Senior Software Engineer

3 days ago


London, UK, United Kingdom Understanding Recruitment Full time

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer (Algorithmic Trading & Market Making)

Location: London - Hybrid

Type: Full-Time


About the Company:

We are partnering with a leading financial services firm that specializes in algorithmic trading strategies and market-making systems. The company leverages cutting-edge technology and quantitative methods to deliver outstanding results in fast-paced financial markets. They are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to work on the continued development and optimization of their algorithmic trading platform and market-making systems.


Role Overview:

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will focus on designing, implementing, and optimizing software solutions for the firm's trading and market-making systems. This is a hands-on, development-focused role where you’ll collaborate with engineers and quantitative analysts to build high-performance, scalable solutions that ensure the reliability and efficiency of the platform. Your contributions will directly impact trading strategies and operations in real-time market environments.


Key Responsibilities:

  • Algorithmic Trading Development: Design, develop, and optimize software for the algorithmic trading platform, ensuring high performance and low latency.
  • Market-Making Systems: Develop and improve the software architecture for market-making systems, focusing on reliability and speed.
  • Platform Optimization: Continuously enhance platform performance, scalability, and fault tolerance to meet evolving market conditions.
  • Collaboration: Work closely with quants, traders, and other engineers to gather requirements, develop solutions, and implement new trading strategies.
  • Data Processing: Build efficient systems for real-time data processing, ensuring rapid decision-making and response times in the trading platform.
  • Code Quality: Maintain high standards of code quality, implementing best practices in software development and testing.


Requirements:

  • Experience: 5+ years of experience in software development, with a focus on high-performance systems.
  • Technical Skills: Expertise in Python is essential. Experience with C++ or other low-latency languages is a plus. Strong experience in software architecture, system design, and development best practices.
  • Finance Background: Prior experience in financial markets, particularly algorithmic trading or market-making, is highly preferred.
  • Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, particularly in optimizing performance and latency.
  • Communication: Ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical teams, translating complex technical requirements into efficient solutions.


This role offers the chance to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, where you will directly contribute to the development of advanced trading and market-making systems. If you have a passion for finance and technology, we invite you to apply.



  • London,, UK, United Kingdom Miller Maxwell Ltd Full time

    Senior C++ Software Engineer (Options)Miller Maxwell is working with an international investment bank that seeks to expand its low-latency software engineering team. The bank is enhancing its competitive edge in the European market by introducing cutting-edge technology to electronic trading, including a new options trading platform within the derivatives...


  • London,, UK, United Kingdom Understanding Recruitment Full time

    Senior Software Engineer (Python, Data Engineering) - Blockchain Web3 ⛓️Location: London (ideally 1x per week, flex)Salary: Up to £110,000 GBP, based on experienceDo you want to join the Future of Blockchain and enhance its transparency as a Software Engineer?We're on the lookout for a Senior Software Engineer to join a dynamic Web3 team, where...


  • London,, UK, United Kingdom Digital Waffle Full time

    Job Title: Senior Software EngineerLocation: Fully Remote (UK Wide)Salary: £70,000 Per AnnumDigital Waffle is on the lookout for a Senior Software Engineer to Join an Ed-Tech company. In this role, you’ll be creating and developing exciting new solutions, you will be tasked with successfully delivering various projects, and the exploration of cutting-edge...


  • London,, UK, United Kingdom IC Resources Full time

    Join an exciting new start-up operating in a niche sector! - London, 1-2 days onsiteThis new VC backed start-up, who already have a proof-of-concept, are now actively seeking a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to increase their development speed. Operating within the niche sector of digitalising smells, this exciting team have already generated initial...


  • London,, UK, United Kingdom Understanding Recruitment Full time

    Senior Software Engineer (Python)Do you want to join the Future of Blockchain and enhance its transparency as a Software Engineer?We're on the lookout for a Software Engineer to join a dynamic Web3 team, where you'll play a pivotal role in enhancing the security and reliability of blockchain networks. You will significantly enhance the transparency...


  • London, UK, UK, United Kingdom Digital Waffle Full time

    Job Title: Senior Software EngineerLocation: LondonSalary: Up to £70,000 Per Annum D.O.EDigital Waffle is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to Join a SaaS company. You will have expertise in C#, .NET Core, APIs, Entity Framework, Azure, and SQL. In this role, you will be involved in the development of complex SaaS solutions and user demands to ensure they...


  • London,, UK, United Kingdom Albert Bow Full time

    Senior Software Engineer | FinTech | Hybrid London | Contract | up to £450Albert Bow looking for are looking for Senior Software Engineers in London to join an innovative company that use AI to analyse data within private equity.This is an extremely exciting time to join this company as you will have the opportunity to set the technical standards, whilst...


  • London,, UK, United Kingdom numi Full time

    Join a Deep Tech AI company with FAANG Leaders - Senior Software Engineer (Platform) - Up to £130,000 Welcome to a world where decision-making is smarter, faster, and more efficient.Would you like to join a cutting-edge company, at the forefront of innovation, revolutionizing the way businesses operate?With their groundbreaking AI platform, they empower...


  • London,, UK, United Kingdom Inara Full time

    Role: Senior Software Engineer (Go, Java, Python, AWS...)Location: Remote (with occasional collaboration days)Are you...A software Engineer with 5+ years experience, working with modern programming with one or more programming languages such as Java, Go, Python, Ruby, TypeScript etc?Experienced working on cloud platform such as AWS, Google Cloud and have a...


  • London,, UK, United Kingdom Durlston Partners Full time

    Role: Senior Software EngineerSalary: Up to £170,000 + EquityHybrid Working: 2/3 days WFH (flexible - mature working environment) Office full of Gadgets, Drones I'm looking to speak with engineers who are excited by the idea of not being stuck at their desk on a day to day basis.This role and client offers a truly unique opportunity to join one of the...


  • London,, UK, United Kingdom Venchr Full time

    Senior Software Engineer - Series B FemTech Scale-Up - London (Hybrid) - £75k - £90kAre you an accomplished engineer and tech-for-good enthusiast? Do you want to have a hand in making women’s healthcare more accessible?Venchr are collaborating with one of the most impressive femtech scale-ups, who are changing the way we interact with women’s health...


  • London,, UK, United Kingdom Opus Recruitment Solutions Full time

    My client are looking for a seasoned software engineer to join their team and contribute to the development of our cutting-edge on-demand gifting technology platform. About the Role:As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:Lead the design, development, and deployment of new features for their platform.Utilize Java and Kotlin within the Spring Boot framework...


  • London,, UK, United Kingdom Meritus Full time

    Senior Software Engineer | Java or Python & Oracle | London | Up to £90,000 + Bonus | DV Clearance Required MERITUS are working with an expanding national security consultancy looking for experienced senior software engineers to join their London consulting team. There are 2 positions available.If successful you will join an experienced team working to...


  • London,, UK, United Kingdom Piper Maddox Full time

    Senior Software Engineer: KnowledgeBase Join a pioneering robotics start-up as a Senior Software Engineer on the Robotic Reasoning team, where your expertise in AI/ML and KnowledgeBase systems will shape the future of intelligent robots.In this critical role, you will focus on developing and maintaining advanced knowledge management systems that enhance the...


  • London,, UK, United Kingdom Piper Maddox Full time

    Senior Software Engineer - RAG/reasoning infrastructure Join a pioneering robotics start-up as a Senior Software Engineer on the Robotic Reasoning team, where your expertise in RAG and AI technologies will shape the future of intelligent robots.This is a unique opportunity to lead the development and optimization of advanced RAG pipelines and integrations...


  • London,, UK, United Kingdom Albert Bow Full time

    I am currently working with a very exciting new trading and investment firm who are in stealth mode and looking to hire Senior Software Engineers. They have acquired a record amount of pre-seed funding for their venture and this is the perfect opportunity to join the business as they embark on huge growth. Trading digital asset classes Current cryptocurrency...


  • London,, UK, United Kingdom Yoh, A Day & Zimmermann Company Full time

    Senior Embedded Software EngineerSalary Package: Circa £70,000 per annum basic salary, plus benefits and bonusLocation: West LondonJob Type: Full TimeOverview: Senior Embedded Software Engineer required to join a dynamic and innovative team developing cutting-edge embedded software for space and satellite systems. This role is ideal for an experienced...

  • Software Engineer

    3 days ago


    London,, UK, United Kingdom Eames Consulting Full time

    We are delighted to be supporting a global Investment management firm who are looking for a Senior Engineer to join the team. You will be contributing to the development of software that delivers data sets to meet sustainability requirements for investment teams, clients, and regulators, ensuring adherence to the team’s standards throughout the software...


  • London,, UK, United Kingdom IC Resources Full time

    Senior C++ Software EngineerTop of the market salaries - Hybrid Working! A Senior C++ Software Engineer is required to join an exciting trading firm with the opportunity to Develop, design, and innovate cutting-edge trading systems that operate at a very high speed! What’s Required? For this Senior C++ Software Engineer role, we’re interested in people...


  • London,, UK, United Kingdom BlackCode Full time

    Rust Developer - Digital Assets, Crypto, HFT, London, £120-150K Base + Bonus + EquityA leading, well-funded, Digital Assets Trading company, has a new opportunity for a Senior Rust Developer to help shape the build of their investment platforms.This greenfield opportunity would suit a dynamic Software Engineer that likes to collaborate and enjoys working in...