Company: Millennium Management
Location: London
Job Description:
Overview
In this role you will advance our core trading technology, building and maintaining research tooling and real-time systems that support alpha discovery, signal computation, and execution. You’ll work closely with a small, collaborative London-based team to design robust data pipelines and distributed services. The role combines deep systems thinking with practical engineering to enable high-impact, technology-driven trading. You will help shape scalable infrastructure for multi-asset systematic strategies.
Responsibilities
- Develop sophisticated research tooling to enable and accelerate alpha discovery
- Build real-time, event-driven systems for signal computation, trade decisions, and execution
- Design, implement, and maintain core data ingestion, retrieval, and distributed compute systems for research and production
- Oversee operation of all components in the systems landscape to ensure resilience and defect detection
Key requirements
- 5+ years of experience in CS/engineering
- Strong computer science or engineering background
- Experience designing and implementing distributed systems and real-time event-driven systems
- Experience with large-scale time series data ingress, storage and processing
- Familiarity with quantitative trading architectures and data sources
- Proficiency in Python and C++ (or similar)
- Experience with CI/CD practices and release processes
- Strong communication, problem-solving, and analytical skills
- strong attention to detail
- pragmatic approach to robustness
- collaborative, startup-style teamwork
- Python
- C++
- distributed computing platforms: Docker, Kubernetes, Ceph, MongoDB, Kafka
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Posted: September 14th, 2026