Strategy Software Engineer for Live Trading and Research

Hunter Bond; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Hunter Bond is seeking a Strategy-focused Software Engineer to join a leading quantitative trading team in London. You will sit at the intersection of software engineering, quantitative research and live trading, turning research ideas into robust production systems.

You’ll collaborate with quants and traders to develop, test and deploy new trading signals, while improving backtesting and research infrastructure across data, research and production environments.

Qualifications

• Experience building, deploying and supporting production systems.
• Comfortable working with trading, quantitative research or other highly technical teams.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to make pragmatic engineering decisions.
• Excellent communication skills and the confidence to operate in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Exposure to multiple technologies or programming languages is highly desirable; C++ experience would be a plus.
• BSc or MSc in Computer Science or similar.

Responsibilities

• Translate quantitative ideas and trading signals into scalable, production-quality code.
• Design, build and maintain strategy components used across research and live trading.
• Develop and enhance backtesting, simulation and research infrastructure.
• Work across data, research and production environments to get strategies from concept to deployment.
• Investigate and resolve technical issues across multiple platforms and technology stacks.
• Partner directly with quants and traders, balancing robustness, performance and speed of delivery.
• Help scale successful research and trading technology across the wider firm.

Skills

Production systems

Collaboration with quants

Problem solving

Communication

C++ (nice to have)

Software engineering

Education

BSc/MSc in Computer Science

Tools

CI/CD

Job description

Hunter Bond is seeking a Strategy-focused Software Engineer to join a leading quantitative trading team in London. You will sit at the intersection of software engineering, quantitative research and live trading, turning research ideas into robust production systems.

You’ll collaborate with quants and traders to develop, test and deploy new trading signals, while improving backtesting and research infrastructure across data, research and production environments.