Trading Systems Engineer
Qube Research & Technologies6 hours ago
Base Salary
$180k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain production-grade applications, services, and APIs for QRT’s global trading platform.
- Build shared platforms, reusable capabilities, modern web applications, and operational tools for trading and engineering workflows.
- Design scalable distributed and event-driven systems integrating with trading platforms, market data services, and internal infrastructure.
- Build deployment tooling, release automation, self-service capabilities, and automated workflows for data processing and operational tasks.
- Design latency-sensitive software with strong performance, reliability, scalability, observability, monitoring, alerting, recovery, and failure handling.
- Collaborate with traders, quantitative researchers, operations teams, infrastructure engineers, cloud engineers, and DevOps engineers.
- Contribute to technical architecture and technology evaluations, and own software through implementation, production support, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- At least five years of experience developing and supporting production-grade software.
- Strong programming and software engineering skills in one or more of Python, Java, Go, Node.js, or C++.
- Experience designing maintainable, testable, and scalable applications and services.
- Strong understanding of software design principles, data structures, algorithms, and engineering fundamentals.
- Experience with RESTful APIs, distributed systems, or event-driven architectures.
- Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes, and delivery technologies such as CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with public cloud technologies, preferably AWS.
- Understanding of messaging technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
- Experience designing for reliability, observability, performance, and failure recovery.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and the ability to explain engineering trade-offs.
- Ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits
- Base salary range is $180,000 to $300,000 per year.
- Discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package are included in QRT total compensation.
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About Qube Research & Technologies
Qube Research & Technologies is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager that develops and trades data-driven strategies across liquid asset classes for institutional investors. The firm manages client capital and proprietary funds, earning management and performance fees. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in London, it operates with offices in 16 locations worldwide.