Software Engineer

PDT Partners; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

PDT Partners is a leading quantitative investment firm with a 30+ year track record. As a Software Engineer, you’ll build and maintain the technology powering our trading research, data pipelines, and execution systems.

This is a hybrid role based in London, requiring on-site presence at least 3 days per week. We value breadth, continuous learning, and long-term growth for engineers who tackle hard problems collaboratively.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in an Engineering or Applied Sciences field from a rigorous academic program or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience designing scalable and highly reliable software systems.
• Significant experience programming in an object-oriented programming language.
• Experience in and enthusiasm for scoping requirements and collaborating with colleague-clients.
• Knowledge of, or interest in, trading and finance is beneficial, but not required.

Responsibilities

• Builds and maintains the common infrastructure, including distributed locking, centralized logging, metrics, and container orchestration, to drive automation, reliability, and performance at scale.
• Engineers, architects, and operates PDT’s cloud and research environments, ensuring reliable and scalable infrastructure across the firm.
• Onboards and manages all external datasets consumed across PDT, building and maintaining the infrastructure to reliably download, parse, and validate data at scale.
• Engineers and maintains the systems that track trades, positions, and PnL, and reconcile the firm's view against brokers and fund administrators at scale.
• Owns and evolves PDT's core software stack, including packaging, builds, versioning, and CI/CD, while continuously identifying and closing gaps across the developer ecosystem.
• Engineers the real-time and historical systems that monitor trading activity, including PnL, alerting, and risk, and builds the tools that enable teams to diagnose issues fast and intervene with confidence.
• Develops and operates the real-time market data and trading platforms that connect PDT to brokers and venues globally, including order management, exchange connectivity, and execution infrastructure.

Skills

Software development

OOP

System design

Collaboration

Financial familiarity

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Engineering or Applied Sciences

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Distributed systems

Job description

At PDT, technology is a core driver of our business. Engineers tackle complex technical and quantitative challenges that advance our research methodology and investment approach.

We hire exceptionally talented engineers and give them room to grow in a dynamic, supportive environment. The people who thrive here value breadth, continuous learning, and long-term investment in their craft. They find energy in growth that comes from rotating through different teams across the organization. This kind of mobility is central to how we work, allowing engineers to build deep, varied skills and make meaningful impact over time.

Our hiring reflects this collaborative culture. We assess every candidate against one talent bar firmwide, then match engineers to the teams that best set them up for success.

As a Software Engineer at PDT, you'll build and maintain the technology that powers our quantitative trading business from the data that drives our models to the systems that execute every trade, and everything in between.

This is a hybrid position and will require the person to work from our London office at minimum 3 days a week

Application Platform

• Builds and maintains the common infrastructure, including distributed locking, centralized logging, metrics, and container orchestration, to drive automation, reliability, and performance at scale.

Cloud Infrastructure

• Engineers, architects, and operates PDT’s cloud and research environments, ensuring reliable and scalable infrastructure across the firm.

Data

• Onboards and manages all external datasets consumed across PDT, building and maintaining the infrastructure to reliably download, parse, and validate data at scale.
• Develops firm-wide frameworks and serve as a technical resource for researchers.

Post Trade

• Engineers and maintains the systems that track trades, positions, and PnL, and reconcile the firm's view against brokers and fund administrators at scale.
• Builds and evolves the reporting infrastructure and internal tooling that accounting, compliance and operational teams depend on.

Software Infrastructure

• Owns and evolves PDT's core software stack, including packaging, builds, versioning, and CI/CD, while continuously identifying and closing gaps across the developer ecosystem.

Trading Control

• Engineers the real-time and historical systems that monitor trading activity, including PnL, alerting, and risk, and builds the tools that enable teams to diagnose issues fast and intervene with confidence.

Trading Infrastructure

• Develops and operates the real-time market data and trading platforms that connect PDT to brokers and venues globally, including order management, exchange connectivity, and execution infrastructure.

Why join us?

PDT Partners has a stellar 30+ year track record and a reputation for excellence. Our goal is to be the best quantitative investment manager in the world measured by the quality of our products, not their size. PDT’s very high employee-retention rate speaks for itself. Our people are intellectually extraordinary, and our community is close-knit, down-to-earth, and diverse.

We want engineers who thrive where creativity and energy drive the solutions. At PDT, you’ll tackle hard problems collaboratively, with the focus, agility, and independence to assess a challenge and act. Your work directly shapes our success. For the right talent, the growth potential is enormous.

Below is a list of skills and experiences we think are relevant.

• 3+ years of professional software development experience
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in an Engineering or Applied Sciences field from a rigorous academic program or equivalent professional experience
• Experience designing scalable and highly reliable software systems
• Significant experience programming in an object-oriented programming language
• Experience in and enthusiasm for scoping requirements and collaborating with colleague-clients
• Knowledge of, or interest in, trading and finance is beneficial, but not required.

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