Technical Lead

Oxford Knight; England; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus scheme

Company trips

Parental leave

Flexible working

Autonomy

Job summary

Oxford Knight is seeking a senior engineer to act as tech lead for a core engineering team. You will drive design, architecture, and roadmap ownership while staying hands-on in building distributed systems in Linux using C++ or Python.

You will mentor others, shape a high-performing, collaborative group, and foster robust monitoring for live trading infrastructure, with opportunities to re-architect legacy systems as needed. The role offers significant autonomy and ownership.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on coding in any language.
• Experience as a team lead including mentoring and day-to-day management.
• Experience with distributed systems is essential.
• Linux experience highly advantageous.
• Outstanding communication skills at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of technology roadmap and design practices.
• Lead the build of distributed systems and live trading infrastructure.
• Mentor and structure a high-performing engineering team.
• Develop robust monitoring and observability for infrastructure.
• Re-architect legacy systems where needed.

Skills

Hands-on coding

Team leadership

Distributed systems

Linux experience

Communication

Job description

Not your standard algo trading firm, this company prides itself on building robust, fully automated technology to predict and trade on all liquid electronic financial markets. Instead of merely being a support function, technology is core to the business and is very much front and centre.

Looking to hire a senior engineer to be the tech lead for a team within core engineering. As a technical leader, you’ll have the opportunity to drive strong design and architecture practices, taking ownership of the roadmap. As a hands-on coder, your work will focus on building critical distributed systems, developing robust monitoring and observability for infrastructure as well as live trading, and some re-architecture of legacy systems.

The successful candidate will likely currently be a tech lead or team manager within finance, big tech, or gaming. You’ll have experience managing or mentoring others, structuring a team, and overseeing the output of a high performing, collaborative group of engineers.

In terms of the tech stack, it’s mainly C++ or Python in a Linux environment, embracing open source software. However, individuals who have programmed in different languages are welcome and encouraged to apply.

Requirements:

• Strong hands-on coding/programming experience in any languages
• Solid experience as a team lead, including mentoring, coaching and day-to-day management of team members
• Experience with distributed systems is essential
• Linux experience would be hugely advantageous
• Outstanding communication skills, able to interact at all levels of technical ability

Rewards and Incentives:

• Competitive pay + bonus scheme + generous benefits, including socials, company trips, parental leave, flexible working
• Huge amount of autonomy and ownership
• Truly collaborative between teams – not siloed like other firms
• Flexible personal development (funded training, coaching, postgrad study, etc.)

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.