Trading Systems Software Developer – Systematic Market Maker

Company: Quant Capital
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

In this role you will build and maintain latency-optimised trading platforms for systematic market-making across global venues. You’ll collaborate with researchers and analysts to deploy models into production and design flexible, high-performance architecture. The focus is on real-time pricing, market connectivity, execution, and risk logic within a fast-moving, autonomous engineering team. You’ll ship live systems that handle billions in volume daily, balancing speed, reliability and scalability. This is an impact-driven opportunity to shape trading infrastructure at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain low-latency trading platforms across asset classes
  • Design pricing and risk logic, market data processing, and order handling
  • Optimise data flow and system throughput under real-time constraints
  • Implement core components in Kotlin (with experience in C++ and legacy Python/Java)
  • Engineer for reliability—testing, monitoring and rapid fault recovery

Key requirements

  • Solid command of CS fundamentals—algorithms, architecture, systems
  • Advanced experience in Kotlin or Java (Other languages considered C#/F#/C++)
  • Deep familiarity with Linux environments and system-level APIs
  • Experience with high-throughput, low-latency systems
  • Ability to work independently and review code for correctness and clarity
  • independent work style
  • clear code review
  • collaboration with researchers and analysts
  • Kotlin
  • Java
  • C++

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Posted: September 14th, 2026