CareerPlan

Software Engineer - Trading Technology- Tier-1 Quantitative Trading

London, England, GBFull-time£200k–£500k2026-10-08 → 2026-11-10

Core

Building scalable backend services, event-driven architectures, and real-time trading platforms for Tier-1 quantitative trading firms.

Role type

Senior IC Software Engineer (Trading Technology)

Builds

Trading and execution systems, distributed compute, research platforms, data infrastructure, risk systems, and developer tooling.

Domain

Financial Technology / Quantitative Trading

Required skills

Excellent CS fundamentals, deep expertise in at least one modern programming language, strong system design ability, experience building complex production software, ownership from design through deployment, strong problem-solving

Preferred skills

Communication

Technologies

Java, C++, Python, Rust, Go, OCaml, C#

Responsibilities

Design and build distributed and event-driven systems, develop real-time trading platforms, construct research and simulation infrastructure, build large-scale data platforms, create execution and risk systems, develop APIs and internal platforms, build cloud and compute platforms