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Summary

Leading global hedge fund building a range of critical solutions from pre-trade research platforms to trading systems to post-trade clearing and settlement services.

They are currently looking for a technically strong Full Stack Engineer to join their Trade Management and Transaction Services team. You will be maintaining, enhancing and building extensible and scalable trade booking and transaction processing system components.

Requirements

• Strong academic background in Computer Science
• Fully proficient in Javascript/Typescript and C++/Java, with an interest in developing skills in other languages and frameworks (ideally 6+ years’ experience)
• Experience with SQL and database systems
• Confident with data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, etc.

Benefits:

• Competitive base salary + lucrative bonus
• Opportunity to work with some of the world’s most talented engineers
• Regular social events

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Rewards and Incentives

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

Summary:

A fast-growing open source technology start up are looking to hire a new Director of Engineering to lead core engineering teams across Zurich and London. This start up has a focus on building open source distributed ledger technology (DLT) products.

The Director of Engineering will be responsible for three core products, working closely with engineering, sales and marketing to drive growth in a global environment. Overseeing Engineering teams and leaders across Zurich, London, New York, Budapest, Hong Kong and Sydney, the Director of Engineering will help scale one of the fastest growing tech start-ups in world.

Requirements:

• Engineering background, hands on experience with Scala or Haskell is a plus
• Experience as director of engineering or in a similar position at a high growth start up
• Engineering leadership and project management skills

Benefits:

• Highly competitive salary and stock options
• Opportunity to help scale a high growth, fast moving start up and re-define an industry

Summary:

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Summary:

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

Requirements:

• MSc or PhD in STEM subject
• Good object oriented programming experience
• Experience programming in Python and SQL
• Experience with time series analysis and forecasting models, large data sets, model development and visualisation, statistics, optimisation are beneficial

Benefits:

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

Salary: £650 / day (inside IR35)

Experience: 3-20 years

Job Description

Fantastic chance to join one of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds in their Risk Technology group on a 6-month contract. This is a high impact role, within a small team, where you will collaborate with global colleagues to develop and maintain multi-asset analytics, stress and in-house VaR systems to support risk management and trading.

This firm has a great name in the industry owing to its superb tech culture and excellent returns. The ideal candidate will have strong Python knowledge and experience working on Risk platforms.

Skills and Experience Required

• Substantial experience in Python (Flask is ideal)
• Proficiency with AWS, Kafka, and visualisation
• Degree in Computer Science or other STEM subject; CFA/FRM/MBA ideal
• Fantastic problem-solver with strong analytical skills
• Bonus points for C++ and/or Java

Benefits and Incentives:

• Strong salary
• Work-from-home opportunities
• Collaborative culture and a dynamic, fast-paced place to work

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

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

Requirements

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

This position is unable to offer visa sponsorship.

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

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

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

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

Requirements 

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

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

Salary Range: €75,000 – 150,000

 Summary:

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Summary:

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary

Global asset management firm based in London is looking for a talented software developer well-versed in C# and .NET to join their collaborative team for a four-month contract.

On a day-to-day basis, the development team is responsible for the internal and vendor systems, working on requirements from all areas of the business. This is a pivotal role within the team, where your responsibilities will include a mix of development and support across Operations and the Portfolio Management System. They are also planning a major system migration later this year, where your expertise will be invaluable.

Most systems are built on Microsoft tech – .NET, C#, SQL Server, SSRS reporting – with Python used to support Portfolio Management and Risk Management. The ideal candidate will be comfortable managing multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment and will be an exceptional problem-solver.

Requirements

• 5+ years of practical experience in C# (full development life cycle)
• Strong proficiency with WPF, T-SQL and Python (including libraries, such as Pandas)
• Sound knowledge of portfolio core concepts (e.g. trades, positions, PnL)
• Previous exposure to buy-side environment
• BSc (MSc ideal) in software development or scientific subject
• Experience with a Portfolio Management System is a plus

Benefits

• Market-leading salary
• Collaborative and friendly environment with smart, highly engaged colleagues
• Very flat, transparent structure – direct interaction with operations, risk & trading

Salary

£70k pro rata

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary: Flexible for the right candidate

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary: Flexible for the right candidate

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary: Flexible for the right candidate

Salary: £150-220k total compensation

Summary:

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Salary: £300k total compensation

Summary:

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

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Salary: £100k base, £300k total comp

Summary:

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

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary: up to $300k + bonus

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

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

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

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

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

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

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

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

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Summary:

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Summary:

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Culture / Benefits

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

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary: up to $300k + bonus

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary: up to $300k + bonus

Summary

Start-up using AI to create digital representations of real-world locations using mapping drones. This enables construction industries to make more informed decisions about big projects – improving safety, cost-efficiency, waste generation, etc.

They are looking for an experienced Angular developer to work on converting the simulated reality into an understandable and intuitive environment for users to work within.

Requirements

• Ideally 5+ years as a Frontend Developer, with expertise in Angular, ES6, Typescript & Nodejs
• Qualification in Computer Science or related field
• Experience working on development life cycle activities, such as design, coding, testing and production release
• Ideally experience working within a start-up environment, but not essential

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Unlimited holiday
• Flexibility regarding work-from-home / opportunity for remote within UK
• Ongoing career development and training

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

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

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

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

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

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

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

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

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

Requirements:

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

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

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

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

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

Within this smart group of polyglots and technologists, developers here have large amounts of autonomy and are always looking for the very best tool to solve each individual problem. Here there is very little red tape, and a rapid feedback loop on the software you build. They are firm believers in automated testing and lightly-coupled architectures.

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Remote interviews are available if required.

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

Joining a talented group of polyglots and technologists, developers here have large amounts of autonomy and are always looking for the very best tool to solve each individual problem. Here there is very little red tape, and a rapid feedback loop on the software you build. They are firm believers in automated testing and lightly-coupled architectures.

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Remote interviews are available if required.

Summary

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits:

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

Summary: 

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

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

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

Requirements:

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

Culture / Benefits:

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

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements:

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

Culture / Benefits:

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

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Rewards and Incentives

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

The Client:

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

The Role:

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Summary

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

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

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

Qualifications

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

Benefits

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

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary: up to $300k + bonus

Summary

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

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

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary: up to £150k + bonus

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

4+ years’ experience

Job description:

Client

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

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

Role

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

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

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

Skills and Experience Required

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

Benefits & Incentives

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

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

4+ years’ experience

Job description:

Client

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

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

Role

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

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

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

Skills and Experience Required

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

Benefits & Incentives

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

Salary: £80,000

8 years’ experience

Job description:

Client

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

Role

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

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

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

Skills and Experience Required

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

Benefits and Incentives:

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

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

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

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Remote interviews are available if required.

Summary

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

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

Role

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Job Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Job Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

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

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

The Company

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Job Summary

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

The Company

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Job Summary

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

The Company

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary:

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

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

Requirements:

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

 Benefits:

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

Summary:

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Summary:

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

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Summary:

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

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Summary:

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Summary:

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits and Incentives:

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

Summary:

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Summary:

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Summary:

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

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits and Incentives:

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

Summary

Summary

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

Summary

Summary:

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

Responsibilities:

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

Requirements:

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

 Benefits:

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

Summary:

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

Requirements:

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

 Benefits:

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

Summary:

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

Requirements:

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

 Benefits:

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

Summary:

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

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

Requirements:

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

 Benefits:

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

Summary:

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Summary:

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Summary:

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Summary:

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

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Summary:

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Summary:

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Summary:

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Overview:

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

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

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

Requirements:

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

Rewards and Incentives:

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

Salary:

AUS$250k base + generous bonus scheme

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary: up to £130k base + bonus

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

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

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Summary 

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary 

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary

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

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary

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

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary 

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

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary 

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

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary:

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

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

Culture:

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

Responsibilities:

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Summary:

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

Culture:

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

Responsibilities:

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Summary:

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

Culture:

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

Responsibilities:

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Summary

Lively, positive spirit of a start-up, with the stability of a longer-established player, this leading quant firm has a fantastic opportunity on one of their growing quant trading teams where you will draw on both your superb problem-solving skills and your proven track record with large data sets.

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary

up to £120k + bonus

Summary

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary

up to £150k base + bonus

Job Summary:

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

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

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

Work will typically involve:

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

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Salary: up to £130-140k + bonus

Summary

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

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

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

Role

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary

up to £150k + bonus

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

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

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

My client is a leading tech-driven prop trading firm, trading their own capital across a broad range of asset classes, instruments and strategies in markets worldwide. This is a great opportunity for a Site Reliability Engineer with in-depth knowledge of the software development life cycle to help build and support their scalable infrastructure.

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

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

My client is a leading tech-driven prop trading firm, trading their own capital across a broad range of asset classes, instruments and strategies in markets worldwide. They are looking for exceptional application software developers to build robust, scalable tools and resources to enable the smooth operation of the front, middle and back offices.

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

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

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

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits

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

Fantastic opportunity for talented programmers at one of the world’s top algorithmic trading firms in their New York office. This fully automated trading firm has a unique culture that is relaxed, but also exciting and technically stimulating, where you’ll be working with some of the smartest engineers in the industry.

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

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

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

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

A community of self-starters from multiple tech backgrounds – maths, computer science, statistics, physics, engineering – they have built one of the world’s most sophisticated computing environments for research and development.

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

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

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

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

The Role

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary: up to $150k

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Culture / Benefits

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

The Client

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

The Role

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

The ideal candidate will be passionate about development and able to solve difficult technical problems in a fast-paced and energetic environment. In this role, a candidate can expect exposure to a wide range of interesting and challenging problems involving high performance computing, software design and big data. Most problems require high-availability, high-throughput and low latency solutions. The trading team sees technology as a key component of their continued success and candidates will be exposed to cool cutting-edge technologies.

Key Skills

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

Benefits

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

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

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

The Role

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary: up to $150k

Summary:

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

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

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

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

Requirements​:

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

Benefits:

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

The Company

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

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

The Role

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary:

up to £120k

Summary

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

Salary:

up to £120k

Summary

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

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

A community of self-starters from multiple tech backgrounds – maths, computer science, statistics, physics, engineering – they have built one of the world’s most sophisticated computing environments for research and development.

Requirements

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

Benefits

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

The Client

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

The Role

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

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

Key Skills

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

Benefits

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

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

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

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

Requirements

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

Culture / Benefits

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

Salary

<£200k total compensation

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

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

Role will include

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

Requirements

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

Culture / Benefits

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

Salary

<£130k base + lucrative hedge fund bonuses

Salary Range: €75,000 – 150,000

Summary: 

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

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

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

Requirements:

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

Culture / Benefits:

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

Summary: 

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

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

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

Requirements:

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

Culture / Benefits

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

Summary: 

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

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

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

Requirements:

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

Culture / Benefits

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

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

Job description:

Client

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

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

Role

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

Skills and Experience Required

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

Benefits & Incentives

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

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

3-20 years’ experience

Job description:

Client

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

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

Role

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

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

Skills and Experience Required

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

Benefits & Incentives

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

1-20 years of experience

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

Job Description:

Client:

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

Role:

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

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

Skills and Experience Required:

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

Benefits and Incentives:

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

Salary:

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

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

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

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

Requirements​:

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

Benefits:

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

Job Summary:

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

The Role:

You will be:

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

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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

Job Summary:

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

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

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

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

Requirements:

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

Benefits:

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