Real-Time Trading Data Engineer

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

Job summary

Hunter Bond seeks a highly capable engineer to join a small, specialised team responsible for a real-time risk and trading data platform powering systematic strategies. You will design high-reliability platforms handling large trading volumes with strict latency and accuracy requirements.

The role sits at the intersection of distributed systems, market data, and quantitative trading, with ownership of end-to-end systems in a mission-critical environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years building production software or data systems.
• Comfortable with high-volume data pipelines and distributed services.
• Ownership mindset to take complex systems from design to production.

Responsibilities

• Build high-performance data services and pipelines for real-time portfolio monitoring.
• Develop tools for risk, exposures, and performance analysis for investment teams.
• Automate critical trading lifecycle workflows across derivatives and multi-asset portfolios.
• Collaborate with traders and quantitative researchers.
• Own end-to-end systems in a mission-critical trading environment.

Skills

CS fundamentals

Distributed systems

High-volume data

Performance-sensitive

Ownership mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kafka

Spark

Java/Scala

Job description

Hunter Bond seeks a highly capable engineer to join a small, specialised team responsible for a real-time risk and trading data platform powering systematic strategies. You will design high-reliability platforms handling large trading volumes with strict latency and accuracy requirements.

The role sits at the intersection of distributed systems, market data, and quantitative trading, with ownership of end-to-end systems in a mission-critical environment.