Quantitative Trading Platform Engineer

Neptune North; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Neptune North, founded in 2024, builds the firmwide platform powering systematic research, trading and production operations across macro and equities.

You will write the code that powers signal generation, execution, backtesting and risk monitoring; partner directly with the investment team to translate their work into production systems; and contribute to a single shared codebase used across asset classes.

Qualifications

• Strong Python and SQL skills for production-grade systems.
• Experience with data-processing tools (Polars, pandas, numpy).
• Proficiency in production engineering: CI/CD, container deployment, monitoring and alerting.
• Undergraduate degree in a relevant subject.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the data flow and backtesting framework for systematic trading.
• Design low-touch execution systems integrated with OMS/EMS and broker algos.
• Implement observability, alerting, and runbooks for production resilience.
• Scale storage, caching, and data-transfer for intraday signal generation.
• Maintain the research/ML platform from notebooks to deployment pipelines.
• Collaborate with the investment team to translate requirements into scalable tooling.

Skills

Python

SQL

Polars

Pandas

NumPy

Airflow

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Monitoring

Observability

Data pipelines

Education

Undergraduate degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Airflow

Job description

Neptune North, founded in 2024, builds the firmwide platform powering systematic research, trading and production operations across macro and equities.

You will write the code that powers signal generation, execution, backtesting and risk monitoring; partner directly with the investment team to translate their work into production systems; and contribute to a single shared codebase used across asset classes.