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Post-Trade Software Engineer (Java/Python)- Market-Leading Global Hedge Fund

Oxford KnightLondon🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 12 Oct 2026

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Full Time
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
London, United Kingdom
Posted
14 hours ago
AgileJavaPython

Job Description

Fantastic opportunity to join a world-leading alternative investment manager, using innovative and cutting-edge technology. Forget the stuffy world of finance you thought you knew; developers here are tech-driven and truly world-class. Now looking to hire a strong Software Engineer, with Java and/or Python expertise, to join Post-Trade Engineering where you'll own systems end-to-end and build platforms that directly underpin the business.
In this role, you'll develop and operate the mission-critical software platforms that support the firm across the full post-trade lifecycle. These distributed systems process millions of transactions every day while supporting the most important business functions, including Operations, Treasury, Risk and SRE.
Joining this team offers the opportunity to work across several business domains, each with its own unique challenges. If you're excited by distributed systems, ownership, solving difficult engineering problems at scale, and building software that directly powers one of the world's leading investment firms, this role is for you!
Requirements
  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Strong hands-on development experience in Java and/or Python
  • Excellent CompSci fundamentals, including OO design, concurrency, distributed systems, and system design
  • Experience building and owning production software
  • Experience designing scalable distributed applications
  • Strong communication & collaboration skills at all levels of technical ability

Benefits
  • Significant salary + bonus + benefits
  • Build complex software solutions to solve challenging problems in agile environment
  • Work with some of the smartest minds in the industry from a range of backgrounds

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 feel you are a good match, please don't hesitate to get in touch:
Maia Ellis
maia.ellis@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3745 6539
linkedin.com/in/maia-ellis-38a577193

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