Summary

Lively, positive spirit of a start-up, with the stability of a longer-established player, this leading quant firm is looking for a dynamic engineer skilled in C++ on Linux to join one of their growing quant trading teams.

You'll collaborate extensively with traders and technologists to evolve, improve and maintain all elements of the team's infrastructure, including execution, signal generation, model building and back testing.

Developers here are highly valued and well-rewarded for hard work; technology is viewed as crucial to the firm's continued success. The successful C++ Software Engineer will be passionate about development, and enjoy solving difficult technical problems in a fast-paced and energetic environment. In return, you will be exposed to a wide range of interesting and challenging problems involving high performance computing, software design and big data.

Requirements

• 3+ years' experience in C / C++ development, including low-level and high-level optimization
• Fantastic instincts around performance vs simplicity tradeoffs; engineering for maintainability, extensibility and debuggability
• Solid experience of working on a Linux platform
• Self-starter who can work independently and is able to drive a project from inception through delivery
• Minimum bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Nice to Have

Experience in:

• Python or a willingness to pick it up quickly
• Distributed systems, multithreading and/or operating systems
• Extremely low-latency systems or dealing with exchange market data

Benefits

• Competitive base salary & bonus
• Enormous opportunity to grow, learn and have a significant business impact
• Contributions are rewarded; career progression supported
• Substantial benefits package, including private medical, paid parental leave, group life assurance & parking/cycle schemes

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Contact
If you would like to know more about this position, please do not hesitate to get in touch!

Mike McLoughlin
mike.mcloughlin@oxfordknight.co.uk
linkedin.com/in/michaelmcloughlin00