Production engineering inside a live algorithmic trading team: build and maintain the Python infrastructure around trading systems, investigate production issues in real time, debug across Python / Linux / C++, keep trading servers configured, reliable and fast. Direct work with traders and engineers.
Requirements
🛠 Python, Linux, production debugging, C++ (read, not write)
🎯 Ideally 5+ years; exceptional candidates with less considered. No trading background required
• Strong commercial Python
• Deep Linux knowledge and systems troubleshooting
• Experience supporting and debugging complex production applications
• Able to read C++
• Ownership mentality, interest in quant trading and markets
Explicitly open to engineers from Big Tech and other engineering-led companies - you don't need to come from trading.
Benefits
💰 Range on request
Undisclosed quant trading firm
📍 London
💰 Range on request
🛠 Python, Linux, production debugging, C++ (read, not write)
🎯 Ideally 5+ years; exceptional candidates with less considered. No trading background required
The role
Production engineering inside a live algorithmic trading team: build and maintain the Python infrastructure around trading systems, investigate production issues in real time, debug across Python / Linux / C++, keep trading servers configured, reliable and fast. Direct work with traders and engineers.
Must have
• Strong commercial Python
• Deep Linux knowledge and systems troubleshooting
• Experience supporting and debugging complex production applications
• Able to read C++
• Ownership mentality, interest in quant trading and markets
Why this role
Explicitly open to engineers from Big Tech and other engineering-led companies - you don't need to come from trading.
