Graduate Software Engineer - Hedge Fund FinTech - Summer 2026 Start

The Client

My client is a market leading FinTech business that spun-out of one of the largest and most successful hedge funds in the world. Their offering is a suite of technology and investment management infrastructure services that they provide to the world's leading hedge funds and asset managers.

The are looking for 4 Graduate Software Engineers to join their team based in London.

Please note: my client is looking for someone to join them in Summer 2026.

What You'll Get

• An opportunity to play a key role in one of the most exciting hedge fund focused FinTech businesses in the world.

• An opportunity to work in a high talent density organisation, alongside an exceptional team who have joined the business from top tier hedge funds and other major financial markets institutions.

• Market leading compensation, including an annual discretionary bonus, regular salary reviews and ongoing opportunities for financial advancement.

• Benefits including pension, healthcare, life insurance, 26 days holiday and 10 further days working from wherever you want in the world amongst others.

What You'll Do

• The developers are organized into feature teams, with each feature team containing a mix of front and back-end skills. Within C# they have a mix of quant developers and software engineers bringing finance knowledge and enterprise scale software development respectively.
• The stack is comprised mostly of C# (.NET 10 onwards) services which call into a proprietary C++ quant library and present results via a React frontend. Hosted on Linux in AWS with large calculations distributed over many instances and messaging via Redis. Trades are ingested from third-party platforms via FIX feeds, with services primarily written in Scala and Java. Source control, CI, CD and issue tracking are all done in GitLab. Infrastructure is provisioned with Terraform, Docker and CloudFormation.
• The graduate scheme will involve multiple rotations across teams such as OMS/trade feed (Scala), Analytics (C++), Pricing and Engineering (C#), Data (C#) and DevOps/SRE (Python, C#). These rotations will provide a wide range of industry leading technical skills and introduce graduates to all areas of the core platform.

What You'll Need

• Recent graduate in Computer Science, Maths, Physics, Engineering or similar from a top tier university.
• Strong skills in at least one programming language.
• Knowledge of coding fundamentals e.g. modern software design principles, data structures, algorithms.
• Strong logical thinker who enjoys solving complex problems and is interested in exploring software development as a career.
• An analytical approach and an interest in technology and finance.
• Great communication skills and the ability to work as part of a team.