City of London, London, United Kingdom Hybrid/Remote Options
Hawksworth
Hawksworth are now recruiting for a Senior Java Developer with extensive experience with Front Office Algo Trading projects. The job: IT LowLatency Java Developer 1 year contract with potential for extensions Inside IR35 Rate £920 per day to the Umbrella Company London Liverpool St location Hybrid working (x3 days on site x2 days working from home pw … This is a IT Low-Latency, Java Developer position working for the e-FX Desk where the team develops the pricing, hedging and low-latency order and price distribution team systems. We need someone for this role role that has strong lowlatency , Java , Algo development experience. Someone who can show optimizing/lowlatency tuning and someone who has achieved lowlatency in the microseconds. EFX would be nice but we can accept other other asset classes experience. What you will need: Tenure as a Senior Java Developer Significant Trading projects experience/Front office experience Algo trading Worked with Connectivity, Market Data, Core Pricing and Hedging strategy. Multithreading More ❯
City of London, London, United Kingdom Hybrid/Remote Options
Hawksworth
We have a new Contract Senior Java Developer position available with a European Investment Bank, to work on e-FX Front-Office Algo Trading projects. This is a LowLatency, Java, Algo, FX, multithreading developer role (not really web). London based, Hybrid working. 12 months initial assignment. The job: IT LowLatency e-FX Java … per day to the Umbrella Company London Liverpool St location Hybrid working (x3 days on site x2 days working from home pw) This is an e-FX IT LowLatency Java Developer position working for the e-FX Desk where the team develops the pricing, hedging and lowlatency order and price distribution team systems. Regards … to LowLatency development, we need specific experience achieving lowlatency in the microseconds, and have practical experience on not just software but an appreciation of hardware the software runs as well. We need someone who can show optimizing and tuning on Low Latency. What you will need: Tenure as a Senior Java Developer Significant More ❯
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ARC IT Recruitment Ltd
London, Hybrid £competitive + excellent bonus + benefits International Capital Markets firm is scaling its London Equities platform and is hiring a Senior TechOps Associate to drive platform reliability, low-latency performance, and controlled change across OMS/EMS, eTrading/algo, market data, and exchange connectivity. You will sit close to the desk and act as the … Safer, faster releases (blue/green, canary, feature flags) in partnership with Trading, Quant, and Engineering. Mature observability (logs/metrics/traces), capacity planning, and performance tuning for low-latency flows. Strong production hygiene and controls aligned to MiFID II/MAR/best-ex. Leadership of the London on-call rota and contribution to a follow … Package & set-up Competitive base + performance bonus, benefits, and flexible hybrid working. A clear runway to platform ownership and team leadership. London HQ; hybrid model. Nice to haves Low-latency tuning experience. Experience with TCA and post-trade analytics. Follow-the-sun/on-call leadership. For a full consultation on this exciting new role, get in More ❯
City of London, London, United Kingdom Hybrid/Remote Options
Alexander Ash Consulting
and trading teams on mission-critical projects. This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Linux and infrastructure specialist to work at the forefront of HPC (high-performance computing), low-latency engineering, and large-scale systems . Key Responsibilities Manage and optimise large-scale Linux-based platforms for high-performance trading and research workloads. Design and implement workload … scheduling, high-performance file systems, and storage operations. Optimise hardware, networking, and kernel performance for low-latency and high-throughput environments . Partner closely with research and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable, reliable solutions. Drive automation using Terraform, Ansible, GitLab, Jenkins , and support SDLC best practices. Provide visibility and performance monitoring using Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana . Contribute to … Golang, or similar . Experience with metrics visualisation tools (Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana). Knowledge of containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes). Experience in hedge funds, trading firms, or other low-latency/HPC environments is highly desirable. More ❯
City of London, London, United Kingdom Hybrid/Remote Options
Solytics Partners
and reliable messaging. Develop high-performance, scalable services using Core Java (8/11/17) . Build and enhance components for pricing, order routing, and execution workflows. Apply low-latency, event-driven, and asynchronous design patterns to improve throughput and efficiency. Troubleshoot and resolve connectivity, performance, and messaging issues in production. Conduct latency tuning, load testing … Experience with electronic market protocols: FIX (4.x/5.x) Market-specific APIs (Tradeweb, Bloomberg, MTS, etc.) Binary/Streaming protocols (ITCH, FAST, SBE, JSON over TCP). Familiarity with low-latency patterns, high-throughput messaging, and microservices. Additional Skills Experience with Linux, shell scripting, and performance analysis tools. Knowledge of Kafka, Redis, Aerospike, or other high-performance data More ❯
City of London, London, United Kingdom Hybrid/Remote Options
Batonics AB
AI agents for leading funds and institutions across Asia, the U.S., and Europe. Our products deliver advanced market-microstructure analytics, backtesting, portfolio and risk tools, and formal verification for low-latency systems merging high-performance computing, AI, and frontier quantitative research. We have been almost doubling revenue every quarter, and need help on this exponential journey. We’re … chat. Decision. Any of the below is a plus but not neccessary: High-performance database systems & transactional correctness (isolation/serializability) Real-time data pipelines & market-data processing (ultra-lowlatency, burst tolerance) Performance/latency optimization to sub-millisecond: CPU cache/NUMA, SIMD, vectorization, I/O tuning Concurrency & memory models: lock-free/atomics More ❯
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Airswift
to build and optimise a high-performance kdb+ data platform supporting algorithmic and market data analytics. Key Responsibilities: Design and implement scalable kdb+ solutions for global trading teams. Develop low-latency systems for market data capture and analytics. Collaborate with quant teams, business sponsors, and tech stakeholders. Contribute to the technical direction of the kdb+ product suite. Translate … kdb+/q and large-scale system design. Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals and modern development practices. Unix/Linux development experience. Core Java development skills. Expertise in low-latency systems and tick data capture. Nice-to-Have: Familiarity with market data and algorithmic trading environments. Experience with financial instruments such as Equities, Futures, Options, and FX. More ❯
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AAA Global
SENIOR CLOUD AND DEVOPS ENGINEER – ULTRA LOWLATENCY HIGH FREQUENCY TRADING CRYPTO Base salary: USD [150’000 - 200’000] p.a. Participation in the core team bonus pool (20% of net P&L) Full time 100% Remote - European time zone Start Date: As soon as possible COMPANY DESCRIPTION We are an innovative and fast-paced proprietary trading firm specializing … manage a highly resilient AWS-based infrastructure to support high-frequency trading (HFT) strategies. Enhance Performance: Collaborate with developers and traders to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, ensuring optimal low-latency trading in a fast-paced environment. Drive Automation: Create automation scripts and tools to streamline infrastructure management and operational processes, reducing manual intervention. Fortify Security: Implement and … in the cryptocurrency sector. Experience working at AWS or Binance is a plus. Performance Optimization: Proficient in optimizing system performance across hardware, software, system, and network levels to reduce latency and enhance throughput. Cloud Mastery: Extensive expertise with AWS is essential, with insider knowledge preferred. Familiarity with additional cloud platforms is a plus. A strong understanding of load balancing More ❯
City of London, London, United Kingdom Hybrid/Remote Options
Ventula Consulting Limited
carriers to turn their network data into a real-time defense against global fraud. Key Responsibilities Telco Integration & Architecture Own and build the Security Signal Ingestion path, the secure, low-latency, and out-of-band data channel connecting to our founding members' network API gateways. Architect and implement a carrier-agnostic, vendor-agnostic connector layer to consume RESTful … validate and integrate real-time signals from at least two telco partners, culminating in a Go/No-Go demo. Ensure all network API integrations meet the stringent P99 latency budgets (e.g., < 150ms) required to support our sub-500ms Time-to-Trust product goal. Collaborate with the platform team to build a parallel development path using mocked data to … high-performance, distributed systems in production. Required Technical Skills A minimum of 5 years of production experience with C++ or Go (Golang). Strong, demonstrable experiefnce with real-time, low-latency data processing. You obsess over milliseconds and understand the trade-offs. Proficiency with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker). Deep understanding More ❯
City of London, London, United Kingdom Hybrid/Remote Options
Ventula Consulting Limited
carriers to turn their network data into a real-time defense against global fraud. Key Responsibilities Telco Integration & Architecture ? Own and build the Security Signal Ingestion path, the secure, low-latency, and out-of-band data channel connecting to our founding members' network API gateways. ? Architect and implement a carrier-agnostic, vendor-agnostic connector layer to consume RESTful … validate and integrate real-time signals from at least two telco partners, culminating in a Go/No-Go demo. ? Ensure all network API integrations meet the stringent P99 latency budgets (e.g., < 150ms) required to support our sub-500ms Time-to-Trust product goal. ? Collaborate with the platform team to build a parallel development path using mocked data to … production experience with Go (Golang). Experience in other languages (e.g., Python, Node.js) is valued, but will not replace this core Go requirement. ? Strong, demonstrable experiefnce with real-time, low-latency data processing. You obsess over milliseconds and understand the trade-offs. ? Proficiency with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker). ? Deep understanding More ❯
City of London, London, United Kingdom Hybrid/Remote Options
Oliver Bernard
We’re working with a leading brokerage seeking a talented Java Engineer to join their high-performing technology team. This is an exciting opportunity to work on high-throughput, low-latency trading systems, where performance and reliability are paramount. The Role: You’ll play a key role in designing, developing, and optimising core trading and risk systems. The … system performance. Tech Stack & Skills: Strong core Java (Java 8+), with proven experience in multithreading and concurrency Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design Experience in low-latency or high-performance systems (finance or similar domains a plus) Familiarity with messaging frameworks (e.g. Kafka, JMS, ZeroMQ) desirable What’s on Offer: Salary £120k-£130k + More ❯
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Ingenii Search Ltd
A newly created position has arisen for a LowLatency C++ Software Developer to join the Equities Trading desk to work on key trading systems during trading hours. This is a leading bank in the City that is expanding and the role has arisen out of growth. Some of the duties within this role will include but are … test technology used in trading. Participate in DevOps (continuous integration pipeline, code quality tools, release methodologies) They are looking for someone who has solid experience of building high performing, low-latency systems on Linux platform, is an SME with C++ programming and the ability to script in other languages such as Python. In return they are offering an … excellent remuneration package, plus huge bonus potential, a hybrid working model, low staff turnover, inclusive culture and excellent career progression and development opportunities. Please apply to find out more about this exciting opportunity More ❯
City of London, London, United Kingdom Hybrid/Remote Options
Techfellow Limited
systems to on-prem deployments. The team is expanding to meet new strategic demands, including increased automation, enhanced observability, and the rollout of new colocation environments to support lower-latency trading. It’s a technically hands-on position that blends architecture, build, and operational ownership, suited to an engineer with curiosity, precision, and a drive to constantly improve how … improving resilience, performance, and visibility Develop tools and scripts in Python or Go to automate monitoring, configuration, and incident response workflows Contribute to on-prem colocation expansion projects, introducing low-latency engineering practices into the infrastructure Optimise Linux systems for performance and reliability, including kernel tuning and networking configuration Partner with development and platform teams to embed SRE … building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows A proactive, analytical mindset - eager to explore, ask the right questions, and challenge the status quo (Preferred) Exposure to low-latency systems, colocation deployments, or real-time trading platforms ... More ❯
City of London, London, United Kingdom Hybrid/Remote Options
Stanford Black Limited
Research Infrastructure Engineering team. This group builds and optimises the high-performance platforms that underpin research and trading - spanning operating systems, workload scheduling, HPC, large-scale storage, and ultra-lowlatency networking. In this role, you will partner directly with researchers and traders, driving the design, optimisation, and scalability of Linux-based systems that enable next-generation trading … Responsibilities Engineer and manage high-performance Linux-based platforms supporting research and trading. Design and optimise workload scheduling , large-scale storage, and SDLC frameworks. Deliver Linux Kernel tuning and low-latency network optimisation . Implement telemetry collection and instrumentation for high-throughput applications. Stay ahead of industry trends, generating POCs for emerging technologies. Collaborate with research and trading More ❯
City of London, London, United Kingdom Hybrid/Remote Options
Hunter Bond
hedge fund are now seeking a Senior Network Engineer to work on it’s trading infrastructure. To apply, you will ideally be CCIE qualified with a strong background in lowlatency and multicast networks. Our client is a leading global market maker with an emphasis on technology to match. They seek an experienced profile who would look to … trading technology, invariably around a bleeding edge Cisco environment. What you'll be doing: Design, deploy and troubleshoot global network infrastructure Design industry leading networks Implement optimisations to build lowlatency network Work on network redesign, expansion and upgrade Support trading teams in relation to high frequency Automation, capacity planning and connectivity advancement Manage network expansion, upgrades and More ❯
City of London, London, United Kingdom Hybrid/Remote Options
Quant Capital
FPGA ENGINEER – ULTRA-LOWLATENCY SYSTEMS Location: London (Hybrid: 4 days onsite) Sector: Quant Trading/High-Performance Computing Industry leading compensation Quant Capital is partnering with a global trading firm building a greenfield FPGA team focused on low-latency, high-throughput hardware systems. This small, senior group will deliver high-speed compute infrastructure integrated directly … into trading, research, and networking pipelines. What You’ll Be Doing Designing and implementing latency-optimised FPGA systems in Verilog/SystemVerilog Developing high-speed modules (PCIe, Ethernet, DDR/QDR) with deep pipelining Using simulation and formal tools (Verilator, Cocotb, etc.) for validation Working across teams (ASIC, software, infra) to co-design tightly coupled platforms Contributing to tooling More ❯
City of London, London, United Kingdom Hybrid/Remote Options
Stanford Black Limited
Quant Trading Firm | Up to £155k TC A globally recognised and fast-growing quantitative trading firm is looking for an experienced Network Operations Engineer to support and evolve their lowlatency network environment . You’ll be joining a collaborative and forward-thinking environment with flat structures and deep technical expertise – ideal for someone who enjoys network automation … experience Recent experience within an investment firm Vendors – Arista, Cisco, Corvil, Nvidia (All not necessary, but the more the better) Python/Golang for Network Automation Proven experience with lowlatency networking Monitoring and observability tooling such as Nagios, Solarwinds, Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana Analysis tooling i.e. Wireshark, Splunk, PromQL Familiarity with IaC/DevOps tools such as Ansible More ❯
City of London, London, United Kingdom Hybrid/Remote Options
IC Resources
and optimisation of ML models for speech separation and noise reduction. Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a small, high-performing engineering team. Bridge research and production — ensuring scalable, low-latency model deployment. Collaborate cross-functionally with software and product teams to integrate ML systems into live products. Contribute to the company’s long-term AI strategy and … speech/audio modelling . Proficiency with Python , PyTorch/TensorFlow , and modern ML frameworks. Track record of delivering production-grade ML systems with measurable performance improvements. Experience with low-latency inference and model optimisation (ONNX, TensorRT, quantisation) is highly desirable. This is an opportunity to take ownership of the machine learning function within a growing AI company More ❯
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REC SOLUTIONS LIMITED
Senior C++ Developer (Python, SQL, Linux, Trading, FinTech, Financial Technology) In this role you will work with the Product team, Infrastructure team, and QA team, to produce high performance, lowlatency and highly reliable code. Your goal will be to develop software which handle large amount of TPS to drive a highly efficient technology used by several markets More ❯
City of London, London, United Kingdom Hybrid/Remote Options
Ventula Consulting Limited
ring , provides a live transcript, and allows for mid-call user intervention. As the Senior Backend Engineer for Application & AI Orchestration, your central challenge will be solving the cumulative latency puzzle. You will be singularly responsible for orchestrating a best-in-class, buy, don't build AI stack (STT ? LLM ? TTS) to deliver a seamless, natural, and responsive voice … to-voice (V2V) experience, targeting a sub-1000ms latency from the moment a caller stops speaking to the moment our AI begins its response. You won't just be integrating APIs; you will be architecting the real-time, high-throughput nervous system of our core AI product. Key Responsibilities AI Orchestration & Core Logic Own the end-to-end backend … architecture for the Personal Welcome Manager, our flagship conversational AI product. Design, build, and optimize the core AI orchestration pipeline (STT ? LLM ? TTS) to meet our < 1000ms V2V latency target. Serve as the technical lead for our "Buy, Don't Build" AI strategy, integrating, managing, and evaluating third-party AI services from providers like Vapi, Deepgram, and Cartesia. Implement More ❯
City of London, London, United Kingdom Hybrid/Remote Options
Oliver Bernard
For Solid understanding of Java and core computer science principles (data structures, algorithms, OOP). Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail. Eagerness to learn about trading systems, low-latency development, and financial markets. Experience with data analytics tools or frameworks (Python, SQL, Pandas, etc.) is advantageous but not essential. A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or More ❯
City of London, London, United Kingdom Hybrid/Remote Options
Sanderson
Hybrid) Salary: Up to £85,000 + benefits Shape the Future of Fintech Infrastructure in the UK If you’re passionate about designing cloud-native platforms, enabling high-throughput, low-latency systems, and ensuring flawless reliability, this is your opportunity to make a tangible impact in the UK fintech ecosystem. About the Role As the UK Engineering and More ❯
City of London, London, United Kingdom Hybrid/Remote Options
Ingenii Search Ltd
Bank for someone who can code in C++ to join the Front Office Algo team predominantly focussing on Equities, but also covering Multi-Assets to provide strategy and develop low-latency code The team develop and run pricing and hedging algorithms that provide reliable pricing to clients and automate reactions to the market and the banks risk. The … oversee the algos’ performance intraday, verifying pricing and hedging is behaving as expected and acting when needed to fix issues This is an excellent bank to work for with low staff turnover, an inclusive culture, hybrid working model and a bank that encourages high performance for future career progression opportunities. Please apply to this role to find out more. More ❯
City of London, London, United Kingdom Hybrid/Remote Options
Understanding Recruitment
hands-on Senior/Lead role leading the next generation of Java Developers. They are looking for the following experience in Senior Java Developers: Core Java development Multithreading, concurrency, lowlatency Working in the financial sector e.g. FX, trading Building microservices in the cloud (GCP, AWS) with Kubernetes Product-led development – architecting, building and delivering Technical leadership: architectural More ❯
directly shaping the integrity of global financial and crypto markets. 🔹 What you'll do Build and optimize real-time and batch surveillance algorithms Contribute to the design of scalable, low-latency systems Collaborate with quants, data scientists, and compliance experts Enhance and maintain a mission-critical global codebase 🔹 What they're looking for 5+ years' software engineering experience More ❯