Senior Research Platform Engineer - Scale Backtests Faster

Acquire Me; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Acquire Me in London is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Research Platform to help researchers develop, test and deploy trading strategies. You will work on distributed systems and data infrastructure that power the research loop.

The role focuses on making experiments faster, backtesting at scale, and moving successful ideas into production, with close collaboration with quantitative researchers. Applicants should have strong CS fundamentals and experience building production systems, plus

Qualifications

• Strong CS fundamentals and experience building production systems.
• Proficiency in Python, C++ or Java.
• Experience with distributed systems, large-scale data or compute-intensive infrastructure.
• Interest in solving hard engineering problems where performance and correctness matter.

Responsibilities

• Build distributed systems and infrastructure for large-scale quantitative research.
• Increase speed and scale of experimentation and backtesting.
• Improve accuracy, reliability and reproducibility of research workflows.
• Build systems for processing and analysing large volumes of financial data.
• Collaborate with researchers to identify bottlenecks and engineer solutions.
• Shorten the time between a promising research idea and a live trading strategy.

Skills

CS fundamentals

Python

C++

Java

Job description

Acquire Me in London is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Research Platform to help researchers develop, test and deploy trading strategies. You will work on distributed systems and data infrastructure that power the research loop.

The role focuses on making experiments faster, backtesting at scale, and moving successful ideas into production, with close collaboration with quantitative researchers. Applicants should have strong CS fundamentals and experience building production systems, plus