Venture Search
About the Company
Delivering high-performing recruitment solutions through collaborative partnerships.
By fully immersing ourselves in key specialist markets, we truly understand our clients’ and candidates’ specific requirements, enabling us to provide credible insights, bespoke solutions, and successful recruitment outcomes.
Our market specialisms include:
- Investment Banking & Advisory
- Public & Private Markets
- Global Markets
- Hedge Funds & Proprietary Trading
- Commodities
- Financial Technology
- Governance, Risk, & Compliance
Listed Jobs
- Company Name
- Venture Search
- Job Title
- Quantitative Developer
- Job Description
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Quant Developer
London
Global Hedge Fund
up to 250k GBP base + Bonus
Role:
Quantitative developer who will join a small engineering team within the Central research technology Team that works closely with systematic Portfolio Managers to help them build, operate, and evolve their technical stack. The developer will analyze their business requirements and develop solutions to shorten their time-to-market and/or upgrade their existing platform.
You will be exposed to all aspects of the systematic investing business and you must be ready to solve all the technical challenges associated with that within the context of a modular platform. You will be closely associated with the Portfolio Managers success. This is a unique opportunity to grow your career with the team while building the next generation of research and quant trading systems.
Responsibilities:
Working on all types of systems used in the systematic investment business and participating in the development of a modular system that is used to solve these challenges:
Data pipelines
Intraday signal research tools
Mid and high frequency trading and backtesting
Real time market data
Technical and financial monitoring systems
GUIs
Data storage, time series database, event correlation
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
2-5 years of experience in a technically demanding industry such as high frequency trading, computer hardware, or gaming
Very strong C++ proficiency
Python fluency
Linux administration skills
Familiarity with computer architecture, databases, real time systems, and distributed computing
Detail oriented
Strong and precise written and verbal communication
Team player with strong pride of ownership
Commitment to the highest ethical standards
London, United Kingdom
Remote
29-01-2025
- Company Name
- Venture Search
- Job Title
- Software Developer- High-Frequency Trading Firm
- Job Description
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Software Developer
Leading Prop Trading Firm
London
Our client, a leading prop trading firm based in London, are looking for a Quant Developer to join their high-performance team.
As a Software Developer, your aim is to improve the firm's trading stack in any way that will make its trading strategies more competitive and profitable. In a high-frequency trading environment, this often means improving the end-to-end latency of the trading platform or increasing the scalability and precision of execution of the trading strategies.
Requirements
Responsibilities
Your main responsibilities are developing and rapidly evolving their main software components:
Develop low latency trading engine and strategy runtime
Develop market data distribution platform (internal binary protocols)
Develop and maintain exchange API connectivity and robust exchange connectors
Full automation around deployment and monitoring of a 24/7 trading system
Continuous profiling of trading system and strategy latency
Understand and reverse engineer exchange architectures
You will be part of a small development team that shares the responsibility of the whole trading stack. As you own the code, deployment and all tooling, you can rapidly and safely iterate on changes to the trading software.
Developers collaborate directly with traders and researchers, allowing for immediate reaction to market changes and fast iteration of live trading engines
Skill
Experience writing low-latency Java / C++ applications and architectures. HFT industry preferred but telecom and gaming industry experience also welcome
Ability to get the best performance out of application and networking stack of on-premise and cloud environment
Ability to benchmark, profile and trace full applications on Linux
Ability to find and resolve latency and throughput bottlenecks
Excited to pick up new skills to solve difficult problems (examples: eBPF, XDP, Intel PT)
The ideal profile has experience in the HFT industry combining software development and networking skills (TCP / UDP / multicast / WebSocket / HTTP).
While the firm is language agnostic, their current trading stack is mostly written in Java.
London, United Kingdom
On site
11-02-2025
- Company Name
- Venture Search
- Job Title
- Software Engineer- HFT Crypto Trading
- Job Description
-
Software Developer
Leading Prop Trading Firm
London
Our client, a leading prop trading firm based in London, are looking for a Quant Developer to join their high-performance team.
As a Software Developer, your aim is to improve the firm's trading stack in any way that will make its trading strategies more competitive and profitable. In a high-frequency trading environment, this often means improving the end-to-end latency of the trading platform or increasing the scalability and precision of execution of the trading strategies.
Requirements
Responsibilities
Your main responsibilities are developing and rapidly evolving their main software components:
Develop low latency trading engine and strategy runtime
Develop market data distribution platform (internal binary protocols)
Develop and maintain exchange API connectivity and robust exchange connectors
Full automation around deployment and monitoring of a 24/7 trading system
Continuous profiling of trading system and strategy latency
Understand and reverse engineer exchange architectures
You will be part of a small development team that shares the responsibility of the whole trading stack. As you own the code, deployment and all tooling, you can rapidly and safely iterate on changes to the trading software.
Developers collaborate directly with traders and researchers, allowing for immediate reaction to market changes and fast iteration of live trading engines
Skill
Experience writing low-latency Java / C++ applications and architectures. HFT industry preferred but telecom and gaming industry experience also welcome
Ability to get the best performance out of application and networking stack of on-premise and cloud environment
Ability to benchmark, profile and trace full applications on Linux
Ability to find and resolve latency and throughput bottlenecks
Excited to pick up new skills to solve difficult problems (examples: eBPF, XDP, Intel PT)
The ideal profile has experience in the HFT industry combining software development and networking skills (TCP / UDP / multicast / WebSocket / HTTP).
While the firm is language agnostic, their current trading stack is mostly written in Java.
London, United Kingdom
On site
13-02-2025