Quantitative Developer / Trading Systems Engineer

Salary: £36,000 - 76,000 per year

Requirements:

• 5+ years building production systems in an electronic trading environment in futures, FX, and/or fixed income products
• Strong C++ experience in a performance-critical, low-latency context; C++ is our primary language for this role
• 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
• Experience low-latency execution or algorithmic trading systems development is highly valued
• Understanding of systematic trading strategies and front-office trading workflows is highly valued
• Experience supporting live trading processes, production controls, and operational robustness in systematic trading is highly valued
• Experience working within a larger institutional technology environment and integrating with shared internal platforms is highly valued
• Bachelors degree required; Masters or PhD preferred in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related quantitative discipline
• 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

Responsibilities:

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

Technologies:

• Support
• Linux

More:

We are a collaborative and entrepreneurial systematic investment team based in London. We are seeking an experienced Quantitative Trading Systems Engineer to join our Systematic Macro trading team and help build the low-latency C++ infrastructure that underpins live systematic trading across global markets. You will work closely with our Senior Portfolio Manager on production integration, deployment, monitoring, and live trading support, while liaising with central technology teams to leverage our existing data and execution services. We are a trading department with a target start date as soon as possible.

last updated 34 week of 2026