23 of 23 Contract Low Latency Jobs in London

C++ Developer

Hiring Organisation
REC SOLUTIONS LIMITED
Location
City of London, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent Contract, Hybrid
Salary
£95,000
C++ Developer (Python, SQL, Linux, Trading, FinTech, Financial Technology, Low Latency, Back-end) ***This is a hybrid role, 3 days remote and 2 days in the office*** Our client actively encourages diversity, equality and inclusion within it's workforce and welcomes applications from a diverse background, REC Solutions … could be the ideal place for you to develop your career. Benefits (not exhaustive list): C++ Developer(Python, SQL, Linux, Trading, FinTech, Financial Technology, Low Latency, Back-end) Competitive salary 25 days annual leave - not including bank holiday Private medical insurance Flexible working hours Company pension Group Policies ...

Electronic Trading Network & Systems Engineer

Hiring Organisation
James Joseph Associates Limited
Location
City of London, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent Contract, Hybrid
client is a prestigious buy-side electronic trading business. Additional headcount has been approved for a Senior Low Latency Network & Systems Engineer to help develop and optimise its high-performance trading infrastructure. This is an opportunity to work on technically demanding infrastructure where network performance, system efficiency … execution speed are critical to trading performance. You will take ownership of engineering and optimising ultra-low-latency infrastructure spanning Linux servers, high-performance networks, physical colocation environments, and AWS cloud infrastructure. The role offers significant technical ownership, with the opportunity to influence infrastructure architecture, introduce new technologies ...

Senior Low Latency Engineer – Java

Hiring Organisation
McGregor Boyall Associates Limited
Location
City of London, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent Contract, Hybrid
London | Hybrid, up to 2 days from home | Competitive base salary + annual bonus I'm recruiting a Senior Low Latency Engineer for a global investment bank's Markets Technology team in London. You'll build frameworks and tools for front-office electronic trading, with a focus … event-sourced microservices on an in-house framework with response times in the 10–100 microsecond range. What you'll do Design and build low-latency frameworks and utilities for market data replay, backtesting and trading simulation. Profile and tune performance across the application, JVM, Linux and network ...

Senior Front Office Developer - Trading

Hiring Organisation
CMC Markets UK Plc
Location
City of London, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent Contract, On-site
Markets is seeking a Senior Low Latency Java Developer to join our Quantitative Strategies team within Pricing & Risk, working on our high-performance, high-frequency trading platform. This is a hands-on role at the core of our market-making technology stack, where nanoseconds matter and engineering excellence … critical. You will design and build ultra-low latency pricing and risk systems that directly power our global trading operations. If you thrive in performance critical environments and want your work to have real market impact, we would love to hear from you. Please note that this ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Method-Resourcing
Location
City of London, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent Contract, On-site
Senior Software Engineer: Sports Betting Up to £120,000 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits London - 5 Days On-Site | Python | Java | AI | Low Latency | Distributed Systems Build software where performance, mathematics and real-time decision-making genuinely matter. We're partnering with a highly technical sports betting business … delivering features or maintaining an existing codebase. You'll have significant technical ownership, contribute to architectural decisions and work alongside engineers tackling problems around latency, scalability, reliability and large-scale data processing. The Role You'll join a highly technical engineering team building and evolving systems used within ...

Senior Software Engineer C++

Hiring Organisation
REC SOLUTIONS LIMITED
Location
City of London, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent Contract, Hybrid
Senior Software Engineer C++ (Python, SQL, Linux, Trading, FinTech, Financial Technology, Low Latency, Backend) ***This is a hybrid role, 3 days remote and 2 days in the office*** Our client actively encourages diversity, equality and inclusion within it's workforce and welcomes applications from a diverse background … ideal place for you to develop your career. Benefits (not exhaustive list): Senior Software Engineer C++ (Python, SQL, Linux, Trading, FinTech, Financial Technology, Low Latency, Backend) Competitive salary 25 days annual leave - not including bank holiday Private medical insurance Flexible working hours Company pension Group Policies – Life Assurance ...

C++ Low Latency Developer

Hiring Organisation
Vertus Partners
Location
City, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 650 - 850 Daily
C++ Low Latency Developer | Electronic Trading & Market Making | Global Investment Bank London | £650 - £850 (inside via umbrella) | Hybrid Working C++ Low Latency Software Engineer This is a business-facing engineering role sitting directly alongside traders, quantitative researchers and other key stakeholders. The team is investing heavily … evolution while taking ownership of commercially important projects. The position offers a rare blend of technical depth and business exposure. You'll contribute to latency-sensitive trading infrastructure while also influencing how trading technology is designed, prioritised and delivered. What You Will Be Doing: Deliver enhancements to latency ...

Lead Software Engineering - C++

Hiring Organisation
Hackajob Ltd
Location
South West London, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent Contract, On-site
growth, skill development, and meaningful contributions. Be part of a team that thrives on solving complex challenges and advancing industry standards. As an Ultra Low Latency C++ Lead Software Engineer at our client in the Electronic Trading Technology team, you will design, build, and operate market gateway solutions … with hardware FPGA acceleration. You will drive the software development lifecycle, focusing on stability, latency optimization, and continuous improvement. You'll partner with hardware engineering teams to integrate FPGA pipelines with our C++ software stack, ensuring high reliability and operational excellence. Your work will directly impact trading connectivity ...

Lead eSoftware Engineer - C++

Hiring Organisation
Hackajob Ltd
Location
South West London, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent Contract, On-site
trading strategies, with a global presence spanning North America, Europe and Asia. The group's responsibilities include the design, implementation and support of various low latency electronic trading systems with focus on next-generation Smart Order Router, Matching Engine, Market Access, and Risk Management. Job Responsibilities: Execute creative … Expertise in multi-threaded and concurrent programming Experience in TCP/IP network programming and familiarity with LBM/UME Proven experience in ultra-low latency application development Proficiency in Linux/Unix, with an understanding of OS and kernel architecture Advanced knowledge of system architecture, design ...

C++ Low Latency E-Trading Developer Rates

Hiring Organisation
McGregor Boyall Associates Limited
Location
East London, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent Contract, On-site
global team, you'll contribute to core algo trading strategy and platform development, including: Pricing, market-making, hedging and execution logic. High-performance, low-latency C++ development. Market data processing and order entry/exchange connectivity. Testing, production rollout and performance optimisation. Close collaboration with traders and researchers … code. What I'm looking for Strong hands-on C++ development skills within electronic trading. Experience working on trading systems with sub-100-microsecond latency . Experience across at least two of the following: Market data. Core algo trading strategy development, including algorithms or hedging strategies. Order entry ...

Senior FPGA Engineer - Contract | London (Hybrid)

Hiring Organisation
Adepta Partners
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP Annual
IR35 | 6 months | Competitive Day Rate We're looking for an experienced Senior FPGA Engineer to join a high-performance engineering team developing ultra-low-latency FPGA solutions for the financial sector. This is a hands-on role working on complex FPGA designs, high-speed networking and hardware … Knowledge of high-speed networking protocols including TCP/UDP, Ethernet, PCIe and DMA Python and Linux experience for testing and automation Experience with low-latency systems, ideally within financial trading, capital markets or telecommunications Contract Details: London area - Hybrid 6-month initial contract Outside IR35 Competitive ...

Associate Product Manager

Hiring Organisation
euNetworks
Location
East London, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent Contract, Hybrid
http://map.eunetworks.com/to see the network and connected buildings. Job description Take on growing ownership of euNetworks' market-leading Ultra-Low Latency (ULL) trading product, euTrade, a network that serves some of the world's most sophisticated financial institutions. Ultra-low latency means … growth, liquidity shifts, mergers, acquisitions and venue migrations Understand trading firm and market data provider business models, points-of-presence, and the value of latency within their ecosystems Analyse competitor strategies, strengths, network developments and customer loyalty dynamics Identify opportunities to create unique and defensible competitive advantages. Develop Winning ...

Senior Network Engineer (AWS & Python)

Hiring Organisation
ARM
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£580 - £630/day Inside IR35 (Negotiable rate)
operates a complex global technology estate, with network infrastructure connecting data centres, offices, cloud environments and critical trading services. Network availability, resilience, security and low-latency performance are fundamental to its operations. This is a hands-on senior engineering position offering significant technical ownership across a global production … networking . Knowledge of multicast networking . Experience with network automation using Python and Ansible. Previous experience within financial services, trading or other low-latency technology environments. Experience working within a global 24x7 follow-the-sun engineering model. Disclaimer: This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource ...

Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Apex Systems US
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£45 - £48.75/hour
networking fundamentals (DNS, HTTP/TLS, load balancing), and Linux/UNIX command-line tools and shell scripting. Preferred Qualifications Experience with high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems operating at scale. Advanced coding skills including concurrency, profiling, and performance optimization. Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and deployment ...

Senior Software Developer

Hiring Organisation
Spectrum IT Recruitment Limited
Location
City of London, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent Contract, On-site
work effectively with technical and non-technical colleagues. A degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, or a related technical discipline. Desirable Experience: Low-latency, high-throughput, multithreaded or parallel systems. Network programming using TCP/IP or UDP. Distributed systems and service-oriented architectures. Performance profiling ...

KDB Specalist

Hiring Organisation
ARM
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£800 - £1000/day Inside IR35 (Negotiable Market rate)
critical platforms that underpin Prime Brokerage, Financing, Intraday Risk, Market Data and time-series analytics. These are business-critical systems that process high-volume, low-latency financial data and are used directly by front office, quantitative and risk teams. You'll play a key role in designing scalable ...

Co-founder & Head of Quantitative Trading Research

Hiring Organisation
Job Board Direct
Location
City of London, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent Contract, Hybrid
Develop models and workflow for signal generation, trade sizing, hedging and inventory management Design realistic backtesting and simulation methodologies, accounting for transaction costs, slippage, latency, execution rejection and partial fills Optimise strategies for profitability, robustness, capacity and risk-adjusted returns Work closely with the FPGA and software engineers … statistical arbitrage Demonstrable track record of developing strategies used in live trading, Familiarity with FX ECNs, DMA and institutional execution protocols Experience with latency-sensitive strategy design and hardware-accelerated computing, preferably using quantum algorithms Understanding of machine learning, optimisation and time-series methods First 6-month objectives Assess ...

AI Architect

Hiring Organisation
Hackajob Ltd
Location
City of London, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent Contract, On-site
decompose complex patent questions, plan multi-step analyses, and compose insights from multiple data sources. Design retrieval and search architectures that deliver accurate, low-latency patent intelligence across both structured analytics and unstructured text corpora. Define patterns for AI-driven enrichment and classification of patent data at scale ...

Linux Site Reliability Engineer

Hiring Organisation
ARM
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£530 - £580/day Inside IR35 (Negotiable rate)
other public cloud environments. Knowledge of monitoring and observability platforms. Experience with infrastructure automation. Previous experience within financial services, trading, investment banking or other low-latency technology environments. Experience working within a global 24x7 support model. Disclaimer: This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited ...

Deployment Engineer

Hiring Organisation
REC SOLUTIONS LIMITED
Location
City of London, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent Contract, Hybrid
GitLab CI. Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Ansible or Terraform. Experience in financial technology, financial services or similarly regulated, low-latency environments. Knowledge of networking fundamentals, including VLANs, firewalls and routing, particularly in relation to client-site deployments. Familiarity with exchange technology, trading platforms ...

Scala Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Talent International
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 600 Daily
including consolidation, to allow us to provide a consistent and easy to use experience for users. Consideration for delivering high-volume, high-availability and low-latency services Improvement of our existing services Reducing our maintenance efforts through incremental re-architecting - eg reducing the number of technologies that ...

Senior Network and Security Engineer

Hiring Organisation
CMC Markets UK Plc
Location
City of London, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent Contract, On-site
Nexus switch platforms Excellent documentation, communication and stakeholder engagement skills Desirable Experience supporting Market Data network feeds Exposure to SD-WAN technologies Experience supporting low-latency production networks within trading or financial services environments Experience with Cisco ASA and Meraki Wireless Hands-on experience with Palo Alto firewalls ...

Backend Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Method-Resourcing
Location
Hounslow, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent Contract, On-site
Salary
£80,000
sporting events where demand can spike very quickly. You'll be helping to build and improve services that need to be: Highly scalable Reliable Low latency Resilient under pressure The stack includes: Node.js (essential) TypeScript PostgreSQL Redis AWS Interestingly, they're less concerned about deep AWS expertise because ...