The Opportunity
We are working with a leading global systematic investment firm, managing approximately $80 billion in assets, looking to hire Senior Software Engineers into a growing engineering team in London.
The team is focused on building and scaling the firm's real-time data streaming infrastructure and event-driven applications, supporting its research and trading operations.
This is an opportunity to work on complex distributed systems, large volumes of time-sensitive data and challenging engineering problems, within a lean team where engineers have genuine ownership over technical decisions and delivery.
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable, real-time data streaming and event-driven systems.
- Develop distributed services handling large volumes of data with demanding performance and reliability requirements.
- Solve technical challenges around scalability, concurrency, data processing and system performance.
- Own projects end-to-end, from architecture and design through to production.
- Work closely with engineers, researchers and trading teams to develop solutions to complex business problems.
- Contribute to technical direction and engineering best practices across the team.
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong background in backend engineering and distributed systems.
- Experience building real-time, streaming or event-driven applications.
- Good understanding of system design, concurrency, scalability and performance.
- Exposure to technologies such as Kafka, Flink or similar distributed processing frameworks is advantageous.
- Strong problem-solving skills, technical curiosity and a proactive approach to engineering.
No prior financial services experience is required. We are open to engineers from Big Tech, product companies and other technically demanding environments.
Why Consider It?
- Work on complex distributed systems and large-scale, real-time data infrastructure.
- Language-agnostic engineering environment, with a diverse technology stack including Java, Rust, Go, Kotlin and others. Strong engineering fundamentals matter more than experience in any particular language.
- High engineering ownership, with direct influence over architecture and technical decisions.
- Lean, collaborative teams with minimal bureaucracy.
- Direct exposure to researchers and trading teams, with clear visibility of your work's impact.
- Join a well-established, highly profitable firm continuing to invest significantly in technology.
- Highly competitive compensation.
If you're an experienced software engineer interested in challenging technical problems, greater ownership and a different engineering environment, please apply or get in touch for a confidential discussion.
