Software Engineer

Full-Stack Engineer - Fixed Income Trading

A top-tier hedge fund is hiring a Full-Stack Engineer aligned directly to a high-performing Fixed Income trading desk. This is not a platform role - you’ll sit close to the risk and P&L, build tools traders actually use in live markets, and ship fast.

What you’ll build:

• Pre-trade analytics (liquidity / pricing / scenario / what-if) and risk calculation services used in real time on the desk.
• Low-latency data services and streaming APIs (WebSockets / gRPC etc.) for live market and risk data.
• High-performance trader-facing UIs: time series views, blotters, RFQ / axe views, portfolio & risk dashboards.
• End-to-end systems: you design it, build it, productionise it, support it. CI/CD, testing, observability, the lot.

What you're gaining:

• Direct line to PMs / traders / researchers.
• Zero “just keep the lights on” work: everything is about edge, speed, and better decisions.
• Top of the market compensation.
• High visibility. High expectations. No bureaucracy.

Core requirements

• Expert-level proficiency in Python and JavaScript/TypeScript/React.
• 3+ years’ professional software engineering experience.
• Strong CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, performance).
• Comfortable building for live, data-heavy, real-time environments.
• Sharp communicator who’s happy to sit with risk takers, challenge ideas, and ship what they actually need.
• Upper Second Class or above in BSc in Computer Science or related STEM discipline from a Russell Group university (or international equivalent from a top-ranked university).

Nice to have (not required)

• Fixed income / macro / FX / electronic trading / risk experience.
• Background in real-time, data-intensive, or low-latency environments.

If you’re impact-led, comfortable owning production software that sits next to real money, and want to work where engineering output is directly tied to P&L, this is that role.