Software Engineer – Engineering Tools

Overview

In this engineering role, you will contribute to a world-class trading system and help scale a petabyte-scale data platform. You’ll design and implement solutions that accelerate data and compute throughput, while applying best practices and owning end-to-end delivery. The position sits within a research-driven, collaborative environment that values deep exploration and methodical execution. You will work with modern languages and distributed systems to enable high-impact financial research and trading capabilities.

Pay / Benefits

• 35 days’ annual leave
• 9% company pension contributions
• comprehensive healthcare and life assurance
• lunch provided via Just Eat for Business
• cycle-to-work scheme
• monthly company events

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the evolution and operation of a world-class trading system
• Design and build solutions for a petabyte-scale data platform
• Continuously explore and develop ways to improve data and compute throughput at scale
• Demonstrate software engineering best practices

Key requirements

• Intelligent, pragmatic and capable engineer
• Proven ability to engineer high-quality software
• Appreciation of good architecture and engineering best practices
• End-to-end ownership of solutions: from articulation through to delivery
• Good understanding of fundamental algorithms and data structures
• Interest in finance and trading and its challenges
• Ability to collaborate with and influence technical and non-technical colleagues across the business
• Effective decision-making with a focus on mid to long term
• Enjoy working as part of a software development team

• collaboration
• communication
• ownership
• C#
• Python
• C++

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