Quant Developer
6 days ago
London
You will be building and optimizing cutting-edge trading infrastructure that supports algorithmic pricing, market-making, and execution strategies across a wide range of asset classes. This is a high-impact, front-office engineering role where technical excellence, business acumen, and speed are critical. You’ll work closely with traders, quants, and other technologists to deliver ultra-low-latency systems that directly affect P&L. Key Responsibilities: • Design, develop, and optimise low-latency trading components in Java., • Collaborate with quantitative analysts and traders to integrate models into production., • Build event-driven, multi-threaded systems with microsecond-level performance targets., • Analyse performance bottlenecks and continuously improve system latency and throughput., • Strong core Java (11+) skills, including memory management and concurrency., • Proven experience developing low latency systems in a trading environment., • Solid understanding of network I/O, serialisation, and real-time messaging frameworks (e.g., Aeron, Chronicle, SBE)., • Familiarity with performance profiling tools (e.g., JMH, perf, YourKit)., • Experience working in a Linux environment with a focus on real-time tuning., • Ability to work directly with trading and quant teams in a fast-paced front-office environment.