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Salary: £70,000-100,000

Summary:

Fantastic chance for an experienced Python developer to work at an exciting fintech startup that uses their working capital optimisation SaaS platform to provide actionable analysis and liquidity solutions.

You’ll join a dedicated team of engineers who love developing reliable, scalable and highly available apps and services. To cover the varied workload, they’re looking for ambitious engineers with experience across a range of technologies who work best when given project autonomy and are passionate about sharing their knowledge with others.

In this role, you’ll gain exposure to all areas of the business, working in close harmony with data scientists and product owners, as well as your fellow engineers. You’ll work across the full development lifecycle using best practices – CI/CD, static code analysis, code reviews – on a variety of projects from building complex data pipelines to developing end-to-end trading and risk systems.

Requirements: 

• Very strong coding skills, able to write high quality, maintainable code
• Solid experience using Python, FastAPI or similar frameworks, Pydantic  
• Experience with any of the following would be ideal: AWS, Terraform, AWS Serverless Fargate/EKS/Kubernetes, Docker, Lambda, Jenkins
• Enthusiastic to learn about the business with a startup mindset

Benefits:

• Competitive salary working in the heart of London
• Work with super smart people on exciting and complex projects 
• Fabulous time to join a successful startup at the next stage of their growth

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

Working within Applied Data Science, your work will involve a mixture of product development and research, as well as working with clients to tailor the product to their needs. You’ll be working with their incredibly smart team who love to solve tough problems. Their clients are a mixture of financial, tech and logistics companies, each offering their own interesting use cases to work on.

Requirements

• Strong academic record – PhD/Masters in ML, Maths, Stats, etc. from a leading university
• Creative mind and ability to come up with new ideas to solve complex problems
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Desirable:

• Experience publishing in journals is highly sought-after

Benefits

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

Location: Chicago, with some WFH flexibility

Position: This is a great opportunity for a systems engineer to join one of the longest-standing and most profitable algo trading desks at this firm. This is a collaborative team where engineers are embedded with the researchers and traders.

This hire will be surrounded by cutting-edge technology and will responsible all aspects of the desks’ trading infrastructure. The team is looking for a problem-solver who can find new ways to gain edge through systems engineering, tuning and networking.

Requirements:

• Trading industry experience
• 5-7 years’ Linux
• Knowledge of network communications (TCP-IP, Multicast)
• Performance tuning
• Scripting in Bash, Python or Ruby

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 sectors. You’ll deliver these solutions focusing 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 at their offices in the centre of London, and may also involve visits to 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

Salary: £90,000 – £130,000 base + bonus

Summary

This is a great chance to join one of the world’s most renowned financial firms as a Java Developer on their Credit eTrading Development team. If you love facing off to the business, being embedded with the traders and quants, this role would be perfect for you.

This team works closely with the algo business, designing and building software for price contribution and trade execution on the electronic trading platform used globally. You will be liaising with the traders, quants and core technology teams, rapidly translating requirements into robust technical design and implementation, with huge amounts of autonomy. Sprints are typically in 2-week cycles, but releases can occur several times a week.

Along with strong technical abilities, mentoring and reviewing the code of junior colleagues, you need to be able to hold your own in a fast-paced trader environment.

Skills and Experience Required

• Solid programming skills in multiple languages, especially Java
• Proven track record designing and delivering high-quality, performant software
• Broad range of technical experience, e.g. event-driven & concurrent programming
• Outstanding communication and the ability to build good relationships with traders and stakeholders

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: £200-400k total compensation

Company:

The role sits within the London office of one of the world’s largest quantitative trading firms with a unique focus on technology and collaborative problem solving, trading a wide range of financial products.

Join a company in which technology is central to how they approach their work and thus engineers are intimately tied into every area of the business – allowing your work to have a real impact! This is complemented by their relaxed non-hierarchical work environment which has been described as having a great ambience.

Role:

There is no use of mainstream technologies with OCaml being the primary programming language. But don’t worry about previous experience, there is great emphasis on teaching. The ideal candidate for them will be passionate about technology and hold outstanding records!

Requirements:

• A bachelor’s/master’s degree in Computer Science or another highly technical, scientific discipline.
• Proven track record in technology, all-encompassing any OO to ML, demonstrating your excellent programming skills.
• Great interpersonal skills that would flourish in an intimate collaborative environment.

Benefits:

• Competitive base salary.
• Holiday policies.
• Retirement benefits.
• Health insurance.
• Private on-site gym.

Tier-2 visa sponsorship is available.

Salary: £80 – 250k total comp

Summary:

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a tech-driven investment manager with a quant focus, based in the heart of Oxford. They’re passionate about writing clean code, innovative thinking and keeping up with the latest technology developments.

They are looking for super talented QRs to join their top-notch research team who build quant models the find alpha in financial markets, covering everything from initial idea-generation through to implementation and execution. Work within this open, friendly team is varied and will involve large and complex data sets, using programming languages and the in-house development library infrastructure.

The successful Quant Researcher will relish a challenge and thrives in a collaborative working environment. A background in finance is not necessary. If you’re ambitious, and want to grow your career at a relaxed company where there’s plenty of opportunity for professional development, this is the role for you.

Requirements:

• 0 – 5 years’ relevant experience
• Degree in a hard science subject, e.g. Maths, Engineering or Physics (or equivalent experience)
• Strong Python skills

Experience of any of the following is beneficial:

• Optimisation; Numerical and time series analysis; Signal processing statistics
• Volatility / GARCH modelling and/or Machine Learning

Perks:

• Generous benefits package, including private healthcare, cycle-to-work and enhanced family leave
• Friendly, smart people in a truly collaborative working environment
• Work-from-home 2 days per week
• Fabulous modern office with dedicated training facilities

Salary: £80 – 250k total comp

Summary:

This is a fabulous opportunity to join a tech-driven investment manager with a quant focus based in the heart of Oxford. They’re passionate about writing clean code, innovative thinking and keeping up with the latest technology developments.

They are looking for exceptional software engineers to join a talented team responsible for all aspects of developing and maintaining system-critical software. Work within this open, friendly team involves using C++ and Python on Linux on a wide range of projects, including automated trading strategies, order management systems, integrating third-party data into our systems and the development of data analysis tools.

The successful engineer will be enthusiastic about writing high-standard, modern and well-tested code. A background in finance is not necessary. If you’re ambitious, and want to grow your career at a relaxed company where there’s plenty of opportunity for professional development, this role is perfect for you.

Requirements:

• 0 – 5 years’ relevant experience
• Strong coding skills in C++11/17/20 and Python
• Excellent knowledge of Linux
• Degree in a hard science subject, e.g. Computer Science, Engineering or Physics (or equivalent experience)
• Outstanding communication skills & problem-solving capabilities

Experience of any of the following is beneficial:

• Pandas, Numpy, ML, SQL, GIT, Javascript
• Financial markets

Perks:

• Generous benefits package, including private healthcare, cycle-to-work and enhanced family leave
• Friendly, smart people in a truly collaborative working environment
• Work-from-home 2 days per week
• Fabulous modern office with dedicated training facilities

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.

Job Summary

Fantastic opportunity to join a growing team of talented engineers at of one of the largest global information & market data providers. This team is building a world-class real-time FX trading platform used by the industry’s biggest players in over 120 countries.

You will take ownership of the full development lifecycle, contributing to the expansion of the platform by developing distributed, fault-tolerant, low-latency trading applications. This is a client-facing, impactful role where you will also implement workflows for the front end and low-latency scalable solutions for the back end.

The successful Senior Software Engineer will be passionate about tackling a range of problems – from engineering to business logic to usability – and driven by seeing the impact of your solutions.

Requirements

• Exceptional C++ programming experience
• Top-notch problem-solving skills
• Solid experience of the entire software development lifecycle
• Eager to get inside complex systems to fully understand them
• An expert communicator, comfortable in a fast-changing environment
• Bonus points for experience with: high-volume, high-availability distributed systems, databases, distributed cache technologies

Perks

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

Job Summary

Fantastic opportunity to join a growing team of talented engineers at of one of the largest global information & market data providers. This is a rapidly growing business area where the products developed underpin many billions of dollars of trades.

In this role, you will draw on both your technical skills and business knowledge to build well-tested, cleanly coded and robust indices. Collaborating with product and operations teams, you will also help to expand the calculation framework as a direct response to clients’ growing needs.

The successful Senior Software Engineer will be a passionate agile practitioner with a self-starter’s attitude, keen to use your wealth of experience to refine and improve the delivery of quality indices.

Requirements

• Strong programming experience in C# or other equivalent OO language
• Solid analytical problem-solving skills
• Deep understanding of object-oriented design, data structures and algorithms
• Experience of the entire software development lifecycle
• An expert communicator, comfortable in a fast-changing environment
• Bonus points for knowledge of SQL or previous financial markets experience

Perks

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

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: Open

Summary:

A world-class prop trading firm is looking for an Elixir developer as part of an expanding, distributed team.

The successful candidate will work in a hands-on development role, writing code in Elixir, in a data-intensive environment. The candidate will contribute to the development of a new risk platform for the firm, whilst learning / furthering knowledge of trading.

Requirements:

• Strong functional; programming skill-set – development is done in Elixir but candidates with Haskell/Scala/F#/Clojure and similar professional expertise will be considered
• 3+ years’ professional coding expertise – financial experience not required
• Bachelors/Masters in highly analytical or technical field: CS, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, etc.
• Experience working with highly distributed systems
• Excellent communication skills

Benefits and Incentives:

• Chance to work in a fast-paced, performance-driven environment
• Greenfield work with an opportunity to make firm-wide impact
• Opportunity to apply functional/Elixir development skills to the trading industry
• Work alongside the best talent in the industry
• Extremely competitive compensation packages

Salary: Open

Summary:

A world-class prop trading firm is looking for a Senior Software Engineer for their crypto trading business.

The successful candidate will work in a hands-on development role, writing code in Java and/or C++, as part of an industry-leading crypto desk, trading 24/7 across markets globally. You will be able to work autonomously across a range of front office systems.

Requirements:

• Strong OO programming skill-set – systems primarily built in Java and C++ but happy to speak to multiple backgrounds
• 5+ years’ professional coding expertise – financial experience not required
• Bachelors/Masters in highly analytical or technical field: CS, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, etc.
• Self-starter attitude
• Excellent communication skills

Benefits and Incentives:

• Very autonomous work pattern, with ability to impact various areas of front office trading
• Opportunity to work in one of the trading industry’s fastest-growing market areas
• Fully remote working an option (but not mandatory)
• Potential for substantial business impact and upside
• Work alongside the best talent in the industry

Salary: up to $150k base + bonus + investment in fund

Summary: 

Unique opportunity to join a rapidly growing crypto trading firm in a fully remote role. Hugely tech-driven, they have been developing HFT algorithms for more than 10 years. They are looking to hire an experienced developer who eats, sleeps and breathes Python.

The Role: 

You will be responsible for improving the system architecture, optimizing different parts of the project, developing new features and ensuring Python best practice is used throughout the team. Drawing on your very deep knowledge of Python, you will also develop low-latency trading systems and integrations to various crypto exchanges and develop scalable profiling and debugging solutions.

The successful candidate will be a true Python evangelist, who can point out the architectural flaws soon after joining and will constantly have an eye on improving the systems. You will have experience of building complex systems with Python, and a deep understanding of GIL/asyncio.

Skills and Experience Required: 

• 8+ years’ hands-on programming skills in Python (following the latest versions), with good grasp of advanced concepts including generators, async/await, GIL and multiprocessing
• Deep understanding of design patterns, data structures, and algorithms
• Prior experience working with mission-critical, high-performance applications
• Knowledge and extensive experience with network protocols: REST, Websockets, FIX
• Experience with profiling, debugging and testing Python applications
• Good communications skills in English (both written and spoken)

Benefits:

• Competitive salaries + bonuses, with the opportunity to reinvest into the lucrative employee-owned fund
• Flexible hours and a healthy work-life balance
• Work with some of the smartest people in one of the fastest-growing industries in the world
• Fully remote, with paid ‘workations’ 3-4 times a year to cool places all over the world to meet your colleagues!

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

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

Benefits & Incentives

• Huge prestige working for this team
• Great career progression
• Fantastic salary
• 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: £400,000 total comp

The Company:

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

Role:

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Salary: £200,000 total comp

Company

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

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

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

Role

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary: £75,000 – £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)

Desirable

• Experience with any of the following: 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: £200-250,000 total compensation

Experience: 5+ years

Job Description:

Client

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

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

Role

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

Skills and Experience Required

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

Benefits

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

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

4+ years’ experience

Job description:

Client

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

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

Role

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

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

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

Skills and Experience Required

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

Desirable

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

Benefits & Incentives

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

Salary: £100-145k base + £30-60k bonus

Job description

One of the world’s most renowned financial institutions is looking for a Senior Software Developer with experience in Python. You will join a talented, creative team of exceptional developers designing and implementing innovative technology via solid engineering practices.

As a senior leader in software engineering, you will draw on your deep knowledge of design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming to solve complex and mission-critical problems. Your passion and experience in multiple tech domains will raise the team’s game to even higher levels, allowing business and functional requirements to be met and exceeded.

The successful Senior Python Developer is passionate about software design and writing high quality code. An early adopter of leading-edge technologies, you will set the example which encourages others to follow suit.

Skills and Experience Required

• Professional Python and OO experience, with proven track record of high quality successful delivery
• BS/BA degree in a quant field, e.g. computer science, maths, engineering, physics
• Strong skills in software and algorithm design and development
• An excellent communicator with both technology and business users alike

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Knowledge of industry-wide tech trends and best practices, plus a keen desire to share these with others
• Finance experience is highly desirable

Benefits

• Significant salaries + bonuses + benefits
• High degree of ownership and impactful work
• Excellent career growth and professional development is encouraged
• Work alongside some of the brightest technologists, analysts, and quants in London

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 in 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: £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 really make your mark.

Role:

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

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

Benefits:

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

Requirements:

• Exceptional C++ skills
• Highly desirable: previous low-latency or HFT experience

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: £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: c. £140k 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 in any OO
• Strong CompSci fundamentals
• Exceptional academic record, with an MSc in Computer Science preferred

Desirable Skills and Experience

• In-depth knowledge of C# and .NET is highly advantageous
• Any of the following: Python, C++, Matlab, R, SQL Server or PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ or Kafka, Memcache or Redis
• Finance experience is desired but not strictly required

Benefits

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

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Skilled in automating systems configuration and orchestration using tools, e.g. Chef, Ansible or Salt
• Experience designing & implementing CI/CD tools with infrastructure-as-code pipelines (CloudFormation or Terraform)
• Sound knowledge of systems engineering – Linux, security and networking

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, headquartered in Amsterdam.

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: €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, headquartered in Amsterdam.

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: 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).

Client:

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

Role:

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

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

Skills and Experience Required:

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

Benefits and Incentives:

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

Salary: £100,000 – 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. 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
• 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

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Python or Java experience is highly advantageous
• Bonus points for experience with cross-asset pricing and risk systems

Benefits & Incentives

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

Salary: £250,000 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 computer 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: £90,000 – £130,000 base + 50-75% bonus

Summary

Using Rust and Python, you’ll be building out a brand-new core risk platform for this hedge fund. Boasting profits of roughly £2million per head last year, their growth in the past five years has been staggering as they disrupt a previously established industry.

Quite mathsy in nature, this role will cover everything from analytics, to yield curve simulation, to building the core risk platform.

Skills and Experience Required

• Excellent academic background in Computer Science, Mathematics or similar discipline
• Fantastic computer science fundamentals and problem-solving skills
• Strong Python or Rust programming skills
• Ability to speak with the business, gather requirements and work in a fast-paced environment

Benefits

• Significant salaries + bonuses + benefits
• High degree of ownership and impactful work
• Building greenfield platforms using interesting technologies
• Flexible working and working from home opportunities

Salary: £150,000 – £400,000 base + 100%+ bonus

Summary

Arguably the biggest advocates of OCaml in the world, this hedge fund builds all of their systems in the statically typed functional language. They also give back to the OCaml open-source world with contributions such as an alternative for the OCaml standard library, and a library for concurrent programming.

Skills and Experience Required

• Exceptional coding skills in any language – OCaml can be learnt ‘on the job’
• Top-notch academics in Computer Science or related discipline
• Excellent computer science fundamentals and problem-solving skills
• Financial knowledge is not required

Benefits

• Market-leading salaries
• Work alongside some of the world’s smartest colleagues
• Tech-first environment

Salary: £100,000 – £150,000 base + 50-100% bonus

Summary

Despite being one of the world’s foremost hedge funds, this team is almost entirely composed of developers from FAANG-style companies or Research. Boasting one of the strongest teams of functional developers in the industry, you will predominantly use Elixir with elements of other functional languages, such as Erlang and Haskell.

A hands-on role, you will build risk systems for multiple lines of business, and have access to huge amounts of data.

Skills and Experience Required

• Deep experience with functional programming (ideally Elixir, Erlang or Haskell)
• Excellent computer science fundamentals and problem-solving skills

Benefits

• Significant salaries + bonuses + benefits
• High degree of ownership and impactful work
• Flexible working and working from home opportunities

Salary: £60,000 – £120,000 base + substantial profit share

Experience: Hiring at graduate through to senior level (0-10+ years’ experience)

Summary

You will be using Rust and C++ to create low-latency, high-availability, high-throughput cryptocurrency derivative exchange technology, in order to run the world’s first performant cryptocurrency derivative exchange.

They’re not technically doing the trading or market-making themselves; they’re building the exchange: the platform on which people can trade.

Skills and Experience Required

• Excellent academics in Computer Science, Mathematics (or similar discipline)
• Excellent computer science fundamentals and problem-solving skills – showcase
• Many of the team have Olympiad / competitive programming success
• Specific Rust experience is NOT required

Benefits

• High degree of ownership and impactful work
• Building greenfield platforms using interesting technologies
• Flexible working and working-from-home opportunities
• Large amounts of stock and profit share on offer

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

Summary

Creating the infrastructure for a new, open financial system in which anyone can participate. Their customers include some of the world’s largest global financial firms who rely on them to bring digital assets to their customers.

Their Crypto Brokerage team enables hundreds of millions of consumers to leverage crypto for investing and other financial services. You will be building a platform that both customers and regulators can trust.

Skills and Experience Required

• Experience in multiple programming languages – at least one of Kotlin, Golang, Rust, Java, Scala, C++, Typescript, Python
• Strong core computer science fundamentals (algorithms and data structures)
• Able to apply both OO and functional style to coding

Benefits

• Real and measurable impact growing the company
• Thoughtful benefits – family leave, healthcare coverage for whole family, PTO, etc
• Tech-first environment

Salary: up to £135k base + bonus

Summary:

This is a great chance to join one of the world’s most renowned financial firms as a Senior Data Scientist on a brand-new team. You will lead a highly creative team of innovators and engineers, who use data science, AI, ML, optimization algorithms and automation to solve some of the biggest and most complex problems faced by the business. The team essentially operates like an internal software house, with small but high-performing teams, that impact 2000+ developers and the entire organisation.

The Role: 

Collaborating with front office, quants and other technology teams, this is a hands-on position where you will draw on your significant experience and knowledge of Applied Data Science, AI/ML and Operations Research. You and your team will take complex datasets and business challenges, turn them into technical problems, and find scalable solutions while choosing the most appropriate tools and methodologies.

You will be working on several exciting greenfield and ongoing projects all of which offer the opportunity to use your expertise in creative problem-solving. Projects will cover everything from applying data science/analytics and AI to software engineering problems (such as coding quality and improving coding), to high-performance compute optimization, to intelligent resource allocation and automated inefficiency/anomaly detection.

The successful Senior Data Scientist will have deep-level expertise in robust design, development, coding and testing of high standard and scalable software.

Skills and Experience Required: 

• Substantial hands-on programming skills in Python (or similar language)
• Proven track record dealing with large-scale analytical, data-driven decision and optimization problems
• Experience in data science, analytics and AI/ML
• Finance experience is NOT required

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Knowledge of AWS technologies and/or big data technologies

Benefits:

• Significant salaries + bonuses + benefits
• High degree of ownership and impactful work
• Excellent career growth and professional development is encouraged
• Cutting-edge AI and being at the forefront of the industry

Salary: £70 – 100k base + bonus

Summary

This is a unique opportunity at an employee-first hedge fund, currently with 35 people, looking to rapidly grow their technology team in the near future whilst maintaining a good culture and healthy work-life balance to keep their brilliant retention levels.

You will be tasked with working directly with quant and data analysts to develop software and tools to support research and development projects. You will also work with more experienced developers to improve your knowledge and work towards good software architecture and development practices.

For this role, experience in finance is not required, but an ability to understand statistical analysis and modelling is useful. The ability to demonstrate a strong knowledge of object-oriented programming, data structures and algorithms, and optimisation of software is expected.

Predominantly a C# Windows house, the firm is also starting to use more Python and associated libraries for the Quant and data science platforms.

They are very flexible in terms of working from home, offering the potential for you to be 100% remote from anywhere in the UK.

Skills and Experience Required

• 5+ years of software development experience, with good knowledge of recent C# (6.0>)
• Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent) or demonstrated good software development practice with strong computer science knowledge
• Proficiency in implementing multithreaded, robust and fast real-time systems
• Finance experience is NOT required

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Knowledge of any of the following: RabbitMQ, Redis, Python, ReSharper, ComponentOne, FIX

Benefits & Incentives

• Strong salary + bonuses
• You can be remote 0-5 days a week
• Friendly working environment with multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
• Relaxed culture in a brand new Knightsbridge office – not stuffy like other hedge funds

Salary: £70 – 100k base + bonus

Summary

This is a unique opportunity at an employee-first hedge fund, currently with 35 people, looking to rapidly grow their technology team in the near future whilst maintaining a good culture and healthy work-life balance to keep their brilliant retention levels. They’re looking for a hands-on Python Developer who can develop core Python libraries used across the firm.

You will be tasked with working directly with quant and data analysts to develop software and tools to support research and development projects. You will also work with more experienced developers to improve your knowledge and work towards good software architecture and development practices.

For this role, experience in finance is not required, but an ability to understand statistical analysis and modelling is useful. The ability to demonstrate a strong knowledge of object-oriented programming, data structures and algorithms, and optimisation of software is expected.

Originally a C# Windows house, the firm is starting to use more and more Python and associated libraries for their Quant and data science platforms.

The firm is very flexible in terms of working from home, offering the potential for you to be 100% remote from anywhere in the UK.

Skills and Experience Required

• 5+ years of software development experience, with good knowledge of Python (3.5>)
• Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent) or demonstrated good software development practice with strong computer science knowledge
• Proficiency in implementing multithreaded, robust and fast real-time systems
• Proficiency in building internal libraries
• Finance experience is NOT required

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Knowledge of any of the following: RabbitMQ, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, Microsoft SQL Server (2017 >)

Benefits & Incentives

• Strong salary + bonuses
• You can be remote 0-5 days a week
• Friendly working environment with multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
• Relaxed culture in a brand new Knightsbridge office – not stuffy like other hedge funds

Salary: ~£800 / day for 12+ months

8+ years’ experience

Job description:

Client

Fantastic opportunity for a strong Java Developer to join the core Fixed Income and Commodities Technology group at one of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds. This team forms the backbone of their cross-asset Risk and PnL system for all Fixed Income, Commodities, Credit and FX products.  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 collaborative tech culture.

Role

You will be building and integrating the next-generation analytics library in Java. 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

• 8+ years’ development experience in Java
• Minimum bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related) from a top-tier university
• Sound experience of multithreading, client-server and distributed computing

Desirable

• FI pricing and Risk analytics in front-office trading, Rates/Credit/FX
• Experience with: cross-asset pricing and risk systems and/or OTC, Swaps, Bonds, yield curves
• Familiar with Docker/Kubernetes, NoSQL (MongoDB), CI/CD, Linux

Benefits & Incentives

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

Salary: up to £150k base + bonus (roughly £220k TC)

Summary:

One of the world’s most renowned financial institutions is seeking strong C++ engineers to join a growing core tech team, based in London. You will work closely with traders in a dynamic and busy trading-floor environment, contributing significantly to the front office team and the design of low-latency strategies.

The role: 

You will be working on several exciting projects for the EMM Technology team, covering all aspects of the software development lifecycle. Collaborating closely with the traders to understand their needs, you will design, develop, maintain and support the cutting-edge low-latency trading platform and provide a meaningful contribution in terms of pre- and post-trade analysis.

Projects in the pipeline are broad, and include things like:

Salary: £80 – 110k base + bonus

Summary

This is a unique opportunity at an employee-first hedge fund, currently with 35 people, looking to rapidly grow their technology team in the near future whilst maintaining a good culture and healthy work-life balance to keep their brilliant retention levels. They’re looking for a Quant Developer with credit experience who can build robust and scalable systems, in both the real-time and batch processing spaces.

Collaborating regularly with Portfolio Managers, Traders and Quants, you will be tasked with working on a real-time PnL and risk management system written in C#, which provides traders with ticking valuation of their portfolios, provides quants with calculated metrics, and provides the risk manager with scenario analysis.

The tech stack is predominantly C#, with Python being used by the Quant teams.

The successful Quant Developer will have experience calculating market value for credit indices (CDX, iTraxx etc) and building associated credit curves. Experience in curve construction and pricing models for fixed-income instruments in a middle-office setting (performing real-time valuation of a portfolio) is a big plus.

Skills and Experience Required

• 5+ years of software development experience, with the ability to program in C#
• Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent) or demonstrated good software development practice with strong computer science knowledge
• Good understanding of rates, curve construction

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Experience in one or more of: RabbitMQ, Redis, Python, ReSharper, ComponentOne, FIX

Benefits & Incentives

• Strong salary + bonuses
• Flexible working opportunities
• Friendly working environment with multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
• Relaxed culture in a brand new Knightsbridge office – not stuffy like other hedge funds

Salary: £250-350k total comp

Summary:

One of the world’s most renowned financial institutions is looking for an experienced developer with substantial KDB+/Q expertise to lead a team of 10-12 KDB developers and market data experts in London. Joining the Data & Analytics team, they need a strong leader to own and expand the strategic market-wide Tick data store.

The Role:

This is a pivotal role where you will be a hands-on developer, while also guiding your team members, completing code/design reviews, etc. As a result, your workload will be varied, covering everything from technical design documentation and code, to the full project life cycle, through to various aspects of project development.

Collaborating regularly with business stakeholders, local product/desk colleagues and QR and tech teams, you will co-ordinate with the global KDB team to ensure consistent functional and technical design.

The successful KDB Data Lead will be an exceptional communicator, adept at liaising with stakeholders both technical and non-technical, and skilled at simultaneously driving multiple projects through to completion.

Required Skills and Experience:

Benefits:

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 successful 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
• Knowledge of relational databases and maintaining SQL
• Experience in software testing

Desirable:

• Experience working on risk engines, PnL attrition/PnL explain or time-series analysis is a big plus
• 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: €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

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

 Benefits

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

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Desirable

• Familiar with exchange protocols
• Background in statistical analysis

Benefits

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

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Desirable

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

Benefits

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

Overview:

Lively, positive spirit of a start-up, with the stability of a longer-established player, this leading quant firm has a fantastic opportunity on one of their growing quant trading teams for a quantitative developer with Python expertise.

You will join a core team of technologists responsible for building and improving the platforms that drive the trading team. Working on a huge greenfield project, you’ll collaborate extensively with researchers on data to develop new research infrastructure. You will also look at ways to improve the scalability of core production systems.

Technology is viewed as a crucial component of their continued success. The successful quant developer will be passionate about development, highly driven and a skilled technical problem-solver.

Requirements:

• Solid experience working with Python on large distributed systems
• Strong Linux platform skills
• Proven track record with large data sets
• Comfortable with large amounts of autonomy and responsibilities
• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science or Computer Engineering (or equivalent)

Rewards and Incentives:

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

Overview:

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

They are seeking talented modern C++ software developers to join their London team. You will sit on the trading floor, producing low-latency exchange connectivity components for new markets and help improve trading strategies. You will also collaborate closely with traders and developers in other teams (e.g. FPGA) to ensure software is supported and runs smoothly.

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

Requirements:

• Exceptional C++ developer (with experience of C++11/14/17)
• Strong knowledge of multiple exchanges & performance analysis
• Solid experience in ultra-low-latency design and template programming
• Excellent communication skills and an analytical problem-solver

Desirable:

• Knowledge of financial markets & securities (particularly futures and options)
• Experience in other programming languages: Python, JavaScript
• Familiarity with NoSQL and time-series databases

Rewards and Incentives:

• Excellent bonus potential and compensation
• Work with the best and very latest technologies on complex problems
• No dress code, catered offices and regular social events
• Exciting work environment, feel of a small, agile company with the security of a bigger firm

Overview:

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

In this role, you will be responsible for building and optimising the greenfield systematic trading infrastructure, improving the trading tools and extending trading strategies. Your work will also involve building a cutting edge data analytics platform.

Current code base is in C++ 20 with a modern stack throughout, making extensive use of template and meta programming, Python, FPGA and Julia.

The successful C++ Algo Developer will have exceptional attention to detail and quality, and be enthusiastic to learn new technologies and skills quickly.

Requirements:

• Excellent skills in modern C++
• Solid experience writing, deploying and maintaining C++ in a production environment, plus review, testing, check-in, and release processes experience
• Fluency in programming fundamentals and mathematical techniques
• Experience with automated testing, ideally Boost.Test and/or GTest frameworks

Desirable:

• Some development skills in Python would be ideal

Rewards and Incentives:

• Excellent bonus potential and compensation
• Work with the best and very latest technologies on complex problems
• No dress code, catered offices and regular social events
• Exciting work environment, feel of a small, agile company with the security of a bigger firm

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

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

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

About You

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

About Us

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

Compensation: Very competitive packages

Summary:  

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

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

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

Requirements: 

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

Desirable: 

• Experience with: C#, Typescript/React

Culture / Benefits:

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

Salary: up to £125k base + bonus

Summary 

Not your standard algo trading company, 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.

They are looking for a pragmatic front-end developer to join a small, motivated team responsible for developing and improving web-based GUI tools, a mixture of external and internal webapps. While they are framework-agnostic in terms of web tools development – many simpler GUIs are written in vanilla Javascript/Typescript – they’re keen to hear from candidates familiar with one or more common web frameworks to increase the team’s knowledge.

In this role, you will collaborate closely with your team lead to improve internal tooling libraries and add framework features. You will also help other teams and end-users across the business using the libraries to manage their own GUIs, while listening to feedback that you could use to make improvements.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of plain Javascript to handle & display real-time events
• Sound understanding of at least one common JS framework, e.g. React, Angular, and have used it on a project in production
• Previous experience in a multi-disciplinary team, including liaising with back-end or full-stack developers on the design of an API
• Familiarity with some JS testing
• Financial experience is not required

Desirable

• Practical experience developing internal tools and receiving user feedback on them
• Experience of Canvas API, D3 or similar

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
• Generous benefits package, including health cover, pension and office facilities such as a gym, fully stocked kitchens and games room

Salary: £60-120k compensation

This is a fantastic opportunity at a hugely successful fintech for backend engineers with expertise in Python/Django and AWS.

Providing businesses with the ability to hire talent anywhere in the world, their tech-enabled payroll solution helps teams hire, manage and pay their global employees hassle-free.

You will join a talented multi-functional remote team responsible for optimizing tools and automating workflows. With huge amounts of project ownership, by the end of your second month in the role you will have been responsible for at least one large, impactful feature, taking it from research to specification through to delivery.

This successful candidate will have a passion for writing simple, easy-to-understand yet efficient code and be an excellent communicator – able to talk to technical and non-technical people alike.

There’s never been a better time to join this rapidly expanding tech unicorn!

Requirements

• 2-5 years’ experience with a Python server framework (Flask/Django)
• Solid experience developing APIs and working with Docker
• Strong working knowledge of database technologies, in particular PostgreSQL, MySQL and ORM libraries such as Sequelize or Django’s ORM

Desirable

• Experience in any of the following: a 24/7 SaaS product; serverless application architecture on AWS; distributed teams and work environments.

Rewards and Incentives 

• Great base salaries and stock grant opportunities
• Truly flexible working anywhere in the world – you choose where you work
• Option to be paid in digital currency or currency of your choice
• Generous benefits package, including parental leave, individual monthly health & wellness budget, unlimited time off

Salary: £60-120k compensation

This is a fantastic opportunity at a hugely successful fintech for backend engineers with expertise in AWS and Node.js.

Providing businesses with the ability to hire talent anywhere in the world, their tech-enabled payroll solution helps teams hire, manage and pay their global employees hassle-free.

In this role, you will join a talented multi-functional remote team responsible for product discovery, product delivery cycles and building new features. With huge amounts of ownership, you will have a significant impact on the products and work collaboratively to design and develop new products, APIs and improvements, with one eye always on delivering an exceptional customer experience.

This successful candidate will have a deep understanding of designing, writing, running and maintaining applications across the whole stack and be an excellent communicator – able to talk to technical and non-technical people alike.

There’s never been a better time to join this rapidly expanding tech unicorn!

Requirements

• 5+ years in a backend or full-stack role, with experience in AWS services (API gateway, S3, lambda, etc.) and Javascript syntax
• Solid experience with Node.js and at least one other server-side language – e.g. Python, Ruby, PHP
• Strong working knowledge of database technologies, in particular PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB and ORM libraries such as Sequelize

Desirable

• Experience in any of the following: a 24/7 SaaS product; serverless application architecture on AWS; distributed teams and work environments.

Rewards and Incentives 

• Great base salaries and stock grant opportunities
• Truly flexible working anywhere in the world – you choose where you work
• Option to be paid in digital currency or currency of your choice
• Generous benefits package, including parental leave, individual monthly health & wellness budget, unlimited time off

Salary: £60-120k compensation

This is a fantastic opportunity at a hugely successful fintech for frontend engineers with expertise in React and other Javascript frontend libraries.

Providing businesses with the ability to search for talent anywhere in the world, their tech-enabled payroll solution helps teams hire, manage and pay their global employees hassle-free.

In this role, you will join a talented multi-functional remote team responsible for product discovery, product delivery cycles and building new features. With huge amounts of ownership, you will have a significant impact on the products and work collaboratively to design and develop new products, APIs and improvements, with one eye always on delivering an exceptional customer experience.

This successful candidate will have a deep understanding of designing, writing, running and maintaining applications across the whole stack and be an excellent communicator – able to talk to technical and non-technical people alike.

There’s never been a better time to join this rapidly expanding tech unicorn!

Requirements

• 5+ years in a frontend or full-stack role, with Javascript knowledge of frontend libraries, especially React.js, including class and functional components and hooks
• Expert-level knowledge of Javascript syntax and frontend essentials such as HTML and CSS
• Solid experience with Node.js and at least one other server-side language – e.g. Python, Ruby, Java, PHP or .Net
• Strong working knowledge of state management packages such as Mobx and Redux

Desirable

• Experience in any of the following: a 24/7 SaaS product; fantastic eye for great-looking, pixel-perfect apps; distributed teams and work environments.

Rewards and Incentives 

• Great base salaries and stock grant opportunities
• Truly flexible working anywhere in the world – you choose where you work
• Option to be paid in digital currency or currency of your choice
• Generous benefits package, including parental leave, individual monthly health & wellness budget, unlimited time off

Summary:

A globally leading systematic quant hedge fund are looking for a mid-level Data Engineer to join their highly agile, London-based team. The successful Data Engineer will have experience building ETL pipelines in Python (Pandas) and SQL. No financial experience is needed, but an interest is key as the successful Data Engineer will be working on trading pipelines across multiple asset classes in London. This team is critical to the operation of the business, and the successful Data Engineer will work on development projects in Python and ETL pipelines that will directly impact investment strategies in London.

Requirements:

• MSc or BSc in STEM – Computer Science, Maths or Physics preferred
• 2+ years of commercial experience in Python (Pandas), ETL pipelines, SQL
• Interest in finance

Benefits:

• Market-leading compensation and hedge fund-style bonus in London
• Directly impact the business and work alongside quants and traders
• Competitive benefits package (healthcare, pension, etc.)

Summary:

A leading quant-driven electronic market-making firm based in London are looking for a mid-senior level front end UI web developer. The successful developer will have strong experience in React.js and vanilla JavaScript in an agile and modern software development environment. Day to day, the successful front end JavaScript developer will be building out the front end UI for trading tools and technologies.

Requirements:

• MSc or BSc in STEM subject like Computer Science, Maths, Physics
• Good understanding of computer science principles, as well as design, user experience and modern development standards
• Experience with React.js and JavaScript, CSS and HTML

Benefits:

• Market-leading compensation structure and bonus scheme in London
• Work on cutting edge financial UI platforms and directly with end users

Summary:

A leading, London-based hedge fund is looking for a senior technologist to lead the build of a Digital Asset trading desk. The successful candidate will have an engineering background, experience in the crypto / digital asset space and the ability to architect a new platform from the ground up.

The role will include building a brand new Digital Asset Trading platform from scratch.

Requirements:

• STEM background / engineering expertise – any OO
• Deep knowledge of trading platforms, arbitrage strategies, Digital Assets and Crypto

Benefits:

• Market-leading salary and competitive bonus structure
• Opportunity to build out your own proprietary trading desk and take full ownership of technical-decision making
• Build out engineering and quant/ strategy teams from scratch

Summary:

A leading quant trading and systematic hedge fund based in London are looking for a mid-level software engineer to join their research and development team of 6 engineers in London. The successful software engineer will have strong development skills in a language such as C++, C or Python (or Rust), and will be rebuilding a trading platform from scratch using Rust on AWS.

A strong interest in using Rust is required, but no commercial experience necessary to join this team in London.

Requirements:

• MSc/BSc in Computer Science, Maths or Physics
• Strong programming skills in any OO language (preference for C++ and/or Python)
• Experience with cloud-based technology – AWS / GCP / Azure, etc.

Benefits:

• Highly competitive and lucrative salary and front office hedge fund-style bonus scheme
• Commercial exposure to Rust
• Exceptional benefits – work from home / pension / bonus / healthcare, etc.

Join a high-frequency prop trading firm that is looking to expand their in-house trading team with an experienced C++ developer. The successful candidate will have demonstrable theoretical and practical experience. You will be working as part of an established, experienced and motivated development team, enjoying high levels of autonomy.

The ideal candidate will have previous experience working in a fast-paced environment alongside a cohesive and effective team, from a finance or big data background.

Requirements:

• 5+ years’ experience in modern C++, working on ultra-low latency systems.
• Strong experience in Python.
• Understanding of and a keen interest in finance and all major financial exchanges.
• Solid communication and interpersonal skills applicable to a dynamic trading environment.
• A 2:1 (or above) in an undergraduate degree from a red-brick university in Computer Science, Physics or Mathematics.

 Benefits:

• Market-leading compensation.
• Collaborative and friendly environment, working with the best minds in industry.
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge tech at a world-renowned company.

Are you curious about high frequency trading, crypto currencies / blockchain and decentralized finance? Does the idea of developing your own product – trading algorithms and trading applications – excite you? Do you want to work with and be mentored by some of the most experienced traders and developers within this space? If the answer is yes, this role could be perfect for you!

Personal Profile Required:

• Previous experience in fast-paced trading or trading of digital assets
• A VERY STRONG understanding of Python – you will be heavily tested within the process so applications will only be considered that exhibit exceptional ability to write Python
• Fundamentals in C++, C# and Java
• A 2:1 or above from a top-tier university in Computer Science
• A genuine love for code; this isn’t a ‘9-to-5’ and a genuine desire and passion for coding is mandatory
• Excellent fundamental programming skills

Benefits:

• VERY competitive compensation packages
• Autonomy and coaching unmatched within the industry
• No red tape or multiple levels of approval – up to you to make an impact!
• Tier-2 visa sponsorship offered

Day to Day:

Join a group of top-class researchers building quantitative models of financial markets, working from the initial idea-generation stage through to implementation and execution. Your research will involve large and complex data sets, using different programming languages and an in-house development library infrastructure. You will work in a collaborative, open and friendly team and receive excellent compensation and benefits.

Requirements:

• Degree from a red-brick university in a relevant field, such as Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science or Physics, or demonstrable experience.
• Very strong knowledge of Python
• 0-5 years’ experience

Benefits:

• Extremely competitive compensation package
• Friendly and relaxed team
• Based in Oxford city centre
• Visa sponsorship available
• 2 days’ WFH a week

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

This is a fantastic opportunity for a talented senior C++ software developer to be an integral member of one of their algorithmic trading teams. In this role, you will design, build, and implement full life cycle development of trading applications and tools using agile methodologies. You will also coach and mentor junior engineers on best practices and through code reviews. 

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. The successful C++ developer will be an enthusiastic programmer, eager to build new technologies that directly impact the business.

Requirements: 

• 10+ years’ development experience with high-availability server-side systems, ideally in C++; and 3+ years using any combination of modern C++ (14/17/20)
• Multithreaded programming experience with in-depth understanding of hardware/software interaction
• Degree in Computer Science or Engineering (or related) from a top-tier institution
• Bonus points for experience with numerical computing and/or working with quant researchers
• Experience in trading or other latency-sensitive industry is a big plus

Benefits 

Salary: £200 – 250k

Company

This fintech is an international global algorithmic market maker in digital assets. They aim to transform Crypto Markets by offering liquidity to trading platforms and exchange. So essentially ‘HFT meets Crypto’. Trading more than $5B+/day across dozens of different trading platforms.

Their meritocratic working environment allows you to be judged only on what you deliver – providing great accountability and tangible impacts. Complementary to this it’s an interesting role, as it culturally combines all the benefits of expert tech and trading used in traditional financial markets and the fast-paced nature of a tech start-up.

Role

As a Core Developer, you will help in building out an automated trade reconciliation system. This greenfield project allows you to work closely with senior members, such as the CTO. Very high performance reconciling up to 100M transactions a day. All you need is strong python skills – they are a Linux-based company, and the solution will be built in Python and should “talk to” C++ stack.

Requirements:

• 2+ years’ experience with Python and SQL databases.
• Understanding of Linux.
• Involvement with reconciliation, risk, middle office systems is desirable.
• Passionate about tech and financial markets.
• Great interpersonal skills that would flourish in an intimate collaborative environment.

Benefits:

• Competitive base salary.
• Greenfield work.
• Smart central London office.

Tier-2 visa sponsorship is available.

Salary: £150k-£250k total compensation

The company:

Work for one of the largest trading firms in digital assets globally. Trading over $5bn a day using the highest standard of tech trading, their aim is to make markets in digital assets liquid and efficient. They work in crypto across CeFi and DeFi. With no red tape, no multiple levels of approval, this ‘HFT meets Crypto’ firm enjoys a culture more like that of a tech start-up.

The role:

You are extremely experienced in Python and are passionate about building products/applications that colleagues find helpful and enjoy using. Working closely with trading and trading platform developers within a small nimble team, you will be working on QT-based Python trading applications. Projects are varied and may include building a brand-new trading GUI (for internal use), upgrading existing applications, and designing completely new applications from scratch.

Previous experience from both personal and work-related projects will be considered. An interest in algorithmic trading is always a plus.

The Tech:

• Advanced knowledge in Python
• Previous experience with using GUIs
• Experience with Linux network

Preferred to have:

• Knowledge of C++
• Quantitative reasoning skills
• Curiosity about algorithmic trading and financial markets

Benefits:

• Extremely competitive compensation
• Tech team made up of senior engineers from Optiver, XTX, etc.
• Independence and responsibility from day 1, with the ability to learn at an unprecedented speed

Tier-2 visa sponsorship is available.

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

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

Benefits

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

Salary: £150,000 – £250,000 base + bonus

Culture:

This is one of the world’s top algorithmic trading firms, looking for developers who are well-versed in Python programming. A community of self-starters from multiple tech backgrounds – maths, computer science, statistics, physics, engineering – they have built one of the world’s most sophisticated computing environments for research and development with data at its core.

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.

Must-have Requirements:

• A 2.1 in a Computer Science degree from a Russell group university or equivalent.
• Substantial experience using Python – at least 4 years’ experience using Python, preferably within finance
• Strong analytical and mathematical skills, with interest in and exposure to quantitative finance
• Experience working in a UNIX operating system using LINUX, system/processor performance and network communication
• Some low-level knowledge of C++
• In your spare time you: code, tinker, read, explore, break things, and have an insatiable curiosity for all things computer related…

Benefits:

• Strong salary + bonuses
• Lots of impact, lots of interaction with algo developers and other roles within the firm, with a hugely collaborative structure
• Friendly working environment with multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.

Salary: £200-400k total comp

This is a fantastic opportunity to work in the London 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.

They’re now looking for accomplished engineers to join the team responsible for the full stack of applications required to run the trading business.

Sitting on the trading floor, you will interact closely with traders and researchers to understand their needs and design effective solutions. There is very little red tape, and a rapid feedback loop on the software you build. Activities range from developing ultra-low-latency exchange protocol encoders and decoders, writing and fine-tuning automated trading strategies, to helping the monitoring and analysis effort by creating and extending user interfaces to provide the traders with more information and control.

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

Requirements 

• Expert-level knowledge of one or more OOP languages, e.g. C/C++, C#, Java
• Excellent coding skills – writing simple and clean code is second-nature to you
• Highly proficient in computer science, algorithms, memory-, and concurrency models, CPU-architecture, operating systems, relational databases, etc.
• An entrepreneurial mindset and exposure to/interest in the financial industry
• Strong degree in Computer Science, Maths, Physics (or similar) from a top-tier university

Rewards and Incentives  

• Great base salaries and industry-leading PnL-aligned bonuses
• Flat, transparent structure with autonomy to deliver solutions
• Generous benefits package, including commuting expenses, breakfast and lunch facilities, regular social activities and more
• Direct business impact with short feedback loop
• Leadership and training opportunities

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

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

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

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.

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
• Sound Linux experience
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science (or other Engineering field)
• Solid understanding of data structures
• Bonus points for: scientific Python stack (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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Summary

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

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary 

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

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

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

Requirements

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

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

Benefits

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

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

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

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

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

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

Compensation: £200k – £400k

Excellent opportunity for a Software Engineer to join an established quantitative trading firm. With the ability to step into a distributed system which is at the cutting-edge of latency and throughput.

Culture:

Unlike most trading firms where technology is a cost, at this firm the code is their whole business and is what gives them the advantage. Become part of a current team which boasts one of the youngest C++ committee members, ACM world finalists and Olympiads from across the world in a highly diverse and hugely talented team.

Their systems are written in highly performant C++; however it is the underlying fundamentals and hard work that they value, and therefore are looking at any OO background.

The Structure:

Unsurprisingly, they boast a flat structure, casual office atmosphere with no politics or red tape impeding the generation or implementation of your ideas, giving you more autonomy than any competing firm.

This company is seeking ‘techies’ who love to code, they love a challenge, and in return they offer extremely competitive compensation and industry-leading training / coaching.

Requirements:

• Excellent design and problem-solving skills
• Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms
• In-depth OO programming in C++/Java/Python/C#
• Knowledge of UNIX operating systems (Linux is used)

Salary: £100,000 – £150,000 base + bonus

Your day to day will look like:

Working as a Core Quant you will be working with IQs and SDs to identify technical challenges and opportunities, delivering leading solutions to the highest design, testing and operational standards. You will understand the performance characteristics, design and operational   parameters of the system. You will also be trusted with aiding with the integration of new analytics models with the broader stack. You will be pushed into challenging current systems, processes and delivery approach to achieve common goals through technical excellence and innovation.

Skills and Experience Required:

• A 2.1 in a Computer Science degree from a Russell group university or equivalent.
• Excellent knowledge in an object-orientated language – primarily C#, but also C++ or Java.
• Previous market and financial knowledge and experience.
• Experience in software testing and how to design and drive software development with testing in mind, e.g. unit, functional, integration, regression, smoke, etc.

Benefits & Incentives:

• Strong salary + bonuses
• Friendly working environment with multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
• Mayfair office

Salary: surpassing £200k + Stock Options

The Client:

This is a new role from one of our clients that’s mission is to create a better, more open Internet for everyone through principled, intelligent advertising. Dealing with over 600 billion queries a day. This client was the pioneer in the first ever ad exchange. This role is in one of the largest truly independent Ad Tech company globally this is accompanied with reports of their work ethos being built on an award-winning culture. That emphasises trust, empathy, collaboration, and ownership.

The Role:

End to end ownership of the task participating in all aspect of designing, building and delivering products for our clients. High functioning teams in London, Colorado and California with not specific geographical projects everyone has an equal seat at the table to pursue the team and job they desire. You will have the opportunity, depending on your interests and aptitude, to work on large-scale distributed systems coordinating thousands of servers in cloud and physical data centres around the world, petabyte-scale data challenges, machine learning, advanced visualizations, and interactive user interfaces – to name a few.

Skills and Experience Required:

• Main languages include C# and Java, but this client will consider any OO language for the role as they view their interview process language agnostic.
• 5+ years’ experience
• 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

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

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

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