Quant Systems Developer

Company: Quant Capital
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

You join a core systems engineering team to build and maintain scalable, low-latency infrastructure that underpins high‑performance trading and large-scale research. You will shape distributed compute and storage solutions, tuning performance across the stack and developing internal tools to manage reliability and lifecycle. This role blends hands-on engineering with cross-team collaboration to meet evolving trading and research needs. Expect impactful work that directly supports data processing and strategy execution at scale, in a fast-paced, confidential environment.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain large-scale compute and storage systems used across trading and research
  • Architect and implement distributed workload scheduling and fleet orchestration, with performance tuning for a large server estate
  • Build internal tools for system performance, reliability, and SDLC lifecycle management
  • Tackle bottlenecks across kernel, file system, and network layers to support low-latency, high-throughput apps
  • Contribute to infrastructure monitoring, data collection pipelines, and real-time analytics
  • Collaborate with teams to align design with trading and research requirements

Key requirements

  • Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent hands-on experience (up to 5 years)
  • Solid programming ability in Python, Golang, Rust, or similar
  • Experience with Linux environments and networking fundamentals (desirable)
  • Excellent communication and collaborative, high-performance work style
  • Strong organizational and time-management capabilities
  • Curiosity, initiative, and ownership of complex problems
  • excellent communication
  • collaboration
  • time management
  • Python
  • Golang
  • Rust

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Posted: October 1st, 2026