Software Engineer - Hybrid Trading Systems & Infra

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

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.