Quantitative Developer HFT

3 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Queueco Full time

We are seeking a skilled quantitative developer to enhance our trading stack and improve the competitiveness and profitability of our firm's trading strategies.

As a quantitative developer, your primary goal is to optimize our trading platform's end-to-end latency and scalability, as well as the precision of our trading strategies.

We welcome candidates with various levels of experience, from university graduates to senior researchers, and offer internships within the team.

This is an onsite role, and remote work is not an option.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Developing and evolving our main software components, such as the low-latency trading engine and strategy runtime.
  • Designing and maintaining the market data distribution platform and exchange API connectivity.
  • Implementing full automation for deployment and monitoring of our 24/7 trading system.
  • Profiling and optimizing trading system and strategy latency.
  • Understanding and reverse-engineering exchange architectures.

You will collaborate with a small development team, sharing responsibility for the trading stack and owning the code, deployment, and tooling.

Developers work closely with traders and researchers, enabling immediate reaction to market changes and fast iteration of live trading engines.

Required skills include:

  • Experience with low-latency Java/C++ applications and architectures, preferably in the HFT industry.
  • Ability to optimize application and networking stack performance in on-premise and cloud environments.
  • Proficiency in benchmarking, profiling, and tracing full applications on Linux.
  • Ability to identify and resolve latency and throughput bottlenecks.
  • Willingness to learn new skills to solve complex problems.

The ideal candidate has experience in the HFT industry, combining software development and networking skills.

We use a variety of technologies, including Aeron, SBE, and Java 20+.

Benefits include:

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

If you are interested in this role, please submit your CV and a brief cover letter outlining your qualifications and reasons for applying.



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