Software Engineer

Description:

In this role you will be responsible for playing a pivotal role across the fund throughout the algorithmic trading division, back-testing strategies and working alongside other highly talented individuals from various departments within the fund.

The opportunity presents a fantastic chance to hone in and develop your skill set whilst working on building and supporting a new quantitative trading framework software. All-whilst designing clean architecture by leverage state of the art tools and components which will help propel the success of the fund.

Candidates should have 4+ years of extremely strong knowledge of Python and C++ on Linux within a team finance setting, where they have worked across more than 1 asset classes. Alongside this some experience with C# or React is an additional benefit.

My client is committed to sizable increases on any base salary alongside market-leading bonuses. As well as a market-leading compensation package, they offer exceptional benefits from only the best private healthcare to in-house Michelin-star quality food (free for all staff).

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain Python-based applications and tools for trading, risk management, and data analysis.
• Collaborate with quantitative researchers and traders to implement trading strategies and optimize algorithms.
• Enhance and optimize existing software systems, ensuring high performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Work closely with other team members to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues.
• Stay up-to-date with industry best practices and emerging technologies to continually improve our software stack.

Ideal candidates will have:

• Bachelors or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics or related field
• Experience with working with
• 4 - 10 years of experience in software development within a hedge fund, investment bank or other financial institution
• Strong programming skills in languages such as Python and C++ on Linux, some experience with C# or React is a Plus
• Very high standards in code quality and development practices
• Knowledge of real-time systems, high performance computing and quantitative applications an advantage
• Team-player
• Experience working within a mature CI/CD process, DevOps experience
• Excellent communication skills