem behind crypto trading (compliance, regulatory), their knowledge of the business is industry-leading. The team consists of experienced traders/researchers and high performance software developers who built the platform from scratch.

Role:

• This role involves a mixture of DevOps, infrastructure and applications support
• Close collaboration with the developers and trader
• Support and improve the tech stack used trade crypto-assets across global exchanges
• Providing technical support for 24-hour trading operations
• Build automation and monitoring tools (free-to-use open source technologies)
• Troubleshoot and resolve trading system production incidents
• Automate software configuration and deployment procedures

Qualifications:

• 3 years’ supporting high performance applications
• Python scripting
• Database experience
• Linux support experience
• Ideally experience with Prometheus monitoring and Splunk (or similar)
• Knowledge of network communications experience, multicast and websockets
• Flexibility to take off-hours support calls as needs dictate
• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent degree

Benefits:

• Market-leading salary + performance bonus
• Generous holiday allowance
• Comprehensive medical packages

Summary:

My client is a leading US-based electronic market-maker. They have a brand new office in Sydney where they are building out brand new trading teams, cutting-edge research and data analysis systems, and ultra-low-latency execution systems that are tailored to the APAC market.

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:

Working across the business, you will develop web APIs (with Python) and web applications (with Javascript/Typescript and ReactJS) to support data visualization – helping traders understand market conditions and assess risk. You will use your experience and share your knowledge of the latest web technologies to contribute to development improvements and mentor other developers.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience in professional web development using either Javascript/Typescript, ReactJS or Python; and the enthusiasm to learn new technologies.
• Proficiency with Continuous Deployment environments a plus.
• Continuous Integration experience is required.
• Understanding of storage mechanisms (SQL, redis, etc.) and experience building cloud-native scalable software (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.) is beneficial.
• Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering (or equivalent).

Benefits:

• Market-leading salary + performance bonus
• Generous holiday allowance
• Comprehensive medical packages
• Social events
• Continuing education – reimbursement for tuition / courses / conferences
• Fully stocked kitchen & games room
• Visa & relocation assistance provided

Summary:

My client is a leading US-based electronic market-maker. They have a brand new office in Sydney where they are building out brand new trading teams, cutting-edge research and data analysis systems, and ultra-low-latency execution systems that are tailored to the APAC market.

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:

The Quant Trading & Research team is responsible for creating trading strategies scientifically. A highly impactful role, you will be working closely with researchers, traders and engineers, designing and developing high-performance production code for trading strategies. The ideal candidate will come from a strong programming background and have a deep understanding of mathematical techniques in order to advance the existing codebase and suggest improvements.

Requirements:

• 2+ years of commercial experience building software applications in Python or C++
• Solid object-oriented programming experience.
• Familiarity with linear algebra and introductory statistics knowledge.
• Experience with generic and/or parallel programming is a plus.
• BS/MS/PhD degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Math, Physics (or similar).
• Financial markets knowledge or the desire to learn

Benefits:

• Market-leading salary + performance bonus
• Generous holiday allowance
• Comprehensive medical packages
• Social events
• Continuing education – reimbursement for tuition / courses / conferences
• Fully stocked kitchen & games room
• Visa & relocation assistance provided

Summary:

My client is a leading US-based electronic market-maker. They have a brand new office in Sydney where they are building out brand new trading teams, cutting-edge research and data analysis systems, and ultra-low-latency execution systems that are tailored to the APAC market.

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:

Seeking both mid-level and senior Python developers, this is a great opportunity if you’re looking to have ownership of exciting projects. You will work closely with quants, developers and traders to develop applications and crypto-exchange connectivity, plus rebuilding existing systems. The team follows Agile methodologies and you will participate in the full software development lifecycle, from requirements analysis to deployment and post-implementation support.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of commercial experience using Python
• Familiarity with Javascript, HTML or CSS a plus.
• Exceptional demonstrable written and verbal communication skills – particularly with less technical users.
• Ability to work in agile development environment required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math (or equivalent).

Benefits:

• Market-leading salary + performance bonus
• Generous holiday allowance
• Comprehensive medical packages
• Social events
• Continuing education – reimbursement for tuition / courses / conferences
• Fully stocked kitchen & games room
• Visa & relocation assistance provided

Summary:

My client is a leading US-based electronic market-maker. They have a brand new office in Sydney where they are building out brand new trading teams, cutting-edge research and data analysis systems, and ultra-low-latency execution systems that are tailored to the APAC market.

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 work closely with traders/researchers to build out a cutting-edge options market-making trading platform using the latest versions of C++ on Linux. The team follows Agile methodologies and you will participate in design sessions and code reviews.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience building high performance applications using C++11, 14, or 17.
• Template metaprogramming a plus.
• Experience with Linux and Python required.
• Understanding of distributed systems, data structures and algorithms.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math (or equivalent).

Benefits:

• Market-leading salary + performance bonus
• Generous holiday allowance
• Comprehensive medical packages
• Social events
• Continuing education – reimbursement for tuition / courses / conferences
• Fully stocked kitchen & games room
• Visa & relocation assistance provided