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About the Role

This role focuses on building C++ trading systems for a systematic investment team, supporting live trading across global markets in Futures, FX, and Fixed Income. You will develop and maintain low-latency trading infrastructure, focusing on real-time, performance-critical C++ systems from alpha infrastructure to execution, including production integration, deployment, monitoring, and live trading support.

Responsibilities

Build the team’s C++ latency-sensitive trading systems from market data ingestion to order execution
Productionise performance-critical signal computation within the trading systems
Build the supporting research infrastructure, including replay and data management
Support execution-related workflows across systematic strategies in Futures, FX, and Fixed Income
Specify the team’s performance and infrastructure requirements to central technology teams and work with them to deliver
Partner with broader technology teams to make effective use of the firm’s shared platforms and services — execution, risk, portfolio management, data, and monitoring
Implement and maintain team-level trading controls and support live production processes, while ensuring appropriate integration with the firm’s broader trading control framework

Requirements

5+ years building production systems in an electronic trading environment in futures, FX, and/or fixed income products
Strong C++ in a performance-critical, low-latency context
Experience building production trading systems and market-data/order-entry components
Deep understanding of concurrent, real-time systems design
Strong software engineering fundamentals, including testing, version control, and code quality
Strong Linux development experience
Familiarity with monitoring, controls, and production support in a front-office setting is advantageous
Experience working with shared internal services, APIs, or established platform infrastructure is highly valuable
Experience in low-latency execution or algorithmic trading systems development
Understanding of systematic trading strategies and front-office trading workflows
Experience supporting live trading processes, production controls, and operational robustness in systematic trading
Experience working within a larger institutional technology environment and integrating with shared internal platforms
Excellent problem-solving ability and attention to detail
Strong ownership and ability to work independently
Clear communicator with a collaborative approach
Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, production-facing environment
Calm and effective when responding to issues during trading hours

Skills

C++
Linux development
Testing
Version control
Code quality
Monitoring
Production support
Systematic trading strategies
Front-office trading workflows
Operational robustness

Location

London

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

5+ years

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s or PhD preferred in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related quantitative discipline