Software Engineer - Data Lifecycle
Qube Research & Technologies2 months ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable, high-performance systems for trade and position lifecycle management.
- Automate lifecycle events such as corporate actions, expiries, and cash flows across asset classes.
- Build and maintain reference data platforms used by trading and research teams.
- Deliver real-time and end-of-day reporting pipelines for internal and external stakeholders.
- Ensure data accuracy, integrity, and consistency across systems and workflows.
- Contribute to system validation, controls, deployment pipelines, operational robustness, and alignment with brokers and fund administrators.
- Collaborate with trading, research, risk, operations, and other stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions.
- Write well-tested, maintainable code and support production systems while improving reliability, monitoring, and performance.
Requirements
- 5–10 years of software engineering experience, ideally in a high-performance or data-intensive environment.
- Strong programming skills in Python; experience with C# is a plus.
- Solid understanding of software design, architecture, and scalable systems.
- Experience working with SQL and relational databases.
- Familiarity with testing frameworks and CI/CD practices.
- Exposure to financial markets, trade and position lifecycle systems, equities, ETFs, futures, options, corporate actions, reference data, or exchange-specific market structure is valuable but not required.
- Strong problem-solving skills focused on performance, scalability, and data quality.
- Clear communication skills and the ability to collaborate in a fast-paced environment with evolving requirements.
Benefits
- Work on business-critical systems with direct impact on trading outcomes.
- Join a core engineering team with significant ownership and autonomy.
- Collaborate with traders, researchers, and engineers in a highly technical environment.
- Tackle complex data and systems challenges at scale.
- Access initiatives and programs supporting work-life balance.
- QRT is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and respectful collaboration.
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.