Senior Software Engineer - Research Tech & HPC Systems

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

Job summary

DRW is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Research Technology in London to design and operate high-performance data systems for quantitative research. You will build data pipelines, orchestration on HPC clusters, and simulation tooling, collaborating with researchers and trading teams.

We value autonomy and rapidly pivot to capture opportunities. The role emphasizes production software safety, scalability, and contributions across the stack, with onboarding for trading environments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience building large-scale, high-performance systems.
• Daily use of modern C++ (C++17) and Python expected.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain high-performance, scalable software and data systems used by 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 (Python + C++ integrations).
• Develop and maintain simulation frameworks tightly integrated with live trading platforms.
• Support training and deployment of quantitative models used in trading.
• Optimize code for performance, reliability, and resource efficiency across the stack.
• Work as a hands-on contributor while mentoring junior teammates.

Skills

C++

Python

Data structures

Algorithms

OS

Concurrency

System design

Networking

Tools

Slurm

Kubernetes

Ray

Spark

Parquet

Arrow

Job description

DRW is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Research Technology in London to design and operate high-performance data systems for quantitative research. You will build data pipelines, orchestration on HPC clusters, and simulation tooling, collaborating with researchers and trading teams.

We value autonomy and rapidly pivot to capture opportunities. The role emphasizes production software safety, scalability, and contributions across the stack, with onboarding for trading environments.