Senior Software Engineer - Research Data Platforms

Drweng; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

DRW is a diversified trading firm focused on sophisticated technology and exceptional people, building compute-intensive platforms for quant researchers. You will design and operate high-throughput data pipelines in C++ and Python, integrating with HPC clusters and live trading environments.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, scalability, and reliability, with mentoring responsibilities as you contribute to a team shipping production software in a research-driven context.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience building large-scale, high-performance systems.
• Daily use of modern C++ (>=17) and Python expected.
• Experience running compute at cluster scale with Slurm, Kubernetes, Ray, Spark, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain high-performance, scalable software and data systems used by quant researchers and trading teams.
• Implement raw exchange data pipelines in modern C++ and operate them at high-throughput scale.
• Orchestrate and improve reliability of data and compute pipelines on HPC clusters.
• Create ad-hoc computation frameworks and research tooling that let researchers slice, backtest, and iterate rapidly (Python + C++ integrations).
• Develop and maintain simulation frameworks tightly integrated with HFT/live trading platforms.
• Support training and deployment of quantitative models used in trading.
• Optimize codebases for performance, reliability, and resource efficiency across the full stack.
• Work primarily as a hands-on individual contributor while mentoring junior team members as needed.

Skills

C++17+

Python

HPC

Data pipelines

Distributed systems

System design

Concurrency

Research tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Slurm

Kubernetes

Ray

Spark

Job description

DRW is a diversified trading firm focused on sophisticated technology and exceptional people, building compute-intensive platforms for quant researchers. You will design and operate high-throughput data pipelines in C++ and Python, integrating with HPC clusters and live trading environments.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, scalability, and reliability, with mentoring responsibilities as you contribute to a team shipping production software in a research-driven context.