Senior Software Engineer - Systematic Trading & Research

Mondrian Alpha; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Mondrian Alpha is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join its systematic trading team. The role involves hands-on work across research-to-production lifecycle, building trading systems, market data connectivity, and analytics infrastructure using Python and C++.

You will collaborate with quantitative researchers and traders, own projects end-to-end, and contribute to highly available distributed systems with low latency requirements in a globally distributed setup.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience using Python or C++.
• Proven experience building complex, business-critical software that is reliable and maintainable.
• Experience developing highly available distributed systems with tight latency constraints.
• Understanding of computer networking and the trade-offs involved in system design.
• Knowledge of type systems, fundamental statistics and numerical methods.
• Previous experience developing software within a trading environment.
• Strong communication skills, initiative and a desire to continuously learn.
• Experience working with quantitative researchers is advantageous.
• Familiarity with machine learning concepts, functional programming, Cython or integrating Python and C++ is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain software supporting research, trading and post-trade workflows.
• Build systems for market data processing, signal computation, portfolio optimisation and execution management.
• Develop and improve trading infrastructure, monitoring and observability tooling.
• Test and document software to ensure reliability, maintainability and performance.
• Collaborate closely with quantitative researchers, traders and fellow engineers.
• Take ownership of projects from initial requirements through to delivery, with on-call support as required.

Skills

Strong communication

Collaboration

Ownership

On-call mindset

Learning mindset

Tools

Python

C++

Job description

Mondrian Alpha is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join its systematic trading team. The role involves hands-on work across research-to-production lifecycle, building trading systems, market data connectivity, and analytics infrastructure using Python and C++.

You will collaborate with quantitative researchers and traders, own projects end-to-end, and contribute to highly available distributed systems with low latency requirements in a globally distributed setup.