Quantitative Developer HFT

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We are seeking a quantitative developer with 3+ years experience in the HFT industry, combining software development and networking skills (TCP / UDP / multicast / WebSocket / HTTP).

As a quantitative developer, your aim is to improve our trading stack in any way to make the firm's trading strategies more competitive and profitable. In a high-frequency trading environment, this often means to improve the end-to-end latency of our trading platform or to increase the scalability and precision of execution of our trading strategies.

This is an onsite role and as such permanent remote work is not an option.

Responsibilities

Your main responsibilities are developing and rapidly evolving our main software components:

  • Develop low latency trading engine and strategy runtime
  • Develop market data distribution platform (internal binary protocols)
  • Develop and maintain exchange API connectivity and robust exchange connectors
  • Full automation around deployment and monitoring of a 24/7 trading system
  • Continuous profiling of trading system and strategy latency
  • Understand and reverse engineer exchange architectures

You will be part of a small development team that shares the responsibility of the whole trading stack. As you own the code, deployment, and all tooling, you can rapidly and safely iterate on changes to the trading software. As a result, we deploy many times a day.

Developers collaborate directly with traders and researchers, allowing for immediate reaction to market changes and fast iteration of live trading engines.

Skills

You must be a self-starter and self-learner excited to compete in the markets. Over your career, you have picked up the following skills:

  • Experience writing low latency Java / C++ applications and architectures. HFT industry preferred but telecom and gaming industry experience also welcome
  • Ability to get the best performance out of application and networking stack of on-premise and cloud environments
  • Ability to benchmark, profile and trace full applications on Linux
  • Ability to find and resolve latency and throughput bottlenecks
  • Excited to pick up new skills to solve difficult problems (examples: eBPF, XDP, Intel PT)

While we are language agnostic, our current trading stack is mostly written in Java. Some technologies we use: Aeron, SBE, Java 20+.

Benefits

  • Competitive base salary
  • Discretionary bonus scheme
  • Private health insurance
  • Pension scheme contributions
  • Free Friday lunches, drinks, and snacks
  • Conference budget
  • Central London office

If the above job description excites you, please submit your CV together with a brief cover letter that clearly outlines the reason why you apply and what makes you a great fit for the role.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Finance and Sales

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting

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