Senior Software Engineer

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London, United kingdom

Full Time

31-03-2025

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Job Specifications

A leading global hedge fund is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join their Equities Research team. They are building cutting-edge platforms for real-time portfolio analytics, strategy simulation, and risk assessment.

What you will do:
Design and develop high-performance real-time analytics solutions.
Build next-gen portfolio management tools in close partnership with front office teams.
Work across technologies like SLURM, Kafka, Redis, and time-series databases.
Lead a small team and own key products end-to-end.

What we are looking for:
10+ years of Python experience on Linux.
Financial services background (Equities a plus).
Strong knowledge of data structures, real-time systems, and scalable architecture.
Experience mentoring or leading development teams.

Bonus:
Experience with KDB, portfolio optimisation tools, and monitoring stacks like Datadog or ELK.

About the Company

Stanford Black is one of London's leading technology and trading recruitment firms; with all of the experience, resources and contacts you need to take full advantage of today's fast moving business environments. Stanford Black connects leading hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, investment banks, scientific research houses, big data analytics firms and ambitious tech start-ups with the highest calibre professionals at every level. We source only the best candidates from an array of backgrounds and institutions and a... Know more