Software Developer – Risk Technology

Company: SQUAREPOINT CAPITAL
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

In Risk Technology, you will design, build, and maintain Squarepoint’s trading risk platform to ensure accurate risk capture, position management, P&L, and data processing at high volumes. You’ll contribute to a major architectural shift toward service-oriented design and collaborate with a global, cross-functional team to deliver performant, resilient systems. This role offers the chance to shape critical risk infrastructure and work on scalable, data-intensive problems. You will make an impact by enabling timely, reliable risk decisions in live and historical contexts.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build and maintain a high-performance trading risk platform
  • Contribute to a service-oriented architecture modernization
  • Ensure scalability and resilience for live and historical data processing
  • Collaborate with global, cross-functional teams to deliver engineering excellence
  • Optimize systems to handle high volumes of trading data efficiently

Key requirements

  • 4+ years’ C++ Linux development experience
  • Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms
  • Team player with excellent communication skills
  • team player
  • excellent communication
  • collaborative mindset
  • C++ on Linux
  • distributed systems / service-oriented architecture
  • high-performance code optimization

Posted: September 14th, 2026