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XTX Markets, a leader in algorithmic trading, seeks a Software Developer for the Shared Engineering team. This role involves developing robust infrastructure tools and collaborating on complex systems. Candidates should have strong coding skills, particularly in Go or Python, with experience in Linux and networking fundamentals. The position offers extensive benefits, including a flexible work schedule and a comprehensive health plan.
XTX Markets is a leading algorithmic trading firm which uses state-of-the-art machine learning technology to produce price forecasts for over 50,000 financial instruments across equities, fixed income, currencies, commodities and crypto. It uses those forecasts to trade on exchanges and alternative trading venues, and to offer differentiated liquidity directly to clients worldwide. The firm trades over $250bn a day across 35 countries and has over 250 employees based in London, Singapore, New York, Paris, Bristol, Mumbai, Yerevan and Kajaani.
We leverage the talent of the people who work here, modern computational techniques and state-of-the-art research infrastructure to analyse large data sets across markets quickly and efficiently, to maximize the effectiveness of our proprietary trading algorithms. We are actively seeking new methods and ideas. The models that drive our trading strategies have evolved considerably over the last 10 years, from econometric methods that gave our company its name, to trees, to neural networks, to modern deep learning architectures.
XTX Markets has an unrivalled level of computational resources in the trading industry, with a growing research cluster currently containing over 25,000 GPUs with 650 petabytes of usable storage. Teams across the firm include world-class researchers with backgrounds in pure math, programming, physics, computer science and machine learning. The firm is also constructing a large-scale data centre in Finland to future-proof its significant computational capabilities.
At XTX Markets technology is our business and we are a diverse organization which attracts outstanding talent from across all industry backgrounds. We are focused on teamwork and our people collaborate on all aspects of the business, working openly and with respect for each other, our clients and the market. Our culture is non-hierarchical and one where everyone is valued. We strive for excellence in everything we do.
The Role
The Shared Engineering team at XTX Markets develop systems and infrastructure which the rest of the firm relies on. Our aim to is to produce robust tools and services so that other teams can help themselves use them with minimal oversight.
This software development role is ideal for someone who is interested in solving infrastructure-level problems in the simplest manner possible using concise and efficient code. We develop in Go, but knowledge of this language is not required up-front.
Some examples of the products we develop and maintain are:
In addition, we operate the traditional infrastructure relied on by other teams, especially post-trade and low-latency OTC trading systems. You can expect to get your hands on servers, network switches and storage systems as well as writing code to manage these elements.
Responsibilities
Some knowledge of these technologies is desirable, but not essential for a successful application: