Software Developer- Leading Quant-Driven Market-Maker | London, UK

Oxford Knight; London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology firm in London seeks a Software Developer with strong coding abilities to enhance their electronic market-making platforms. Candidates should have a strong programming background and be able to adopt new languages quickly. This role offers a competitive salary and impressive benefits, including on-site facilities and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Generous compensation package

Outstanding benefits including medical cover

Onsite gym/sauna/fitness classes

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Demonstrable automation experience of new tools impacting users positively.
• Very strong coding abilities in Go, Python, C or Bash.
• Evidence of building excellent inter-team relationships.

Responsibilities

• Designing and developing platforms for electronic market-making.
• Continuously improving systems using commercial and open-source products.

Skills

Strong coding abilities

Fluent programming skills in any language

Good working knowledge of Linux

Ability to adopt new languages quickly

Expert use of development tools (git, etc.)

Tools

Docker

Prometheus/Grafana

Elasticsearch

Puppet/Terraform

Job description

Software Developer- Leading Quant-Driven Market-Maker

Software Developer- Leading Quant-Driven Market-Maker

Salary: up to £150k + bonus

Summary

This is a superb opportunity for a proactive and pragmatic coder to join an award-winning, tech-savvy algorithmic trading firm in London. Specialists within electronic market-making in FX, equity, fixed income and commodity markets, they have one of the best names in the industry and attract the top talent.

As part of the team that oversees the infrastructure used by the rest of the firm, your main focus will be designing, developing and continually improving these platforms, using a combination of commercial products, open-source software and custom code. Some examples of recent products: in-house job scheduling system; custom Kerberos infrastructure and related tools; standardised open-source and in-house Linux distributions.

Fluent programming skills in any language are a must-have. (They use Go for their systems, but also Python, C and Bash - experience in these is not necessary, but you must be be willing and able to quickly adopt new languages as necessary.)

Requirements

• Demonstrable automation experience of how new tools you introduced impacted positively on users outside your immediate team
• Very strong coding abilities (Go, Python, C and/or Bash experience a plus)
• Good working knowledge of Linux, TCP/IP networking, and storage technologies
• Evidence of building excellent relationships with peers both inside a team and across an organisation
• Expert use of standard development tools, e.g. git, IDEs, CI/CD and test-driven development techniques

Nice to Have

• Related development experience in any of these fields: Docker, Prometheus/Grafana, Elasticsearch, Puppet/Terraform, hardware/networking/storage.
• Previous knowledge of trading systems

NB: Please don't apply if you're a fresh graduate.

Benefits

• Generous compensation package - you are making a direct impact on the PnL
• Flat hierarchy, focus on teamwork, where people are rewarded on merit and excellence
• Outstanding benefits, including onsite gym/sauna/fitness classes, extensive medical cover, and excellent professional development opportunities
• Cutting-edge, beautiful offices in central London

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Contact
If this sounds like you or you'd like to know more, please get in touch:

Andy Stirling-Martin
[e-mail]
020 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946

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