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About the Role

We are a world-class quantitative trading firm using machine learning and advanced data engineering to drive our strategies. We are establishing a new trading operation focused on UK prediction markets and the US sports market, seeking an ambitious Technical Lead to build this operation from the ground up.

Responsibilities

• Lead and own the development of low-latency data and trading infrastructure across multiple platforms.
• Develop automated execution and order-management systems.
• Build infrastructure for deploying quantitative models and trading strategies into production.
• Create systems for managing positions, capital, risk, and exposure.
• Develop research and simulation tooling for testing new strategies.
• Implement monitoring and observability for a live, automated trading operation.
• Build integrations with new exchanges, data providers, and other external systems.
• Design and build critical systems while providing technical supervision, engineering standards, and mentorship.
• Shape the architecture, technology, and development practices of the team.
• Decide what the team should build, its sophistication, and where engineering effort will have the greatest commercial impact.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional software development experience, including Python.
• Experience designing, building, and operating complex production systems.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, data structures, concurrency, networking, and distributed systems.
• Ability to diagnose difficult performance and reliability problems.
• Strong technical judgment and ability to balance speed, simplicity, performance, and maintainability.
• Ability to explain complex technical ideas clearly and lead less experienced team members.
• Willingness to remain hands-on while providing technical leadership.
• Ability to use AI and AI-generated code effectively and responsibly.

Skills

• Python
• Software architecture
• Data structures
• Concurrency
• Networking
• Distributed systems
• AI
• AI generated code

Location

• UK
• US

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior

Education Level

• Degree in Computer Science or a numerical subject from a top university

Salary/Compensations

• Competitive salary
• Significant bonus potential

Benefits

• Enhanced pension match with salary sacrifice option
• Health insurance
• Life assurance
• Sabbatical leave after five years
• 33 days of annual leave (including bank holidays)

About the Company

• We are a small, world-class quantitative trading firm where machine learning, neural networks and advanced data engineering drive our algorithmic trading strategies.
• We are building a new trading operation targeting emerging prediction markets in the UK and the rapidly growing US sports market.