Senior Software Engineer - Quant Firm

Dex; City Of London; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech staffing agency in the UK seeks engineers to design and implement low-latency infrastructure for top-tier quantitative trading firms. The role involves architecting systems where performance is measured in microseconds, navigating technical challenges at the intersection of finance and advanced technology. This is an exciting opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and make significant contributions to trading strategies that operate on a vast scale.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement the critical path for trading execution.
• Build order management systems and market connectivity layers.

Job description

Job Description

This role is with one of Dex’s trusted Partner companies. We work closely with their teams to truly understand their culture, goals, and what they’re looking for, so we can match you with the right opportunity for your goals!

If you’re interested, apply here, or head to the website, where you can sign up and speak to Dex. After your call, you'll be sent the full match details. We’ll help manage your applications, and find other great matches to work you'll love.

The Opportunity

Dex is partners with some of the world’s most prestigious quantitative trading firms and systematic hedge funds. These organizations operate at the absolute bleeding edge of technology, treating the global financial markets as a complex data science problem. They are deploying massive compute clusters and proprietary machine learning models to trade billions of dollars daily. If you're an engineer who cares about nanoseconds, cache locality, and architecting petabyte-scale infrastructure, this is the pinnacle of technical challenge.

What You’ll Work On

• Architect Low-Latency Infrastructure: Design and implement the critical path for trading execution, building order management systems and market connectivity layers where performance is measured in microseconds.