Quant Strategy Software Engineer for Live Trading

Hunter Bond; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Hunter Bond is working with a leading quantitative trading firm to hire a Strategy-focused Software Engineer for an established intraday trading team in London. You will translate quantitative ideas into scalable production code, build strategy components for research and live trading, and advance backtesting and research infrastructure.

You will collaborate with quants and traders to deploy robust, high-performance systems and help scale trading technology across the organization in a

Qualifications

• Experience building, deploying and supporting production systems.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to make pragmatic engineering decisions.
• Excellent communication skills and the confidence to operate in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Exposure to multiple technologies or programming languages is highly desirable; C++ experience would be a plus.

Responsibilities

• Translate quantitative ideas and trading signals into scalable, production-quality code.
• Design, build and maintain strategy components used across research and live trading.
• Develop and enhance backtesting, simulation and research infrastructure.
• Work across data, research and production environments to get strategies from concept to deployment.
• Investigate and resolve technical issues across multiple platforms and technology stacks.
• Partner directly with quants and traders, balancing robustness, performance and speed of delivery.
• Help scale successful research and trading technology across the wider firm.

Skills

Production systems

Problem-solving

Communication

CI/CD

Education

BSc or MSc in Computer Science

Tools

C++

Job description

Hunter Bond is working with a leading quantitative trading firm to hire a Strategy-focused Software Engineer for an established intraday trading team in London. You will translate quantitative ideas into scalable production code, build strategy components for research and live trading, and advance backtesting and research infrastructure.

You will collaborate with quants and traders to deploy robust, high-performance systems and help scale trading technology across the organization in a