Software Engineer

Our client is looking for an exceptional Software Engineer to work closely with trading and research functions. This is a core engineering role focused on building the infrastructure that powers large-scale data processing across the firm. The firm in question is a tier one quant trading outfit, who focus their ethos and resources on technical and research driven trading, making it a great place to end up as a software engineer.

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with traders and researchers to build bespoke high-performance software
• Become an SME across various data sets, vendors and financial products
• Make all the reference data available for different asset types, ensuring good data quality.
• Automation of all life cycle events, for all asset types
• Exposure to trades and positions and maintaining proper checks to make it in line with executions.
• Years of experience required: 2-10, ideally within a financial trading firm
• Expert level Python programming and strong understanding and experience with C#
• Knowledge of testing as part of continuous delivery and integration pipelines.
• Familiarity with SQL and relational databases.
• Excellent communication skills, and ability to collaborate effectively in a small, close-knit team.

If you would like the chance to write code that has a lasting impact on the performance of a trading firm, and work with some of London’s best traders and technologists, apply now or reach out to Paragon Alpha for a confidential discussion.

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