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Salary: up to £130k base + bonus

Summary:

One of the world’s most renowned financial institutions is looking to add an experienced SRE to their global Rates eTrading team, based in London, to develop creative solutions to operations problems. You will be joining a diverse team of curious problem solvers who are thinking big and taking risks.

The Role:

As an SRE, your focus will be on running better production applications and systems, and you will have the opportunity to take the lead on relevant projects, whilst being given the support and mentorship you need to learn and grow. Work is varied and tasks could include: designing, coding, testing and delivering software, troubleshooting priority incidents, collaborating with the dev team to help develop software for reliability and scale or designing self-healing and resiliency patterns.

The ideal candidate will have excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills, comfortable managing multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.

Skills and Experience Required:

• 6+ years’ professional experience, strong in Finance Technology
• Experience working with Fixed Income products
• Experience supporting and interacting with Front Office is preferred
• You must be skilled in at least one technology stack, designing, coding, testing and delivering software
• Proficiency in one of more technology domains

Benefits:

• 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

Salary: up to £130k base + bonus

Summary:

One of the world’s most renowned financial institutions is looking to add a Java engineer to their global team, based in London. You will be joining a talented team who face off to the business and work closely with the traders to facilitate the electronic trading of a variety of products.

The Role:

You will be working on several exciting greenfield projects for the global FICC businesses, covering everything end-to-end from pricing, execution to risk management. Working closely with the business end-user, you will develop next-generation trading applications and solutions that run on the most cutting-edge technology across multiple platforms.

The ideal candidate will be a strong developer with experience of modern JS frameworks. Using predominantly React, they are also open to candidates coming from Angular or similar backgrounds if strong and a fast-learner.

Skills and Experience Required:

• 6+ years’ professional experience, strong in React and Javascript
• Experience with Angular (or other modern frameworks) is also of interest
• FICC experience is preferred. Rates or Credit protocols are a big plus
• Proven track record working with Traders, Sales and Operations
• Bonus points for AWS / Cloud experience

Benefits:

• 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

Salary: up to £130k base + bonus

Summary:

One of the world’s most renowned financial institutions is looking to add a Java engineer to their global team, based in London. You will be joining a talented team who face off to the business and work closely with the traders to facilitate the electronic trading of a variety of products.

The Role:

You will be working on several exciting greenfield projects for the global FICC businesses, covering everything end-to-end from pricing, execution to risk management. Working closely with the business end-user, you will develop next-generation trading applications and solutions that run on the most cutting-edge technology across multiple platforms.

The ideal candidate will be a strong developer with experience on latency-sensitive, large-scale platforms and able to hold their own with the front office.

Skills and Experience Required:

• 6+ years’ professional experience, strong in Java 8 and some C++
• FICC experience is preferred. Rates or Credit protocols are a big plus
• Proven track record working with Traders, Sales and Operations
• Bonus points for AWS / Cloud experience

Benefits:

• 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 is a really unique chance to work for a successful early-stage start-up, the only one of its kind in the UK. With a hugely diverse, fast-growing team, this ag-tech is transforming the poultry industry by using state-of-the-art AI and robotics, providing data and insights to farmers and others in the supply chain to improve the welfare of millions of chickens.

They are looking for a talented AI engineer to head up the development of AI-based product features, both through hands-on development and also by building a strong, successful team with great direction. No two days in this role will be the same: you might be designing internal development processes from concept to deployment, managing the daily activities of the Computer Vision and ML team, or leading the development of hard computer vision features (such as visual weighing or health assessment for chickens). You will also be overseeing the ML infrastructure for the company.

There’s plenty of room for progression and the successful candidate will be someone who thrives when given autonomy and the opportunity to make the role their own.

Core Requirements: 

• 7+ years of experience, mostly working with AI-based products
• Strong technical and analytical mindset
• Solid team lead experience managing a team of 5+ people, in an agile environment
• Enthusiastic about Computer Vision, with previous hands-on experience

Benefits include: 

• Competitive salary + share options
• Hugely flexible hybrid working environment – both office-based and remote
• Chance to make an enormous impact while working with the very latest tech

Salary: €200-400,000 total comp, including profit share

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 team split between Amsterdam and London, 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.

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 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

Salary: c. £120k base + good bonus

Job description:

This is a global firm looking for a senior and experienced front office developer in the heart of London’s Mayfair.

Working in a small, highly motivated, agile team, this role offers the opportunity of huge amounts of autonomy. You will work on a wide range of projects from end to end, building and maintaining the front office tools for around 200 users, including new development of what-if scenarios in interest rates. You will also develop pre-trade systems used to evaluate relative value trading strategies.

They would welcome interest from developers with any OO experience, though CompSci, C# and finance are preferred (Rates experience would be ideal).

Skills and Experience Required

• 8-10 years of development experience
• Strong CompSci fundamentals
• In-depth knowledge of C# and .NET is highly advantageous
• Exceptional academic record, with an MSc in Computer Science preferred
• Finance experience is desired but not strictly required
• Bonus points for any of the following: Python, C++, Matlab, R, SQL Server or PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ or Kafka, Memcache or Redis

Benefits

• Excellent salaries + bonuses + benefits
• High degree of ownership and impactful work
• Positive, collegial culture encourages knowledge sharing

Salary: £80k – 130k base + bonus

Job description:

One of the world’s most renowned financial institutions is looking for an exceptional UI developer with solid React and Typescript experience.

Working in small, highly motivated, agile teams, members of the Digital Platform group are multi-disciplined, working across all areas of the solution space. In this role, you will be tasked with building and supporting a client-side platform, where you will will build libraries, frameworks and services for other development teams.

The work you do will be crucial to thousands of developers who are working on different lines of business in different asset classes. Using React (ES6) and Typescript, you need to build libraries and frameworks from scratch and work closely with the design team to build robust and testable systems.

Skills and Experience Required

• Advanced knowledge of application, data and infrastructure architecture disciplines
• In-depth knowledge of React, ES6+ Javascript and Typescript
• Strong programming skills in one or more modern language(s)
• Experience in full SDLC with agile methodologies
• Good understanding of OO and functional programming paradigms
• Finance experience NOT required!

Benefits

• 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

Salary: £80k – 130k base + bonus

Job description:

One of the world’s most renowned financial institutions is seeking a talented engineer with technical leadership experience.

Working in small, highly motivated, agile teams, members of the Digital Platform group are multi-disciplined, working across all areas of the solution space. In this role, you will be the Lead Engineer tasked with overseeing the build-out of a brand-new platform service which will provide event streaming, routing and function execution.

You will be joining a global team of exceptional developers that enjoys a strong culture of collaboration and idea sharing. Collectively you will build reusable code and libraries and optimize cloud-native services with telemetry and auto-scaling built in, striving for continuous improvement.

Skills and Experience Required

• 6+ years of experience, including previous leadership experience
• Must have solid Kafka experience and complex event streaming, plus messaging tech, e.g. RabbitMQ
• Strong core Java skills
• Experience with microservices and APIs
• Cassandra experience is a big plus, as is DevOps/Cloud capability
• Bonus points for Apache Spark, Flink, Hadoop

Benefits

• 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

Salary: £80k – 130k base, £200k+ total compensation

Job description:

Client

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

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

Role

Working as part of a trading team, you’ll build out and support proprietary analytics software and tools, primarily written in Java. 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

• 3-5 years’ commercial experience in systematic trading (prop desk or hedge fund)
• Strong OO development experience; substantial Java would be ideal
• Excellent academics in a hard science, e.g. Maths, Computer Science, Physics or Engineering
• Outstanding communication skills with the ability to explain complex concepts

Benefits

• Strong salary + bonuses + generous benefits package
• Exciting place to work with great career progression
• Huge amount of ownership and autonomy

Salary: £150k base + £100k bonus

Company:

This small High Frequency Trading (HFT) hedge fund is still very greenfield but with market leaders at the helm they are growing fast and making a massive impression on the industry using C++.

Being a small team there is no red tape and no legacy code. Everything here is being built from the ground up and you’ll have the chance to stamp your mark.

Role:

You will be designing, implementing and maintaining latency sensitive high frequency trading systems. You will be coding in C++ working on ultra-low latency systems.

Working alongside some of the brightest minds and top techies you’ll be pushed daily, but in a more relaxed, open environment where you are encouraged to excel your C++ skills individually and as part of the team.

Benefits:

• Greenfield project
• Massive compensation package
• Small team – big impact to be made + growing fast

Requirements:

• Exceptional C++ skills
• Preferably previous low latency or HFT experience

Salary: £250,000 total comp

Company

A hedge fund with a difference; relaxed, fun and with a start-up mentality, you can earn huge amounts of money without the stifling environment of a large corporation. Donning your shorts and flip flops in the summer in a great office in London, you’ll have the flexibility on projects that banks simply can’t offer, as well as the chance to earn huge, guilt-free bonuses.

Role

You’ll be writing algorithms to make sense of big data sets, working back-end with real time data and working closely with the quants. Using predominantly F#, as well as C# and a bit of C++ on a Microsoft SQL database, you will have the opportunity to make a real difference to the company and not just be another suit or another number. Described as 97% tech driven a background in finance is not required- just strong core computers science skills.

Requirements

• Experience with functional programming, ideally F#
• Top academics from a top tier university
• Experience of at least one of C#, C++ or Java
• Strong comp sci fundamentals

Benefits

• Relaxed feel
• Start-up mentality
• Exceptional bonus potential

Salary: £150,000 base salary + bonus

Company

You won’t be another suit amongst the thousands at a bank. You don’t even need to wear a suit at all; flip flops and shorts will suffice!

This successful prop house are looking for only the best software engineers with exceptional academics to join their team. Join a company with a start-up mentality that knows investing heavily in its staff and systems is the way to remain ahead of the competition in real-time algorithmic trading.

Role

You will be writing and implementing high quality code with huge data sets. This position is 97% tech driven so a background in finance is not required! You will however need to be able to adapt to new technologies to keep ahead of the competition, with the software primarily developed in C#.

Requirements

• Top academics from a top tier university
• Experience of at least one of C#, C++ or Java
• Strong comp sci fundamentals: data structures, algorithms and complexities
• Team player and easy to get on with!

Benefits

• Start-up mentality – no red tape
• Fun working environment – dress down and games room
• Exceptional bonus potential

Salary: £200,000 total comp

Company

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

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

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

Role

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary: £400,000 total comp

The Company:

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

Role:

Working directly on the business critical, ultra-low latency FX C++20 platforms facing off directly to the business, this team is the pinnacle for any C++ developer. They have a diverse workforce, having hired from FAANG companies, elite teams in finance, and top tech and gaming houses.

Requirements:

• Minimum bachelors in Computer Science or related discipline
• Strong C++ skills
• Multithreading and low latency experience

Benefits:

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

Salary: £100-140k base + bonus

The Company

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

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

– 350,000 paying customers

–  200 million lines of C++

Role

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

Requirements

• Bachelors in Computer Science or related discipline
• Strong C++ skills
• Multithreading experience

Benefits & Incentives

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

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

Salary: £100,000 – 140,000 base + 50-100% bonus

Job description:

Client

Fantastic opportunity for a modern C++ developer (14 or later) to join the core Fixed Income and Commodities Technology group at one of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds. This team is the backbone of their cross-asset Risk and PnL system for all Fixed Income, Commodities, Credit and FX products.  This system is running 24/7 for the past 10 years and is a real-time, highly distributed platform that is being rebuilt into a next-generation platform.

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

Role

You will be building the next-generation analytics library in C++17 and 20, 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++14, 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: Potential for £300-400k total comp

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: €75,000 – €120,000 + 100% bonus

Job description:

Client

One of the world’s leading global proprietary electronic market makers, trading on over 50 exchanges around the world. They are headquartered in Amsterdam, but have the scope to hire in London as well.

Role

The trading systems are high performant and low latency; responding to the market events in nanoseconds with extremely low error tolerance.

You will drive the trading environment towards simplicity and reliability. Sat on the trading floor itself, you’ll ensure the production environment works optimally by deploying, maintaining, monitoring and operating a fleet of UNIX servers to its highest possible performance.

Skills and Experience Required

• Strong Linux skills
• Some automation experience, e.g. Powershell or Python
• Knowledge of networking
• Good communication skills in a fast-paced environment

Benefits & Incentives

• Strong salary + profit share scheme
• Collaborative culture and an exciting place to work
• Fantastic offices
• Generous benefits, including relocation package

Salary: €75,000 – €120,000 + 100% bonus

Job description:

Client

One of the world’s leading global proprietary electronic market makers, trading on over 50 exchanges around the world. They are headquartered in Amsterdam, but have the scope to hire in London as well.

Role

The trading systems are high performant and low latency; responding to the market events in nanoseconds with extremely low error tolerance.

You will be responsible for designing, maintaining and improving their networks; performing at optimal levels under all conditions. From tweaking and optimising, to troubleshooting to long-term strategic projects, no two days will be the same.

Skills and Experience Required

• Strong network and performance monitoring skills
• Experience with low-latency networking
• Automatic deployment experience, e.g. Ansible
• Good communication skills in a fast-paced environment

Benefits & Incentives

• Strong salary + profit share scheme
• Collaborative culture and an exciting place to work
• Fantastic offices
• Generous benefits, including relocation package

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

4+ years’ experience

Job description:

Client

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

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

Role

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

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

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

Skills and Experience Required

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

Benefits & Incentives

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

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

Salary: £80,000 – £120,000 base + bonus

Job Summary:

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

The Role:

You will be:

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

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Salary: £100,000 – £140,000 base + bonus + profit share

Job Summary:

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

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

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

The 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.

Salary: £75,00 – £120,000 base

3-10 years’ experience

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 – 10 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

Salary: Circa £300k total comp

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

Salary: £200-250,000 total compensation

Experience: 5+ years

Job Description:

Client

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

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

Role

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

Skills and Experience Required

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

Benefits

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

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 within 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 three years.

The client prides themselves on having a hands-on, team atmosphere who work collaboratively and challenge each other to create ideas to add to their flow in order to deliver results faster.

The Role:

You will be owning your work and working closely with others in their design team to build lean, highly-performant products whilst solving highly interesting technical challenges.

Their new application is built using Typescript with React on the front end. They are looking for a engineer who will contribute to the creation and adoption of internal frameworks whilst building a user-focused, accessible and data intensive products for their clients to be able to use with ease and accuracy. You’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with product managers, senior developers, tech leads and engineering managers to advocate and communicate their rapidly evolving product requirements.

Requirements:

• Strong academic background in a STEM subject from a leading university – Maths, Computer Science, Engineering or Physics
• 3+ years’ commercial front-end development experience, particularly in React
• Strong knowledge of Javascript
• Experience building software which is complex and/or data-orientated
• Understanding of underlying web technologies, e.g. HTML, CSS, HTTP protocol
• Excellent communication skills

Benefits:

• Competitive salary + stock options
• Hybrid remote-office
• Generous holiday allowance
• Private health insurance with Vitality
• Company-paid mobile and mac
• Bike-to-work scheme

Salary: Market-Leading

Summary:

 A world-class prop trading firm is looking for a new Lead Developer for their European Equity Volatility trading desk.

The successful candidate will work in a hands-on development role, writing code in Java, whilst leading a team of 12, split between engineers and researchers, helping with mentoring, and leading technical decision making for the desk.

Requirements:

• Strong Java programming skill-set
• 8+ years’ experience building front-office trading systems
• Experience mentoring junior developers, whilst leading technical decision-making
• Bachelors/Masters in highly analytical or technical field: CS, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, etc.
• Outstanding communication skills
• Equities product knowledge a strong bonus, but not a hard requirement

Benefits and Incentives:

• Opportunity to take leadership in a key trading desk
• Potential for substantial business impact and significant upside
• Be part of an expanding London and European presence for the firm
• Work alongside the best talent in the industry

Salary: up to £125k + bonus

Summary: 

Exciting opportunity to work at a tech-centric prop trading fund which trades a wide range of financial products, with offices across the globe. Work is organized into small, project-oriented teams, each with the independence and responsibility to make decisions that impact the business.

Windows is the primary desktop operating system, with many core infrastructure services being provided by Windows servers. They are seeking a talented and experienced Windows Developer to build and deploy tools and applications necessary to maintain and enhance the Windows environment. 

Joining a highly dedicated team of developers who use multiple programming languages across a variety of platforms, you will be involved in a number of projects alongside writing code. You’ll manage the entire development lifecycle, using your mix of strong communication and problem-solving skills to gather requirements and incorporate new features.

Requirements: 

• Demonstrated code-writing experience in a .NET language, GUI applications (WPF preferred), Windows services and Web services (ASP.NET Web API preferred) 
• A desire to learn F# and OCaml (experience with any functional languages is ideal) 
• Understanding of key Windows Server technologies, especially IIS 
• Experience designing MSSQL DB schemas for use with Entity Framework 
• Bonus points for data serialisation (JSON.net desirable) and/or web development experience

Benefits and Incentives: 

• Substantial and varied range of project work 
• Market-leading compensation 
• Exciting and enjoyable company culture, including relaxed dress code, huge emphasis on work-life balance, learning outside of the workplace 
• Collaborative and innovative environment where each person has the opportunity to make a significant impact

My client, based in Qatar, is looking to hire into their investment risk and portfolio construction teams.

They’re looking for Python/Matlab on the tech side, along with experience of working in financial markets. The successful candidate will have good analytical and problem-solving skills and be keen to work on a blend of technical and quant-focused projects.

Life in Qatar offers many benefits including a warm climate, tax free salary and excellent healthcare and education systems.

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

If you’re an experienced engineering manager or a talented and experienced team lead ready to step up to a management role, this is for you. Working very closely with the CTO, this is a high-impact position, where you’ll be leading the product engineering group.

A hands-off role, you’ll be responsible for architectural and structural decisions, run daily standup meetings and interact with the wider business to discover new product opportunities, and build long-term roadmaps for the products. You will also mentor your team, with regular one-to-one meetings, and hire new members when appropriate.

The application stack is composed of Python, Numpy, Scipy, Sklearn, XGBoost, Keras, Django, Celery, Postgres, Redis, Ansible, AWS, GCP, and other technologies. They welcome candidates from any coding background to apply.

Requirements

• Strong academic record in Computer Science (or related) from a leading university
• 3+ years’ team lead experience, ideally from a start-up environment
• Solid understanding of computer systems, e.g. data flow, distributed systems, numerical computing, frontend, web applications
• Broad understanding of machine learning, statistics and maths
• Proven track record in planning and executing complex and sizeable projects
• AI experience is highly sought-after

Benefits

• Competitive salary + share options
• Budget for personal development to attend conferences, courses, buy books etc.
• Join a fast-growing, agile, diverse company, passionate about innovation
• Flexible hours and WFH opportunities
• Regular team socials and trips away

Perfect opportunity for a talented Data Scientist to join a fast-growing and diverse tech start-up. They combine distributed computing, unique simulation technology and machine learning to create predictive ‘urban models’ used in the public sector to estimate the impact of any near-future changes.

This a fantastic chance to play a central role in a very exciting and ambitious product development phase. You will work directly with the Head of R&D, Head of Product Delivery and Data Scientists, delivering cutting-edge ML applications to support the provision of their autonomous dispatch system. Work is varied: responsibilities can include developing data ingestion pipelines, developing and training of probabilistic prediction models, and the creating and running of simulated scenarios.

This role would be perfect for a creative individual who enjoys working in different problem areas, able to drive a project from inception through delivery. You will also be a skilled communicator, adept at listening just as much as giving opinions.

Requirements

• Solid programming skills in at least one language – Python preferred
• Strong maths background, with experience using statistical inference and an understanding of Bayesian inference, and/or developing multi-agent simulation and Reinforcement Learning environments
• Proven track record applying analytical skills to problems such as data collection, analysis, visualisation, problem-solving, reporting, etc.
• Understanding of database concepts and SQL
• Probabilistic programming using Stan, PyMC3 or Tensorflow-Probability is desirable

Benefits

• Great opportunity to be part of a collaborative, creative environment where you work truly has a direct impact
• Competitive salary + generous benefits package
• Join an early-stage start-up at this exciting and critical time when you can help shape the future of the company
• In-house and external training opportunities and genuine career development; healthy work-life balance with remote-friendly workplace

Summary

One of the world’s most prestigious tier-1 banks is seeking a senior developer with expert-level knowledge of Java to work on their core real-time risk management system and increase its scalability.

This system processes tens of millions of trade events every day and calculates risk on millions of positions in response to market events and client trading activity. Working closely with users, this role offers the opportunity to contribute to design and architecture discussions at a senior level, as you develop scalable, robust systems that can handle large volumes of data. You will also perform code reviews, mentor junior team members, and define the design and coding best practice standards for the team.

The successful Java Developer will be a skilled communicator, able to interact effectively with users and the wider developer community.

Requirements

• 5+ years’ experience, preferably with large-scale, high-performance systems
• Significant knowledge of Java programming language and any mainstream JVM
• Minimum 2:1 bachelor’s degree in a core STEM subject
• Working knowledge of common distributed architecture patterns
• Cloud application development is desirable (AWS, Azure, etc.)
• Bonus points for Angular, SRE, TDD or agile development experience

Culture / Benefits

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

Salary: £150 – 300k total compensation

This is a unique opportunity at a leading market maker that provides high-frequency algorithmic trading involving crypto currencies/blockchain, as well as decentralized finance. As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, you will be passionate about building products/applications that colleagues love to use and which help the business grow. With huge amounts of autonomy to make the role your own, you will be building brand-new front end applications for the firm’s trading products, selecting significant parts of the tech stack yourself.

This role also provides a great opportunity to improve your knowledge of building high-performance scalable applications and your understanding of algo crypto currency trading.

If you love coding, and can hit the ground running, making a tangible impact on revenue right from the start, this is the role for you!

Requirements

• Experience architecting and building web-based application frameworks (or big parts of these) from scratch; connecting front-end to back-end (direct back-end experience is a plus)
• Strong knowledge of modern front end tech stack – node.js, pm, javascript, typescript and popular frameworks, plus intermediate knowledge of Python with the desire to learn
• Sound understanding of frontend/servers infrastructure, e.g. CDN, Cloudflare or similar, webservers
• Strong academic record in STEM subject from a leading university – Maths, Computer Science, Engineering or Physics preferred

Rewards and Incentives

• Great base salaries and industry-leading PnL-aligned bonus
• Flat, non-hierarchical structure with independence & autonomy to deliver solutions
• Join a high-growth startup with a great work culture
• Loads of social events

London | Director level | Full time | Salary: £120-140k

The Company

A tier 1 global investment bank is looking for a highly capable Senior Python Developer to join the Finance Team within the broader Front-Office Technology function, working closely with Quants and Front-Office traders.

Empowering developers to be as productive and innovative as possible, this team delivers an agile, cloud-based global strategic platform for multi-asset risk & analytics in the derivatives space, with a focus on building robust and scalable Front-Office solutions, enabling the team to efficiently deliver advanced analytics and optimisation tools to trading functions across the global markets organisation.

The Role

The successful candidate will support the finance business through the development of infrastructure, data flows, and automation tools involved in the implementation of advanced data analytics across all their platforms and asset classes, collaborating with financing Quants and Front-Office teams to understand requirements and propose new solutions.

This is a hands-on technical role, which encompasses Python development within a Front-Office environment, coupled with exposure to cloud technologies.

Requirements

• 8+ years’ Python software development
• Proven ability to communicate with FO users
• Solid track record of delivering production grade tools to FO desks
• Solid understanding of the financing business, in one or more asset class
• Distributed version control systems
• Agile/lean development processes
• Experience in KDB is useful
• Experience with other languages like C++, Java, C# is useful
• Experience with cloud technologies (Azure preferred)

Benefits

• Competitive base salary and bonus
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Mature approach to flexible working

Salary: £150-220k total compensation

Summary:

This global hedge fund uses a greenfield fixed income platform made up of the latest technologies (Python 3, C++ 17, Docker/Kubernetes and Linux) to create a core infrastructure that will support 35-40 small trading pods (effectively smaller funds that will rely on your core infrastructure), running 24/7. You will work closely with the FICT group to build micro services and integrate them back into the new system.

Requirements:

• At least a BSc in Computer Science (or a related financial engineering subject)
• Substantial Python developing experience
• Experience with Fixed Income Pricing in front office trading rates/ FX
• Exposure to quantitative finance
• 5-20 years’ experience
• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes, C++, Linux is desirable

Benefits:

• Strong salary and attractive bonus scheme
• Large number of teams using your platform 24/7
• Use of the latest technologies on a greenfield platform

Salary: £300k total compensation

Summary:

This large hedge fund is made up of small trading pods which contain 5-6 team members, allowing them to work effectively as their own hedge fund with a visible PnL for each team and working closely with the Portfolio Manager.

You will use Python to build bespoke trading strategies for your trading pod which is made up of traders, signal researchers and QDs. As part of a small team, you will have a massive impact which you’ll be able to quantify through your trading pod’s PnL of which you will get a direct share.

Requirements:

• Minimum bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related) from a top-tier university
• Strong Python skills, taking projects from inception to production
• Excellent mathematical skills
• 5 – 20 years’ experience
• Knowledge of machine learning models is desirable

Benefits:

• Direct share in trading pod’s profits
• Massive day-to-day impact on your trading team
• Ability to act as a start-up hedge fund under the security of a larger hedge fund

Salary: £100k base, £300k total comp

Summary:

This Cryptocurrency Exchange are building the world’s first performant cryptocurrency derivative exchange which is launching soon! Primarily using Rust and C++ your team will build history’s fastest and safest derivative exchange backend platform.

Users will include hedge funds, HFTs, retail traders and regular people who will be relying on this low-latency exchange. Going live soon – you’ll have a massive impact as part of a small team building an entire exchange.

Requirements:

• Degree in either Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Electrical Engineering (or similar)
• Exceptional programming skills
• Low-level system development experience, ideally in: Rust, C/C++/C#, Java, etc.
• Expertise in low-latency hardware is desirable

Benefits:

• Build the world’s first performant crypto exchange
• Substantial stock on top of strong salary
• Huge ownership

Fantastic opportunity to join a leading software consultancy in London for a senior developer from any industry background. They’re looking for passionate developers, who are interested in solving various technical problems and challenges for their high profile clients stretching across the financial and public sector. You’ll deliver these solutions with a focus on an agile approach and the use of engineering best practices to not only develop clients’ systems, but to develop your own skills too.

The role is based in their offices in the centre of London, but there may be the requirement to visit client sites in the UK and beyond (Covid restrictions allowing).

Requirements

• A Computer Science (or similar) degree from a top-tier university
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the desire to take on new challenges head-on
• Strong engineering fundamentals – as a tech-agnostic firm you can develop in and learn whatever languages you like
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience communicating with non-technical stakeholders
• The desire to not only pick up new languages but also to collaborate with other ideas to get the job done

Summary

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

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

The successful candidate will be a experienced engineer with hands-on experience in developing automated builds and patching cycles, who can’t wait to get to work on growing one of the biggest private compute clusters out there.

Requirements

• Outstanding Linux engineering skills
• Excellent coding skills; Python would be ideal
• Good knowledge of configuration management using Puppet, Ansible (or similar)
• Knowledge of network & storage technologies and container tech, e.g. podman, docker and Kubernetes
• Bonus points for exposure to prometheus/alertmanager/grafana or system admin-level knowledge of hardware, networking and/or file storage systems

Benefits

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

Salary

up to £150k base + bonus

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary

up to £150k base + bonus

Summary

Perfect opportunity for a pragmatic problem-solver, well-versed in Python development,  to join one of the world’s leading quant funds. This is a cross-functional team, which develops tools that enhance the development, testing and deployment of cutting-edge FPGA products used by colleagues in the production trading environments. Contributing solutions across many areas of product development, this role offers unique challenges and the opportunity to use the latest technology on a daily basis.

This is a great place to work, where the entrepreneurial culture of a start-up is coupled with the security of a more established company. Technology is valued and recognised as critical to continued success, and hard work is well-rewarded.

The ideal candidate is a self-starter, passionate about automation, who can provide scalable, maintainable solutions to challenging technical problems in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

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

Requirements

• Minimum 2+ years’ demonstrable Python programming experience
• Solid experience of a Linux environment
• Experience of Continuous Integration and automated test flows
• Proficiency with distributed development workflows (git)
• Bonus points for any of the following: Jenkins (Groovy, Java, Maven); containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.); test-driven development; interfacing to C/C++ code from Python.

Benefits

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

Salary: up to £120k + bonus

Summary

Perfect opportunity for a pragmatic problem-solver to join one of the world’s leading quant funds in their Singapore office, where you will tackle head-on the region’s unique business challenges. Well-versed in Python, you will be part of the team using a sophisticated technology stack to collate a centralized source of research and reference data accessed by the consumers within the firm.

Working with colleagues across all areas of the business, this role offers the opportunity to understand how the company operates on a fundamental level. You will be involved in making a substantial contribution to the evolving codebase and investigating a variety of datasets to provide a scalable, validated representation of reference data.

This is a great place to work, where the entrepreneurial culture of a start-up is coupled with the security of a more established company. Technology is valued and recognised as critical to continued success, and hard work is well-rewarded. The ideal candidate is a self-starter who thrives in fast-paced, dynamic environments, is adept at skilled communication, and is an expert at designing streamlined solutions that end users love.

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

Requirements

• Minimum 2+ years’ demonstrable Python programming experience
• Solid hands-on experience of a Linux environment
• Strong unit-testing / test-driven coding skills
• Skilled at independently driving projects to completion while working in a team
• Bonus points for data analytics tools, such as Pandas

Benefits

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

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary: Flexible for the right candidate

Summary

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

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

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary: up to £150k + bonus

Summary

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

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary 

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary 

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

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary

up to £150k base + bonus

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary:

up to £120k

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary:

up to £120k

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary

Up to £180k base + bonus

Salary: up to £150k + bonus

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Company:

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

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

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

Position:

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

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

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

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

Requirements:

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

Helpful:

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

Benefits:

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

Comp:

Up to £150k + bonus

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary

Up to £120k + bonus

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary: up to $300k + bonus

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary: up to $300k + bonus

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary: up to $300k + bonus

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary: up to £130k base + bonus

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary

up to £120k + bonus

Summary

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

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

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

NO finance experience is necessary.

Role

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary

up to £150k + bonus

Summary

Lively, positive spirit of a start-up, with the stability of a longer-established player, this leading quant firm is looking for a pragmatic Hardware Production Engineer to join a new team, where you’ll take ownership of trading analysis and operational issues. This is a brand new office which is being built around an industry legend.

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

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

Requirements

• Minimum 2+ years’ C++ programming experience OR at least one year’s experience with Verilog/SystemVerilog/VHDL, plus proficiency in Python
• Exceptional attention to detail; adept at managing and debugging complex hardware-based production processes
• Strong track record of owning and driving forward mission-critical systems
• Skilled at managing priorities with the ability to switch between multiple projects at once

Benefits

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

Salary: up to $300k + bonus

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary: Flexible for the right candidate

Summary

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

This is a high impact role where you will collaborate extensively with users to ensure the robust, scalable front-ends you write meet their needs and are user-friendly. You will work closely with C++/Python back-end developers on the overall architecture and APIs, and, should you be interested in full-stack development, there is the opportunity to contribute to back-end code as well.

Here, technology is viewed as crucial to their continued success. The successful React Developer will be passionate about front-end development, enjoys staying on the cutting edge of what’s happening in the Javascript/React world, and is an asset to the team through knowledge sharing and mentoring.

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

Requirements

• Highly proficient in React and Redux, modern Javascript, HTML5, and CSS
• Prior knowledge of UI/UX design
• Deep-level understanding of building high-performance Javascript applications
• Skilled at writing reliable, readable code; able to give code review feedback
• Familiar with unit testing front-end code with Jest or similar
• Experience of /willingness to learn back-end development in Python (Tornado/FastAPI/Django) is a plus
• Bonus points for Linux and/or trading industry experience

Benefits

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

Salary: Flexible for the right candidate

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary: £165,000 + bonus

Expected Salary: £180 – £200k TC

A world-leading fund is looking for a highly skilled C++ developer to join their greenfield Fixed Income platform for over 30 Portfolio Managers to use day in, day out. You will build all of the non-linear FI products, FX, Credit and Commodities analytics from scratch. Working closely with trading and researchers, you will ensure that your team provides continuous, uninterrupted, firm-wide real-time risk and PnL.  Candidates can apply from outside of finance if they are fluent in either C++ 14/17/20, however finance experience is desired.

Requirements:

• At least a BSc in Computer Science or related subject.
• Substantial experience using C++14 or later – at least 4 years’ experience using modern C++
• Strong analytical and mathematical skills, with interest in and exposure to quantitative finance
• Experience in multithreading, client-server and distributed computing
• Experience working in Linux environment.

Desired Requirements:

• Experience with Fixed Income pricing and risk analytics in Front Office trading Rates / Credit/ FX
• Experience developing Cross Asset Pricing and Risk Systems
• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes
• Experience with NoSQL such as MongoDB

Tech Stack: C++ 17, Python 3.8 , AWS, finance or non-finance

This leading UK-based discretionary trading fund, boasting AUM of over $16 billion, are looking for a highly skilled C# developer to join their technology team. This team works directly with the researchers and quantitative professionals to solve the toughest of technical challenges working throughout all areas of business including: Risk Management, Quant Analytics, Front Office and Middle Office. The successful candidate will have an impact from day one as they are encouraged to take ownership of technical projects, such as delivering massively scalable, high performance computer operations which the whole firm will use.

Although this a C# role, candidates will be interviewed in their preferred language.

Requirements:

• Minimum 2:1 degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Excellent programming skills, with an in-depth understanding of C# desirable
• Experience with SQL databases
• Ability to own all aspects of development projects from start to finish
• Strong problem-solving ability and a desire to solve business problems

Tech Stack: C# 9.0, .Net, SQL, React

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

Unique opportunity to join a rapidly growing international crypto fintech at their London office in Shoreditch. They create a range of products in the crypto / blockchain space so that customers’ transactions are safer, faster and more efficient while also helping global financial institutions improve day-to-day transaction processing using the latest technology. Seeking talented Senior Software Engineers to join the Commodities Engineering team.

Role:

They are rebuilding the infrastructure of finance to make it open and accessible for the future, while creating innovative new products. You will be responsible for designing and implementing high-quality software, working on the full life cycle. You will take ownership of design, coding and testing of key components of the tokenized commodities platforms.

This role offers the opportunity to work on something meaningful, with the expansive potential for a positive social and economic impact.

Requirements:

• 4+ years’ experience in software development, with strong CompSci and programming fundamentals
• Expertise in a number of OOP languages; including at least one of Kotlin, Golang, Rust, Java, C++, Javascript/Typescript, Python
• Highly proficient with core engineering concepts, e.g. data structures, algorithmic complexity, etc.
• Solid understanding of concepts such as load balancing, HA/failover, ingress, inter-service communications in a microservices style cluster, idempotence, ACID, guaranteed delivery, etc.
• Technical expert in at least one domain, such as Distributed Systems, Cryptography, Databases, or AWS

Benefits:

• Strong base salaries + stock
• Meaningful impact on profitability; your direct impact on the business is huge
• Generous benefits package, including healthcare, significant holiday allowance and free snacks, drinks and ping pong in the office
• Work for a young company that is changing the future of finance!
• Truly collaborative culture (your ideas matter), with transparent, flat structure

The Client:

A young technology start-up, headquartered in the UK, are providing the first analytics and AI solution exclusively designed for the mobile network industry. They are providing real-time tower insights and boosting tower performance; reducing costs, carbon emissions and wastage. Winning an IBM competition a few years ago, they earnt themselves free use of Watson to build prototype.

The Role:

This client is looking for a Full Stack Typescript Developer who will design & implement the full stack of a sophisticated analytics platform for tower time-series data with high scale requirements. They are looking for someone who is self-directed, can independently manage their time, and take pride in delivering high quality work. They believe in their engineers and although they have their existing optimisation platform, they encourage their developers to come up with new, initiative ideas to suggest to the team and implement them!

Requirements:

• Computer Science degree from a Russell Group university
• 3-6 years’ commercial experience
• Experience as fullstack Typescript developer
• Passionate to work in a fast-paced start-up environment
• Passionate about Green-Tech

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and shares in equity
• Fully remote with regular team meet-ups
• Enormous opportunity to grow, learn and have a real impact
• Generous holiday allowance
• Pension

Highly proficient IT Systems Engineer with a strong documentation mindset wanted to join this leading tech-focused, electronic market-maker. With a rich global history at the forefront of trading and technology, their London operation continues to thrive and expand, making this a great time to join.

This is a high-impact role where you will be the go-to frontline support person in London. Your focus will be the IT systems and enterprise applications that allow users to operate at their highest performance level. This will include: managing trader IPC/Turrect infrastructure and the systems for phones, video conferencing, security, etc., analysing & recommending enterprise IT systems for user-facing technologies, and collaborating with other IT engineering teams to deliver key services.

This role would be perfect for someone who relishes the challenges that come with problem-solving in a fast-paced environment and can hit the ground running, making a tangible impact from day one.

Requirements

• Solid experience in troubleshooting IT support issues
• Strong desire to work with a wide range of technologies
• Sound attention to detail and cleanliness
• A good understanding of change control processes

Rewards and Incentives 

• Competitive salaries
• Relaxed work environment, with the lively, positive spirit of a start-up, coupled with the stability of a long-established player
• Generous benefits package, including private medical insurance, pension, gym and free daily breakfast & lunch
• Leadership and growth opportunities

Salary Range: £40-80k

This is a unique opportunity at a leading market maker that provides high-frequency algorithmic trading involving crypto currencies/blockchain, as well as decentralized finance. As an algorithmic trader, you will be developing your own product from day one while also getting advice and guidance from more experienced traders and developers. You will enjoy a technology startup culture that is competitive yet collaborative, where they believe the future of trading lies with technology companies not financial services providers.

If you’re well-versed in Python coding and thrive when given huge amounts of autonomy, this role is for you. You’ll be assigned your own ‘desk’ and will be tasked with expanding it through building new strategies and improving existing ones, as well as improving the technology behind the trading. You will also analyse large amounts of data, generate insights and build solutions based on your findings.

This role would be perfect for someone who relishes the challenges that come with an extremely fast-paced environment and can hit the ground running, making a tangible impact right from the start.

Requirements

• 1-3 years’ strong coding skills in Python – this can be from work, study or personal projects
• Excellent quantitative and analytical skills – this will be tested!
• Good programming fundamentals (in any of C++, C#, Java, OOP)
• While trading knowledge isn’t required, a strong willingness and curiosity to learn algorithmic, high-frequency, quantitative and market making trading is crucial
• Keen to learn about blockchain, crypto and DeFi – you like keeping track of major news and developments the crypto world

Rewards and Incentives 

• Great base salaries and industry-leading PnL-aligned bonus
• Flat, non-hierarchical structure with autonomy to deliver solutions
• Join a high-growth startup with a great work culture
• Loads of social events

Salary Range: £200-300k + equity

Fantastic opportunity for an engineer passionate about high-quality user experiences to join a small but growing design team as their first UX Engineer. Helping regulated companies to onboard and safeguard customer data through their customisable tools, now is a great time to join this thriving start-up.

This is a high impact role where you will be the bridge between designers and software engineers; creating tools, workflows and documentation that facilitates effective collaboration. In the engineering space you’ll be a UX processes evangelist, while you’ll also produce properly coded digital products that colleagues love to engage with so they can better meet the needs of customers.

This role would be perfect for someone who is actively seeking a central role in a dynamic start-up environment, is self-motivated and ideally has previously done lots of greenfield development or worked for smaller companies.

Requirements

• Deep-level understanding of UI design principles (some visual/UI design ability would be ideal)
• Strong interpersonal skills, capable of building positive relationships with designers and engineers across the business
• Familiar with usability and accessibility best practices
• Experience with at least one of the following: HTML, CSS, React, component APIs, front-end code optimisation, CSS preprocessors and tools
• Desirable: ability to start ASAP

Benefits

• Competitive base salary + equity
• Enormous opportunity to grow, learn and have an impact
• Learning & development budget
• Cycle to Work scheme and gym membership
• Generous pension contributions & enhance maternity/paternity/shared leave pay

This is a fantastic opportunity to work in the Sydney office of one of the world’s leading proprietary trading firms. With a company culture that is competitive yet collaborative, working in small, exceptionally talented teams, they build cutting-edge innovative technology solutions for their ultra-low latency trading system.

This role sits within the team that trades Futures, ETFs and Equities on the major exchanges in Asia, and they’re now looking for a Quant Engineer to help build a world-class quantitative research platform. To achieve this, you’ll collaborate closely with quant researchers and traders on new experiments, new capabilities and new data sources. Work will include designing and implementing improvements to optimise researcher productivity & quality and leveraging cloud infrastructure to solve substantial challenges.

This role would be perfect for someone who relishes the challenges that come with an extremely fast-paced environment and can hit the ground running, making a tangible impact from day one.

Requirements

• Significant Python software engineering experience, with expertise using Python data science stack (Pandas, NumPy, SciPy)
• Experience working with quant trading and financial markets data
• Strong degree in Computer Science, Maths, Physics (or similar) from a top-tier university
• Highly proficient in designing and implementing distributed systems
• Team lead experience with small development teams is a plus

Rewards and Incentives 

• Great base salaries and industry-leading PnL-aligned bonus
• Flat, transparent structure with autonomy to deliver solutions
• Working in a small team of highly talented engineers
• Direct business impact with short feedback loop
• Leadership and growth opportunities

Salary Range: $150k – $400k

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

They’re seeking an experienced Quantitative Developer with great mathematical and critical-thinking skills to join a talented team. This role would be perfect for someone with a strong background and expertise with leading on system architecture and application development methodologies.

The successful candidate will be exposed to many different business areas, working directly with technologists, researchers and portfolio managers.

Requirements

• Significant core Python and C++ programming skills
• Deep-level familiarity with Linux development environment
• Exposure to portfolio optimization theory and modelling
• Knowledge of SQL and some knowledge of machine learning & statistical optimization techniques (e.g. convex optimization)
• Strong academic record, with degree in a technical subject from a leading university

Rewards and Incentives

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

Summary:

A boutique systematic and quant trading firm are looking for a C# Developer to join their quant research team in London. With a small, agile and technology-driven environment, the successful C# Developer will be working alongside software engineers and quant researchers to build and develop statistical, mathematical models from scratch using vast data sets and cutting-edge technology. Free from a bureaucratic and corporate culture, this small team are able to react to changing financial markets with agility and speed, whilst maintaining an emphasis on employees’ personal and professional development.

Requirements:

• Minimum BSc in Computer Science or related STEM subject
• Good object oriented programming experience in C#
• SQL experience

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and bonus structure in London
• Work with elite technologists and quant researchers
• Small, agile environment with opportunity to work close to the business in all areas from development, modelling and trading

A leading consultancy with offices around the UK is hiring Lead Developers into their London office. They work primarily within the finance sector but are seeing their public sector clientele growing quickly. They are employee-led so all company decisions are made with your work-life balance and career development at the forefront of their minds.

They are tech agnostic, so not only will you be working in the language you are most comfortable with, but you’re also welcome to try out and learn the latest technology whilst working.

Requirements

• A Computer Science degree from a top-tier university
• At least 5 years’ professional experience
• Core skills within Java/Web/C#/.Net development
• Experience across the whole software development life cycle
• Strong commercial experience with enterprise systems
• Experience leading teams and managing projects
• Strong communication skills and experience dealing with internal and external stakeholders.

This position is unable to offer visa sponsorship.

A tech-focused market-maker with groundbreaking success in the high frequency trading space, my client is seeking a pragmatic Trading Systems Support Engineer with great communication skills.

Based in the heart of Amsterdam, you will be joining the Production Engineering group, a highly talented team devoted to ensuring the global low-latency trading system operates at its optimum performance level at all times.

As first-line support for the trading environment, you can expect a varied workload, including deep-diving into technical issues to understand their cause, pushing for continuous improvement to avoid repetition of issues, and automating away manual tasks.

The successful Trading Systems Support Engineer will enjoy fast-paced, dynamic environments where you can have an impact and will be systematic and thorough at all times, even when under pressure.

Requirements 

• 2+ years of experience in a hands-on support role, supporting distributed systems on Linux
• Adept at communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders alike
• Self-starter, with the ability to drive projects from inception through delivery
• An unrelenting attitude in your drive to identify systems improvements
• Some development experience is desirable

• Incredible salary + profit-sharing structure
• Truly flat structure and highly collaborative culture, within a fun, stimulating office environment
• Outstanding benefits package
• Relocation assistance provided

Salary Range: €75,000 – 150,000

 Summary:

A world-leading systematic trading hedge fund is looking for a C++ developer to join their quant platform engineering team in London. The successful C++ developer will be utilising modern technologies and frameworks, working in C++ 20 to build high performance components and scalable distributed computing architecture in an agile software environment.

Requirements:

• BSc or above in Computer Science or relevant STEM subject
• Experience building high performance software in C++
• Experience building scalable distributed systems in C++

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and front-office hedge fund-style bonus structure
• Work alongside world-class C++ engineers and developers in London
• Build industry-leading technology in highly agile environments

Summary:

An open-source tech start-up focussing on smart contract and distributed ledger technology are looking for a Scala engineer to join the team. The Scala developer will join an agile, London-based team working on tooling and infrastructure, building greenfield distributed software from the ground up.

Requirements:

• BSc STEM subject from top-tier university
• Scala development experience – Kotlin, Haskell, Java 8 are also beneficial
• Experience with distributed computing, multi-threading, open source software, agile environments

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package in London
• Build greenfield open-source software in Scala and Haskell
• Work alongside experts in distributed computing and distributed ledger technology

Perfect opportunity for a talented Frontend Developer to join a fast-growing tech start-up. They combine distributed computing, unique simulation technology and machine learning to create predictive ‘urban models’ used in the public sector to estimate the impact of any near-future changes.

This role would suit someone who enjoys and thrives on building great software that users love interacting with for hours every day. You will be working within a cross-functional team on a dynamic product and taking a lead in all stages of development, from software design, to implementation and testing. You will have the autonomy to discern the best tools and technologies for each job, ensuring the quality and reliability of the product, and you will also influence the long-term strategy for product engineering.

The successful Frontend Developer will be a self-starter who can work independently and be able to drive a project from inception through delivery, and a skilled communicator, adept at listening just as much as giving opinions.

Requirements

• Minimum 3+ years of sound professional experience developing interactive web frontends in Javascript/Typescript using modern frameworks – React, Angular or Vue
• Strong experience with modern web development processes, e.g. Node.js, WebPack, etc.
• Proficient working with RESTful interfaces, API design and testing frameworks, e.g. Jest
• Expert in building maintainable, scalable software
• Bonus points for experience in one or more of: scientific data visualisation, mapping interface, WebGL, building real-time applications

Benefits

• Great opportunity to be part of a collaborative, creative environment where you can feel valued for your input
• Competitive salary + generous benefits package
• In-house and external training opportunities and genuine career development; healthy work-life balance

Perfect opportunity for a talented Full Stack Developer to join a fast-growing tech start-up. They combine distributed computing, unique simulation technology and machine learning to create predictive ‘urban models’ used in the public sector to estimate the impact of any near-future changes.

This role would suit someone who genuinely enjoys working on front- and back-end development equally. You will be working within a cross-functional team taking a lead in the design, implementation, testing and deployment of front- and back-end components, with the autonomy to discern the best tools for each job. You will contribute to building browser-based interfaces that users will love, and on the back-end side, you will be creating microservices that interface with or process complex ever-changing data.

The successful Full Stack Developer will be a self-starter who can work independently and be able to drive a project from inception through delivery, and a skilled communicator, adept at listening just as much as giving opinions.

Requirements

• Minimum 2+ years of sound professional experience in full-stack development, including single-page and interactive web applications
• Strong front-end Javascript frameworks experience – React, Angular or Vue and Node.js
• Proficient in an OOP language, ideally Python
• Web and distributed architecture expertise
• Experience working with RESTful interfaces, databases and testing frameworks – preferably TDD/BDD

Benefits

• Great opportunity to be part of a collaborative, creative environment where you can feel valued for your input
• Competitive salary + generous benefits package
• In-house and external training opportunities and genuine career development; healthy work-life balance

Summary

This fully automated trading firm has a unique culture that is relaxed, yet exciting and technically stimulating, where you’ll be working with some of the smartest engineers in the industry. This is a great opportunity for innovative, creative cyber security experts who love large amounts of autonomy and the chance to strategically impact global security systems.

Working closely with the Networking and Desktop Support team, you’ll be tasked with setting up and maintaining the firm’s production security services. This will involve architecting, prototyping and deploying technical security solutions to better protect their trading operations and IP from threats, both internal and external. Additionally, you will be improving the security of SSH across the company and upgrading secure Linux configurations.

Technology is very highly regarded here, with core security engineering recognised as being critical to the success of trading. The successful Security Engineer will have substantial technical cyber security experience from an organization with a dedicated security operations function.

Requirements

• 5+ years of cyber security experience; security engineering, architecture and project management are essential
• Previous experience with Cryptography and Public Key Infrastructure
• Solid communication skills, experienced in building strong cross-functional relationships
• Experience with Linux (bonus points for Debian)
• Minimum BS degree in Computer Science (or equivalent), MS in Information Security a plus

Benefits

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

Leading prop market-making firm is seeking a highly organized systems engineer with great communication skills. With offices in Chicago, New York and London, they provide liquidity in a wide variety of financial instruments and asset classes. To do this they hire bright, independent thinkers to compete in the world’s markets.

In this role you will join a growing technology team, in a dynamic environment, tasked with troubleshooting, monitoring, maintenance and networking. You will contribute to the oversight of the 24/7 Linux trading environment (designing & deploying new solutions, administration, upgrading), automation and datacenter management.

This is a company that truly values the merits of their employees, where traders, quants and software engineers all work closely together in an open, collaborative environment. The successful Systems Engineer will be self-motivated, from a robust background of Linux design, and have a passion for the fast-paced environment of the trading industry.

Requirements:

• Minimum 5+ years’ experience of Linux (CentOS, Debian and/or Redhat) architecture
• Deep-level knowledge of administration, networking, performance monitoring/tuning, security hardening, troubleshooting, etc.
• Solid experience with Linux build automation tools, e.g. Ansible, SaltStack, etc.
• Fluency in system scripting using Shell, Python, etc. and other related tools
• Willingness to work some weekend/overnight shifts on a rotational basis
• Strong Linux/Unix networking knowledge (knowledge of Cisco NXOS a plus)
• STEM degree from a top-tier institution
• Candidates must be based in the USA and have a valid working visa (H1B/Green Card)

Benefits:

• Top of the market compensation package
• Work with smart, motivated individuals where rewards are based on merit
• Feel valued for your input; diverse ideas are actively encouraged
• Plenty of opportunity to learn, progress and grow to your full potential

Leading prop market-making firm is seeking a talented C++ developer with great communication skills. With offices in Chicago, New York and London, they provide liquidity in a wide variety of financial instruments and asset classes. To do this they hire bright, independent thinkers to compete in the world’s markets.

In this role you will join a highly experienced team, writing highly performant code in an agile, Linux environment. Using modern software tools, you will be focused on implementing and developing systems that contribute to the low-latency trading platform, including trade execution services, tick data infrastructure, exchange connections, GUIs and risk management systems.

This is a company that truly values the merits of their employees, where traders, quants and software engineers all work closely together in an open, collaborative environment. The successful Software Engineer will be self-motivated, an expert problem-solver, with a passion for the fast-paced environment of the trading industry.

Requirements:

• Strong development skills in modern C++ (on Linux would be ideal)
• Deep-level understanding of object-oriented programming & design
• Solid experience of scripting languages, e.g. Python, Ruby
• STEM degree from a top-tier institution
• Experience of multithreading, real-time systems and socket programming
• Experience in trading or finance is a big plus
• Candidates must be based in the USA and have a valid working visa (H1B/Green Card)

Benefits:

• Top of the market compensation package
• Work with smart, motivated individuals where rewards are based on merit
• Feel valued for your input; diverse ideas are actively encouraged
• Plenty of opportunity to learn, progress and grow to your full potential

Leading prop market-making firm is seeking a talented Python developer with great communication skills. With offices in Chicago, New York and London, they provide liquidity in a wide variety of financial instruments and asset classes. To do this they hire bright independent thinkers to compete in the world’s markets.

In this role, you will be part of the Data Infrastructure team, working in an agile environment, and tasked with improving and extending the firm’s data platform. You will be focused on Python, database and web-based systems and will be responsible for ETL tasks, data quality analysis, data modeling, monitoring, and automation.

This is a company that truly values the merits of their employees, where traders, quants and software engineers all work closely together in an open, collaborative environment. The successful Python Software Engineer will be self-motivated, with a passion for the fast-paced environment of the trading industry.

Requirements:

• Deep-level understanding of the Python language
• Minimum 2+ years’ professional experience
• Solid development skills, including testing, debugging and problem-solving
• STEM degree from a top-tier institution
• Experience of SQL query writing, data models, ETL, workflow automation, etc.
• Experience in trading or finance is a big plus
• Candidates must be based in the USA and have a valid working visa (H1B/Green Card)

Benefits:

• Top of the market compensation package
• Work with smart, motivated individuals where rewards are based on merit
• Feel valued for your input; diverse ideas are actively encouraged
• Plenty of opportunity to learn, progress and grow to your full potential

Summary:

A boutique systematic hedge fund in London are looking for a C# developer to join their agile, test-driven development team in London. The successful C# developer will be working with the latest version of .NET and SQL, building multithreaded applications in an agile environment.

Requirements:

• BSc Computer Science, Maths or relevant STEM subject
• C# / .NET programming experience
• Experience with SQL or equivalent
• Experience with multithreading, network programming and distributed version control is a plus (not essential)
• Full-time London-based role

Benefits:

• Leading compensation – including hedge fund-style bonus
• Elite, agile engineering team – work alongside high quality engineers in London
• Work close to the business in a small team, directly alongside traders and quant analysts/ modellers

Summary:

A London leading quant / systematic hedge fund are looking for a quant developer to join their quant team in London. The successful quant developer will be building quant technology infrastructure in C# and Python, working closely with quant analysts, traders and software developers in an agile, test-driven team.

Requirements:

• BSc/MSc in STEM from a top university
• Strong programming skills in an OO language – C#, C++ or Java
• Strong mathematical skillset, knowledge of SQL, exposure to Python

Benefits:

• World-leading compensation and front office bonus scheme
• Work alongside elite engineers and traders in a highly technical agile environment
• Offices in central London with remote working options

Summary

My client is a highly successful, VC-backed, fintech start-up who are expanding rapidly. They provide data refineries for investment management firms to map and clean information from multiple sources in a way that constantly improves and adapts, leaving the IMs to focus on managing client money.

They are seeking a Software Engineer with experience of developing high performance systems to help build out their data refinery platform. Working closely with the Product Team, you will design and build services and software libraries to add features to the platform. You will also implement applications on top of the platform and solve key data processing problems.

The successful Software Engineer will be a strong communicator, with a proactive attitude towards problem-solving and a good degree from a top-tier university.

Requirements

• 2-3 years’ experience of working in higher performance tech / product teams
• Strong Python fundamentals, including experience in pandas and numPy
• Sound experience designing / developing software libraries
• Background in designing systems to handle large datasets / high traffic volumes
• Linux essential, AWS & Kafka experience beneficial
• Experience with any of the following: REST APIs / Web Servers in Flask, Django or Fast API, Microservices Design & Architecture

Culture / Benefits

• Excellent bonus potential and compensation
• Highly collaborative and fun working environment
• Enormous opportunity to grow, learn and have an impact
• Work with the latest technologies on complex problems.

Headquartered in Chicago, this global prop trading firm employs the smartest minds to bring a scientific approach to trading strategies. They regard technology as critical to their success, and they’re looking for a Network/Linux Engineer to join their ambitious hardworking team to help them continue to thrive.

This is a high impact role, where you will work closely with the CTO and trading teams, contributing as a hands-on technical leader on various projects. You will draw on your deep understanding of network protocols and performance optimization to design, configure and support the global network, optimizing for latency and throughput. Additionally, the role includes Linux administration, tooling and automation.

The successful Network/Linux Engineer will possess leadership and innovation capabilities, is passionate about delivering value and thrives in an experienced, collaborative team.

Requirements:

• 4+ years’ strong Linux system admin skills
• 4+ years’ experience supporting high performance networks
• Minimum 1 year of Python scripting and strong Linux shell (all utilities) experience
• Expert knowledge of IP networking, TCP/IP, switching, routing and multicast
• Docker, Kubernetes and data management strategies experience a bonus
• Candidates must be based in the USA and have a valid working visa (H1B/Green Card)

Benefits:

• Top of the market compensation package + performance-based bonuses
• Fantastic work-life balance
• Benefits include: premium health, casual dress, fully stocked pantries, company socials, relaxation room and generous learning allowance
• Plenty of scope to grow and have an impact on the business

Headquartered in Chicago, this global prop trading firm employs the smartest minds to bring a scientific approach to trading strategies. They regard technology as critical to their success, and they’re looking for a Quant to join their ambitious hardworking team to help them continue to thrive.

Focusing on expanding and optimizing current and future trading opportunities, you can expect a wide variety of work; from evaluating current strategy components, to researching and testing alphas to improve existing tools, through enhancing the production trading system.

This role would suit someone who enjoys making a real impact, is passionate about delivering value and thrives in an experienced, collaborative team where opportunities to learn from each other are regularly shared.

Requirements:

• 2+ years of commercial experience
• Bachelors/Masters/PhD in Computer Science and/or Statistics/Math (e.g. Data Science, Physics, etc.)
• Strong experience with Python, C++ and machine learning tools
• Self-starter who can work independently and be able to drive a project from inception through delivery
• Track record of developing models in a low-latency trading environment
• Candidates must be based in the USA and have a valid working visa (H1B/Green Card)

Benefits:

• Top of the market compensation package + performance-based bonuses
• Fantastic work-life balance
• Benefits include: premium health, casual dress, fully stocked pantries, company socials, relaxation room and generous learning allowance
• Plenty of scope to grow and have an impact on the business

Headquartered in Chicago, this global prop trading firm employs the smartest minds to bring a scientific approach to trading strategies. They regard technology as critical to their success, and they’re looking for a Data Engineer to join their ambitious hardworking team to help them continue to thrive.

Working closely with quant researchers and core technologists, you can expect a wide variety of work, from building and maintaining the central research platform, to developing and optimizing existing tools, through ongoing testing and enhancing the research pipeline.

This role would suit someone who enjoys making a real impact, is passionate about delivering value and thrives in an experienced, collaborative team where opportunities to learn from each other are regularly shared.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of commercial experience
• Bachelors/Masters/PhD in Computer Science and Statistics/Math (e.g. Data Science, Physics, etc.)
• Expert coding skills in Python and knowledge of DASK
• Self-starter who can work independently and be able to drive a project from inception through delivery
• Track record of developing models in a low-latency trading environment

Requirements:

• 2+ years of commercial experience
• Bachelors/Masters/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics or similar field
• Strong coding experience in C++ and Python
• Self-starter who can work independently and be able to drive a project from inception through delivery
• Excellent software architecture skills including strategy optimization and profiling
• Candidates must be based in the USA and have a valid working visa (H1B/Green Card)

Benefits:

• Top of the market compensation package + performance-based bonuses
• Fantastic work-life balance
• Benefits include: premium health, casual dress, fully stocked pantries, company socials, relaxation room and generous learning allowance
• Plenty of scope to grow and have an impact on the business

Headquartered in Chicago, this global prop trading firm employs the smartest minds to bring a scientific approach to trading strategies. They regard technology as critical to their success, and they’re looking for a Quantitative Developer to join their ambitious hardworking team to help them continue to thrive.

Working closely with traders, developers and your team, you will create and optimize the current research pipeline, while also identifying potential areas for performance enhancement. In addition, you will build and implement components and new infrastructure for maintaining fresh trading strategies.

This role would suit someone who enjoys making a real impact, is passionate about delivering value and thrives in an experienced, collaborative team where opportunities to learn from each other are regularly shared.

Requirements:

• 2+ years of commercial experience
• Bachelors/Masters/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics or similar field
• Strong coding experience in C++ and Python
• Self-starter who can work independently and be able to drive a project from inception through delivery
• Excellent software architecture skills including strategy optimization and profiling
• Candidates must be based in the USA and have a valid working visa (H1B/Green Card)

Benefits:

• Top of the market compensation package + performance-based bonuses
• Fantastic work-life balance
• Benefits include: premium health, casual dress, fully stocked pantries, company socials, relaxation room and generous learning allowance
• Plenty of scope to grow and have an impact on the business

My client is a leading tech-driven prop trading firm, trading their own capital across a broad range of asset classes, instruments and strategies in markets worldwide. They are looking for exceptional verification engineers to join a highly talented team where you’ll design and build a cutting-edge, low-latency trading application.

Within this smart group of polyglots and technologists, developers here have large amounts of autonomy and are always looking for the very best tool to solve each individual problem. 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.

You will collaborate with other engineers, traders, and researchers to expand the platform’s capabilities across all aspects of individual block-level and full project level verification. This will include framework/environment development, test plan development and execution, code/functional coverage closure and reviews.

Requirements:

• 2+ years’ experience relevant experience in ASIC/FPGA Verification
• Strong coding skills in SystemVerilog and Python
• Deep Python knowledge, especially for high level stimulus generation and model coverage
• Previous exposure to functional coverage and code coverage
• Desirable: C/C++, DPI interface to simulators, or hardware integration testing experience
• Candidates must be based in the USA and have a valid working visa (H1B/Green Card)

Benefits:

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

Remote interviews are available if required.

My client is a leading tech-driven prop trading firm, trading their own capital across a broad range of asset classes, instruments and strategies in markets worldwide. They are looking for exceptional software engineers to join a brand-new team where you’ll design and build robust, scalable tools and infrastructure to enable Traders and Quant Researchers to do their best work.

Joining a talented group of polyglots and technologists, developers here have large amounts of autonomy and are always looking for the very best tool to solve each individual problem. 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.

You will collaborate with other engineers, traders and researchers to design custom frameworks or end-user solutions, evaluate new technologies to be utilized where appropriate, and write performance-sensitive code and user-friendly APIs.

Requirements:

• 3+ years’ experience in building demanding, live Python systems
• Deep and current Python knowledge, especially of modern standards (3.6 onwards) and third-party libraries
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science (or other Engineering field)
• Solid understanding of data structures
• Desirable: Anaconda, pandas, numpy, scipy, TensorFlow or trading industry experience
• Candidates must be based in the USA and have a valid working visa (H1B/Green Card)

Benefits:

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

Remote interviews are available if required.

Summary: 

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

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

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

Requirements:

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

Culture / Benefits:

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

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements:

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

Culture / Benefits:

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

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Rewards and Incentives

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

The Client:

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

The Role:

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Summary

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

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

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

Qualifications

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

Benefits

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

My client is a leading tech-driven prop trading firm, trading their own capital across a broad range of asset classes, instruments and strategies in markets worldwide. This is a great opportunity for a Senior Data Engineer with innovative ideas to play an integral role managing datasets used to determine trading opportunities and strategies.

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

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Remote interviews are available if required.

Summary

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

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

Role

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Job Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Job Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

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

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

The Company

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Job Summary

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

The Company

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Job Summary

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

The Company

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary:

A 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