Quantitative Developer
Quantitative Developer - London
Venture Search is proud to partner with a leading global proprietary trading firm in London that is seeking a highly skilled Quantitative Developer to join its fast-paced trading team.
This role is ideal for someone with strong systems engineering experience who is passionate about building high-performance, low-latency infrastructure, whether from a traditional finance or crypto background.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Design and build low-latency, high-throughput trading systems
- Implement and optimise multi-threaded, concurrent software
- Collaborate closely with traders and quants to refine trading models and execution logic
- Analyse performance, latency, and capacity to ensure rigorous execution standards
- Integrate market data feeds and exchange connectivity across multiple venues
- Drive improvements to infrastructure, tooling, and automation across the stack
What We’re Looking For
- Strong experience in C++, Rust or Python
- Deep understanding of low-latency system design, HPC, multi-threading, and concurrency
- Exposure to networking protocols (TCP/IP, UDP), OS-level performance tuning, and lock-free data structures
- Experience working with market data feeds, FIX, binary protocols, or exchange APIs
- Demonstrable aptitude for performance profiling and optimisation
- Excellent problem-solving skills and a collaborative mindset
Bonus Experience
- Rust or modern C++ (C++17+) used in production
- GPU/FPGA experience or distributed compute systems
- Experience with cloud environments applied to low-latency workloads
- Knowledge of statistical / quantitative trading models