CareerPlan

Software Engineer (Any OO)- Systematic Hedge Fund

London, England, GBFull-time£200k2026-10-21 → 2026-11-10
On-site

Core

Develop proprietary trading strategies, technology, and algorithms for a systematic hedge fund, focusing on ultra-low latency and high-performance code to execute tens of thousands of trades per second.

Role type

Senior IC software engineer (trading systems)

Builds

Core trading systems and in-house developed trading applications

Domain

Financial services / Systematic trading

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Object-oriented programming (C++/Java/C#), high-performance code development, ultra-low latency optimization, multithreaded software development, cross-platform development (Windows/Linux), software development methodologies (Scrum/Agile)

Preferred skills

Mission-critical real-time systems experience, network software development, financial markets knowledge

Responsibilities

Work with traders to implement new ideas and enhance trading applications, maintain system scalability, improve trading algorithms and system performance, produce best-in-class trading tools

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC