Senior Software Engineer — End-to-End Trading Systems

Oxford Knight; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxford Knight is partnering with a leading prop trading firm in London to hire a Senior Software Engineer for the trading team. The role covers the full stack: data ingestion, backtesting, production deployment, execution, real-time monitoring, diagnostics and post-trade analysis.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of hands-on software engineering, strong system design skills, and experience building data-intensive, reliable systems in a fast-paced trading environment. Python is ideal.

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on software engineering experience designing, building, and operating complex systems.
• Experience with end-to-end systematic trading stacks is preferred.
• Strong system design, testing, observability, and maintainability required.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate research and production infrastructure for trading strategies.
• Own data ingestion, backtesting, deployment, and real-time monitoring.
• Contribute to diagnostics, post-trade analysis, and long-term system reliability.

Skills

Python

System design

Trading stack

Observability

Reliability

Job description

Oxford Knight is partnering with a leading prop trading firm in London to hire a Senior Software Engineer for the trading team. The role covers the full stack: data ingestion, backtesting, production deployment, execution, real-time monitoring, diagnostics and post-trade analysis.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of hands-on software engineering, strong system design skills, and experience building data-intensive, reliable systems in a fast-paced trading environment. Python is ideal.