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Senior Software Engineer, Trading Team- Tech-Driven Prop Trading Firm

Oxford KnightLondon🇬🇧United Kingdom

Why this role stands out

This hybrid role offers you the chance to build and operate critical trading infrastructure at a leading prop trading firm, with significant impact and ownership across the full technology stack. You'll thrive here if you have a strong background in building complex, data-intensive systems and are eager to develop your skills in a high-performance, collaborative engineering culture with competitive compensation. Apply now to join this dynamic team and contribute to innovative trading strategies!

Quick overview

SeniorityMid Senior
Employment typeFull Time
Work modeHybrid
LocationLondon, United Kingdom
PythonSystem Design

Job description

My client is a leading tech-driven prop trading firm, trading their own capital across a broad range of asset classes, instruments and strategies in markets worldwide. They are looking for exceptional software developers to to design, build, and operate research and production infrastructure for mid-frequency equity statistical arbitrage strategies.
This is a hands-on engineering role with ownership across the full trading stack, including data ingestion, research tooling, back testing, production strategy deployment, execution integration, real-time monitoring, diagnostics, and post-trade analysis.
The ideal candidate has experience building end-to-end systematic trading systems in a hedge fund or proprietary trading environment. Strong software engineers from technology companies (or adjacent domains) who have built complex, data-intensive systems with high standards for correctness, reliability, scalability, and long-term maintainability are also encouraged to apply.
Requirements:
  • 5+ years' hands-on software engineering experience, designing, building and operating systems with high complexity (Python would be ideal)
  • Familiarity with the end-to-end systematic trading stack
  • Strong system design skills and sound engineering judgment
  • High standards for correctness, reliability, testing, observability, and maintainability

Benefits:
  • Strong base salaries + bonus + generous benefits
  • Join a relaxed but high-performance engineering culture with the chance to make a real impact
  • Feel valued for your input and get rewarded for great ideas

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
To apply for this role, or for further information, please contact:
Maia Ellis
maia.ellis@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3745 6539
linkedin.com/in/maia-ellis-38a577193

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