Trading Systems Engineer
Qube Research & Technologies3 days ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain production-grade applications, services, APIs, and shared platforms for QRT’s trading environment.
- Build modern web applications and operational tools that improve trading workflow visibility, control, and efficiency.
- 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 appropriate performance, reliability, scalability, monitoring, alerting, recovery, and failure handling.
- Partner with traders, quantitative researchers, operations teams, infrastructure engineers, cloud engineers, and DevOps engineers.
- Own software across its lifecycle, from design and implementation through production support and continuous improvement.
- Contribute to technical designs, architectural decisions, and technology evaluations.
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.
- Experience with containerization, orchestration, and delivery technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with public cloud technologies, preferably AWS.
- Understanding of messaging technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
- Experience considering reliability, observability, performance, and failure recovery in production systems.
- 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
- The employer offers initiatives and programs intended to support a healthy work-life balance.
- QRT is an equal opportunity employer and emphasizes an open, respectful, and diverse workplace.
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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.