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Senior Quantitative Engineer, Systematic Cross Commodity

London, United KingdomFull-time2026-08-07 → 2026-10-21
On-site · United Kingdom

Core

Senior engineer building core software and technical infrastructure for a systematic trading team, focusing on alpha research tools, production systems for feature engineering, portfolio construction, and trade execution.

Role type

Senior IC quantitative engineer (systematic trading)

Builds

Alpha research tooling, real-time event-driven systems for signal computation and execution, core systems for data ingestion and distributed compute

Domain

Systematic trading, quantitative finance

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, C++, distributed systems design, real-time event-driven architecture, numerical computing, data structures, networking, databases, operating systems, DevOps

Preferred skills

Docker, Kubernetes, Ceph, MongoDB, Kafka, Numpy, Polars, Scikit-learn, PyTorch, CICD methodologies, large-scale time series processing

Technologies

Python, C++, Docker, Kubernetes, Ceph, MongoDB, Kafka, Numpy, Polars, Scikit-learn, PyTorch

Responsibilities

Develop sophisticated research tooling for alpha discovery; Develop real-time event-driven systems for signal computation, trade-decision-making, and execution; Design, implement, and maintain core systems for real-time data ingestion, retrieval, and distributed compute; Oversee system operations to ensure resilience and detect defects

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC