Distributed Trade Tech Software Engineer – Real-Time Systems

G-Research; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual discretionary bonus

Lunch provided

35 days’ annual leave

9% pension contributions

Informal dress code

Healthcare and life assurance

Job summary

G-Research, based in London, is hiring Software Engineers for the Trade Technology function to design, build and maintain the globally distributed trading system. You will own the engineering infrastructure supporting deployment automation, real‑time diagnostics and fault‑tolerant operations.

Join a team that values clean, maintainable code, rigorous engineering practices, and a business‑value mindset, with highly competitive compensation and a discretionary bonus.

Qualifications

• Strong background in software engineering, ideally in distributed, real‑time systems.
• Experience in at least one typed language, such as Java, Kotlin, C#, C++ or Rust.
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies, such as Kubernetes, in production environments.
• A passion for developing robust, maintainable software, that's well monitored in production.

Responsibilities

• Designing, building and evolving production‑grade trading platforms and services end‑to‑end
• Optimising software performance, throughput and efficiency at scale
• Contributing to the reliability and operational excellence of critical systems, including participation in production support rotations
• Applying strong software engineering practices across testing, code quality, automation and observability
• Participating in a shared production support rotation, responding to incidents, troubleshooting runtime issues and driving improvements

Skills

Distributed real-time systems

Java

Kotlin

C#

C++

Rust

Kubernetes

Observability

Testing

Code quality

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

G-Research, based in London, is hiring Software Engineers for the Trade Technology function to design, build and maintain the globally distributed trading system. You will own the engineering infrastructure supporting deployment automation, real‑time diagnostics and fault‑tolerant operations.

Join a team that values clean, maintainable code, rigorous engineering practices, and a business‑value mindset, with highly competitive compensation and a discretionary bonus.