London, England, United Kingdom Hybrid / WFH Options
JR United Kingdom
architecture, design, and development of scalable trading platforms and internal developer tools. Collaborate with quant researchers, traders, and infrastructure teams to deliver performant solutions. Maintain and optimize trading infrastructure (low-latency systems, data pipelines, monitoring, etc.). Manage a team of software engineers, mentor junior developers, and drive best practices across the stack. Ensure high code quality through … GCP , and Azure for compute, networking, and storage configurations. Familiarity with monitoring/logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack). Trading Systems & Finance: Solid understanding of trading infrastructure , latency optimization , execution systems , and market data feeds . Experience working in or with quantitative research, HFT, or hedge fund teams is highly desirable. Leadership: Proven experience managing and mentoring More ❯
Slough, England, United Kingdom Hybrid / WFH Options
JR United Kingdom
architecture, design, and development of scalable trading platforms and internal developer tools. Collaborate with quant researchers, traders, and infrastructure teams to deliver performant solutions. Maintain and optimize trading infrastructure (low-latency systems, data pipelines, monitoring, etc.). Manage a team of software engineers, mentor junior developers, and drive best practices across the stack. Ensure high code quality through … GCP, and Azure for compute, networking, and storage configurations. Familiarity with monitoring/logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack). Trading Systems & Finance: Solid understanding of trading infrastructure, latency optimization, execution systems, and market data feeds. Experience working in or with quantitative research, HFT, or hedge fund teams is highly desirable. Leadership: Proven experience managing and mentoring a More ❯
index swaps), ETF, convertible bonds, vanilla OTC products, and FX. Role Overview/What will you do: Collaborate with Order Management System (OMS) leadership team to extend the existing lowlatency service-oriented architecture to "high touch" OMS use cases for Program Trading and D1 desks and play an instrumental role in the design and implementation. Build integrated … Qualifications: Extensive experience of server-side development and strong knowledge of Java, Pub/Sub middleware, and databases Experience with Core Java, Multi-threading, Collections frameworks - Garbage collections in Lowlatency systems Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, design patterns, etc.) Experience with Agile development methodologies. Experience with software monitoring tools and instrumentation. Understanding of More ❯
London, England, United Kingdom Hybrid / WFH Options
Citigroup Inc
work directly with one of the most forward thinking businesses and successful Rates Algo Trading platforms. Key Responsibilities may include (But not limited to): Design and develop high performance, low-latency trading applications Partner with multiple technology, business/risk and external market teams to capture requirements and deliver timely solutions for new trading functionality and market upgrades. More ❯
Experience developing multi-threaded, distributed systems. Experience with testing frameworks like JUnit and Cucumber. Solid understanding of the FIX protocol. Beneficial Skills and Experience Experience with Chronicle framework or low-latency programming. Experience with time-series databases like KDB. Experience with Equities trading OMS. Strong communication and problem-solving skills. Ability to work in a globally distributed team. More ❯
Experience developing multi-threaded, distributed systems. Experience with testing frameworks like JUnit and Cucumber. Solid understanding of the FIX protocol. Beneficial Skills and Experience Experience with Chronicle framework or low-latency programming. Experience with time-series databases like KDB. Experience with Equities trading OMS. Strong communication and problem-solving skills. Ability to work in a globally distributed team. More ❯
London, England, United Kingdom Hybrid / WFH Options
Tower Research Capital
come from a large, global organization. Engineers thrive at Tower while developing electronic trading infrastructure at a world class level. Our engineers solve challenging problems in the realms of low-latency programming, FPGA technology, hardware acceleration and machine learning. Our ongoing investment in top engineering talent and technology ensures our platform remains unmatched in terms of functionality, scalability More ❯
London, England, United Kingdom Hybrid / WFH Options
Goldman Sachs Bank AG
connecting people and capital with ideas. Solve the most challenging and pressing engineering problems for our clients. Join our engineering teams that build massively scalable software and systems, architect lowlatency infrastructure solutions, proactively guard against cyber threats, and leverage machine learning alongside financial engineering to continuously turn data into action. Create new businesses, transform finance, and explore More ❯
Global quantitative hedge fund and systematic trading firm are now seeking a lowlatency C++ Software Engineer to join it's growing team. To apply, you will ideally have prior experience at an elite quant trading firm or similar company of equivalent scale/complexity. In this high performance computing team, you will be responsible for building low-level programming and large scale distributed systems. Your experience will be in advanced C++, Linux and Python. Ideal experience may include: Lowlatency C++ Software Engineering, performance software Real-time software architecture Linux environments HPC Python, Bash, SQL GitHub, GitLab, CI/CD, CMake Ideally Computer Science Degree or similar discipline with 1st class grade Financial trading More ❯
City of London, London, United Kingdom Hybrid / WFH Options
Hunter Bond
Global quantitative hedge fund and systematic trading firm are now seeking a lowlatency C++ Software Engineer to join it's growing team. To apply, you will ideally have prior experience at an elite quant trading firm or similar company of equivalent scale/complexity. In this high performance computing team, you will be responsible for building low-level programming and large scale distributed systems. Your experience will be in advanced C++, Linux and Python. Ideal experience may include: Lowlatency C++ Software Engineering, performance software Real-time software architecture Linux environments HPC Python, Bash, SQL GitHub, GitLab, CI/CD, CMake Ideally Computer Science Degree or similar discipline with 1st class grade Financial trading More ❯
City of London, London, United Kingdom Hybrid / WFH Options
ViVA Tech Talent
re seeking a high-performing KDB+ Developer to join a world-leading investment bank’s Front Office Quantitative Technology team in London . You will design, build, and optimise low-latency, high-performance time-series data systems used for real-time analytics , trading , and decision-making across global markets. This is a critical hire for an elite team … time market data ingestion, processing, and analytics. Collaborate directly with quant traders , quants , and front office technologists to build mission-critical trading systems. Optimise existing KDB+ databases for performance, latency, and storage efficiency . Design and implement solutions for tick data capture , data normalisation , and time-series analysis . Contribute to architectural decisions around data pipelines , streaming platforms , and … KX integration . Ensure high availability and reliability of market data infrastructure in high-pressure, low-latency environments . ✅ Required Skills & Experience 3+ years of hands-on commercial experience with KDB+/q in a front office or trading environment . Strong understanding of tick data , time-series databases , and real-time market data . Experience working with More ❯
re seeking a high-performing KDB+ Developer to join a world-leading investment bank’s Front Office Quantitative Technology team in London . You will design, build, and optimise low-latency, high-performance time-series data systems used for real-time analytics , trading , and decision-making across global markets. This is a critical hire for an elite team … time market data ingestion, processing, and analytics. Collaborate directly with quant traders , quants , and front office technologists to build mission-critical trading systems. Optimise existing KDB+ databases for performance, latency, and storage efficiency . Design and implement solutions for tick data capture , data normalisation , and time-series analysis . Contribute to architectural decisions around data pipelines , streaming platforms , and … KX integration . Ensure high availability and reliability of market data infrastructure in high-pressure, low-latency environments . ✅ Required Skills & Experience 3+ years of hands-on commercial experience with KDB+/q in a front office or trading environment . Strong understanding of tick data , time-series databases , and real-time market data . Experience working with More ❯
is looking to hire a Site Reliability Engineer to join a high-performing FX Production Engineering team supporting mission-critical trading and risk systems – including a highly complex, ultra-lowlatency algorithmic platform. This newly created role will focus on driving automation, reducing manual operational overhead, and maturing the SRE culture across the FX technology estate. You'll … CD pipelines, and GCP or similar cloud platforms Strong communication skills – able to engage directly with stakeholders across tech and the trading floor Familiarity with FX trading platforms or low-latency environments is highly desirable Experience working with databases (Oracle, SQL) is a plus This is a unique opportunity to join an innovative organisation to define and implement More ❯
City of London, London, United Kingdom Hybrid / WFH Options
Vertus Partners
is looking to hire a Site Reliability Engineer to join a high-performing FX Production Engineering team supporting mission-critical trading and risk systems – including a highly complex, ultra-lowlatency algorithmic platform. This newly created role will focus on driving automation, reducing manual operational overhead, and maturing the SRE culture across the FX technology estate. You'll … CD pipelines, and GCP or similar cloud platforms Strong communication skills – able to engage directly with stakeholders across tech and the trading floor Familiarity with FX trading platforms or low-latency environments is highly desirable Experience working with databases (Oracle, SQL) is a plus This is a unique opportunity to join an innovative organisation to define and implement More ❯
City of London, London, United Kingdom Hybrid / WFH Options
CipherTek Recruitment
Instrumentation Platforms : Integrate the platform with Prometheus and Geneos for continuous monitoring, diagnostics, and system health checks. Desired technical Skills: Java Expertise: Extensive experience with Core Java , focusing on low-level performance tuning, multithreading , and garbage collection optimization . FIC or similar business knowledge: Strong understanding of FIC markets Experience with FIX protocol , SBE Market Data Feeds (e.g., Refinitiv … Bloomberg), and LP connectivity . Real time Messaging Systems: Experience with low-latency messaging technologies such as Solace . Linux based systems, CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions, MyBatis, Maven Advanced experience with FIX Engines/Routers (Raptor, Catalyst, Chronicle, or similar tools). Distributed Systems: Experience with distributed computing , clustering , and scalability strategies . Soft Skills: Excellent More ❯
Instrumentation Platforms : Integrate the platform with Prometheus and Geneos for continuous monitoring, diagnostics, and system health checks. Desired technical Skills: Java Expertise: Extensive experience with Core Java , focusing on low-level performance tuning, multithreading , and garbage collection optimization . FIC or similar business knowledge: Strong understanding of FIC markets Experience with FIX protocol , SBE Market Data Feeds (e.g., Refinitiv … Bloomberg), and LP connectivity . Real time Messaging Systems: Experience with low-latency messaging technologies such as Solace . Linux based systems, CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions, MyBatis, Maven Advanced experience with FIX Engines/Routers (Raptor, Catalyst, Chronicle, or similar tools). Distributed Systems: Experience with distributed computing , clustering , and scalability strategies . Soft Skills: Excellent More ❯
London, England, United Kingdom Hybrid / WFH Options
Harvey Nash
/Senior UI Software Engineer-HTML5,React,TS,JS-Trading Harvey Nash London, United Kingdom Senior React Developer - Banking, Data Visualisation Harvey Nash London, United Kingdom Senior C++ Developer - LowLatency, Trading Harvey Nash London, United Kingdom Senior BI Developer - Front Office, Power BI, Python Harvey Nash London, United Kingdom More jobs from the company Boost your career More ❯
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom Hybrid / WFH Options
Goldman Sachs Bank AG
connecting people and capital with ideas. Solve the most challenging and pressing engineering problems for our clients. Join our engineering teams that build massively scalable software and systems, architect lowlatency infrastructure solutions, proactively guard against cyber threats, and leverage machine learning alongside financial engineering to continuously turn data into action.Create new businesses, transform finance, and explore a More ❯
London, England, United Kingdom Hybrid / WFH Options
Data Intellect Limited
the full software stack, using modern development tools and concepts to deliver high quality, best practice software solutions. This will involve working on the end-to-end development of lowlatency software components written in C++. Project responsibilities will range from Design, Architecture and Development of greenfield projects to maintenance, latency tuning and enhancements. You will have … on projects, mentor and support junior members of the team, and have a key input in the development of the team moving forwards. Qualifications Minimum 5 years’ experience developing lowlatency trading systems using C++11 or above Must have experience with Smart Order Routing and Market Data Demonstrable experience writing performance sensitive code, multithreaded application development and profiling More ❯
London, England, United Kingdom Hybrid / WFH Options
Barclays UK
be working in a dynamic front office technology team developing solutions for the Rates and Credit Trading Desks. You will be joining a team accountable for designing and building low-latency software components, performance tuning and enhancements, making sure solutions are delivered on time and are of high quality. The Markets business is rapidly expanding its algorithmic and … the role with the hiring manager. What will you be doing? Developing solutions both tactical and strategic problems to meet business requirements Producing code that is appropriate for a low-latency Java platform Understanding requirements and help the team to deliver high quality solutions Providing estimates for tasks, including design, development, technical debt, and testing Participating in code … capability across Equities, Foreign Exchange (FX), Rates, Credit, Securitized Products What we’re looking for: Advanced understanding and working knowledge of Java language and its internals Experience in writing low-latency multithreaded applications on Linux Understanding of multi-threading, memory management, caching, networking, distributed systems, algorithms and/or operating systems Experience in lowlatency techniques More ❯
London, England, United Kingdom Hybrid / WFH Options
Client Server
You could be progressing your career in a senior, hands-on role at a global systematic trading firm. As a Senior C++ Developer you will design, develop and optimise lowlatency, high throughput C++ market data systems for high frequency trading platforms. You'll be implementing and maintaining market data feed handlers, order entry systems and execution algorithms … with a focus on reducing latency and ensuring the performance and reliability of trading systems. There are many complex technical challenges, you'll be collaborating with a highly talented to solve problems and push what is possible. Location/WFH: You'll join colleagues based in high spec offices with free breakfast and lunch at the onsite restaurant, with … two days a week. About you: You have advanced C++ development skills including C++ 17, multi-threading, real-time systems and network programming You have experience of working on lowlatency financial Market Data systems You have a good understanding of C++ optimisation, ideally also have Template Metaprogramming knowledge You have a strong knowledge of Linux OS and More ❯
London, England, United Kingdom Hybrid / WFH Options
EC1 Partners
edge trading algorithms and infrastructure powering both internal trading desks and institutional clients across global equity markets. This is a hands-on role focused on designing, developing, and optimizing low-latency, high-performance trading algorithms and order handling systems. You will collaborate closely with quants, product teams, and front-office stakeholders in a high-impact, agile environment. Key … Responsibilities Design, build, and support high-availability, low-latency trading strategies and systems. Collaborate with quantitative analysts on implementing models, signals, and trading logic. Customize and adapt algorithms based on client requirements and market conditions. Develop infrastructure components including order management systems, rules engines, and routing logic. Conduct simulation, backtesting, and performance analysis. Follow best practices in software … Ability to implement quantitative models and perform strategy simulations. Experience working with front-office trading teams. Background in building benchmark tracking, dark aggregation, or liquidity-seeking algos. Familiarity with low-latency messaging systems (e.g., Solace , 29West ). Experience with Agile development and event-driven programming (Pub/Sub models). Why Apply? Join a high-performing global trading More ❯
London, England, United Kingdom Hybrid / WFH Options
Ingenii Search
A newly created position has arisen for a LowLatency C++ Software Developer to join the FX 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! Seniority level Seniority level Mid-Senior level Employment type Employment type Full-time Job function Job function Information Technology, Engineering, and Other Industries Investment Banking, Financial More ❯
new functionality for the Global Market Data platform. The Global Market Data platform is evolving rapidly, offering many opportunities to exercise and improve technical skills in the area of low latency. The role also offers the opportunity to learn the Equity Trading business. Specific to role: Design and development of the Global Market Data platform (C++, Linux). Design … Exegy etc. Exchanges/Alternative Trading Venues Key Skills and Experience required - Good working knowledge of C++. Also Perl/Shell Scripting, Linux. Knowledge and experience in building ultra-lowlatency market data platform will be a big plus. Ability to work to tight deadlines as part of a team. Ability to work with floor traders, production support … on the types of people involved. Good understanding of Network Protocols - Multicast/TCP/IP. Functional testing Any Beneficial/Nice to have skills and experience: Desired Skills LowLatency Market Data Skills - VELA or any other low-latency platform. Working knowledge of containerization platforms e.g. OpenShift. Experience of algorithmic trading and electronic trading business More ❯
trading strategy and technology, ensuring systems operate with maximum efficiency and reliability. This position combines technical problem-solving with financial markets knowledge in a dynamic environment. Key Responsibilities Support Low- Latency trading applications and market data systems Monitor system health and resolve incidents before they impact trading operations Investigate complex data anomalies using both automated tools and manual More ❯