Software Engineer/ Site Reliability Engineer - Selby Jennings

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

Job summary

Not disclosed company is seeking a software engineer to join a quant hedge fund’s greenfield project for a bare metal trading platform. You’ll own the system design, deployment, and daily operations of the production environment, including physical servers, networking, and the observability stack.

You will collaborate with traders, researchers, and developers to ensure ultra-low latency and reliable trading workflows, while solving complex issues in real time and turning fixes into engineered

Qualifications

• Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering.
• Strong problem-solving skills and deep understanding of computer-science fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience with Linux systems and production-scale deployments.

Responsibilities

• Own system design, deployment, configuration and daily operation of the production platform.
• Interface with traders, researchers, and developers to keep the platform reliable.
• Manage observability stack and ensure fast, pragmatic fixes become robust solutions.
• Participate in on-call rota and ensure smooth operation of physical infra and trading environment.

Skills

Problem solving

Production reliability

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering

Tools

Linux systems

Infrastructure as Code

Observability tools

Low-latency trading systems

Trading protocols knowledge

Job description

Our client, a leading quant hedge fund is looking for a software engineer with a deep understanding of system design and reliability to join a bespoke group working towards the greenfield implementation of a bare metal trading platform. This is the unique opportunity to work with critical and complex issues within the production environment, applying pragmatic fixes in the moment which then become engineered solutions.

Your future role within QRT:

While participating in the team on-call rota, you will have broad and deep responsibility for the system design, deployment, configuration and daily operation of:

• The physical infrastructure, consisting of servers, switches, storage and other specialized hardware platforms
• the trading application environment, built from the artifacts continuously deployed by developers and researchers
• The observability stack for the entire platform
• The intent-driven system through which all elements are managed as a single coherent system

You will be responsible for interfacing with traders, researchers, application developers and other internal teams, as well as external service providers

You will be comfortable solving complex issues in a critical production environment, applying pragmatic fixes in the moment, which then become engineered solutions

Your Present Skillset:

• Bachelors/Masters/PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering
• Strong problem-solving skills and deep understanding of computer-science fundamentals
• Hands-on experience at with Linux systems
• Proven track record designing and delivering scalable systems in production environments
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools
• Deep understanding of servers, switches and operating systems
• Expertise in the synchronization and propagation of ultra-precise timing signals
• Knowledge of low-latency systems, trading environments, market data, or exchange protocols