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About the Role

We are a collaborative systematic trading team seeking a senior engineer to develop and maintain our core software and technical infrastructure, including tools for alpha research and production systems for feature engineering, portfolio construction, and trade execution.

Responsibilities

• Develop sophisticated research tooling to enable and accelerate alpha discovery.
• Develop real-time event-driven systems for signal computation, trade-decision-making and execution.
• Design, implement, and maintain core systems and services for real-time data ingestion, retrieval, and distributed compute for research and production.
• Oversee the ongoing operation of all system components to ensure resilience and detect defects.

Requirements

• Expert engineer with a deep theoretical foundation and extensive systems design experience.
• Significant expertise in both high-level and systems programming languages (Python and C++).
• Exceptional attention to detail.
• Strong intuition for the pragmatism-robustness tradeoff.
• Ability to work well in a close-knit, start-up-style team.
• Extremely strong computer science or engineering background.
• Experience designing and implementing distributed systems.
• Experience designing and implementing real-time event-driven systems.
• Experience designing and implementing large-scale time series data ingress, storage, and processing.
• Experience with the architectural design of large-scale software systems.
• Experience with systematic futures trading.
• Exposure to CICD-style implementation/release methodologies with a large complex codebase.
• Prior role as a quantitative developer supporting a multi-asset systematic trading business.
• Experience with a broad spectrum of finance-relevant data sources (e.g., tick data, fundamental data, and alternative data).
• Functional understanding of foundational trading & risk management concepts.

Skills

• Python
• C++
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Ceph
• MongoDB
• Kafka
• Numpy
• Polars
• Scikitlearn
• Pytorch
• DevOps
• Version control
• Testing frameworks
• Release processes
• Build systems
• Communication skills
• Problem-solving skills
• Analytical skills

Location

• London

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior
• 5+ years of experience

Education Level

• Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, or related technical field.

About the Company

• We are a small, collaborative systematic trading team.
• We are a high-impact, technology-driven business.