Senior Java Software Engineer

Budapest💼 Full-time🗓 2026-05-18 → 2026-09-26

Core

Maturing essential firmwide software systems for research and production trading pipelines to improve performance, scalability, and reliability.

Role type

Senior Java Software Engineer (Distributed Systems)

Builds

High-performance, scalable, mission-critical services for systematic financial strategies

Domain

Financial Services / Quantitative Trading

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Java, distributed systems, Kafka, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, performance optimization, system reliability

Preferred skills

Python, advanced storage technologies, high-performance systems experience

Technologies

Java, Kafka, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Distributed Systems

Responsibilities

Improve performance, scalability, and reliability of existing trading systems; develop new features; work with researchers and portfolio managers

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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About WorldQuant

WorldQuant develops and deploys systematic financial strategies across a broad range of asset classes and global markets. We seek to produce high-quality predictive signals (alphas) through our proprietary research platform to employ financial strategies focused on market inefficiencies. Our teams work collaboratively to drive the production of alphas and financial strategies – the foundation of a balanced, global investment platform.