Quantitative Developer: High-Performance Trading Systems

Stanford Black Limited; City Of London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Our client, a world-leading proprietary quantitative investment firm, seeks exceptional engineers to join a high-performance Java systems team in London. You will work alongside world-class quantitative researchers and traders on massive compute clusters and live trading platforms.

You will optimize simulation engines, scale distributed workloads across thousands of compute nodes, and contribute to high-throughput trading infrastructure. A top-tier technical or academic background is expected.

Qualifications

• Strong algorithms, data structures and systems fundamentals.
• Top-tier technical and/or academic background.

Responsibilities

• Optimise simulation engines running millions of strategy experiments.
• Scale distributed research workloads across thousands of compute nodes.
• Build high-performance Java systems used in live trading.

Skills

Algorithms

Data structures

Distributed systems

Java

Job description

Our client, a world-leading proprietary quantitative investment firm, seeks exceptional engineers to join a high-performance Java systems team in London. You will work alongside world-class quantitative researchers and traders on massive compute clusters and live trading platforms.

You will optimize simulation engines, scale distributed workloads across thousands of compute nodes, and contribute to high-throughput trading infrastructure. A top-tier technical or academic background is expected.