Technical Lead- Tech-Driven Quant Fund

eFinancialCareers; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Bonus scheme

Flexible working

Social events and company trips

Job summary

eFinancialCareers Ltd is seeking a senior engineer to be the tech lead for a core engineering team. You will own the roadmap, drive strong design and architecture practices, and actively code on critical distributed systems for live trading.

You will mentor a high-performing group, structure teams, and work across finance and tech domains. Strong leadership and communication are key, especially in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on coding experience in any languages.
• Solid experience as a team lead, including mentoring and day-to-day management.
• Experience with distributed systems is essential.
• Linux experience would be hugely advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Lead a tech team as the technical owner and road-map driver.
• Build and maintain distributed systems and live trading infrastructure.
• Mentor engineers and foster a high-performing, collaborative team.
• Drive design, architecture practices and refactor legacy components.

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.